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The University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa, is an exciting yet relaxed community of over 60,000 people located on the scenic Iowa River and served by most major airlines at the nearby Eastern Iowa Airport. The Mathematics Department provides a friendly and intellectually stimulating environment for the study of mathematics. The department provides support, guidance, and encouragement to help each student achieve his or her academic and professional goals. The department has just received a prestigious NSF VIGRE award and has recently won the national Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Additionally, our graduate program was one of two nationally receiving the American Mathematical Society award—Programs that Make a Difference.

The diverse student body is comprised of over 100 graduate students, almost all supported by fellowships or assistantships. Click here to see group photos of recent graduate classes, or visit the Graduate Student Photo Gallery to view individual graduate portraits. Currently, over 20% of students enrolled are U.S. minorities and over 38% are female. Domestic students come from all regions of the United States while foreign students, constituting about 30% of students enrolled, come from diverse locations around the globe. The department is extremely proud of its students and their accomplishments. Last year our students won six of twenty-five university wide Outstanding TA Awards; and a recent graduate, Marius Ionescu, won the Spriestersbach Prize in 2006 for his excellent dissertation on Mauldin-Williams Graphs and C*-algebras. Moreover, graduates of the department have a 100% job placement record; click here to see some recent PhDs.

The department has 40 faculty members whose research interests include algebra, algebraic topology, analysis, differential geometry, functional analysis, knot theory, logic and foundations, low-dimensional topology, mathematical biology, mathematical physics, number theory, numerical analysis, operator theory, ordinary and partial differential equations, representation theory, and ring theory.

There are two distinct programs for graduate study in mathematics at the University of Iowa: the traditional program and the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (AMCS) program. The traditional program offers coursework and research in pure and applied mathematics leading to either an M.S. or Ph.D. degree, whereas the AMCS program allows the student to pursue in-depth studies of an allied scientific field while simultaneously studying graduate level mathematics leading to a Ph.D. in mathematics. A master's degree is not offered in the AMCS program.

Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS) at The University of Iowa is a broad-based interdisciplinary Ph.D. program for students desiring to study mathematics and enough of a companion science so that they can apply their mathematical skills to significant scientific problems. The main goal of the program is to develop applied mathematicians with sufficient professional experience and versatility to meet some of the research, teaching, and industrial needs of our technology-based society.

While building a base in the Mathematical Sciences, students acquire skills in another area of their own interest, chosen from the behavioral, biological, business, engineering, medical, physical, or social science areas. Most students concentrate on applied mathematics such as differential equations, numerical analysis or optimization, but a few students have used statistics as their mathematical science base.

The University of Iowa has become a center for the computational sciences. Because of expertise in fields such as numerical analysis, mathematical programming, parallel and vector processing, hydraulics and fluid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamic simulation of mechanical systems, optimization in management sciences and industrial engineering, discrete event simulation, robotics, atmospheric and environmental studies, climate/chemistry modeling, geographical decision making, theoretical and plasma physics, and pharmacological and biological modeling, the computational sciences are now an important part of the program. There is a demand for mathematical scientists who are trained to use a computational sciences approach in relevant problems. Our 45 faculty in 15 different departments are working on exciting research projects and are eager to train students. The diversity of the areas of application is manifest in the descriptions provided by the faculty associated with the program in the AMCS Faculty Personal Pages. A master's degree is not offered in the AMCS program.