入学要求 Requirement:
学术要求:A first or second class honours degree in a subject with a significant mathematical content (or equivalent). Students not meeting the entry requirement may take the two-year full-time International Master's in Mathematics and its Applications.
英语要求:IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 90
学费 Tuition Fee:Postgraduate Standard Non-laboratory 11,230 Postgraduate Standard Laboratory 13,400
课程特征 Course Features:
This programme is being developed to allow graduates to further enhance their knowledge, creativity and computational skills in core mathematical subjects and their applications. The aim is to give you a competitive advantage in a wide range of mathematically based careers.
Students will be members of a vibrant mathematics group and benefit from a lively research-based culture, with weekly external seminar speakers and weekly internal seminar programmes and discussion groups.
课程内容 Course Content :
•Geometric Numerical Integration – prediction of hurricanes
•Nonlinear Waves and Solitons – tsunamis, optical fibres, solitons
•Symmetries, Groups and Invariants – chemical structures
•Asymptotics and Perturbation methods – modelling of physical phenomena
•Quantum Physics – nanotechnology, quantum dots
•Applied Differential Geometry – computer-aided design, robotics
•Applied Algebraic Topology – data analysis, sensor networks
•Nonlinear Analysis and Optimisation – game theory, performance analysis of traffic networks
•Algebraic Curves in Nature – cryptography
•Functional Analysis – photonic crystals
•Mathematics and Music – audio and image processing
•Introduction to Lie Groups and Algebras – integrable systems
•Poisson Algebras and Combinatorics – mathematical economics.
The short project module involves a choice of computational studies, designed to enhance your creativity as well as your understanding of how mathematics is used in a wider context.
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment:
Assessment is by closed book exams, take-home problem assignments and computer lab assignments (depending on the module). The project and dissertation modules are assessed mainly on the reports or work produced by the student, but also on workshop activities during the teaching term.