Overview

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics provides a unified home for the mathematical sciences.  It is now the only such comprehensive mathematical sciences department among U.S. universities.  It has 20 full-time faculty plus 15 adjunct faculty with primary appointments in other Stony Brook departments or in federal and industrial research laboratories.

Education: It has over 200 graduate students studying at the M.S. and Ph.D. levels in tracks in:
i)    computational applied mathematics
ii)   computational biology
iii)  operations research/quantitative finance
iv)  statistics
It awards about 18 Ph.D.’s and 45 M.S.’s a year. 
     The department also has an extremely successful undergraduate major, graduating about 110 B.S.’s a year, close to 5% of all Stony Brook B.S.’s.  For decades, Stony Brook has graduated a higher percentage of Bachelor’s degrees in mathematics—mostly in Applied Math-- than any other U.S. public university.

Research:  Applied Mathematics and Statistics faculty work on a wide range of important problems, from designing better drugs to fight AIDS to assessing the effectiveness of foster care programs to helping the FAA route airplanes around weather systems to designing fusion reactors.  An underlying premise of all research is that problems drive the mathematics, as opposed to having theories in search of applications. Almost all research projects involve collaborations with faculty in other disciplines. All faculty have external funding for their studies, averaging $150,000 a year per professor.
    With the recent endowed gift of the Frey Family Chair in Quantitative Finance, the department is expanding its research and doctoral training in this area.