Applied Mathematics

Career Options in Applied Mathematics

• Computer Scientist (or Software Engineer)
Software engineer is the top-rated job in 2011 according to CareerCast with an average salary of $87,140. Companies advertising jobs this week include Amazon.com, The Aerospace Corporation, IBM, TimeWarner, and D.E. Shaw

• Mathematician Average salary: $51,863 per salary.com.
This includes teaching, academic research, and industry jobs. A quick search this week found industry jobs listed with the NSA, the Air Force, US Army Research (bachelor's degree), and GE Global Research.

• Operations Researcher"The Science of Better"
  Average salary: $48,805 per salary.com

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• Actuary
Risk management professionals.
Create and mantain models for insurance and annuity products and function as general risk consultants.
Average entry-level salary: $57,492 per salary.com

Risk is opportunity.

Currently hiring: AIG, PriorityHealth, Lewin Group, Liberty Mutual

• Other subfields:
  Biomathematics, Cryptography, Finance

Current work in Applied Mathematics

Articles in Volume 71, Issue 2 of the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

• Rational Solutions for the Time-Fractional Diffusion Equation
• Global Weak Solutions for a Gas-Liquid Model with External Forces and General Pressure Law
• The Interaction of Migratory Birds and Domestic Poultry and Its Role in Sustaining Avian Influenza
• The Outgoing Time-Harmonic Elastic Wave in a Half-Plane with Free Boundary
• Two-Dimensional Bumps in Piecewise Smooth Neural Fields with Synaptic Depression
• Theoretical Results on Steady Convective Flows between Horizontal Coaxial Cylinders