Graduate Program
The Department offers graduate programs leading to Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Mathematics. The Masters programs include Master of Science in Mathematics, Master of Science in Applied Mathematics (with specializations in Actuarial Science, Applications to the Sciences, Optimization and Algorithms, and Computational Science and Engineering) and Master of Science in the Teaching of Mathematics. The Ph.D. program includes a Computational Science and Engineering Option.
The Department consists of 70 full time faculty members, 12 post-doctoral faculty and a number of visiting faculty. It is housed largely in Altgeld Hall, a massive stone Romanesque building in the heart of campus that contains one of the world's largest mathematics libraries with over 100,000 volumes and approximately 1,000 mathematical periodicals. There is a lively schedule of about twenty-five research seminars and lectures each week, many seminars being given by graduate students. The faculty and the 200 graduate students form a major mathematical community. About half of the students are international students and about 30 percent of the students are women.