Mathematics at FAU

The faculty members of the department of mathematical sciences are actively engaged in research in a wide range of areas, both in pure and in applied mathematics. These areas include commutative algebra, functional analysis, control theory, combinatorics, dynamical systems, scientific computation, and statistics. The new federally funded Center for Cryptology and Information Security, under the direction of Spyros Magliveras, deserves special mention. Cryptology is one of the rapidly growing areas in the Department, one that attracts many of our Ph.D. and Applied M.S. students. Also deserving special mention is the NSF supported Math Science Partnership Institute, under the direction of Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Richard Voss, which cooperates with the MST students working for a planned middle school track. Several faculty members are involved in interdisciplinary research, some of them holding cross appointments with the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the College of Science, or with the Department of Biomedical Sciences, also in the College of Science, or with the Forum Geometricorum, under the editorship of Paul Yiu, dedicated to classical Euclidean geometry and related areas. For specific details about the research activity in the department, please visit our research pages.