Robert (Bob) Gotwals

Mathematical Chemistry is the area of research that works to understand how mathematics and mathematical methods can be used to understand interesting chemical events. This topic is sometimes called “computer chemistry” and is not the same as computational chemistry. Math chem studies the underlying mathematical principles of chemical systems. In this class, you will learn a wide variety of mathematical/numerical techniques and how they can be applied to the understanding of chemistry.

Medicinal Chemistry is the study of how new drugs are developed and tested. Students will learn the basic concepts and methods used by medicinal chemists. In the process of doing so, basic and advanced concepts in chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computing will be learned and applied to one or more medicinal chemistry problems. As such, this is an applied course: students will be expected to apply their knowledge of the basic sciences to medicinal chemistry challenges of increasing difficulty. This course makes significant use of computer modeling (computational chemistry).