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Cornell University does not offer a separate Masters of Science (MS) degree program in the field of Statistics. Applicants interested in obtaining a masters-level degree in statistics should consider applying to Cornell's MPS Program in Applied Statistics.

Choosing a Field of Study

There are many graduate fields of study at Cornell University. The best choice of graduate field in which to pursue a degree depends on your major interests. Statistics is a subject that lies at the interface of theory, applications, and computing. Statisticians must therefore possess a broad spectrum of skills, including expertise in statistical theory, study design, data analysis, probability, computing, and mathematics. Statisticians must also be expert communicators, with the ability to formulate complex research questions in appropriate statistical terms, explain statistical concepts and methods to their collaborators, and assist them in properly communicating their results. If the study of statistics is your major interest then you should seriously consider applying to the Field of Statistics.

There are also several related fields that may fit even better with your interests and career goals. For example, if you are mainly interested in mathematics and computation as they relate to modeling genetics and other biological processes (e.g, protein structure and function, computational neuroscience, biomechanics, population genetics, high throughput genetic scanning), you might consider the Field of Computational Biology . You may wish to consider applying to the Field of Electrical and Computer Engineering if you are interested in the applications of probability and statistics to signal processing, data compression, information theory, and image processing. Those with a background in the social sciences might wish to consider the Field of Industrial and Labor Relations with a major or minor in the subject of Economic and Social Statistics. Strong interest and training in mathematics or probability might lead you to choose the Field of Mathematics . Lastly, if you have a strong mathematics background and an interest in general problem-solving techniques (e.g., optimization and simulation) or applied stochastic processes (e.g., mathematical finance, queuing theory, traffic theory, and inventory theory) you should consider the Field of Operations Research .

Residency Requirements

Students admitted to PhD program must be "in residence" for at least four semesters, although it is generally expected that a PhD will require between 8 and 10 semesters to complete. The chair of your Special Committee awards one residence unit after the satisfactory completion of each semester of full-time study. Fractional units may be awarded for unsatisfactory progress.

Your Advisor and Special Committee

The Director of Graduate Studies is in charge of general issues pertaining to graduate students in the field of Statistics. Upon arrival, a temporary Special Committee is also declared for you, consisting of the Director of Graduate Studies (chair) and two other faculty members in the field of Statistics. This temporary committee shall remain in place until you form your own Special Committee for the purposes of writing your doctoral dissertation. The chair of your Special Committee serves as your primary academic advisor; however, you should always feel free to contact and/or chat with any of the graduate faculty in the field of Statistics.

The formation of a Special Committee for your dissertation research should serve your objective of writing the best possible dissertation. The Graduate School requires that this committee contain at least three members that simultaneously represent a certain combination of subjects and concentrations. The chair of the committee is your principal dissertation advisor and always represents a specified concentration within the subject & field of Statistics. The Graduate School additionally requires PhD students to have at least two minor subjects represented on your special committee. For students in the field of Statistics, these remaining two members must either represent (i) a second concentration within the subject of Statistics, and one external minor subject; or, (ii) two external minor subjects. Each minor advisor must agree to serve on your special committee; as a result, the identification of these minor members should occur at least 6 months prior to your A examination.

Some examples of external minors include Computational Biology, Demography, Computer Science, Economics, Epidemiology, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Operations Research. The declaration of an external minor entails selecting (i) a field other than Statistics in which to minor; (ii) a subject & concentration within the specified field; and, (iii) a minor advisor representing this field/subject/concentration that will work with you in setting the minor requirements. Typically, external minors involve gaining knowledge in 3-5 graduate courses in the specified field/subject, though expectations can vary by field and even by the choice of advisor. While any choice of external minor subject is technically acceptable, the requirement that the minor representative serve on your Special Committee strongly suggests that the ideal choice(s) should share some natural connection with your choice of dissertation topic.

