Applied Mathematics @ McGill

The language, tools and theorems of mathematics are applied in a vast range of disciplines within engineering and computer science, the physical sciences, the biomedical sciences, management and economics, psychology, etc. As a field of study and research applied mathematics lies at the boundary between mathematics and its applications. While not easily defined with any great precision, applied mathematics involves the application of interesting mathematical tools to significant applied problems and/or to the development of novel mathematics adapted to particular applications. Applied mathematicians use mathematical models to better understand, and possibly solve, real-life problems.Read More

Non-Linear Dynamical Systems and Chaos

img1This concentration focuses on the theory and applications of dynamical systems and delay equations. Examples range from developping integration techniques and criterions for identifying invariant manifolds, to applications such as traffic flow and fluid dynamics. Read more..

Partial Differential Equations & Applied Analysis

img1This concentration focuses on the theory of Partial Differential Equations arising from applied problems. For examples, we are interrested in problems ranging from material science to cosmology and theoretical physics, e.g. pattern formation and phase transitions to the formation of black holes. Read more..

Scientific Computing & Numerical Analysis

img1This concentration's focus is aimed at developing and analysing the tools and methods used in all areas of applied science. This includes developing new numerical schemes for the solution of Partial Differential Equations, but also fast algorithms for large linear algebra problems. Applications range from solid and fluid mechanics to Computer graphics. Read More..

Mathematics, Interdiciplinarity, and the Future...

The applied mathematics group includes about a quarter of the full time faculty members of the department, with about 11 individuals of whom 2 hold joint appointments with other departments. Currently there are also 7 associate members from other departments and a number of retired professors who to various degrees maintain active involvement with the applied mathematics group. There are particularly active interactions between the applied mathematics group and its graduate students with members of the School of Computer Science, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine. Members of the group are have been very active in the Centre de Recherche Mathematiques (CRM) and its Applied Mathematics Laboratory, based at McGill, which facilitates collaboration between the mathematicians or Montreal's four universities and brings a steady stream of world class mathematicians to the city, as well as funding some postdoctoral positions. At the graduate student level the Institut des Sciences Mathematiques (ISM) supplies some postdoctoral and graduate student funding, and also enables students to take advanced courses from any of the city's universities through its programmes in all areas of mathematics including its Applied and Computational Mathematics programme.