Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Welcome

The Applied Mathematics Program at UNC-CH has strong curricular and research ties to various areas of applied science at UNC-CH. This Program was started in 1996 with generous university-wide support provided by the Provost, Vice-Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Mathematics Department in the form of permanent and fixed-term faculty positions, space, computational facilities, secretarial and systems staff positions, and general resources.

Our focus is to provide mathematical and computational science support to the "School of Applied Science" emphasis at UNC-CH. This concept consists of units of strong disciplinary excellence, together with a fundamental interest and commitment to interdisciplinary science. Our group in Applied Mathematics shares the belief that this combination of pure disciplinary excellence and cross-disciplinary training and collaborations offers a great model for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Our faculty currently consists of: David Adalsteinsson, Roberto Camassa, Greg Forest, Jingfang Huang, Chris Jones, Rich McLaughlin, Laura Miller, Michael Minion, Sorin Mitran, and Peter Mucha. We also work with a number of postdoctoral scholars.

Current Announcements & Events

• Congratulations to our students for winning two of the four prizes in the First Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition at the SIAM 2008 Annual Meeting: Mandi Traud for "Identifying Sociological Trends in Facebook Networks" and Claudia Falcon & Joyce Lin for "A Falling Sphere through Stratified Karo" (see SIAM: Investing in Our Future: Student Days at the SIAM Annual Meeting).
• UNC will host the 2008 Halloween edition of Cha-Cha Days. Be sure to check out the program schedule.
• The Fall 2008 Applied Mathematics Colloquium has begun. The schedule of speakers can be found here. Please contact Richard McLaughlin for more information.
• Congratulations to our students who competed in the 2008 Mathematical Contest in Modeling: Ken Beasley, Xiaoxiao Guo, Emily Nix, Josh Schwartz, and Mandi Traud. The students formed two teams and each developed a model to analyze the potential effects of sea levels that rise due to global warming. Over 1,100 teams from around the world entered the contest this year, and both of our UNC teams were rewarded with the rank of Honorable Mention! More information is available at www.comap.com.
• Check out our ever expanding news about the Center and information about available positions.