The Mathematics and Statistics department at McMaster University is a mid-sized department with nearly 40 regular faculty and about 70 graduate students.  The very favorable student-to-faculty ratio provides for more personal contact between graduate students and faculty and allows students a wide latitude in choosing their own direction of study.

Graduate students participate in all departmental activities, including a wide range of seminars and working groups.  Research seminars in Algebra, Analysis, Applied & Industrial Math, Financial Math, Geometry & Topology, Logic, Mathematical Biology, and Statistics meet regularly. In addition, the weekly colloquium features talks by prominent mathematicians invited from around the world.  Each year the department hosts the Britton Lectures (endowed by a gift of Ronald and Helen Britton), which are a series of mathematical talks delivered by a prestigious guest lecturer, and the Evelyn Nelson Memorial Lecture, an invited lecture on the foundations of mathematics that commemorates our late colleague.