Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences

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In a world beset by rapidly accelerating social and environmental dilemmas, there is urgent need for a large pool of scientists who are capable of applying advanced quantitative and qualitative approaches who also have deep insights into the challenges of societal and environmental dynamics. The Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences doctoral degree is designed especially for students who want to make innovative and far reaching scientific contributions to the global challenges of our time.

Students learn a way of thinking that builds upon foundations established in mathematical epidemiology, population dynamics, ecology, genomics, bioinformatics, mathematical analysis, computational sciences and the social science fields. They experience real interdisciplinary learning that interweaves theory, applications, and analytical approaches with cross-disciplinary and international collaboration. Students with strong and potentially diverse scientific and cultural backgrounds will find a natural home in this field.

Founded by a "dream team" of acclaimed scholars and rising stars, the program's faculty includes mathematicians, statisticians, theoretical biologists and social scientists from five different schools at Arizona State University. The curriculum—with dynamic and statistical approaches as critical and unifying components—is aimed at producing first-rate scientists whose skills will always be in high demand both within and outside of academia.

Is your dream to use your math skills and social or environmental dynamics savvy to find solutions to complex, real-world problems? Want to be part of the scientific movement that revolutionizes the ways we manage natural resources, respond to epidemics, or educate the next generation of scientists? Explore with us this new and exciting frontier at the intersection of the environmental, health, life, social, mathematical, physical and computational sciences—and prepare to make a difference.

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Become a Founding Member:
We invite you to become a member of the founding class of the Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences program. Members will enjoy certain benefits, such as a Founding Class certificate if entering in the 2009 or 2010 academic years, and a unique opportunity to help shape the program and give feedback.

For more information, please contact shescgrad@asu.edu or (480) 965-6215.

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Applied math program produces first graduate, success story

Director:
Carlos Castillo-Chavez

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