WELCOME TO APPLIED MATHEMATICS AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL

The Applied Mathematics Program at UNC-CH lies within the Mathematics Department, with 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.

In addition, we are always interested in recruiting qualified graduate students for our program. We currently support the overwhelming majority of our graduate students as research assistants on grants (currently roughly 20 RAs), with a limited number of students serving as teaching assistants in a given semester. Graduate student information is available for prospective graduate students and anyone interested in the program. The applied math program has been awarded a Research Training Group (RTG) grant frm NSF.

Our faculty are very active in a wide variety of research. From each faculty member's page, you will find links to his or her curriculum vita, from which you may view a listing of recent publications and talks. In many cases, pdf or postscript files are conveniently available for many recent contributions to the literature, and are clearly linked throughout the faculty pages. We are in the process of overhauling our group, faculty, and research project webpages, so there is additional exciting material beyond what is presented here so far.

The Applied Mathematics Colloquium combines lectures by our faculty, visiting scholars from other institutions, and scholars from other science departments at UNC-CH. We are keenly excited about the latter contributions, as we develop collaborations on our own research interests, on shared applied science curricula, and on the development of our graduate program. These seminar lectures allow faculty and graduate students to view applied science with a mathematical flavor, to meet a diverse group of applied scientists, and for graduate students in particular to get a sense of potential career opportunities.

There are various allied departments, programs, and curricula at UNC-CH through which we integrate our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and courses. We are core partners in the Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience & Technology (IAM), and Peter Mucha has a joint appointment in Mathematics & the IAM. At the Undergraduate level, we are core partners in the Curriculum in Applied Sciences and the Carolina Environmental Program, and students are encouraged to pursue an applied mathematics emphasis in their B.S. and B.A. Mathematics degree plans.

Through Tim Elston (affiliated faculty), we now also have ties to the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Biophysics.