The program "Frontiers of Computational Science", which was proposed from Nagoya University, has been adopted as one of the centers in innovative academic fields for the "21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program in the financial year 2004" by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan.

In the following, we describe an outline of the research and educational plans of the program for introduction.

Contemporary computational science is just about enabling calculations for super degrees of freedom systems beyond limitations of experimental and theoretical approaches. And it is strongly anticipated to give birth to frontiers of computational science in a variety of research fields as well as to establish their common base, by pushing forward the basic technology for highly utilizing computers.

The aim of this center is that researchers in a wide range of applied fields, such as nanoscience, genome science and fluid mechanics, and those in basic fields, such as algorithm and software computing, integrate and cooperate together in order to establish methods to clarify phenomena in super degrees of freedom systems. In particular, the subjects include complicated, multi-dimensional and nonlinear phenomena which have possibly been treated only empirically based on uncertain intuition or imagination so far, or those which cannot be accessible by experiment or observation because of a realistic restriction. This "nonempiricization" may be achieved by constructing simulation worlds by using more fundamental and lower-level principles.

It is also aimed that, by developing such nonempirical computational-scientific methods, we pioneer new academic fields leading to innovation in natural and social recognitions and carry out educational programs to bring up young researchers who are going to play a major role in such fields.