Welcome to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

Message from Professor Jim Glimm, Dept. Chairman Welcome to the new graduate students
Dept. Chairman: James Glimm Secretary to Chair: Laurie Dalessio Assistant to the Chairman: Janice Hackney Director of Undergraduate Studies: Alan Tucker Director of Graduate Program: Xiaolin Li Asst. Dir.of Undergrad & Grad Programs: Maripat Quinn AMS Milestone in NEW Computational Biology Track: Sudipto Mukherjee is the 1st student to take & pass the thesis proposal prelim. Additional great students are in the pipeline now and we anticipate more good news as the program grows.	What's New? Welcome to Janice Hackney, new Assistant to the Chair. The Laurence Baxter Memorial Symposium - Friday, May 9, 2008, from 11:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m., Charles B. Wang Center, Theatre Speakers include: Tze Leung Lai: "Hidden Markov Models - Sequential Monte Carlo Filters and their Applications" Robert Frey: "Regime Switching Models & Finance" Haipeng Xing: "Mean-variance Portfolio Optimization, when Means & Variance are Unknown" Upcoming Seminars May 12 - "Quickest Results on the Quickest Detection Problem" by Albert Shiryaev, Steklov Mathematical Institute and Moscow University, 11:00 - 12:15, Math Tower Seminar Room, 1-122 May 12 - "On Some Problems Related to Approximate Nearest Neighbors" by Piyush Kumar, Florida State University, 2:00 - 3:00, Math Tower Seminar Room, 1-122 Doctoral Defenses May 20 - "Task Mapping on supercomputer with Cellular Network" by Yongzhi Chen 3:00 Math Tower, 1-122
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Departmental Family 19 Faculty Members, 3 Visitors and Post-doctorates,11 Adjuncts 6 Staff Members,195 Graduate Students: Full Time: 162 students, 107 male and 55 female Part Time: 33 students, 21 male and 12 female Supported Students = 72, 44 TA's, 25 RA's ,14 fellowships	AMS has fun! Photos from AMS Holiday Party (taken by C. Rota) More Photos from AMS Holiday Party (taken by X. Li)
AMS is part of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at Stony Brook University. It is located in the Math Tower, which is attached to the Physics Building and situated at the north end of the Academic Mall (look in the upper lefthand corner of the map of the Academic Mall). Directions to the University.