Welcome to Applied Mathematics

The Department of Applied Mathematics has 30 faculty members and over 100 graduate students. We offer undergraduate plans in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics that attract outstanding students. The wide range of interdisciplinary research being undertaken in the department provides a stimulating environment for our graduate program.

The department has research programs in         

Please take a look at the short video below highlighting some of the department's research in mathematical medicine/biology and fluid mechanics.

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University of Waterloo Dept. of Applied Mathematics researchers are discussing how their work helps to build tools used to tackle a broad range of problems that affect us all.

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News

  1. May 7, 2024Applied Math professors receive grants from the National Research Council
    Professor David Del Rey Fernandez and Professor Achim Kempf

    Professors David Del Rey Fernández and Achim Kempf from the Department of Applied Mathematics received research grants from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).

  2. May 7, 2024Applied Math professors receive funding for CREATE program
    Applied Math Professors Marek Stastna and Francis Poulin

    Marek Stastna and co-principal investigator Francis Poulin, both professors at the Department of Applied Mathematics, received $1.65 million in research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for their Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program “Training for Novel Directions in Quantitative Climate Science.”

  3. May 7, 2024Applied Math professor Hans De Sterck designated Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    Hans De Sterck, Professor and Chair, Applied Mathematics

    Hans De Sterck, a professor and the chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics, has been named as one of the Class of 2024 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in recognition of his “contributions to scientific computing methods including multilevel and nonlinear solvers, and for exemplary scientific leadership and service to SIAM.”

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Events

Purple Tank

Professor working on a work bench

Students writing math equations on a glass board