Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
In the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department at Mines we tie together foundational research and teaching of Computational and Applied Mathematics as well as Statistics with interdisciplinary applications in the areas of Bio, Geo, Data, and Risk.
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

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Welcome to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics!
Mathematics plays a vital role in the education of all students at Colorado School of Mines, both through the advanced training of its own majors and graduate students and through the support it provides to all the engineering and science disciplines.
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics takes pride in its teaching innovations, its contributions to research across campus, and in the quality of excellence in applied mathematics and statistics among its alumni.
News
Dr. Eileen Martin recognized with the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize
Congratulations to AMS Assistant Professor Dr. Eileen Martin! Dr. Martin has been recognized with the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize. This prize is awarded to an early career professional in the intersection of applied mathematics and the...
Professor Dorit Hammerling establishes $50 million partnership between Mines, UT-Austin and CSU
Congratulations to AMS Associate Professor Dorit Hammerling! Professor Hammerling has established a major partnership between Mines, UT-Austin and CSU to create a $50 million multidisciplinary research and education initiative to model and assess greenhouse gas...
AMS Students Highlighted in SIAM News, June 2022
Mines Mathematics and Computing Collaborative (MMCC) is a student-led outreach organization that aims to close the STEM exposure gap by offering inspiring, hands-on mathematics and computing workshops for high schoolers in the Denver metro area. Jacqueline del...
Professor Dorit Hammerling’s research highlighted in Bloomberg article
Research produced by Hammerling Research Group as part of the Responsible Gas project led by the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Mines was recently sourced in the following article:...
Dr. Cecilia Diniz Behn co-author on published study
AMS Associate Professor Cecilia Diniz Behn contributed to a paper recently published in the Journal of Pineal Research. Diniz Behn and Mines alum Nora Stack PhD '19 contributed to a new study that showed even slight exposure to light can prompt the critical...