Applied Mathematics (AM) is a fascinating
and ever-expanding branch of Mathematics with a rich history of
interdisciplinary achievements. Nowadays AM is a very active area of
research with many young faculty members and research students in the
Greater Toronto Area. Modern technology, specially computer science, has
been a tremendous driving force in recent developments in AM as it has
allowed researchers to tackle problems which one was only able to dream of
a few decades ago.
A leading objective of this laboratory is
to encourage exchanges with the scientific community at large. It is
characterized by the variety of its multidisciplinary collaborations, with
parties working on the development of mathematical models and numerical
methods for applications to science and engineering. Special emphasis is
granted to the areas of fluid dynamics, financial mathematics, biology,
complex networks and signal processing, using a wide variety of mathematical
tools (optimization, numerical analysis, dynamical systems, etc). RamLab is
a place made not only for research but also for training; supervising
undergraduate and graduate students from various programs as well as
interested research assistants and summer students are a priority. The
state-of-the-art equipment available at RAMLab was gratefully financed by
NSERC through a "Research Tools and Instruments" Grant. We would
like to thank the Dean of FEAS, Dr. Stalin Boctor, for supporting the creation
of RAMLab and helping us to make it a reality.
