Welcome to the Department of Mathematical Sciences
Head of Department Professor Tony Rawlins
The Department of Mathematical Sciences is committed to excellence in research and teaching. The department is one of the best for mathematics in the UK. We are a vibrant and friendly department for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students with a well established reputation for student achievement and success. We are currently offering up to 10 Scholarships annually for UK Undergraduate students. Further information...
Academic staff are internationally recognised for their high quality research output in a number of areas of modern mathematics. Within our active teaching and research environment there are many postgraduate research opportunities, and our research degrees are highly successful at providing state of the art preparation for future successful career opportunities.
We are currently offering up to 15 Isambard Research Scholarships for PhD students. This prestigious scholarship scheme, sponsored by the University, is open to full time, Home/EU applicants. If you are applying for a PhD place for October 2010, you are eligible to apply. Find out more
Undergraduate courses
The Department offers a wide range of stimulating BSc/MMath * courses in areas of applications of Mathematics relevant to the needs of graduates seeking good career prospects or Postgraduate studies. Read more...
*Please note that the extension of this programme to Master’s level is Approved in Principle only.
Postgraduate courses - MSc, MPhil, PhD
Delivered and supervised by subject-area experts, our Postgraduate courses are informed directly by our research activity and are challenging, yet rewarding - helping you to develop your academic skills and future employability prospects. Read more...
Jenny wins Top Maths Student award
Congratulations to Jenny Spain who has been named as the Best Mathematics Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards. This is a fantastic achievement for Jenny who graduated with a First Class BSc Honours in Mathematics this year.Learn more about our research excellence
Research Groups
- Applied Analysis
- Combinatorics
- Computational Mathematics
- Continuum Mechanics
- Mathematical Physics
- Operational Research and Risk Modelling
- Statistics
Research Centres
News
Four Academic Chairs and one Reader position available.
Upcoming seminars and events
- Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar
A new type of instability: explosive disturbances in a linear system with a complete set of stable eigenmodes
E. Benilov
Thursday, September 30
14:00 - Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar
Variational PDE models for image processing
Ke Chen
Thursday, October 14
14:00 - Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar
A Convergence Theory for Mesh-free Methods for Linear to Fully Nonlinear Second Order Elliptic Equations in $\R^n$
Klaus Böhmer
Thursday, October 21
14:00
Contact us
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