The fields, subjects and concentrations represented on your committee must be officially recognized by the Graduate School ; the Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations tab listed under each field of study provides this information. Information on the concentrations available for committee members chosen to represent the subject of Statistics can be found on the Graduate School webpage . 

Statistics PhD Travel Support

The Department of Statistics and Data Science has established a fund for professional travel for graduate students. The intent of the Department is to encourage travel that enhances the Statistics community at Cornell by providing funding for graduate students in statistics that will be presenting at conferences. Please review the Graduate Student Travel Award Policy website for more information. 

Completion of the PhD Degree

In addition to the specified residency requirements, students must meet all program requirements as outlined in Program Course Requirements and Timetables and Evaluations and Examinations, as well as complete a doctoral dissertation approved by your Special Committee. The target time to PhD completion is between 4 and 5 years; the actual time to completion varies by student.

Students should consult both the Guide to Graduate Study and Code of Legislation of the Graduate Faculty (available at www.gradschool.cornell.edu ) for further information on all academic and procedural matters pertinent to pursuing a graduate degree at Cornell University.

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The Department of Mathematics at Cornell University is known throughout the world for its distinguished faculty and stimulating mathematical atmosphere. Approximately 40 tenured and tenure-track faculty represent a broad spectrum of current mathematical research both theoretical and applied. The faculty interests cover the core areas of algebra, topology, geometry and analysis, as well as probability theory, mathematical statistics, dynamical systems, mathematical logic and numerical analysis.

The graduate program combines study and research opportunities for more than 70 graduate students from many different countries. The undergraduate program includes a mathematics minor and a flexible mathematics major with seven different concentrations. In addition, the department offers a wide selection of courses for all types of users of mathematics.

The department also engages in community outreach, providing a variety of programs for local high school students and teachers.

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Ph.D. Program Application Details

The graduate program in Mathematics leads only to the Ph.D. degree. Students are not accepted for an M.S. degree.

Prerequisites

Mastery of the material required for an undergraduate major in mathematics, including a rigorous course in advanced calculus and real variable theory that will serve as an introduction to measure theory and courses in linear algebra and modern abstract algebra at an advanced level. Applicants should also have some familiarity with applications of advanced calculus. Most successful applicants score 700 or above on their GRE subject test.

Application Guidelines

Students must submit an online application at apply.gradschool.cornell.edu by January 4. The following are submitted with the online application:

• a statement of purpose,
• GRE scores for the general test and subject test in mathematics,
• TOEFL scores (details given below),
• three letters of recommendation.

A transcript must also be submitted by January 4 to the following address: Graduate Admissions, Department of Mathematics, Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4201.

Complete the application online at www.gradschool.cornell.edu/admissions/applying/apply-now/ and upload the following by January 4:

• three letters of recommendation,
• transcripts (either official or unofficial) from the institution at which you are currently enrolled and/or from any institution from which you have received or will receive a degree. All transcripts must be combined into one PDF document and uploaded. If it is against an institution’s policy to send official transcripts to you, please request an unofficial copy for yourself and scan that document. Paper copies will be accepted only if the first two options are not available to you. If you are subsequently admitted and accept the offer of admission, we will require a formal and official paper transcript prior to matriculation.

GRE scores for the general test and subject test in mathematics and TOEFL scores (if applicable, details given below) must be received by the Graduate School by January 4.

For more information about Cornell's application process, visit www.gradschool.cornell.edu/admissions/ .

Cornell University expects all applicants to complete their application materials without the use of paid agents, credentials services, or other paid professional assistance. The use of such services violates University policy, and may lead to the rejection of application materials, the revocation of an admissions offer, cancellation of admission, or involuntary withdrawal from the University.

TOEFL Requirement — Test of English as a Foreign Language

TOEFL scores are required for international students whose native language is not English. Only students who have studied full time for two or more years at a college or university located in a country where English is the native language and where English is the language of instruction are exempt from the TOEFL.

The minimum TOEFL requirements are as follows: IBT test (replaced CBT) after September 1, 2009: 20 Writing, 15 Listening, 20 Reading, 22 Speaking. All four scores must be reported. Applicants will not be considered if any minimum score is not met.

The Graduate School requires an overall band score of a 7.0 or higher on the IELTS. Please email [email protected] for information about how to send your scores.

Admission Decisions

Admission decisions are typically made in mid-February. Under the rules of the Council of Graduate Schools, students have until April 15 to make their decisions.

Financial Aid

Everyone who applies for admission to the graduate program in mathematics is automatically considered for financial aid. For many years the field has been able to provide financial support — through a teaching assistantship, fellowship, or graduate research assistantship — to every graduate student who is making satisfactory progress towards the Ph.D. degree, and it expects to continue this practice.

Some of our students have fellowships from the National Science Foundations or other sources. However, most are supported by Teaching Assistantships, which pay $24,104 for 10–15 hours per week in 2014–2015. Duties may be (i) grading for advanced courses, (ii) giving recitation sections, or (iii) teaching a section of calculus. Assignments to courses are made by the Director of Teaching Assistant Programs, Maria Terrell, but are based on the students' requests.

It is our intention to make summer support available to all students who would like to remain in Ithaca during the summer. For students who have completed three years of graduate school, this will typically be in the form of a research assistantship paid for by a professor's grant or by the graduate school. First and second year students will, in general, hold teaching assistant jobs in Summer Session courses. We also encourage students to apply for other forms of summer support that enhance their graduate education.

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The graduate program in the field of mathematics at Cornell leads to the Ph.D. degree, which takes most students six years of graduate study to complete. One feature that makes the program at Cornell particularly attractive is the broad range of interests of the faculty . The department has outstanding groups in the areas of algebra, algebraic geometry, analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorics, dynamical systems, geometry, logic, Lie groups, number theory, probability, and topology. The field also maintains close ties with distinguished graduate programs in the fields of applied mathematics , computer science , operations research , and statistics and data science .

Application: Applicants must demonstrate mastery of the material required for an undergraduate major in mathematics. The mathematics field welcomes applications from and admits students with various mathematics backgrounds. GRE General and Subject Test scores are not required and will not be considered. Detailed academic requirements can be located in the graduate field handbook . Applicants must meet the minimum  Graduate School Requirements , including the  English Language Proficiency Requirement for all applicants

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Dan Mihai Barbasch

• Research Interests: representation theory of reductive Lie groups

Yuri Berest

• Research Interests: PDE; algebra; mathematical physics

Louis Joseph Billera

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Research Interests: geometric and algebraic combinatorics

David S. Bindel

• Research Interests: applied numerical linear algebra and scientific computing

Kenneth Stephen Brown

• Research Interests: algebra; topology; group theory

Xiaodong Cao

• Research Interests: differential geometry; geometric analysis; nonlinear parabolic equations

Robert Connelly

• Research Interests: geometry; rigidity; topology
• Research Interests: Scientific Computing

Damek Shea Davis

• Research Interests: continuous optimization and variational analysis
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• Research Interests: Geometry & Topology

Benjamin E Dozier

• Research Interests: Geometry, Dynamical systems, Riemann surfaces

Leonard Gross

• Research Interests: functional analysis; analysis of path spaces

Joseph Yehuda Halpern

Daniel S Halpern-Leistner

• Research Interests: moduli problems; geometric representation theory, derived algorithm geometry; derived categories of coherent sheaves

Timothy James Healey

• Research Interests: elliptic partial differential equations; nonlinear elasticity and analysis

Tara S. Holm

• Research Interests: symplectic geometry; algebraic topology; algebraic geometry

John Hamal Hubbard

• Research Interests: analysis; differential equations; differential geometry

Peter Jack Kahn

• Research Interests: differential and algebraic topology

Martin D. Kassabov

• Research Interests: topology; lie groups; representation theory; graph theory; geometric/combinatorical group theory

Jon M Kleinberg

• Research Interests: Issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media.

