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.
Patrick Simmonds (B.S., Business Administration `07), an international student from Sao Paulo, Brazil, studies in Doheny Library.A view of Von KleinSmid Center at sunsetKaprielian Hall houses programs of the USC College.Building facadeKaprielian Hall houses programs of the USC College.Roof top views of Bovard Administration Building and the Los Angeles skyline.Architectural Detail, stained glassArchitectural Detail, stained glassA cherished landmark modeled after a medieval Tuscan monastery, Mudd Hall is home to the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences’ School of Philosophy and the James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy.Los Angeles skylineDaniel Dyba (major: mathematics) and Diana Lynn Ciontea (major: biomedical engineering)
News Events
CAMS Prize

Spring 2010
Monday, March 01
Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Research

CAMS Distinguished Lecturer
James Glimm
Spring 2010
Monday, March 22
Mathematical and Numerical Principles for Turbulent Mixing

Whiteman Lecturer
Peter Sarnak
Spring 2010
Wednesday, January 27
Thursday, January 28
Randomness in Arithmetic and Applications
Upcoming Colloquium
Andrea Bertozzi
UCLA
Friday, February 12
The behavior of solutions of multidimensional aggregation equations with mildly singular interaction kernels

We consider the multidimensional aggregation equation u_t+div(u grad K*u) = 0 in which the radially symmetric attractive interaction kernel has a mild singularity at the origin (Lipschitz or better). We review recent results...

Upcoming Colloquium
Maciej Zworski
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, February 17
To be Announced

Upcoming Colloquium
Wei Kang
Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, February 22
Observability, Controllability, and Input-Output Gain of Dynamical Systems

I will introduce concepts and methodologies for analyzing dynamical systems using dynamic optimization. The problems addressed include observability based on user-information, partial observability of complex systems, input-output...

Upcoming Colloquium
Alex Mahalov
Arizona State
Monday, March 01
To be Announced