Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Colorado School of Mines
In the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department at Mines we tie together foundational research and teaching of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science with interdisciplinary applications in the areas of Bio, Geo, Data, and Risk.
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Welcome
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. Cecilia Diniz Behn Named Inaugural Gray Endowed Chair
Congratulations to Cecilia Diniz Behn on being named the inaugural Joe and Jane Gray Endowed University Chair! Alumnus Joe Gray (Mines '68) established this chair to support a faculty member who is a leader at the intersection of biology/medicine and other STEM...
Mines Research Cited in U.S. Congressional Hearing
A paper (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw8997) co-authored by Dr. Dorit Hammerling and Mines colleagues Elizabeth Holley, Karlie Hadden, Rod Eggert, Erik Spiller, and Priscilla Nelson, and published in the prestigious journal Science, was recently cited...
Gates Foundation Grant Awarded!
We are proud to share that Professor Deb Carney is part of a research team recently awarded a Gates Foundation grant. Project Title: Impact of Coordination and Common Course Model on Student OutcomesPrincipal Investigator: Chris Rasmussen (SDSU)Co-Principal...
Celebrating Cash Cherry’s Honorable Mention at CIG Meeting!
We congratulate Cash on receiving an Honorable Mention for his poster at the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics meeting in Breckenridge, CO!
Colorado School of Mines Team’s Colloidal Quasicrystal Image featured on Nature Physics Cover
An image from a paper Dr. Brennan Sprinkle published with Ning Wu, Dave Marr, and Yan Gao made the cover of Nature Physics this month! The article “Direct observation of colloidal quasicrystallization” was published on March 31, 2025 in the Nature Physics journal. ...