Welcome to the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics


Prospective Undergraduate Students

Prospective Graduate Students

New Quantitative Finance Initiative



Department Facts

• 35 Core and Affiliated Faculty
• 200 Graduate Students
• 110 B.S.'s, 45 M.S.'s, and 18 Ph.D.'s annually
• Ranked 7th applied math program by Chronicle of Higher Education
• Highest percentage of math B.S.'s (5%) of any U.S. public university
• Faculty average $150,000 a person each year in external grants

computational model of drug targeting HIV proteins
Computational Model of Drug Targeting HIV Proteins

Seminars and News

Seminar Series

Applied Math Chair James Glimm completing term as President of the American Mathematics Society

New York acquires 100 teraflop Blue Gene supercomputer (one of the country's
fastest super computers)


Frey Family Foundation endows Chair in Quantitative Finance; Robert Frey earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from AMS

CareerCast.com ranks Mathematician, Actuary, and Statistician jobs as the top 3 'best jobs in America'

'Canalization of Gene Expression in the Drosophila Blastoderm by Gap Gene Cross Regulation' (PLOS Biology)
Photo byJohn Griffin/SBU

High School Student Team Mentored by Professor Wei Zhu Won in 2009 Intel ISEF