The Center for Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Statistics (CIMS) was formed in 2006 to provide a formal structure in support of the activities of a core group of faculty who have been collaborating very closely on interdisciplinary research and educational projects involving mathematics and statistics since 2000. These projects have had a major impact on campus and in the Front Range, and this core group has earned international recognition for their achievements.
Some of the past and ongoing educational and scientific projects that resulted from this collaboration during the period 2000-2007 include:
Education projects totalling more than $4M:
- (2001) Shared University Research Program Grant Program, International Business Machines, Inc., $197K. Supported the establishment of an Industrial Seminar in the Department of Mathematics, which is taught annually with classes of 6-10 students.
- (2003-2008) PRIMES: Program for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics, IGERT Program, National Science Foundation, $3.1M. PRIMES will have supported over 40 students in biology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics as well as 6 postdocs. PRIMES has earned an international reputation for its unique training program and the quality of its trainees.
- (2007-2012) (FEScUE) Towards a Flexible and Extendable Scientific Undergraduate Experience: Blending Mathematics and the Life Sciences, National Science Foundation, DMS/DBS/DUE $903K. FEScUE establishes an undergraduate research training program for mathematics and biology students. This will involve 34 students over the lifetime of the award.
Physical science and engineering projects totalling more than $18M:
- A Mathematical Analysis of Atomistic-to-Continuum (AtC) Coupling Methods involving CSU, FSU, RPI and Sandia National Laboratory
- A Posteriori Analysis of Interface Effects in the Discretization of Multi-Scaled and Multi-Physics Problems by Decomposition Techniques involving Mathematics and Sandia National Laboratory
- Sensor Management for Multi-Target Tracking involving engineers in ECE and Sandia
- CMG: Analysis of Transport, Mixing, and Coherent Structures in Hurricane Intensity involving Atmospheric Sciences and Mathematics
- Partial Differential Equation Models for Large Networks involving ECE, Mathematics, and Statistics
- New Tools for Algebro-Geometric Data Analysis involving faculty in Computer Science and Mathematics
- Waveforms for Active Sensing in Support of Military Operation on Urban Terrains involving CSU, RPI, Princeton, NPS, SAIC, U. Melbourne
- SCIDAC FACETS (Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations) involving Mathematics, Tech X Corporation, ORNL, ANL, LLNL, U. California at San Diego, General Atomics, Inc., Paratools
Environmental and life science projects totalling more than $7M:
- CO2 Fluxes Between Agricultural Lands and the Atmosphere: Towards More Complete Accounting by Integrating Remote Sensing, involving NREL, Soil and Crop Sciences, and Statistics
- Novel A Posteriori Analysis of Ecological Models: The Carbon Cycle, involving Mathematics, NREL, and Statistics
- Applying Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Statistical Surveys To Aquatic Resources involving Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism and Statistics
- Carbon Data Assimilation Modeling: Remote Sensing and Field Observational Constraints of Earth System Carbon Analysis involving NREL, CIRA, NCAR, and Mathematics
- Nonparametric Model-Assisted Survey Estimation For Inventory And Monitoring Applications involving Statistics, Iowa State, and the US Forest Service
- STARMAP Space-Time Aquatic Resources Modeling and Analysis Program involving Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, NREL, Statistics, and Oregon State University
- Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Consumer-Resource Dynamics in Environments Varying in Space and Time involving Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Mathematics, and NREL