Applied Mathematics
Field Description
The graduate program in applied mathematics is based on a solid foundation in pure mathematics, which includes the fundamentals of algebra and analysis. It involves a grounding in the methods of applied mathematics and studies of scientific areas in which significant applications of mathematics are made. The field has a broadly based interdepartmental faculty that can direct student programs in a large number of areas of the mathematical sciences.
Many specialized or interdisciplinary programs can be designed for individual students, including, for example, a variety of possibilities in biomathematics.
The dissertation is normally a mathematical contribution toward the solution of a problem arising outside mathematics.
Students who are interested in this field may also want to investigate the related fields listed under Mathematical Sciences in "Opportunities for Study," pages 7-8.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.cam.cornell.eduEmail: appliedmath@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-0986
614 Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3801
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Applied Mathematics
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Applied Mathematics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: application of systems modeling and optimization to energy and the environment
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: stochastic modeling and the design of scalable algorithms and incentive mechanisms for large systems; marketing and social computing, control of information flows, learning and recommendation
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
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- Research Interests: numerical linear algebra; microelectromechanical systems; network tomography; finite element analysis; numerical software design
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- Research Interests: markov processes; networks; market selection
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- Research Interests: theoretical and computational solid mechanics, soft materials, active materials and biomaterials, fracture and instabilities, multiscale modeling in coupled, multi-physical systems
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: model selection and averaging (aggregation) in a variety of high dimensional parametric, semi-parametric and nonparametric models, machine learning and empirical processes theory
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- Research Interests: computational complexity theory, pseudorandomness, cryptography, combinatorics, probability
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- Research Interests: nonlinear circuits and systems; power systems; artificial neural networks
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- Research Interests: geometry of discrete structures; configuration spaces; topology
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- Research Interests: numerical linear algebra; computational quantum chemistry; spectral clustering and fast algorithms
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- Research Interests: continuous optimization; variational analysis; operator-splitting; machine learning; large-scale computing
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: machine learning, data-driven control and decision-making, physical and social dynamics
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- Research Interests: dynamical systems; control theory; stochastic systems; cognitive science
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- Research Interests: turbulence; environmental and computational fluid mechanics
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- Research Interests: modeling and mechanism design for electoral systems; networks, geospatial, demographic data; Markov chains and discrete geometry
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Causal inference, reinforcement learning, statistical machine learning with applications to healthcare
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: computational solid mechanics; stochastic inverse problems
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- Research Interests: economics of information; learning from endogenous data; market microstructure; evolution in games and markets
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- Research Interests: Dynamic optimization under uncertainty, Robust and stochastic optimization, Approximation algorithms
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- Research Interests: theoretical population biology; evolutionary biology
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- Research Interests: crystallography; quasicrystals; quasiperiodic minimal surfaces
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- Research Interests: cardiovascular mechanics and biological flows, development of computational techniques for such problems
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- Research Interests: theoretical chemistry; chemical physics
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- Research Interests: optimal control theory; intelligent systems; multivariable control; feedback control of dynamic systems; sensor networks
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- Research Interests: probability optimization; information theory; mathematical biology
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: precision health, approximation algorithms, applied probability and statistics
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- Research Interests: quantum field theory; digital knowledge networks
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- Research Interests: evolutionary biology; stochastic and dynamical systems in biology; theoretical population biology
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- Research Interests: applied probability and scholastic processes, inventory models, queueing theory, options pricing and optimal stopping
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: statistical machine learning, information theory, optimal transport, high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: large-scale constraint reasoning and optimization; mathematical programming; machine learning
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- Research Interests: combinatorial scientific computing, sparse linear algebra, parallel and distributed scientific computation, and parallel systems
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty; qualitative reasoning; (fault-tolerant) distributed computing logic; game theory
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- Research Interests: statistics and machine learning, artificial intelligence
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- Research Interests: nonlinear elasticity; nonlinear analysis; equivariant bifurcation theory
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- Research Interests: discrete-event simulation; simulation and optimization; applications in radiation oncology
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- Research Interests: ordinary differential equations; iterations; fractals
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- Research Interests: fracture mechanics; high-temperature crack propagation; geomechanics; asymptotic methods
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- Research Interests: mathematical finance
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: data-driven optimization under uncertainty; casual inference; machine learning; personalization; optimization in statistics; online decision making and operations in health care
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: physical modeling of semiconductor devices and processes; numerical solvers for hybrid systems (EM, mechanical, and thermal)
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: mathematical biology, probability and stochastic processes, statistics and data science, dynamical systems and ordinary differential equations, scientific computing and numerical analysis
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational geometry; computational biology
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: design and analysis of algorithms, especially randomized and online algorithms for networked systems and electronic markets
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: fluid dynamics; stochastic processes in suspensions
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- Research Interests: time series analysis; functional data; spatial data; Bayesian statistics
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- Research Interests: stochastic optimization; partially observed Markov decision processes; stochastic filtering theory
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- Research Interests: ecology, epidemiology, and evolutionary theory; mathematical biology
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization with particular interest in eigenvalue optimization
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Data-driven control and decision-making, decentralized optimal control, stochastic resource allocation, and learning-based control in cyber-physical systems.
