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Helyette Geman, industry expert in commodity derivatives, explores the agricultural marketplace and cycles in agricultural commodity pricing in her new book entitled Agricultural Finance: From Crops to Land, Water, and Infrastructure. For more information, please click here. Book Summary: The book briefly recalls the relation of agriculture to the roots of sedentarism and goes on…

The five-year award will support Amitabh’s efforts to break new ground in the fundamentals of discrete optimization.

His work with graduate student Matthias Lee promises to provide never-before-seen high-resolution photos and high-quality measurements for legacy datasets as well as next-generation time-domain surveys.

The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

The Financial Engineer's 2015 Master of Financial Engineering program rankings are the most comprehensive rankings for financial engineering, financial mathematics, quantitative finance, computational finance, and mathematical finance graduate programs in the United States.

At a luncheon at Sweet 27 on August 12, 2014, the faculty and staff celebrated the "changing of the guard" which officially took place on July 1, 2014.

This fellowship will support him for three years of graduate research over a five year period.

  Johns Hopkins Magazine interviewed AMS former Chair, Daniel Q. Naiman for their 2014 Summer edition. Click here for the article and to find out more about the man who lead our department for the past 10 years.

The Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department would like to welcome Tamás Budavári as a new Assistant Professor. Professor Budavári comes to us from the Physics and Astronomy Department within the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences here at Johns Hopkins University. For more information about Tamás or to contact him, please see Tamás Budavári’s faculty…

Faculty member Greg Eyink led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to propose that turbulence causes magnetic field misbehaviors in solar flares.

It’s question that has been puzzling neuroscientists for nearly a century: How do patterns of activity in neurons generate behavior? In other words, how does nerve activity in living things, from insects and snails to humans, result in their coordinated movements? Thanks to work by a team of researchers that included Carey Priebe, a professor…