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Introduction
The Department of Mathematical Sciences is an integrated department, whose work in the three areas of Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics has an international reputation. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, Applied Mathematics was rated 5* with Pure Mathematics and Statistics rated 5. The Department was placed 8th for Mathematics and Statistics in the ‘Good University Guide’ published by The Times (2007), with the University placed 9th overall. We were one of only two departments in the country to achieve the top score of 24/24 in the Teaching Quality Assessment.
Staff in all three areas are involved in a very wide range of national and international research activities and several members of the Department have won prestigious prizes, medals and research fellowships for their work.
All parts of the Department welcome research students (both full-time and part-time) working towards the degrees of PhD, Integrated PhD and MPhil. With 20 Professors and 30 other academic staff, a wide range of research topics can be supported in depth and students with a good honours degree, or equivalent, will find much to enrich their scientific interests. Research in the Department covers a wide spectrum from the very pure to rather more applied aspects of Mathematics and Statistics. Some research is of a fundamental theoretical nature while much of the more applied work involves collaboration with other departments in the University, with industry and technology, and with government research departments. Each of the research groups within the Department runs regular seminar programmes.
A major new complex systems initiative started in 2005.
Main areas of research
Algebra and Geometry, Analysis, Control Theory, Differential Equations, Industrial Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Numerical Analysis, Solid Mechanics, Brownian Motion, Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Finance, Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Environmental Statistics, Multivariate Analysis, Computational Statistics, Bayesian Modelling.
Facilities and equipment
A comprehensive network of around 300 computers.
International and industrial links
The Department has many close links with industry, especially through the Industrial Applied Mathematics group. We have joint research projects or other links with with mathematicians in Canada, the USA, Japan, most European countries and several others worldwide.
Careers information
Recent PhD graduates have been in demand for academic posts, both in the UK and overseas, as well as for posts in industry.