These pages are intended for people who are interested in applying to the MASDOC programme. Please have a look at the funding page to find out what funding you are eligible for. Please also come along to our open day.

Four themes

The MASDOC programme is rooted in four themes:

• Analysis which provides the language and tools for mathematical formulations, well-posedness and qualitative study of models of continuum phenomena in large multi-scale and multi-physics applications.

• Computation and Numerical Analysis for the numerical simulation of complex models. The design of good computational methods is a significant mathematical challenge requiring the interplay between analysis and computing in the context of applications.

• Probability to provide a detailed and rigorous understanding of the behaviour of complex stochastic models motivated by applications.

• Statistics for inference in both deterministic and stochastic models, exploiting the increasing volume and quality of data now routinely available in many areas of science and technology.

The structure of the course

The programme follows a 4-year PhD model, with an MSc awarded at the end of the first year. On satisfactory progression from the first year, PhD supervisors and a project are agreed for each student. Each student has a first and a second supervisor. Mathematical training continues beyond the first year, and students become involved in research activity from the outset.

A large part of the first year of the programme is devoted to taught courses in the four themes. In each, an introductory course feeds into a more in-depth second course which leads to the frontiers of modern research. Other innovative components of the programme include research study groups (where students will develop research skills), an annual conference, weekly seminars and international engagement through graduate schools and short research visits to international partners.

Year 1

• Coursework
• Research study groups
• MASDOC annual retreat
• Research and MSc dissertation

Years 2, 3 and 4

• Research and PhD dissertation
• Further training through a tailored choice of graduate courses, TCC and APTS courses
• Weekly seminars by leading researchers
• Journal club: a weekly event for all PhD students in which one student presents an account of a significant paper in the literature
• Informal presentations of research to peers
• MASDOC Forum: engagement with emerging "Hot Topics"
• International engagement through graduate schools and short research visits to international partners
• Mentoring of MASDOC first year MSc students
• All MASDOC PhD students will be enrolled on the Warwick Interdisciplinary Science Transferable Skills Certificate
• MASDOC annual retreat

If you have any questions which are not answered by these webpages, come along to the MASDOC Open Day on Wednesday 14 November 2012, or contact us at masdoc.info at warwick.ac.uk.