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Mathematical sciences have become an integral part of advanced technology in industry and government. The philosophy of our graduate education is that excellence in mathematical theory and computational science, combined with the relevance imposed by a problem-solving approach, provide the best basis for careers in the mathematical sciences in the 21st century. A unified academic home for the applied mathematical sciences is well suited to today's technological world in which problems often span several disciplines. The Stony Brook Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics is the largest of the half-dozen applied mathematical science departments in the United States. In recent years, the department has granted roughly 10 doctoral, 36 master's, and 100 bachelor's degrees annually. It offers master's and doctoral degrees covering applied mathematics, statistics, and operations research, as well as a general undergraduate major in applied mathematics. There are active interdisciplinary graduate concentrations in computational phsycis (with Brookhaven National Laboratory), computation biology (with the School of Life Sciences) and computational geometry (with the department of Computer Science) and computational finance. The department has close working relations with faculty in the departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Management, Engineering, Biology, and Medicine. The department's extensive research funding, grants from the US Department of Energy and National Institute of Health, supports dozens of graduate research assistants, post doctoral research associates, conferences, and state-of-the-art computing equipment. The University supports an additional 30 students as teaching assistants. The demand for our graduates in academia, governmental national labs, industrial research labs, and in finance and business has never been stronger.