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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 are courses which have a third year (or  MATH2320: Analysis 1 or  MATH2322: Algebra 1) pre-requisite.  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 2008

2nd Semester 2008

Third Year Courses
MATH3501 (HPO): Scientific and Industrial Modelling (Barry Croke) MATH3133 (HPO): Environmental Mathematics  (Tony Jakeman)
MATH3511 (HPO): Scientific Computing  (Linda Stals) MATH3512 (HPO): Matrix Computations and Optimisation (Linda Stals & Stephen Roberts)
MATH3062 (HPO): Fractal Geometry and Chaotic Dynamics (Michael Barnsley) MATH3301 (HPO): Number Theory and Cryptography (John Cossey)
MATH3116 (HPC): Real Analysis Honours (Ben Andrews) MATH3104 (HPC): Groups and Rings Honours (Jim Borger)
MATH3029 (HPC): Probability Modelling with Applications (Hedieh Jafarpour) MATH3015 (HPO): Mathematics of Finance  (David Heath)
ASTR3007 (HPC): Stellar Astrophysics and Dynamics (Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wichramasinghe) ASTR3002 (HPC): Galaxies and Cosmology (Paul Francis)
  MATH3329 (HPC): Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology
(Reading Course: Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe)
  Third/Fourth Year Courses
MATH3345 (HPC): Galois Theory Honours (Bob Bryce & Laci Kovacs) MATH3228 (HPC): Complex Analysis Honours (Alexander Isaev)
MATH3320 (HPC): Analysis 2 Honours (John Hutchinson) MATH3325 (HPC): Analysis 3 Honours (Andrew Hassell)
MATH3342 (HPC): Differential Geometry Honours (John Urbas) MATH3344 (HPC): Algebraic Topology Honours (Boris Chorny)
MATH3343 (HPC): Foundations of Mathematics Honours (Martin Ward) MATH3341 (HPC): Theory of Partial Differential Equations Honours (TBA)
MATH3346 (HPC): Data Mining Honours
(John Maindonald)

Special Topic Courses

MATH3349 (HPC): Special Topics in Mathematics (Numerous choices)
MATH3349 (HPC): Special Topics in Mathematics (Numerous choices)
MATH3351 (HPC): Topics in Mathematical Physics Honours (Not in semester 1)
MATH3351 (HPC): Topics in Mathematical Physics Honours (Lie Groups and Lie Algebras)
MATH3352 (HPC): Topics in Computational Mathematics Honours Approximation Theory (Markus Hegland) MATH3352 (HPC): Topics in Computational Mathematics Honours  (Not in semester 2)
MATH3353 (HPC): Topics in Bioinformatics Honours (Not in semester 1)
MATH3353 (HPC): Topics in Bioinformatics Honours (Not in semester 2)
ASTR3005 (HPC): Astrophysics Research Topics (Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe) ASTR3005 (HPC): Astrophysics Research Topics (Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe)

Recommendation for Fourth Year Honours in Mathemtics


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 at honours pathway level, 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 Monday July 21, 2008