Motivated by the exciting interdisciplinary research currently taking place at Carnegie Mellon, we are in the process of developing a number of new Programs. In principle, each of these programs is fashioned after the Joint Ph.D. Program in Statistics and Public Policy. A student with a strong interest in a particular substantive area may, with faculty approval, substitute several upper-division courses in that field for the second semester Ph.D. courses in Advanced Statistics and Advanced Probability. These students should also substitute 36-752: Advanced Probability Overview* for 36-753: Advanced Probability I.

Thus far we have have students pursuing this option in the areas of Data Mining (see the Center for Automated Learning and Discover), Genetics, and Neuroscience (see the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition).

* 36-752: Advanced Probability Overview is a new Ph.D. level course under development that stresses the major ideas typically covered in a two semester course on probability theory. This course prepares students for 36-755.