BA/BS in Computational and Applied Mathematics

The committee for this field was created in 2016 because of a pressing need to educate new mathematicians able to take on problems built around data in the natural sciences and the social sciences. It offers both doctoral and master's degrees, and its pages state that applications for the 2027 cycle are being accepted. The committee's pages feature recent recognition for its community, including a dissertation fellowship awarded to a doctoral student by the Physical Sciences Division, a thesis prize given to another student, and a national academy election for a faculty member. Events described on the site include a social gathering for students and faculty and a colloquium series with visiting speakers who meet in a campus building on Wednesday afternoons. These activities give students regular contact with active researchers in the field. Prospective master's applicants can use the site to see how the program is organized, follow current news and learn about the intellectual community they would join, which centers on applying mathematical and computational methods to real data.