Research
The faculty of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics conduct research in many interconnected mathematical fields. The main research thrusts in the department are in the following areas:
- Discrete Mathematics
- Optimization and Operations Research
- Numerical and Matrix Analysis
- Probability
- Statistics
- Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Research applications include:
- Facility location
- Inventory modeling
- Mathematical physics
- Fluid mechanics
- Turbulence
- Equilibrium statistical physics
- Geophysics
- Climate
- Stochastic processes
- Random structures
- Algorithms
- Financial mathematics
- Image analysis
- Statistical learning
- Bioinformatics
- Game theory
- Statistical modeling
- Computer vision
- Road detection, face detection, skin detection
- Registration of brain MRI
- Langage modelling
- Computational statistics
- Kernel and mixture estimates
- Statistical pattern recognitioncomputer security.
- Random graphs
- Statistical inference for high-dimensional data
- Statistical inference for graph data
- Partially ordered sets
- Stochastic systems
- Parameter estimation
- Stochastic optimization
- Monte Carlo methods and simulation
- Neural networks
- Control systems
- System identification and Kalman filtering
- Uncertainty calculation
- Asymptotics
- Percolation theory
- Markov random fields
- Deformation analysis
- Shape recognition