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
Jackie Simens Gant ’13, MS’15 Receives the Young Alum Award
Jackie Simens Gant ’13, MS’15, a double Mines graduate in Applied Mathematics, is the CEO of Bond Consulting Services and a leader in digital transformation for small and mid-sized businesses. With more than a decade of experience across Microsoft business...
Brandon Knutson Earns Oral Presentation at AAAI-26
Congratulations to Brandon Knutson, whose first-author paper On logical extrapolation for Mazes with Recurrent and Implicit Networks was accepted for oral presentation at AAAI-26! His work addresses the question "can certain kinds of neural networks really learn an...
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...