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Mathematics

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Research areas in Mathematics

The Department maintains basic strength in pure mathematics and mathematics education and continues to develop its research focus in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics.

This brings a synergistic research environment that is unique within the State of Oregon, and it enables contributions of expertise to such diverse applied areas as:

  • inverse problems
  • tomography
  • ocean and climate modeling
  • fluid mechanics
  • cryptography
  • mathematical physics
  • neural networks
  • risk management
  • problems of transport and flow in porous media

Our strengths in applied and computational mathematics are recognized throughout the world.