This international school will consist of lectures of some of the many facets that constitute computational science. Our aim is to cover a broad spectrum of topics and we want to present a mixture ranging from simple introductory material including simple exercises to reports of serious applications. This is not meant to be an introductory session on computational science nor is it a research conference. Rather, the school provides the participants with an overview of computational and mathematical physics, their basic methods and their many areas of applications. It is hoped that the school will lead the participants into new and "hot" topics of research, but the participants are not expected to have specific knowledge of the topics and methods a-priori although an interest in natural sciences is required.
The scientific content of the School is selected to provide a thorough introduction into current research activities in computational science. The topics covered in this School therefore cover a wide spectrum, ranging from the more traditional areas of Computational Physics and Chemistry to topics of modern Computer Science such as Cluster Computing, Neural Computing and Quantum Information Processing and reaching out to applications in Geomathematics, Biological Physics, and Applied Mathematics.