NEW PROGRAM

Starting

in the Fall 2022, we have a new program: Computational Mathematics & Analytics Minor, shortened as CM&A.

It comes as an interdisciplinary program between mathematics and data science. It covers the basics of data analysis, real-world modeling, and numerical techniques for solving mathematical and data-involved problems.

Here is the story behind it. As part of the University-Wide Data Science Program, an initiative headed by Dr. Carl Lee of the Department of Statistics, Actuarial, and Data Sciences (STADS) and funded by the President’s and Provost’s Fund for Program Innovation and Excellence, a new data science major was developed. While this major is housed in STADS, nine minors in nine different departments were created to complement the major and CM&A created in the Mathematics Department is one of them.

The CM&A minor contains 12 credit hours of data science courses ranging from introduction to data science to data visualization and programming until applied analytics. The mathematics trainings are included in 13 credits distributed in Calculus III, differential equations, numerical analysis, and optimization.

All mathematics majors can take this minor. By mastering analytics in data science and computing techniques in mathematics, the students taking this minor will possess a larger toolkit to analyze and understand data, and thus have a higher marketability. Data science is turning out to be an integral part of the twenty-first century world, and it is exciting for the Department of Mathematics at CMU to contribute through the CM&A minor.