Robert D. Kleinberg

• Research Interests: Algorithms and theoretical computer science, especially economic aspects of algorithms, online learning and its applications, random processes in networks.

Allen Knutson

• Research Interests: algebraic geometry and algebraic combinations

Dexter Campbell Kozen

• Research Interests: computational theory; computational algebra and logic

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Adrian Lewis

Yusheng Luo

• Research Interests: Dynamics and Geometry

Kathryn P Mann

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Jason F Manning

• Research Interests: Geometric group theory, geometric topology

Karola Meszaros

• Research Interests: Algebraic combinatorics and discrete geometry.

Justin T. Moore

• Research Interests: set theory; combinatorics; logic

F. Camil Muscalu

• Research Interests: mathematics

Anil Nerode

• Research Interests: mathematical logic; recursive functions, computer science

Michael Nussbaum

• Research Interests: statistics

Irena Vassileva Peeva

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Jamol J. Pender

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Ravi Kumar Ramakrishna

• Research Interests: algebraic number theory

Richard Herbert Rand

• Research Interests: applied mathematics; differential equations

James Renegar

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Timothy R. Riley

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Laurent Pascal Saloff-Coste

• Research Interests: analysis and probability

Gennady Samorodnitsky

Shankar Sen

Reyer Sjamaar

• Research Interests: lie groups; differential geometry

Slawomir Solecki

• Research Interests: mathematical logic

Philippe Sosoe

• Research Interests: probability, analysis, mathematical physics

Birgit Else Marie Speh

• Research Interests: Lie groups; automorphic forms

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

• Research Interests: Theory of Computation

Daniel L. Stern

• Research Interests: Differential geometry

Michael Eugene Stillman

• Research Interests: algebraic geometry; computational algebra

Steven H Strogatz

• Research Interests: nonlinear dynamics and chaos; coupled oscillators

Edward B Swartz

• Research Interests: combinatorics and discrete geometry
• Research Interests: Algorithm Design and Algorithmic Game Theory. Algorithmic game theory, an emerging new area of designing systems and algorithms for selfish users. My research focuses algorithms and games on graphs or networks. I am mostly interested in designing algorithms and games that provide provably close-to-optimal results.

Nicolas P Templier

• Research Interests: number theory, automorphic forms, arithmetic geometry, ergodic theory, quantum chaos.

Alex John Townsend

• Research Interests: numerical analysis and scientific computing

Alexander B. Vladimirsky

• Research Interests: applied mathematics; numerical methods; dynamic systems; nonlinear PDEs; control theory

Marten Wegkamp

• Research Interests: Classification, Copula Modeling, Learning Theory, Empirical Process Theory, Machine Learning, Matrix Estimation and Completion, Model Selection and Aggregation, Nonparametric estimation

James Edward West

• Research Interests: geometric topology; infinite-dimensional topology
• Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Inverse Problems, Optimal Transportation, Machine Learning, and Nonconvex Optimization

Inna I. Zakharevich

• Research Interests: algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory
• Research Interests: Geometric Analysis; Calculus of Variations; General Relativity

David Zywina

• Research Interests: Number theory, arithmetic geometry My research is in number theory and more specifically in arithmetic geometry. I like to study the family of compatible Galois representations associated to various arithmetic objects (eg. abelian varieties, modular forms, Drinfeld modules); these representations encode much, if not all, of the arithmetic of the originally object. Galois representations can also be used to study the absolute the Galois group of the rational numbers, and I have recently been playing with some applications to the Inverse Galois Problem.

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In this special fireside lunch chat, ICME is thrilled to welcome back Allison Koenecke, a distinguished alum from the class of 2021 and now an assistant professor at Cornell University. Allison will be sharing insights and experiences from her impressive career journey since completing her PhD. Join us for an engaging discussion as she reflects on her professional achievements and the path that led her to where she is today. The event will be moderated by ICME PhD student Riley Juenemann. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and connect with fellow students.    

