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WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Welcome to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics new website. In it you will find information on all of the many activities that the Department supports. If there is something that you would like to know about the Department but which you can't locate on our site, please send a message to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We are one of the larger departments on campus, with 37 full-time faculty, 19 postdoctoral fellows, 85 graduate students and 8 staff members. The Department has strong research groups in several areas of mathematics and statistics and it offers a growing number of programmes of study at the undergraduate and graduate level. For example, we recently introduced an undergraduate programme in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, and the field of financial mathematics has also been added to our MSc and PhD mathematics programmes.

Research seminars in Algebra, Analysis, Applied Math, Finance, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Logic and Statistics and the weekly Colloquium attract some of the world's most prominent mathematicians.  Each year the department invites a prestigious guest lecturer to deliver a series of talks, the Britton Lectures (endowed by a gift of Ronald and Helen Britton.)  The annual Evelyn Nelson Memorial Lecture commemorates our late collegue, and features talks in the foundations of mathematics. For more information about the department click here.