Below is a list of graduate level courses I have taken. For courses which are topical or project oriented, the topic of study has been listed in parentheses. Courses are listed by institution, department, and number. CHEM = Chemistry, CSCI = Computer Science, MATH = Mathematics, ME = Mechanical Engineering, SCIC = Scientific Computation.

Western Washington University

• MATH 504: Abstract Linear Algebra
• MATH 510: Mathematical Modeling
• MATH 521: Methods of Math Analysis I
• MATH 522: Methods of Math Analysis II
• MATH 528: Functional Analysis
• MATH 530: Fourier Series and PDEs
• MATH 535: Nonlinear Optimization
• MATH 538: Complex Variables
• MATH 560: Topics in Geometry (Integral Geometry)
• MATH 562: Differential Geometry
• MATH 573: Numerical Linear Algebra
• MATH 575: Numerical Analysis
• MATH 577: Topics in Numerical Analysis (Numerical PDEs)
• MATH 595: Teaching Algebra & Precalculus
• MATH 691: Required Project (Data Mining)

University of Minnesota

• CHEM 8066: Professional Conduct of Chemical Research
• CHEM 8541: Dynamics
• CSCI 5107: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics I
• CSCI 5108: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics II
• CSCI 5451: Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming
• CSCI 8314: Sparse Matrix Computations
• ME 8773: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
• SCIC 8190: Supercomputer Research Seminar (Multiscale Modeling)
• SCIC 8888: Thesis Credit: Doctoral

From the above list, it's clear that most of my formal training from coursework was in pure and applied mathematics with some computational science in the mix. I took a few courses from some pretty well-known names, specifically CHEM 8066 and CHEM 8541 from Donald G. Truhlar and CSCI 5451 and CSCI 8314 from Yousef Saad. On a side note, I also took a differential equations course from Robert I. Jewett of the Hales-Jewett theorem when I was an undergraduate.

Though I've done research in developing methods for doing computational chemistry since 2009, I still don't feel entirely comfortable being called a "computational chemist" and certainly not a "chemist" or, even worse, a "biochemist". I also don't feel comfortable being called a "computer scientist", though it's not entirely inaccurate and would be much better than "chemist" or "biochemist". If I had to pick a label for myself, I'd prefer to be called a "computational scientist" or an "applied mathematician" -- most accurately, an "applied mathematician who works in computational chemistry, developing new methods and models".