Overview of the
Applied Math and Statistics
Department
at UC Santa Cruz
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to promote the sound use of theories, methods, and applications in
applied mathematics (AM)
and statistics (S) on
the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and
- to provide service to the campus, the surrounding community, the state of California, and the professions of applied mathematics and statistics,
through excellence in research and teaching.
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Dynamic mathematical modeling, fluid dynamics and
optimization and control theory with applications to
astrophysics, biology, earth and marine sciences, engineering, and
geophysics; and
- Bayesian nonparametric methods, Bayesian inference, prediction, and decision-making with applications to bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, visualization and the environment