Modules for the CDT in Mathematics 2024 intake - currently being updated
THE MODULE PAGES ARE CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED OVER THE SUMMER 2024
Disclaimer: This information is intended for current graduate students.
Prospective graduate students should take this as a guide to the range of modules the department offers, and the requirements for obtaining a degree. However, we do not guarantee that any given lecture module will be offered in any future year, nor do we guarantee that the procedures will not vary from year to year.
The modules available for Mathematics CDT students are of three types:
- MA9 modules (specifically designed for the CDT)
- MA6 modules (shared lectures with MA4 modules, but can include additional reading material and usually an oral examination)
- Taught Course Centre (TCC) modules (modules for PhD students shared with partner universities via videoconferencing)
and options from other departments and doctoral training centres
Generally, the modules are open to all PhD students.
To pass the first year, students must take 4 modules, with at least 2 modules from the MA9 list.
In addition, they take MA926 Speaking with Style (or satisfy the expectations on engaging with professional development otherwise).
Modules other than the TCC, MA6 and MA9 modules need to be approved by the Deputy Director of Graduate Studies.
MA9 modules
These modules are specifically designed for the CDT and are tailored to the incoming students every year.
In 2024/2025 the below modules are running.
MA926 Speaking with Style, which is a transferable skills module.
MA6 modules
Lectures for these modules are shared with MA4 modules with corresponding module code (last two numbers or letters). MA6 modules can include additional reading material and usually are examined with an oral examination at the end of the corresponding term, rather than a written examination.
Timetables can be requested from Central TimetablingLink opens in a new window:
go to 'Timetable Reports 2024/25', provide your login credentials, click on 'Modules' on the left,
and then search with the MA4* (instead of MA6*) module code.
TERM 1
MA6J5 Structures of Complex Systems
MA6J7 Cohomology and Poincare Duality
MA6L0 Advanced Topics in Fluids
MA6L2 Statistical Mechanics
MA6M2 Mathematics of Inverse Problems
MA6N1 Theorem Proving with Lean
MA6N4 Transport Processes in Mathematical BiologyLink opens in a new window
*module webpages being updated in Summer 2024
TERM 2
MA6A7 Quantum Mechanics: Basic Principles and Probabilistic Methods
MA6E0 Lie GroupsLink opens in a new window
MA6E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology and Epidemiology
MA6H0 Applied Dynamical Systems
MA6N5 Symmetric Functions and Integrable Probability
MA6N6 Finite-Element methods for PDEs
*module webpages being updated in Summer 2024
Taught Course Centre (TCC) modules
Warwick, together with Bath, Bristol, Imperial,Oxford, and Swansea runs an EPSRC-funded Taught Course Centre (TCC) that delivers around 20 PhD-level modules each year using video-conferencing facilities (accessible on Teams or by meeting with others in B0.06 in Zeeman Building). These courses, whether given at Warwick or elsewhere, can be accessed by Mathematics PhD students in any year, and can be taken for credit in the first year if a suitable assessment is possible (please discuss this with the Deputy Director of Graduate Studies and your supervisor).
Up-to-date timetables and links to module information are available from the TCC website. Note that, in term 1, the list of courses for terms 2 and 3 usually are not yet available. However, your supervisors might know about suitable upcoming modules offered by colleagues here or elsewhere.
Other options
Mathematics is involved in other Warwick interdisciplinary Centres for Doctoral Training, each of which has its own selection of taught courses; some of these may also be of interest for mainstream Mathematics CDT students. The HETSYSLink opens in a new window CDT is joint between Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics, and the Warwick Manufacturing Group. If you wish to take modules from other CDTs you must check that this is possible (both because timetables will not always match, and because you will also need permission from the relevant CDT Director of Studies).
Warwick's StatisticsLink opens in a new window Department offers 'ST9**' modules of potential interest to students in probability and related fields.