Honours in the School of Mathematics and Statistics

General Information

This page contains brief information on honours in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. Students may take honours in Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics or Mathematical Statistics. In all cases, assessment is by a combination of coursework (~70%) and a project (~30%). While the three divisions offer courses separately, the honours program is flexible and students are encouraged to consult their course coordinator if they are interested in taking a course from another division. Lists of the lecture courses offered by Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics appear below. More detailed information is available from the course coordinators and the various handbooks.

Students should be aware of the University's plagiarism policy.

Course Coordinators

The following people are available to discuss the honours program.

person	office	phone	email
Dr Martin Wechselberger (applied)	Carslaw 628	9351 3860	`M.Wechselberger@maths.usyd.edu.au`
Dr Laurentiu Paunescu (pure)	Carslaw 816	9351 2969	`L.Paunescu@maths.usyd.edu.au`
Dr Michael Stewart (statistics)	Carslaw 818	9351 5765	`M.Stewart@maths.usyd.edu.au`

Handbooks

The handbooks contain detailed information including assessment details, important dates, course outlines, an outline of the project requirement including a list of possible projects and supervisors. Students should ensure they have a copy of the relevant handbook.

The handbooks for Honours in Applied Mathematics (2009) and Pure Mathematics (2009) and Mathematical Statistics (2009) are available here.)

Honours Lecture Courses

Following is a list of courses offered by the divisions of Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Students in Mathematics may also take advanced third year units – see the Senior Mathematics page for a list of these. Consult your course coordinator if you are interested in taking a course from another division.

Applied Mathematics

First Semester	Second Semester
Integral Transforms and Asymptotic Methods (Chris Cosgrove) Geometric Mechanics (Holger Dullin) Computational Projects in Applied Mathematics (Dave Galloway)	Magnetohydrodynamics and Dynamo Theory (David Ivers) Modern Asymptotics and Perturbation Theory (Nalini Joshi) Advanced Option Pricing (To be announced)

Pure Mathematics

First Semester	Second Semester
Algebraic topology (Jonathan Hillman) Commutative algebra (David Easdown) Functional analysis (Donald Cartwright) Lie Algebras (Ruibin Zhang)	Partial differential equations (Norman Dancer) Modular Representation Theory (Andrew Mathas)

Mathematical Statistics

First Semester	Second Semester
Probability theory (Neville Weber) Generalized linear models (Jennifer Chan) Applied Probability and Stochastic DEs (Qiying Wang)	Robust and nonparametric methods/Extreme Value Theory (John Robinson and Michael Stewart) Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics

(Subject to the approval of the relevant coordinator, honours students may take courses offered by another division within the School of Mathematics and Statistics, or another School, or even another university. Students are advised to check the courses offered in January and February at the AMSI Summer School and also courses available via the access grid.)

More detailed information about courses and assessment can be obtained from the relevant handbook or course coordinator.