MSc Applicable Mathematics

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units.

Paper

Course number and title 

1

MA407 Algorithms and Computation (H)

2

One from:
MA402 Game Theory I (H)*
MA408 Discrete Mathematics and Complexity (H)
MA413 Games of Incomplete Information (H)

3 & 4

Two from:
MA401 Computational Learning Theory and Neural Networks (H) (n/a 08/09)
MA408 Discrete Mathematics and Complexity (H) (if not taken under 2 above)
MA409 Continuous-Time Optimisation (H) 
MA410 Information, Communication and Cryptography (H)
MA411 Probability and Measure (H) 
MA412 Functional Analysis and its Applications (H)
MA413 Games of Incomplete Information (H) (if not taken under 2 above)
MA414 Stochastic Analysis (H)
MA418 Strategic Analysis of Options (H)
MA419 Search Games (H)

5 & 6

Courses to the value of two half-units from:
FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (H)
FM441 Derivatives (H)
FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H)**
EC411 Microeconomics for MSc Students
EC483 Advanced Microeconomic Theory
EC487 Advanced Microeconomics
GV4A3 Social Choice Theory and Democracy (H)
OR401 Techniques of Operational Research (H)
OR406 Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms (H)
OR408 Combinatorial Optimisation (H)
OR426 Computer Modelling: Applied Statistics and Simulation (H)
OR428 Model Building in Mathematical Programming (H)
ST409 Stochastic Processes (H)
ST418 Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (H)
ST422 Time Series (H)
Another half unit from the list 3&4 above, or any other paper with the approval of the Programme Director and the teacher responsible for the course.

7

MA498 Dissertation in Mathematics

Notes

* This option will not be available to those who have already studied MA300 and MA301, or who have studied this subject as part of an undergraduate degree.
** Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students, a non-assessed computer course.

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