About us
Florida Atlantic University serves 20,000 undergraduates, and more than 3,400 graduate and professional students in a rapidly expanding urban environment (for more data see the FAU Quick Facts) . The main campus is located three miles from the Atlantic Ocean, on an 850-acre site in Boca Raton, south of Palm Beach and north of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The climate is subtropical with an average temperature of 75 degrees.
There are 41 faculty members in the department of mathematical sciences. Most are actively engaged in research, publishing in a wide variety of academic journals. Some of this research is being funded by federal agencies such as NSF and NSA. More about the departmental activities can be found on our "Events and News" page. The Center of Cryptology publishes the Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. The department also publishes the Forum Geometricorum an electronic journal on classical geometry and related areas.
At least two years out of three, the department hosts the Annual Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing. Every other year it hosts the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.
The department offers the degrees BA, BS, MS, MS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, MS in Teaching, and PhD in Mathematics. More than sixty graduate students are enrolled in our programs; 41 GTAs are currently supported. The Master of Science in Teaching program has been strengthened by an NSF grant (H. O. Peitgen and R. Voss) developing a Math Science Partnership Institute (MSP) in Southeast Florida.
The department's computing facilities include a laboratory devoted to classroom teaching, equipped with Pentium PC's running Maple, Scientific Notebook, SASS, and other MS-Windows applications, and a 25-node computing cluster for the new Center for Cryptology and Information Security. Faculty members have access to mainframe computers and to PC's running a broad selection of software. The College of Science maintains a high-speed multiprocessor cluster (Beowulf).
