Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences
Welcome to CAMS

The Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences is an organized research unit based in the Department of Mathematics at USC. The purpose of CAMS is to foster research and graduate education in Mathematics in a broad sense and in an interdisciplinary mode. One goal of the center's participants is to facilitate and encourage the development of applicable mathematics and its utilization in problems in engineering and the sciences.

The mission of the Center is threefold.
  1. To maintain USC's position as an internationally-recognized center in several important and well defined areas of mathematics and its applications
  2. To be a much-needed interface between the Department of Mathematics and other USC departments and institutions outside USC.
  3. To serve as a catalyst in the development of state-of-the-art activities in applicable mathematics at USC.
CAMS Prize Winners

Winners of the CAMS Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Research with a Substantial Mathematical Component.

Sushmita Allam Wan-Jung Kuo Yang Huang Yi Gai Subhankar Ghosh Mahyar Salek Vlad Vicol
Biomedical Engineering Physics Mathematics Electrical Engineering Mathematics Computer Science Mathematics
2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010
News Events
Mathematical Congress of the Americas

Fall 2013 Monday, August 05, 2013 Friday, August 09 See details...

Susan Friedlander, CAMS Director
Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Spring 2013 Friday, January 18, 2013
Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Solomon Golomb
Member of the CAMS Board receives the US National Medal of Sciences.
Spring 2013 Friday, January 18, 2013
Member of the CAMS Board receives the US National Medal of Sciences.
Upcoming Conference
Guanajuato, Mexico
Monday, July 29 – Friday, August 02 Mathematics of Climate Change, Related Natural Hazards and Risks

Upcoming Conference
Guanajuato, Mexico
Monday, August 05 – Friday, August 09 Mathematical Congress of the Americas

Past Colloquium
Charles Doering U of Michigan Monday, April 29 ``Ultimate state'' of two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Rayleigh-Bénard convection is the buoyancy-driven flow of a fluid heated from below and cooled from above. Heat transport by convection an important physical process for applications in engineering, atmosphere and ocean science, and astrophysics, and it serves as a fundamental paradigm of modern nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, chaos, and turbulence.
Determining the bulk transport properties of high Rayleigh number convection...

Past Colloquium
Stephen Childress Courant Institute Monday, April 22 In search of a stable jelly-fish like flying machine.

Flapping-wing aircraft offer an alternative to helicopters in achieving maneuverable flight at small scales, although stabilizing such aircraft remains a key challenge. Experimental studies of the stable hovering of rigid structures in an oscillating airflow suggest a design which mimics the flapping contractions of a jelly fish. We have constructed a prototype of such a craft, and test flown it in free flight with an external power...