Founding Director -- Daniel Gorenstein
Director -- Rebecca Wright

Mission Statement

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaborative effort of Rutgers and Princeton Universities, AT&T Labs - Research, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Telcordia Technologies, NEC Laboratories America, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and their scientific personnel, as well as their colleagues nationwide, working together to play a national leadership role in the development, application and dissemination of discrete mathematics (dm) and theoretical computer science (tcs) by

P1). promoting and supporting high quality research within these fields, especially research areas that are poised for rapid advancement and have a potential for high impact;

P2). promoting and supporting the application of the methods and results of these fields in other areas of science, the mathematical sciences, and industry;

P3). encouraging and facilitating efforts of researchers in these fields to draw more of their research inspiration from other areas of science, the mathematical sciences, and industry;

P4). informing the broader mathematical community about the research currently taking place in the fields of dm/tcs and involving them in these fields; and

P5). promoting and facilitating the incorporation of contemporary mathematical ideas and techniques in these fields into classrooms at all levels.

Background

DIMACS is a joint project, whose direct participants are Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Labs - Research, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Telcordia Technologies, NEC Laboratories America and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. DIMACS was founded in 1989 with a prestigious "science and technology center" award from the National Science Foundation to create a center for the advancement of science and technology with a national scope. DIMACS also receives significant funds from the six participating institutions and from partners at Avaya Labs, Georgia Institute of Technology, HP Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Stevens Institute of Technology as well as from other federal sponsors. In particular, it is home to the Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), a Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence. The principal administrative offices are located at Rutgers University's Busch campus in Piscataway, NJ.

DIMACS is devoted to the development of the interrelated fields of discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science and their applications. These are among the most rapidly growing fields of research in mathematics and computer science, and have wide applications to problems in fields such as telecommunications, networking, transportation, engineering, and cryptanalysis, as well as biology, chemistry, management, and decisionmaking. DIMACS is concerned with both the theoretical development of the fields represented and their practical applications.

The research programs of DIMACS are carried out with the aid of approximately 320 scientists from the six collaborating institutions who form the permanent members of the Center, plus a large number of senior and junior scientists from other academic institutions and industry and government, as well as postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.

Activities sponsored by DIMACS include:

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Document last modified on November 1, 2011.