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Department of Math & Statistics

Offering graduate and undergraduate programs in Biostatistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Quantitative Analysis, and Statistics.

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Incoming Students

All incoming freshman must take the Mathematics Placement Test.

Tutoring

For mathematics help at the undergraduate level, visit the Tutoring Center.

Statistical Consulting Center 

For graduate, undergraduate, and faculty statistics help, visit the Statistical Consulting Center.

Student Research

See more about our summer program and more Student Research.

Announcements

District Fourier Talks, October 17: an annual meeting of local mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists.

October 13 at 11:00: Distinguished Professor Mary Gray and Professor Andrew Gelman of Columbia University will represent the American Statistical Association in the Reddit "Voting in America" Ask Me Anything Series. They will talk about applying statistics to voter rights and voter turnout, including understanding the probability that your vote will make a difference. (Link available soon.)

The department extends heartfelt congratulations to the following students:

  • Kadidja Conde, Hannah Fuchs, David Kalwicz, Shalini Ramachandra, and Anna Vlachos for being acknowledged as 2020 Mathias Conference winners!
  • Marie Eberlein, Yon Garber, Cailtlin Moroney, and Shalini Ramachandra for being awarded the 2020 Fran Cox Jones Scholarship for Women in Mathematics! 
  • Adam Rodriguez for being awarded the 2020 Hanna Miriam Sandler and Bella Sandler Scholarship
Epidemiological model of those susceptible, infected, and recovered from COVID-19

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AU Math-Stat Students Dive into Pandemic Modeling

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Math Stat Student Research

Math/Stat Department poster session

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Characterization of 3-locus systems and higher-order epistasis

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Jacqueline Adams, Sergio Guerra Abril, Viktor Belay, Linoy Kotler: "Oncogenic Pathways and Iron Phenotypes in Breast Cancer."
The Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), Ohio, 2017.

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Mengming Luo: "A characterization of n-way fitness graphs that imply n-way epistasis." Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Pittsburgh 2018.

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Tonia Bell and Professor Crona

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Casey Aguilar-Gervase: "Gene interactions, order perturb-ations and algorithms."

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Summer 2018 researchers

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Meet Our Faculty as We Go Online

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Professor Michael Robinson introduces Calculus II.