Graduate students with an interest in applications can often have access to the Laboratory's exceptional computing resources and have the opportunity to work there on problems of current national interest. Collaborations with faculty members from physics, chemistry, statistics, computer science, biology, and the various branches of engineering are also encouraged and occur frequently. Students who engage in research projects of substantial interest to an area of applications often benefit from additional sources of support that exist in the fields to which they contribute. The Department has an excellent record of graduating students with applied interests who then go on to distinguished careers in which they contribute both to mathematics and to the increasing number of its applications. Applications for admission from students with a double major, in mathematics and another science, are particularly encouraged, and applications from students with a strong mathematical background and a major in a science will be seriously considered.
Most faculty members belong to more than one section.