Students must to satisfy the Physics Ph. D. degree requirements. In addition, they are expected to take three classes focusing on aspects of computational science. These classes could be Physics Department offerings or those of other departments such Mathematics or Computer Science. The program of courses must be approved by the Graduate Studies Committee and by the student’s thesis committee (as represented by their Annual Review Committee). In addition, the dissertation must contain a strong computational component such as development of new computational approaches and/or creative use of computational methods to obtain significant physics results. The thesis committee and the student’s advisor must certify to the Physics Graduate Studies Committee the thesis contains such computational component.