![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.
![Photo of Jessa Rhea](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2022-11/Jessa_Rhea.jpg?h=e14f6b2f&itok=z-gU1Slz)
Three students receive the 2023 Outstanding TA Award
Monday, March 27, 2023
AMCS students Ibrahim Emirahmetoglu, Garrett Mason, and Jessa Rhea recognized.
![Michael Kratochvil](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2020-12/Michael%20Kratochvil%20web.jpg?h=e5a1d405&itok=CwqUct-4)
Michael Kratochvil wins the 2022 Herb Hethcote Award
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Kratochvil honored for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in AMCS.
AMCS Day on August 27, 2022
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
There was a total of fifteen presentations given by AMCS students
and two talks from AMCS faculty.
Beste Basciftci appointed as new AMCS faculty
Friday, May 20, 2022
Professor Beste Basciftci from the Department of Business Analytics and Information Systems has been appointed as a new faculty member of the AMCS Program.
Baylor Recruits Henry Han, AMCS Ph.D., 2004, Leading Data Scientist, to Serve as Inaugural McCollum Family Chair in Data Sciences
Monday, October 18, 2021
Henry Han earned a Ph.D. in AMCS at the University of Iowa in 2004. He then served on the bioinformatics and mathematics faculty at Eastern Michigan University from 2005 to 2012 before moving to Fordham.
![Andrew Pensoneault](/sites/amcs.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2020-12/Andrew%20Pensoneault%20web_0.jpg?h=ecf2c940&itok=I-8a5Rgy)
Lectures on an introduction to parallel programming by Andrew Pensoneault starting Nov. 1st.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Andrew Pensoneault, a 6th year AMCS graduate student, has volunteered to give a few introductory lectures on parallel programming. Starting November 1st until the end of semester it will be held on Mondays at 3:30PM in room 218 MLH and also live on zoom.