Applied and Computational Mathematics

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Applied Mathematics at UW-Madison

Welcome to the Applied Mathematics Group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Our faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and students are involved in a variety of research projects, including fluid dynamics, partial and stochastic differential equations, scientific computing, biology, biochemistry, and topology.

Tenured and tenure-track faculty

David Anderson: (Duke, 2005) probability, mathematical/systems biology.

Sigurd Angenent:

Amir Assadi:

Nigel Boston:

Gheorghe Craciun:

Shi Jin:

Alex Kiselev:

Gloria Mari-Beffa:

Paul Milewski:

Julie Mitchell: (Berkeley, 1998) computational mathematics, structural biology.

James Rossmanith: (Washington, 2002) computational mathematics, hyperbolic conservation laws, plasma physics.

Leslie Smith:

Sam Stechmann: (Courant, 2008) fluid dynamics, atmospheric science, computational mathematics

Jean-Luc Thiffeault: (Texas, 1998) fluid dynamics, mixing, biological swimming and mixing, topological dynamics.

Fabian Waleffe:

Postdoctoral fellows

Dongming Wei:

Seminars

Applied and Computational Math Seminar (Fridays at 2:25pm, VV901)

Graduate course offerings

Fall 2010:

• Math 703: Methods of Applied Mathematics I (L. Smith)
• Math 705: Mathematical Fluid Dynamics (J-L. Thiffeault)
• Math/CS 714: Methods of Computational Math I (P. Milewski)
• Math 801: Topics in Applied Mathematics (J. Mitchell)
• Math 819: Partial Differential Equations (S. Angenent)

Spring 211:

• Math 704: Methods of Applied Mathematics II
• Math/CS 715: Methods of Computational Math II (S. Jin)
• Math/CS 837: Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs (J. Rossmanith)

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