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: computer graphics, 3D computer vision, realistic rendering and simulation, light scattering and light transport, inverse rendering and inverse light transport, appearance of hair, skin, and cloth, computational design of textiles
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- Research Interests: quantitative genetics/genomics; statistical genetics; computational biology; pathway modeling; molecular evolution
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Andrea is a second year Assistant Professor in ORIE. She works in mathematical finance, in non-traditional directions. Her works deals with aspects of finance related to optimal control, queuing theory, interacting particle systems, etc.
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: econometrics both theoretical and applied; theoretical work is in partial identification and in the study of how random set theory can be useful in this context; empirical work is concerned with estimation of risk preferences
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: imaging inverse problems, differentiable physical models for imaging and microscopy, machine learning
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- Research Interests: systems biology; complex systems; computational science
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- Research Interests: logic; recursive functions and computability; theoretical computer science; hybrid systems
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: scientific machine learning, operator learning, reduced-order modeling, dynamical systems, and computational fluid dynamics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation, Systems and Networking
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: cryptography and its interplay with computational complexity; game theory
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: nonstationary queues; nonstationary markov processes; financial engineering
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: large-scale simulations of reactive gas-solid flows with application to biomass thermochemical conversion to biofuels
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: complexity of algorithms; mathematical programming
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: computational methods; stochastic methods; artificial intelligence
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: analysis; potential theory; stochastic processes
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: applied probability; stable processes; long-range dependence; communication networks; financial models; risk theory
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Applied Probability, Queueing theory, Online decision-making, Scheduling
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: artificial intelligence and experimental computer science
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics; materials science; spatially extended dynamical systems
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Low-complexity and robust decision-making, Optimization, Machine Learning, and Optimal Transport
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: analysis of algorithms; combinatorial optimization; approximation algorithms; computational biology
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: category theory, logic, semantics, and verification
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: large-scale 3D reconstruction from 2D images; analysis of large graphs derived from massive image collections
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, topology optimization in thermal/fluidic systems
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: probability, analysis, mathematical physics
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: machine learning, statistical learning theory, online learning, optimization, empirical process theory, concentration inequalities, game theory
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Security, Cryptography
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: algebraic geometry; computational algebra and algebraic geometry; commutative algebra
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: nonlinear dynamics; applications to physics, engineering, and biology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: communication networks; control and dynamical systems optimization; game theory and applications; stochastic processes and networks
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: design and analysis of algorithms, with emphasis on problems in combinatorial optimization and their applications to various problems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Computational Methods, Stochastic Methods, Mathematical Analysis.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: statistical signal processing; communication systems and networking; adaptive receiver design-estimation theory
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: stochastic programming; approximate dynamic programming; stochastic approximation algorithms
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Numerical analysis, scientific computer, numerical algebraic geometry
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: applied mathematics; numerical methods; dynamic systems; nonlinear PDEs; control theory
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: information theory; communication and compression; networking; computational linguistics; security
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: fluids in physics and biology; biomathematics; statistical physics; scientific computing and modeling
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Classification, Copula Modeling, Learning Theory, Empirical Process Theory, Matrix Estimation and Completion, Model Selection and Aggregation, Nonparametric estimation
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: combinatorial optimization; approximation algorithms; information networks
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Game theory, Multi-agent learning, Transportation
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Inverse Problems, Nonconvex Optimization, Optimal Transport, and Machine Learning
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: advanced computational models, optimization algorithms, statistical and machine learning methods, and systems analysis tools
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- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: scalable algorithms for processing social data based on principles from statistical inference
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics
- Research Interests: signal and image processing; optimization; algorithms
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Mathematics: applied mathematics