The Mathematics Department offers an Applied Mathematics Option for the qualifying exams that are required for all PhD students in Mathematics.
The description from the 1999-2000 Stanford Bulletin (page 460) is as follows:
The option differs from the standard PhD program in that qualifying examinations in more applied areas are substituted for the regular qualifying examinations. Also, the course Math. 220 (basic methods in partial differential equations) and CS 237 (numerical methods) are a required part of the curriculum in the first year. Students are required to take 18 units of graduate level courses in Computer Science and applied areas such as fluid mechanics, operations research, financial mathematics, or statistics.
Applied mathematics activities span many areas and involve several visitors and new faculty members. This year, 2000-2001, they are:
Doron Levy(dlevy@math). web page). Assistant professor. Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in Applied Mathematics. He is interested in applied mathematics, numerical analysis and nonlinear partial differential equations.
Jonathan Mattingly (jonm@math). Szego assistant professor. Ph.D. from Princeton University in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He is interested in probability and dynamical systems and their intersection. He is currently studying stochastically forced PDE’s mainly of a dissipative nature such as the Navier Stokes equations.
Julie Levandosky(julie@math). Szego assistant professor with a Ph.D. from Brown. She works on partial differential equations and nonlinear waves.
Peter Blomgren (blomgren@math, web page). Visiting member of the Department with a Ph.D. from UCLA in Mathematics. He works on PDE-based image processing and geophysical inverse problems.
Miguel Moscoso(mmoscoso@math). Visiting member of the Department with a Ph.D. the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) in Mathematical Engineering. His work involves the study of spatio-temporal structures in DC voltage biased semiconductor superlattices.
Arnold Kim(adkim@math). Visiting member of the Department with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Washington. He has an NSF postdoctoral fellowship. He works on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a turbulent atmosphere using radiative transport theory.
James Berryman (berryman@sep, web page). Long term scientific collaborator from Livermore National Laboratory, works on geophysical inverse problems and the theory of physical properties of composite materials.
Among faculty members with applied interests and research projects are:
Gigliola Staffilani (gigliola@math)Assistant professor. Ph.D. from Chicago in Mathematics. She works on the global regularity of solutions of nonlinear wave equations.
Persi Diaconis (jointly with Statistics)
Amir Dembo (web page, jointly with Statistics)
Joseph B. Keller (keller@math, professor emeritus)
Tai-Ping Liu (liu@math)
George Papanicolaou (web page).
The Applied Mathematics Seminar meets every Friday at 3:15-4:15PM, Building 380 (Math corner), Room 380C, with tea afterwards in the third floor lounge of the Mathematics Department. Jonathan Mattingly (jonm@math) and Doron Levy (dlevy@math) are in charge of the seminar and distribute the schedule and further information about it.