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.
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News Events
We congratulate on their recent election to the National Academy of Engineering
Christine Shoemaker
USC Math Alumna
Michael Waterman
CAMS Member
Professor of Engineering at Cornell
CAMS Colloquium Speaker in Fall 2012
Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at USC

Susan Friedlander, Director of CAMS, is Selected a SIAM Fellow
For contributions to applied mathematics through research, editorial work, and conference organizing, and for serving as a role model for young people, especially young women.
Friday, March 30 See details...

International Workshop on Sequential Methods and their Applications (IWSM&A 2012)

Summer 2012 Monday, June 04 Friday, June 08 See details...

Mathematical Congress of the Americas

Fall 2013 Monday, August 05 Friday, August 09 See details... Guanajuato, Mexico
Upcoming Conference
7:00 AMUniversity of Rouen, France
University of Rouen, France
Monday, June 04 – Friday, June 08 International Workshop on Sequential Methods and their Applications (IWSM&A 2012)

The workshop IWSM&A 2012 covers all aspects of sequential methodologies in mathematical statistics and applied probability from theoretical developments in important areas such as optimal stopping, sequential analysis, and...

Past Colloquium
Olivier Pinaud Stanford Math Department Monday, April 23 Wave in random media and applications

We will review some recent results related to wave propagation in random media and applications to imaging. We'll explain how some relevant physical scales influence the nature of the inverse problem and present different...

Past Colloquium
Eva Kanso USC Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Monday, April 16 Fishes and Multi-dipole Interactions

I will discuss aspects of (a) passive locomotion and stability in unsteady flows and (b) motion synchronization of m ultiple dipoles. The main theme connecting these projects, and one of the underlying motivation for this...

Prize Announcement
2012 Graduate Student Prizes

The CAMS Prize was open to nominations from any department at USC. The Selection Committee received a considerable number of very strong nominations and it chose this year to give two prizes.

Yang Huang Department of Mathematics Wan-Jung Kuo Department of Physics

The prizes were given to the winners at a short ceremony on Wednesday April 18th at 3 pm in KAP 410 (the math department common room of the 4th floor of KAP).