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Empowering Student Research and Collaboration

Center for Applied Mathematics

The Center for Applied Mathematics’ Mission

The Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM) is an endowed center designed to increase student awareness of the applications of applied mathematics. The CAM supports student research and opportunities through the Summer Research Program, the CAM Industrial Opportunity (CAMIO) program and student-oriented colloquia and seminars. Students gain the training and communication skills needed for careers as problem solvers in the mathematical sciences.

As part of the Mathematics Department, the CAM draws on the varied expertise of the mathematics faculty, and works with outside organizations to design and direct student projects. Industry partners of mathematics can provide input and support to the CAM in the form of projects, student internships, undergraduate elective course design and research funding.

Students present their research during the Center for Applied Mathematics symposium.

Undergraduate Research

The CAM supports, funds and encourages innovative research by undergraduate scholars. Through industry collaboration, the university can provide students with the training and communication skills needed for careers in a variety of fields. Students work closely with faculty, staff and corporate partners to define and pursue problems in all areas of mathematics.

Past Research Projects

  • On Good abc Triples
  • Political Candidates Optimization Strategies on a Network
  • Domination in Zero-Divisor Graphs
  • Applying Deep Neutral Networks to Population Genomic Data for Estimating Parameters in Process-based Evolutionary Models
  • Pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) Auto Insurance Modeling
  • Variants of 'r' sounds used by Dominican Speakers of Spanish
  • Applying a Lake Ecosystem Model to Twin Cities Urban Lakes
  • Resource Constrained Spectrum Analysis from Photon Time-Stamps
  • Predicting the Effectiveness of Chronic Wasting Disease

  • Quantum Tornado
  • Updated Statistical Population Reconstruction of Moose in Northeastern Minnesota
  • On the Regulation, Risk Management and Development of Reverse Mortgage Programs
  • Modeling Agonistic Character Displacement in Meadowlarks
  • Power domination
  • Time Series Analysis for Worldwide COVID Mortality

  • Modeling Chronic Wasting Disease Management in Minnesota
  • Fast software to compute knotting in proteins and chromosomes
  • Using numerical modeling to constrain the timing and duration of faulting in the Ama Drime Range, southernmost Tibet

  • Statistical Population Reconstruction of Moose in Minnesota
  • Quantum Methods for Macroscopic Weather Prediction
  • Applications of Fractional Differential Equations to Magneto-Rheological Damper Models
  • The Evolution of Interspecific Territoriality in Ficedula Flycatchers
  • Knotting and Linking in Genomes
  • Modeling Mechanical-Biochemical Interactions in Neuronal Growth Cones
  • Unique Rectification Targets for Increasing Shifted Tableaux

  • Modeling Nutrient Loss and Recycling in Urban Gardens
  • Dimension Reduction for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
  • Exploring The Use of Fractional Derivatives in Modeling the Elasto- and Visco-Plastic Behavior of Ductile Metals
  • Modeling Co-Evolutionary Arms Races in Spatially-Structured Populations
  • Probability with Dice and Spindle Whirls
  • COVID-19 Excess Deaths Modeling

  • Geometric Invariants for Bone Fragment Refitting
  • The Source-Sink Dynamics of Coevolutionary Arms-Races
  • Modeling Pollinator Movement and Behavior
  • Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Tornados
  • Examining the Topology of Text through Topological Data Analysis and Natural Language Processing
  • Zero Forcing of the Generalized Hierarchical Products of Graphs
  • Medical Loss Ratio Data Analysis
  • Models of Economic Capital for P&C Insurance Companies
  • Modeling Childhood in Social Learning
  • Physical Knots
  • A Regime Switching Model under the Heston Stochastic Volatility
  • R Package Development

  • Modeling Mining Impacts on Groundwater
  • Best Practices in Peer Tutoring and Teaching Mathematics
  • Conservation of South American Alligators using Stochastic Models (1, 2)
  • An Analysis of Claims Behaviors
  • R Package Development (1, 2)
  • Using Statistical Mahalanobis Distance Metric to Classify 3D Objects
  • Predator-Prey-Food Ecosystem Modeling
  • Physical Knots (1, 2, 3)
  • Modeling cell-ECM interactions during mesodermal cell migration in the Drosophila embryo
  • Line Profile Estimation for Laboratory Astrophysics
  • Copula Models of Economic Capital for Insurance Companies

