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Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics

Theoretical depth and computational innovation for complex scientific phenomena.

🏛 Introduction

Northwestern’s Applied Mathematics PhD tackles problems from turbulence control to financial risk via advanced analysis, stochastic calculus, and high-performance computing. Students join interdisciplinary centers—bio-logic networks, quantum materials, and climate modeling—publishing in SIAM and Nature partner journals. A professional-development series prepares graduates for academia, industry research labs, and quantitative finance leadership.

💡 Suggested Project Titles

Derive and simulate reduced-order models for atmospheric gravity waves

Develop stochastic control frameworks for pandemic intervention policies

Analyze mean-field games in electric-vehicle charging networks

Prove long-time stability of energy-conserving finite-element schemes

Design GPU-accelerated solvers for incompressible Navier–Stokes at high Re

Model systemic financial contagion using interacting particle systems

Investigate multi-scale homogenization in composite battery electrodes

Prove existence of solutions for nonlinear dispersive PDEs with fractional damping

Create neural operator surrogates for seismic inversion problems

Study knot invariants in fluid vortex reconnection dynamics

Optimize vaccine allocation via stochastic differential variational inequalities

Apply optimal-transport to fairness constraints in machine-learning pipelines

Compute spectral gaps in quantum graph models of photonic crystals

Formulate game-theoretic models for adaptive cyber-defense strategies

Write an expository survey on rough-path theory applications to finance

Northwestern University – PhD in Applied Mathematics

Advance mathematical frontiers and interdisciplinary discovery with Northwestern’s PhD.

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