Centers
Center for Applied Probability
The objective of the Center of Applied Probability is to provide an umbrella under which diverse research and educational activities in probability and its applications can be focused and supported, especially at Columbia University, but with a view to local, national, and international visibility.
Center for Financial Engineering
The Center for Financial Engineering was established at Columbia University with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary research on financial engineering and mathematical modeling in finance and promoting collaboration between Columbia faculty and financial institutions, through the organization of research seminars, workshops and the dissemination of research done by members of the Center.
Computational Optimization Research Center
Researchers at the Computational Optimization Research Center at Columbia University specialize in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms for the solution of large-scale optimization problems arising from a wide variety of industrial and commercial applications. CORC is an interdisciplinary group of researchers from a variety of departments from the Columbia campus. Its permanent members are professors Daniel Bienstock, Don Goldfarb, Garud Iyengar, Jay Sethuraman, and Cliff Stein, from the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, and Professor David Bayer, from the Department of Mathematics at Barnard College.