AMCS PhD graduates Nathaniel Richmond and Catherine Patterson

Admission Requirements

Students applying for admission should have a solid undergraduate training in a mathematical science.

Nathan Ellingwood

Graduate Curriculum

Students study theoretical mathematics, applied mathematics, and an outside area in which mathematics is applied.

Professor Karim Abdel-Malek

Faculty/Research

Meet the Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences faculty members.

Interdisciplinary PhD program

AMCS cooperates with the Department of Mathematics in educating its graduate students.

Award-Winning Students

Greg Ongie

Greg Ongie

Ongie received the 2018 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize from the Graduate College.

Samuel Brensinger

Samuel Brensinger

Brensinger won the 2020 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize from the Graduate College.

J Vernerio

J Verniero

Verniero received the 2019 Hancher-Finkbine Medallion based on their achievements.

Events

Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Weimin Han; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Thursday, April 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities: Theory, Numerical Analysis, and ApplicationsAbstract: In recent years, modeling, mathematical analysis, and numerical solution of hemivariational inequalities, or more generally, variational-hemivariational inequalities, have attracted much attention in the research communities. Through the formulation of variational-hemivariational inequalities, application problems involving nonsmooth, monotone or non-monotone, multivalued constitutive laws...

From Electric Vehicles to Constrained Variational Inequalities

Friday, April 4, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Qi Luo, Dept. of Business Analytics
Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Yangbo Ye promotional image

Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Yangbo Ye

Thursday, May 8, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: Number theory and cryptography   Abstract:  In this presentation Professor Ye will survey his work and progress in number theory since his last colloquium talk in the department. Topics include the Riemann zeta function, automorphic L-functions, their functoriality, upper bounds, and zero statistics, computational number theory, and its applications to cyberspace security or insecurity.   Short Bio: Professor Yangbo Ye is a professor of Mathematics with expertise in number theory and...
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Past events

Quantum Computing, Discrete Methods, Complex Probabilities

Friday, March 28, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Wayne Polyzou, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

Alumni talk about a career in industry

Friday, March 7, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: TBA (now at Netflix)

Mathematics of stochastic tools, and their diverse applications

Friday, February 28, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Palle Jorgensen (Dept. of Mathematics)
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News

Portrait of Mansimran Singh

A student receives the 2025 Outstanding TA Award

Friday, March 28, 2025
AMCS student Mansimran Singh received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2025 from the University of Iowa Council on Teaching. Congratulations!
Natalie Randall

AMCS student Natalie Randall conferred ENRE Young Researcher Best Paper Runner-up Award

Monday, November 18, 2024
AMCS student Natalie Randall under the supervision of Prof. Beste Basciftci from the Dept. of Business Analytics was awarded the 2024 INFORMS ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment) Young Researcher Best Paper Runner-up Award.