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
- Control and Dynamical Systems (including differential equations)
- Fluid Mechanics
- Mathematical Medicine and Biology
- Mathematical Physics
- Scientific Computing
Please take a look at the short video below highlighting some of the department's research in mathematical medicine/biology and fluid mechanics.
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.
News
Graduate students receive departmental awards for 2023-2024
The Department of Applied Mathematics presented six Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards and three Graduate Research Paper Awards in recognition of the exceptional work of our graduate students.
Applied Math professor Graeme Smith wins Golden Jubilee Research Award
The Faculty of Mathematics Research Office recently announced its 2024 recipients of the Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award. Graeme Smith, an associate professor in Applied Mathematics, was one of this year’s winners.
Applied Math student Chichi Zhou wins Mehta-Jenner Climate Change Mitigation Graduate Scholarship
The $10,000 Mehta-Jenner Scholarship is awarded to female graduate students in a Faculty of Mathematics master’s program who are conducting research on the assessment and/or mitigation of climate change.
Events
Applied Math Colloquium | Sarah Olson, Fluid Flows with Immersed Structures: from micro-swimmers to rigid obstacles
MC 5501
PhD Thesis Defence | Sepehr Ghadami, Designing and simulating a micro-robot for transporting filamentous cargos in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids
M3 4206
PhD Comprehensive Exam | Dongze Li, Entropy-stable summation-by-parts shock tracking method for compressible the Euler equations
MC 5501