![AMCS PhD graduates Nathaniel Richmond and Catherine Patterson](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-02/Nathaniel-Richmond-and-Catherine-Patterson.jpg?h=137b9173&itok=FpeKVUaD)
Admission Requirements
Students applying for admission should have a solid undergraduate training in a mathematical science.
![Nathan Ellingwood](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-02/Ellingwood1.jpg?h=38f2f67d&itok=C2IRxK7x)
Graduate Curriculum
Students study theoretical mathematics, applied mathematics, and an outside area in which mathematics is applied.
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](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-06/profile_small_2016.png?h=02895ed9&itok=Tj72Kosy)
Greg Ongie
Ongie received the 2018 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize from the Graduate College.
![Samuel Brensinger](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-05/Sam-Research.gif?h=898af228&itok=ol_CsW68)
Samuel Brensinger
Brensinger won the 2020 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize from the Graduate College.
![J Vernerio](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-06/jv_jk.jpg?h=1d181f1c&itok=SNQUxkpr)
J Verniero
Verniero received the 2019 Hancher-Finkbine Medallion based on their achievements.
Past events
The application of implicit Runge-Kutta methods to various types of differential equations
Friday, April 26, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Speaker: Laurent O. Jay, Dept. of Mathematics
Optimization and related problems
Friday, April 19, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Speaker: David Stewart, Department of Mathematics
Advice for a Career in Academia
Friday, April 12, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Speaker: Joe Eichholz, United States Air Force Academy
News
![Head shot of Joey Small](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-05/Joseph_Small.jpg?h=98cd7c1e&itok=Z0jMbZCy)
A student receives the 2024 Outstanding TA Award
Monday, April 29, 2024
AMCS student Joey Small recognized.
![Attendees of AMCS Day 2024](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/AMCS-DAY_2024_1.jpg?h=b4c7294f&itok=FL1CZbW0)
AMCS Day on August 26, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023
There was a total of twenty presentations given by AMCS and Math students.
![Ying Liu](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2020-12/Ying%20Liu%20web.png?h=e01d9f96&itok=karf13ZS)
Ying Liu awarded NSF internship
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Liu will work with Dr. Hong Zhang at Argonne National Laboratory on a project that focuses on data-driven discovery of unknown dynamics.