182
Undergraduate Majors
EDUCATION
Students in the UW Department of Applied Mathematics find a culture of excellence and respect within a warm, collegial atmosphere. The Department provides opportunities to its graduate students for significant scholarly activity and original research. Through classes and individual faculty mentoring, our students learn to model phenomena mathematically and to develop combined analytical and computational approaches for problem solving. They learn to communicate using the language of mathematics and the language of various applied disciplines, and to work with others to advance the frontiers of knowledge. They learn to respond to the mathematical needs of others by teaching, by mentoring undergraduates and each other, by working in industrial and government settings, and on outreach projects in local schools. Our students graduate with the knowledge, the experience, and the ability to be leaders in a society that exhibits increasing demands for competence in communication, computation, and quantitative analysis.
Applied and computational mathematics encompasses some of the most diverse and interdisciplinary research in the physical, engineering, and biological sciences. The program has received national and international acclaim, such as being ranked 4th in the nation in applied mathematics by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (2007) and tied as the top applied mathematics program in the country by the National Research Council (2010).
The Department offers a broad curriculum of graduate courses in applied mathematics, and our faculty members have written many textbooks that are widely used here and at other institutions.
The Department also provides undergraduate courses for students in our majors, the Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) Bachelor’s Degree program, and teaches undergraduate and graduate service courses in applied mathematics for students from many other departments. The Department offers access to select courses through distance learning.
Degree Options
We offer a broad curriculum of graduate and undergraduate courses in applied mathematics to provide students with the tools they need to succeed, and we offer different degree options tailored to our students’ academic goals.
Applied Mathematics:
- BS
- MS On Campus
- MS Online
- PhD
Computational Finance & Risk Management:
- BS
- MS On Campus
- MS Online
Students
Autumn 2023
- 182 Bachelor of Science students
- 236 Master of Science students
- 53 PhD students
Degrees Awarded
2022-2023
- 47 BS degrees - Applied Mathematics
- 22 BS degrees - Computational Finance and Risk Management
- 51 MS degrees - Applied Mathematics
- 37 MS degrees - Computational Science and Risk Management
- 6 PhD degrees
FACULTY
Autumn 2021
- 7 Full Professors
- 6 Associate Professors
- 2 Assistant Professors
- 8 Acting Instructors or Postdoctoral Scholars
- 7 Emeritus Professors
- 14 Adjunct Faculty
Faculty Awards
The Department of Applied Mathematics has 14 faculty and 6 emeritus faculty. This small group of faculty has received an impressive collection of awards and honors, including:
- 2 Members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2 Presidential Young Investigator Awards
- 5 National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
- 2 Guggenheim Fellows
- 2 Humboldt Foundation Awards
- 1 Sloan Foundation Fellow
- 1 Burroughs Wellcome Career Award
- 1 CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow
- 1 President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- 4 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- 1 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- 2 Fellows of the American Meteorological Society
- 1 SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering Early Career Prize
- 1 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar