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Iowa State University: Department of Mathematics

The department is a leader in undergraduate research and early graduate research. Graduate students have the opportunity to participate in an Early Graduate Research course in their first two years. The ISU summer REU program involves teams of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, regularly results in publications, and is supported by an NSF REU-site grant.

The department is making serious efforts to support the national goal of a more diverse mathematical workforce, is an active participant in Alliance programs. Prof. Leslie Hogben serves as its Director of Diversity.

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Programs offered

The department offers programs leading to the Ph.D. in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics, the M.S. in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and the Master of School Mathematics.

We also participate in interdisciplinary programs in Information Assurance, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Human Computer Interaction and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

All the graduate programs have considerable flexibility to suit individual needs. The faculty has strong research groups in partial differential equations, computational applied mathematics, control theory, probability and stochastic processes, discrete mathematics and graph theory, algebra, and functional analysis.

Degree Programs

  • Mathematics (MS or PhD)
  • Applied Mathematics (MS or PhD)
  • School Mathematics (MSM)
  • Information Assurance (MS)
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program (PhD)
  • Human Computer Interaction (MS or PhD)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (MS and PhD)

The department offers programs leading to the Ph.D. in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics, the M.S. in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and the Master of School Mathematics.

Student body profile

The Department of Mathematics at the Iowa State University has approximately 75 doctoral students, 10 Masters students, several postdoctoral associates, and 35 tenured/track faculty members, and received the 2015 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. For more information about our graduate programs, contact Director of Graduate Education Prof. James Rossmanith.

For additional information, including admissions requirements, please see the Mathematics Graduate Program web page.

Funding opportunities

Teaching assistantships are available to support most of the students admitted to a degree program.

A teaching assistantship is normally considered to be a 20-hour week commitment. During the first year or two of graduate study it generally involved leading recitation sessions that accompany a large-lecture class and/or paper grading and office hours. Advanced graduate students are often given standalone classes to teach, primarily algebra and trigonometry and calculus.

The academic year stipend ranges from $18K to $21K and PhD students receive full tuition scholarships. Additional summer support is available.

Scholarships & Awards

  • AGEP Fellowship
  • Graduate College Tuition Scholarship Award
  • Teaching & Research Excellence Awards
  • Zaffarano Prize
  • Brown Trust Graduate Fellowship
  • Lambert Research Award
  • Wolfe Research Fellowship
  • Miller Fellowship

More information

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Contact for more information:

James Rossmanith


Email:

rossmaniiastate.edu

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