The Ohio State University Department of Mathematics

Mathematics Research 2.0

Mathematics Research 2.0

Institutional Strengths and Opportunities

As one of the largest research institutions in the country, The Ohio State University provides a thriving and ambitious environment for a broad range of scientific endeavors.

Our Center for Topological and Geometric Data Analysis (TGDA), a collaboration between the Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Departments on campus, has attracted over $4 million in federal and individual funding, including highly competitive infrastructure and training grants. The support and visibility provided by the TGDA center not only makes OSU the premier location for research in applied topology in the country but also benefits graduate students in the area through fellowship support.

Our department also features a large and highly active research group in mathematical biology that includes joint appointments and maintains collaborations with life science departments and medical units on campus. The group has built an international, interdisciplinary scientific network during the past two decades of activities and past federal funding of the former Mathematical Biosciences Institute. 

The Mathematics Research Institute (MRI) combines department and college resources as well as external grants to fund a variety of conferences, special years on selected topics, visitor programs, scientific seminars, and academic travel.

 The large size of our faculty as well as the size of the university provides many opportunities across all other areas and in various other aspects. Further campus initiatives in which our program participates include the newly created Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE) as well as a collaboration with our earth sciences department on Earth Gravitational Models.  

The breadth of our research program is an ideal environment also for students who wish to explore several different topics before deciding on a particular research direction, for students who wish to work at the interface of several sub-disciplines of mathematics, or for students who are interested in interdisciplinary studies between mathematics and other STEM areas.  

Indeed, professors in our department work jointly with top scientists all over the world within their own specializations. Many research projects involve collaborations between colleagues in our program from adjacent but different fields of mathematics and numerous others are interdisciplinary projects 4 that include professors from different natural sciences and engineering departments around campus extending to many other fields beyond the centers mentioned above. The variety of scientific perspectives merging in our overlapping research groups is, thus, a unique and exciting strength of our program. It not only leads to groundbreaking research results but also establishes an extensive network of scientific connections that has clearly benefited job placements of our graduates, both in the academic and the non-academic sectors.  

 

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