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Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers
APMTH 101
2025 Fall
Efthimios Kaxiras
Tuesday, Thursday
9:00am to 10:15am
Introductory statistical methods for students in the applied sciences and engineering. Random variables and probability distributions; the concept of random sampling, including random samples, statistics, and sampling distributions; the Central Limit Theorem; parameter estimation; confidence interva...
Graph Theory and Combinatorics
APMTH 107
2026 Spring
Leslie Valiant
Tuesday, Thursday
9:45am to 11:00am
Topics in combinatorial mathematics that find frequent application in computer science, engineering, and general applied mathematics. Course focuses on graph theory on one hand, and enumeration on the other. Specific topics include graph matching and graph coloring, generating functions and recurren...
Introduction to PDEs and their Applications
APMTH 109
2026 Spring
Nick Trefethen
Tuesday, Thursday
10:30am to 11:45am
This course serves as an introduction to partial differential equations (PDE) and their applications across the sciences. The course will familiarize students with the process of starting with a model, deriving the appropriate PDE, and solving it. Examples include wave equations, diffusion equations...
Mathematical Modeling
APMTH 115
2026 Spring
Zhiming Kuang
Tuesday, Thursday
10:30am to 11:45am
Abstracting the essential components and mechanisms from a natural system to produce a mathematical model, which can be analyzed with a variety of formal mathematical methods, is perhaps the most important, but least understood, task in applied mathematics. This course approaches a number of problem...
Mathematical Modeling
APMTH 115
2025 Fall
Michael P. Brenner
Tuesday, Thursday
10:30am to 11:45am
Abstracting the essential components and mechanisms from a natural system to produce a mathematical model, which can be analyzed with a variety of formal mathematical methods, is perhaps the most important, but least understood, task in applied mathematics. This course approaches a number of problem...