Topics courses

Every semester the department offers specialized topics courses that build upon background gained from core sequences and expose students to a wider spectrum of pure mathematics. By taking these topics courses, students both broaden and deepen their general knowledge as they begin to focus on an area of specialized research. Every year the Director of Pure Mathematics polls faculty and graduate students in order to select topics courses for the following year In the past several years, topics courses have been offered in Analytic number theory Algebraic geometry Algebraic number theory Computer algebra Differential geometry Elliptic curves Functional analysis Homological algebra Hyperbolic geometry Knot theory Representation theory Riemann Surfaces Teichmuller Theory and more. Students requiring even more specialized instruction (typically, while refining their preparation for their Candidacy Exam) may enroll in Directed Individual Study courses with faculty, on topics of immediate interest to their research.

(latest update: 7/21/09)