Achievement

The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. track in Mathematics began accepting students two years ago, and this year the program has become an extremely successful part of the curriculum, currently numbering 18 Ph.D. students. Developed by Walton (coPI) largely in response to our experiences with the IGERT curriculum, this degree option allows room for cross-disciplinary study and research within a still rigorous curriculum. We believe that this option has kept some of our most interdisciplinary-oriented students from transferring out of the program and into other universities. Along with the new Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, this curriculum provides a framework in which we can carry forward many of the multidisciplinary curricular and programmatic features of our IGERT.