Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
[1] It is located on Gould Plaza next to the Stern School of Business and the economics department of the College of Arts and Science.
The Division of Magnetofluid Dynamics was initiated by a project on plasma fusion by NYU Professor Harold Grad in 1954.
The Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics was created in 1978, arising from a project of NYU Professor Paul R. Garabedian.
Courant Institute professors Lax, Varadhan, Gromov, Nirenberg won the 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2015 Abel Prize respectively for their research in partial differential equations, probability and geometry.
Consistent with its scientific breadth, the institute welcomes applicants whose primary background is in quantitative fields such as economics, engineering, physics, or biology, as well as mathematics.
Those who receive a doctoral degree are in a position to hold faculty appointments and do research and development work at the forefront of this rapidly changing and expanding field.
[15] The fellowship covers the tuition and provides 9 months of stipend along with other benefits such as health insurance and special housing opportunities.
Areas where there are special funding opportunities for graduate students include: Mathematics, Mechanics, and Material Sciences, Number Theory, Probability, and Scientific Computing.
[17] The Courant Institute houses New York University's undergraduate programs in computer science and mathematics.
[18][19] The mathematics and computer science undergraduate and graduate programs at the Courant Institute has a strong focus on building quantitative and problem-solving skills through teamwork.
Courant undergraduate students through the years and alumni contribute greatly to the vitality of the Mathematics and Computer Science departments.
Some accomplishments by current and former undergraduate Courant students include an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Scholarship Winner, development of Object Category Recognition Techniques to sort garbage for recycling for the NYC's trash program, placement in 7th out of 42 in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), and inventors of the Diaspora (software) social network.
It consists of a wide variety of courses in pure and applied mathematics taught by a distinguished faculty with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research.
[27] The undergraduate division of the Department of Computer Science offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and fours minors.
Another special feature is the central role of analysis, which provides a natural bridge between pure and applied mathematics.
It also houses a variety of well-equipped laboratories and offices in Warren Weaver Hall for students and faculty to do research and discuss topics in mathematical sciences.
[31] Computers at the institute run Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.
Undergraduate students are provided CIMS accounts with the approval of their advisor, sponsorship by a Courant professor, advanced coursework, or for research purposes.
Faculty, staff, and students with Courant account have access to free full-featured software provided by the MSDN Academic Alliance and specialized computing resources used primarily for research.
[32][33][34] CIMS houses an advanced multimillion-dollar Courant Applied Mathematics Laboratory that opened in 1998, co-founded by Stephen Childress and Michael J. Shelley, and sponsored by US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
[36] Every year, CIMS offers cSplash or Courant Splash, a festival mathematics and computer science program for high school students.
These clubs include the Courant Student Organization, The ACM at NYU, Women-in-Computing (WinC), The Mathematics Society, Masters Association for Computer Science and many more.
Additionally, CIMS sponsors and holds seminars and colloquiums almost daily on weekdays on topics of interest, in which some of whom may be held outside of Warren Weaver Hall.