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Allison Koenecke, PhD '21, is an American computer scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. Her research focuses on computational social science and algorithmic fairness. In 2022, she was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science.

Koenecke participated in the Math Prize for Girls at MIT in high school and has supported the program throughout her career. She earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics with a minor in economics from MIT, then worked in economic consultancy before pursuing a career that benefits society.

She completed her PhD at Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, advised by economist Susan Athey, with a focus on fairness in algorithmic systems. Additionally, she founded Women in Math, Statistics, and Computational Engineering (WiMSCE). Before joining Cornell, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, working on machine learning and statistics. Her research interests also include causal inference in public health. Please note that this event is only for Stanford ICME MS & PhD students. Lunch will be served. If you have any questions, please get in touch with ICME Career Services:  Tanya Schornack .

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College of Sciences Announces New Minors, Ph.D. Program and Curriculum Additions

This fall, the College of Sciences will debut three new minors, a new Ph.D. program, and a new “4+1” B.S./M.S. degree program. 

The announcement follows curriculum updates for the 2023-24 academic year, including the launch of the Minor in the Science of Mental Health and Well-Being in the School of Psychology and the creation of three new bachelor of science degrees in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. 

“We are excited to announce these additions to the College’s portfolio of academic opportunities for our students,” says David M. Collard , senior associate dean in the College of Sciences and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry . “The updates reflect our College’s growth and respond to our students’ interest in pursuing advanced study.”

The additions for the 2024-2025 academic year include: 

“4+1” B.S./M.S. Degree Program

The College offers several options for undergraduate students to earn both a bachelor of science degree and a master of science degree as a part of a “4+1” program. Students may apply to the B.S./M.S Degree Program after being at Georgia Tech for about one year. This allows them to tailor their undergraduate and graduate academic requirements to complete both degrees in a timely manner. 

Computation and Cognition Minor 

The Minor in Computation and Cognition is a highly interdisciplinary program that combines advanced computational training with the study of human cognition. Students will learn about the computational mechanisms underlying human cognition and use computational methods to better understand human cognition. Established by the School of Psychology in collaboration with the College of Computing and with support from the Schools of Physics and Mathematics , the minor is open to all students starting this fall.

There are several new courses in the School of Psychology supporting this minor, including PSYC 4690 (Sensation and Perception: A Computational Perspective) and PSYC/PHYS 4745 (Physics of Cognition). These two classes are offered as special topics this fall but will have permanent course numbers in Spring 2025. More new courses in computation and cognition are planned for the next year and beyond.  

Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. Program, Neuroscience Minor

The new Ph.D. and minor offerings build on the recently launched Neuro Next Initiative in Research and the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience , respectively. 

The new Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. Program is a joint effort across the Colleges of Science, Computing and Engineering. It is focused on educating students to advance the field of neuroscience through an interdisciplinary approach, with scientists and engineers of diverse backgrounds — ultimately integrating neuroscience research and technological development to study all levels of nervous system function. The program expects to enroll its first graduate students in Fall 2025.

Approved by the Board of Regents in 2017, the interdisciplinary B.S. in Neuroscience degree enrolled more than 400 undergraduate students in 2022, and has been the fastest growing undergraduate major at Georgia Tech. The Minor in Neuroscience is set to become available during the 2024-25 academic year.  

Quantum Sciences and Technology Minor

In response to the explosion of research, development, investment, and hiring in quantum information science taking place across academia, national labs, and private industry, the School of Physics is now hosting a new Minor in Quantum Sciences and Technology . 

Available starting this fall, the program is open to all students, regardless of major, who are interested in learning more about quantum information theory, applications of quantum information to measurement, quantum materials, quantum computation, quantum algorithms, quantum communication, or any other quantum science related topics. The coursework includes basic training in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and a choice of quantum-related electives in physics, math, chemistry, computer science, and electrical engineering. 

The minor was established by the School of Physics in partnership with the School of Mathematics and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry in addition to the Colleges of Computing and Engineering.

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