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.
News Events
Franklin Lecturer
Michael Waterman
Spring 2009
Friday, February 27
CAMS Distinguished Lecturer
George Papanicolaou
Spring 2009
Friday, April 17
Whiteman Lecturer
Terence Tao
Spring 2009
Thursday, February 19
Upcoming Conference


Monday, June 15
The second International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM)

The workshop covers all aspects of sequential methodologies in mathematical statistics and information theory from theoretical developments in optimal stopping, sequential analysis, change detection to different applications...

Upcoming Conference


Thursday, June 25
Analysis of Fluid Stability

The main aims of the conference are the dissemination of modern PDE techniques relevant to the problems of fluid stability, and the stimulation of interactions between mathematical analysts on the one hand, and fluid dynamicists...