  • Extending the method of signature curve to 3D surfaces and develop algorithms to characterize and recognize images corresponding to solid 3D objects
  • Higher Mathematics for the Visual Learner: An Introduction to the Differential Analyzer
  • Hierarchy in Herds: Modeling Dominance and Subordinance
  • Exploring what happens to propagation time of a directed graph when the orientation of one edge of graph is reversed.
  • Modeling non-equilibrium properties of a tornado layer.
  • Error Correction and QR Codes
  • Using numerical modeling to constrain the timing and duration of faulting in the Ama Drime Range, southernmost Tibet.
  • Estimating the Probability of Cybersecurity Breach
  • Copula Models of Economic Capital for Insurance Companies
  • Modeling Biochemical Interactions Controlling the Cytoskeleton of Spreading Cells

  • Implementing a signature-based characterization up to isometry of smooth surfaces
  • Matrix Representations of Wavelet Transforms
  • Hierarchy in Herds: Modeling Dominance and Subordinance
  • Image De-Blurring for Spacecraft Navigation
  • Modeling Actin Activation in Moving Cells
  • Calculating the Probability of a Data Breach
  • Learning Sasaki's theory of tornado genesis.

  • An Analysis of Two Methods for Closing Open Chains and Identifying Their Knotting Behavior
  • Coarse-Grain Model for Knotted Glueball Creation
  • Multi-Soliton Solutions and their Properties
  • Baseline Models of Portfolio Risk
  • Characterizing Benign and Malignant Tumors using Applied Mathematics
  • Exploring Discrete Wavelet Transforms
  • Generating Arbitrary Force Profiles via Buoyancy
  • Graphs and Rings
  • Introduction to Bayesian Estimation and Copula Models of Dependence
  • Matrix Approach: The Relationship between Lagrange's and Newton's Interpolations
  • Modeling Cell Movement Using the Level Set Method
  • Modeling Integrin Conservation in Cell-Substrate Interaction
  • Propagation Time for Circulant Matrices
  • A Study of Sasaki's Variational Theory of Supercell Formation and Tornadogenesis
  • Thermodynamic Balance in Tornado Theory
  • A Wavelet-Based Approach to Breaking CAPTCHAs

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Beyond the academic community

CAM Industrial Opportunity Program

The CAM’s goal is to increase awareness of the uses of mathematics beyond the academic community.

The CAM Industrial Opportunity (CAMIO) is a significant initiative for achieving this goal.  The fundamental goal of the CAMIO is to team faculty and students with an industrial partner, and work toward a model or solution to a problem proposed by the partner industry.

Past Colloquia Events

  • Political Centrism and Extremism
  • Research Experiences for Undergraduates Panel
  • Using Mathematics to Fight Cancer
  • Towards a Universal Gibbs Constant
  • On the Regulation, Risk Management & Development or Reverse Mortgage Problems / Power Domination
  • Casual Inference via Constrained Optimization

  • Loss Reserving in Property & Casualty Insurance
  • Visualizing Complex Functions with Phase Plots
  • Burden of Proof: A Pathway from Mathematics to the Law
  • Streamflow Forecasting with Forcings-Weighted Nonlinear Timeseries Methods
  • Collective Behavior in Locust Swarms from Differential Equations of Data
  • Power Domination
  • An Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Some Open Problems
  • The Grand Diversity of Extrasolar Worlds
  • Orbiting Satellites: Achieving Stability

  • Analyzing State of the Union Addresses Using Topology
  • Data Science in the Life Insurance Industry

  • Data Science in the Life Insurance Industry
  • On the Data of Images
  • As easy as ABC: A Marginal Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem

  • Modeling Mining Impacts on Groundwater
  • Identification and Meteorological Classification of Large Wind Power Forecast Errors
  • Error Correcting Codes
  • Localization of Waves

  • The Differential Analyzer: Calculus for the Visual Learner / QR Codes and Cryptography
  • Role of Mathematical Modeling in the Enabling Cell Based Therapy: a Technologist's Perspective
  • Lapse-and-Reentry in Variable Annuities

  • Catalan Numbers: Applications and a Generalization
  • Thermodynamic State Variable Estimation on Distributed Networks of Computational Sensor Devices
  • Minnesota's Experience in the Individual Health Insurance Market

Contact Information

For further information, please contact us!
Associate Professor, Mikhail Shvartsman
Phone: 651-962-5527
Email: mmshvartsman@stthomas.edu

 Mailing Address

University of St. Thomas
Mail: OSS 201 Mathematics
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

Campus Location

The mathematics department is located on the second floor of OSS (O’Shaughnessy Science Hall) at the NW corner of Cretin and Grand Avenues.