MSI Third Year Courses

Third Year Courses (Also Available for Honours)

It is strongly recommended that all third-year students consult the Department in the selection of their courses. The coordinator of Third Year courses is Dr L. Stals, room Crisp 2006.

Honours Pathway Stream

All our third year courses are either honours pathway courses (HPC) or have an honours pathway option (HPO).

Third/Fourth Year Courses (see table)

These courses have at least a second year honours pathway level course as a prerequisite. These courses, together with the special topics courses, can be taken by students in their 4th year Mathematics Honours program.

Special Topic Courses (see table)

The Special topic courses are offered subject to staff availability and student demand and are run with the support of the Reseach groups within the Mathematical Sciences Institute. They are generally advanced courses with standard third year courses as pre-requisites.

Information on the special topic courses (and some of the Advanced Courses), their availability, the choice of special topics and their timetabling is provided at a meeting held at 10am on the first Monday of each semester in room John Dedman G35

1st Semester 2009	2nd Semester 2009
Third Year Courses
MATH3501: Scientific and Industrial Modelling (Barry Croke)	MATH3133: Environmental Mathematics (Tony Jakeman)
MATH3511: Scientific Computing (Linda Stals)	MATH3512: Matrix Computations and Optimisation (Paul Leopardi)
	MATH3301: Number Theory and Cryptography (John Cossey)
	MATH3062: Fractal Geometry and Chaotic Dynamics (Michael Barnsley)
MATH3116: Applied Analysis 1 Honours: Metric Spaces and Applications (Ben Andrews)	MATH3104: Applied Algebra 1 Honours: Groups, Rings and Advanced Linear Algebra (Jim Borger)
Third/Fourth Year Courses
	MATH3062 (HPO): Fractal Geometry and Chaotic Dynamics (Michael Barnsley)
	MATH3512 (HPO): Matrix Computations and Optimisation (Paul Leopardi)
MATH3029: Probability Modelling with Applications (Damien Bankovsky)	MATH3015: Mathematics of Finance (David Heath)
MATH3345: Algebra 2 Honours: Field extensions and Galois Theory (Jim Borger)	MATH3228: Complex Analysis Honours (Alexander Isaev)
MATH3320: Analysis 2 Honours: Topology, Lebesgue Integration and Hilbert Spaces (John Hutchinson)	MATH3325: Analysis 3 Honours: Functional Analysis, Spectral theory and Applications (Andrew Hassell)

MATH3342: Differential Geometry Honours (John Urbas)	MATH3344: Algebraic Topology Honours (Bryan Wang)
MATH3343: Foundations of Mathematics Honours (Martin Ward)	MATH3341: Theory of Partial Differential Equations Honours (John Urbas)
	MATH3346: Data Mining Honours (John Maindonald)
Special Topics Courses
MATH3349: Special Topics in Mathematics (Numerous choices)	MATH3349: Special Topics in Mathematics (Numerous choices)
MATH3351: Topics in Mathematical Physics Honours	MATH3351: Topics in Mathematical Physics Honours
MATH3352: Topics in Computational Mathematics Honours	MATH3352: Topics in Computational Mathematics Honours
MATH3353: Topics in Bioinformatics Honours	MATH3353: Topics in Bioinformatics Honours

Recommendation for Fourth Year Honours in Mathematics

It is recommended that students intending to continue onto a 4th year Honours Mathematics program should complete at least 24 units of C level Mathematics courses, including MATH3116 and MATH3104 (unless MATH2320 and MATH2322 have already been taken).

Any student considering Honours in Mathematics should discuss this with the Fourth Year course coordinator early in the year. Intending Honours students should note that some courses may be regarded as essential prerequisites for Fourth Year studies (depending on the areas chosen for specialisation). It is therefore essential that all such students plan their programs in consultation with Departmental advisers.

This page was updated on Friday September 11, 2009