Analyzing and modeling high-dimensional data and handling very large data sets has led to an increased synergy between applied mathematics, statistics, and computation. The history of applied mathematics at the University of Chicago is filled with great names who have made major contributions. Given the strong long-standing interdisciplinary ties the Department of Statistics has always had with other fields of study, it is the natural home for the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative (CAMI), which started formally in 2008 and has been growing rapidly ever since. Exciting new faculty hires, engaging seminar series, attracting the best students eager to gain the tools to be the leaders of tomorrow and the innovators of new applications—this is what CAMI is about and what our Department is dedicated to.
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- Ph.D. Degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Master's Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Computational and Applied Mathematics Colloquium (This colloquium supersedes the Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar that met from Fall 2011–Spring 2017.)
CAMI Faculty
Mihai Anitescu
Professor (Part-Time), Department of Statistics; Computational Mathematician, MCS at Argonne National Laboratory
Numerical analysis and optimization
Guillaume Bal
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Mathematics
Applied mathematics, partial differential equations with random coefficients, theory of inverse problems
Jeremy Hoskins
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Computational mathematics, physics, numerical analysis
Yuehaw Khoo
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Computational mathematics, data science, and scientific applications
Risi Kondor
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Statistics
Machine learning
Lek-Heng Lim
Professor, Department of Statistics
Computational mathematics
John Reinitz
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Ecology and Evolution, and Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
Computational biology
Daniel Sanz-Alonso
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Data assimilation, inverse problems and machine learning
Mary Silber
Professor, Department of Statistics; Director, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Applied mathematics, dynamical systems, ecology and climate applications
Rebecca Willett
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science
Machine learning, signal processing, high-dimensional statistics, inverse problems