Overview of the Department
The faculty of the Mathematics Department comprises more than 50 tenured and tenure-track members and a varying number of emeritus, temporary or part-time members. Several individuals have joint appointments with other departments, such as Computer Sciences, Curriculum and Instruction, and General Business. Many of our faculty are internationally recognized for their distinguished research, including endowed chairs Luis Caffarelli, Bjorn Engquist, and Cameron Gordon.
About 85 graduate students are currently enrolled in degree programs in the Department. Students admitted to our Ph.D. program have a variety of career objectives, including academic jobs focused on research, academic jobs focused on teaching, and employment in industry, business, finance, and national laboratories. Holders of UT Master's Degrees in Mathematics represent a wide variety of professions, working as teachers at the primary, secondary or junior college level, statisticians, actuaries, and computer programmers, to name a few. Others have continued their educations at UT or elsewhere in pursuit of doctorates.
The Department has internationally recognized research groups in algebra and number theory, algebraic and differential geometry, analysis, applied mathematics, dynamical systems, mathematical finance, mathematical physics, mathematics education, numerical analysis and scientific computing, partial differential equations, and topology. Several of our faculty members are also affiliated with the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), which facilitates interdisciplinary research. Many research groups within the department are ranked among the top ten nationally.
The Department of Mathematics offers the following degree programs:
For information about our degree offerings, including degree requirements, course offerings, and financial assistance, please read through the links under the Graduate menu to the left.
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Graduate Advisor
Assistant Graduate Advisor
Graduate Program Administrator
Graduate Student Organizations
- Mathematics Grad Student Committee
- Mathematicians of Color Alliance of Texas (MoCAT)
- Directed Reading Program
- Read more about other Student Organizations
Additional Program Information
- College of Natural Sciences, Graduate Education
- College of Natural Sciences, Student Support
- Information on how to become a Math Teaching Assistant
