Industrial Applied Mathematics Program

The Industrial Applied Mathematics Program consists of joint research endeavors that pair members of the Mathematics Department with industrial and governmental partners. These projects develop participants' ability to communicate and interact with scientists and engineers. They also make a real contribution to the partners' missions.

Graduate students participate in almost all of the projects, usually making repeated visits to the partner institution, or spending a summer internship there. The students work closely with both scientists at the partner institution and Mathematics Department faculty. The Center for Research in Scientific Computation , (CRSC) director H. T. Banks says, "We don't send students, we take them. " In most cases students' work in the program develops into their Ph.D. thesis.

Students interested in the Industrial Applied Mathematics Program often begin by taking the two-semester sequence MA 573-574 (Mathematical and Experimental Modeling of Physical Processes), in which actual industrial and governmental problems are studied.