Modules for Year 4

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MASTER OF MATHEMATICS MMATH G103

Normal Load = 120 CATS. Maximum Load = 180 CATS.

Students are required to take at least 90 CATS from the Core plus Lists A, C and D and, in their third and fourth years combined, at least 108 CATS from the Core plus Lists C and D. List D modules count as 24 CATS.

[For example, a typical MMath student might satisfy this last requirement by including two List C modules in their offering for Year 3, and then including MA469 Project and three other List C modules in their offering for Year 4.]

Direct link to MA469 Project here.


Many List A Year 3 Mathematics modules have a support class timetabled in weeks 2 to 10. This is your opportunity to bring the examples you have been working on, to compare progress with fellow students, and where several people are stuck or confused by the same thing, to get guidance from the graduate student in charge. List C and D modules tend to have fewer students and support classes are less common; in these cases you are more than usually encouraged to discuss problems or concerns directly with the lecturer, either during or after lectures, or in office hours.

For a full list of available modules see the relevent course regulation page.

Maths Modules

Optional Modules - List A
As the Third year option List A for G100 Mathematics (not including MA385 Third Year Essay nor MA397 Consolidation)

Optional Modules - List B
As the Third Year option List B for G100 Mathematics

Optional Modules - List C and D:

Term Code Module CATS List
Term 1 MA424 Dynamical Systems 18 List C
MA426 Elliptic Curves 18 List C
MA442 Group Theory 18 List C
MA455 Manifolds (4th year students to take MA3H5 in term 1 instead)    
MA482 Stochastic Analysis 18 List C
MA4A2 Advanced PDEs 18 List C
MA4A5 Algebraic Geometry 18 List C
MA4C0 Differential Geometry 18 List C
MA4E0 Lie Groups 18 List C
MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology and Epidemiology 18 List C
MA4F7 Brownian Motion (also has code ST403) 18 List C
MA4H7 Atmospheric Dynamics 18 List C
MA4H8 Ring Theory 18 List C
MA4H9 Modular Forms 18 List C
MA4J0 Advanced Real Analysis 18 List C
MA5Q3 Topics in Complexity Science 24 List D
MA608 Topics in Geometric Analysis (terms 1-3) - Not taken for credit    
Terms 1 & 2 MA469 Project 24 Core
MA472 Reading Module 18 List C
Term 2 BS917 Modelling and Statistics in Systems Biology 12 List C
MA408 Algebraic Topology (4th year students take MA3H6 in term 2 instead)    
MA427 Ergodic Theory 18 List C
MA433 Fourier Analysis 18 List C
MA448 Hyperbolic Geometry 18 List C
MA475 Riemann Surfaces 18 List C
MA4A7 Quantum Mechanics: Basic Principles and Probabilistic Methods 18 List C
MA4G4 Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience 18 List C
MA4H4 Geometric Group Theory 18 List C
MA4J1 Continuum Mechanics 18 List C
MA4J2 Three-Manifolds 18 List C
MA4J3 Graph Theory 18 List C
MA4J4 Quadratic Forms 18 List C
MA4J5 Structures of Complex Systems 18 List C
MA4J6 Mathematics and Biophysics of Cell Dynamics 18 List C
MA595 Topics in Stochastic Analysis 24 List D
MA606 Modern Analysis (Classical Real Analysis) - Not taken for credit    
MA610 Algebraic Geometry - Not taken for credit    


Common Unusual Options


Term Code Module CATS List
Terms 1/2 STxxx ST4 modules offered by the Statistics Department 15 or 18 Unusual Option
Term 1 CO907 Quantifying Uncertainty and Correlation in Complex Systems 12 Unusual Option
Term 2 CO905 Stochastic Models of Complex Systems 12 Unusual Option


Languages

The Language Centre offers academic modules in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish at a wide range of levels. These modules are available for exam credit as unusual options to mathematicians in all years. Pick up a leaflet listing the modules from the Language Centre, on the ground floor of the Humanities Building by the Central Library. Full descriptions are available on request. Note that you may only take one language module (whether as an Unusual Option or from List B) for credit in each year. These modules may carry 24 or 30 CATS and that is the credit you get. But, where a language module is offered at a choice of 24 or 30 CATS, you MUST choose the 24 CATS version.

From October 2011 3rd and 4th year students cannot take beginners level (level 1) Language modules.

There is also an extensive and very popular programme of lifelong learning language classes provided by the centre to the local community, with discounted fees for Warwick students. Enrolment is from 9am on Wednesday of week 1. These classes do not count as credit towards your degree.

The Language Centre also offers audiovisual and computer self-access facilities, with appropriate material for individual study at various levels in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. (This kind of study may improve your mind, but it does not count for exam credit.)

A full module listing with descriptions is available on the Language Centre web pages.

Important note for students who pre-register for Language Centre modules

It is essential that you confirm your module pre-registration by coming to the Language Centre as soon as you can during week one of the new academic year. If you do not confirm your registration, your place on the module cannot be guaranteed. If you decide, during the summer, NOT to study a language module and to change your registration details, please have the courtesy to inform the Language Centre of the amendment.

Information on enrolment can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/languagecentre/academic/enrolment/


Objectives

After completing the fourth year of the MMath degree the students will have

  • covered advanced mathematics in greater depth and/or breadth, and be in a position to decide whether they wish to undertake research in mathematics, and to ascertain whether they have the ability to do so
  • achieved a level of mathematical maturity which has progressed from the skills expected in school mathematics to the understanding of abstract ideas and their applications
  • developed
    • investigative and analytical skills,
    • the ability to formulate and solve concrete and abstract problems in a precise way, and
    • the ability to present precise logical arguments
  • been given the opportunity to develop other interests by taking options outside the Mathematics Department in all the years of their degree course.

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