Mathematical and Computational Science (MCS) will stop accepting students to its program on August 30, 2022. The program will remain available only to currently enrolled students who declared prior to that deadline. MCS students who change majors can NOT switch back to MCS. Students who are interested in this field of study in the future should consider the Data Science major, whose B.S. option is very similar to MCS.

Contacts

Office: Sequoia Hall, 390 Jane Stanford Way
Mail Code: 94305-4065
Email: mcs-inquiries@stanford.edu
Web Site: https://mcs.stanford.edu/

Courses offered by Mathematical and Computational Science program are listed under the subject code MCS on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses website.

This interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in MCS is sponsored by Stanford's departments of Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Management Science & Engineering, providing students with a core of mathematics basic to all the mathematical sciences and an introduction to concepts and techniques of computation, optimal decision making, probabilistic modeling, and statistical inference.

Utilizing the faculty and courses of the departments listed above, this major prepares students for graduate study or employment in the mathematical and computational sciences or in those areas of applied mathematics which center around the use of computers and are concerned with the problems of the social and management sciences. A biology option is offered for students interested in applications of mathematics, statistics, and computer science to the biological sciences (bioinformatics, computational biology, statistical genetics, neurosciences); and in a similar spirit, an engineering and statistics option.

Undergraduate Mission Statement for Mathematical and Computational Science

The mission of the Mathematical and Computational Science Program is to provide students with a core of mathematics basic to all the mathematical sciences and an introduction to concepts and techniques of computation, optimal decision making, probabilistic modeling and statistical inference. The program is interdisciplinary in its focus, and students are required to complete course work in mathematics, computer science, statistics, and management science and engineering. A computational biology track is available for students interested in biomedical applications. The program prepares students for careers in academic, financial, and government settings as well as for study in graduate or professional schools.

Faculty

Director: Professor Guenther Walther

Associate Director: Professor Chiara Sabatti

Faculty Advisors: Professor Guenther Walther, Professor Chiara Sabatti, Associate Professor John Duchi, & Associate Professor Johan Ugander

Steering Committee: Takeshi Amemiya (Economics, emeritus), Emmanuel Candès (Mathematics, Statistics), Brian Conrad (Mathematics), Richard Cottle (Management Science and Engineering, emeritus), John Duchi (Electrical Engineering & Statistics), Darrel Duffie (Economics & GSB), Bradley Efron (Statistics), Peter Glynn (Management Science and Engineering), Ramesh Johari (Management Science and Engineering), Percy Liang (Computer Science & Statistics), Parviz Moin (Mechanical Engineering), George Papanicolaou (Mathematics), David Rogosa (Education & Statistics), Chiara Sabatti (Biomedical Data Science & Statistics), David Siegmund (Statistics), Jonathan Taylor (Statistics), Brian White (Mathematics)

Department: Mathematical and Computational Science