**Liliana Borcea, Applied Mathematics**
Wave propagation in random media with applications to wave based imaging and free space optical communications; Inverse problems for hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations; Data driven reduced order modeling and applications to inverse problems; Scientific computing
**Lorenzo M. Polvani, Applied Mathematics**
Atmospheric and climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical methods for weather and climate modeling, planetary atmospheres
**Adam H. Sobel, Applied Mathematics**
Atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical meteorology, extreme weather
**Marc W. Spiegelman, Applied Mathematics**
Advanced computation for multi-physics problems with applications to coupled fluid-solid mechanics in Earth Sciences (e.g. magma dynamics, carbon sequestration)
**Michael Tippett, Applied Mathematics**
Predictability and variability of the climate system, with emphasis on the application of statistical methods to data from observations and numerical models
**Renata Wentzcovitch, Materials Science/Applied Physics**
Computational materials physics, simulation of matter at extreme conditions, mineral physics