{"id":229,"date":"2017-04-05T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/math\/qsun\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:03:55","slug":"math-phd-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/qsun\/math-phd-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Math PhD program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wu Jing (PhD 2006) is a professor at Fayetteville State University. According to Dr. Jing, \u201cThe outstanding faculty members and the strong academic atmosphere made UCF a great place to pursuit advanced degree in mathematics.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

The UCF Math PhD program started from Fall 1993 with a Financial Mathematics track added in Fall 2017 \u00a0and it has awarded 68 PhD degrees. Currently there are 52 active PhD students with 46 graduate teaching\/research assistantships.<\/p>\n

The UCF Math PhD program provides broad based training in pure,\u00a0applied and industrial mathematics.\u00a0 The program consists of at least 75 credit hours of course work beyond the bachelor’s degree, of which a minimum of 39 hours of formal course work, exclusive of independent study and directed research. \u00a0Students are required to take \u00a0several core courses and at least two course sequences, and also electives outside the department. Students must pass\u00a0the cumulative qualifying examinations at the PhD level after taking core courses, and pass candidacy examinations after taking two course sequences. By the third year, a student should have selected an advisor, formed a committee\u00a0and started a research \u00a0program. \u00a0In the semesters following the candidacy examination, a student takes at least 15 credit hours of\u00a0dissertation research and engages\u00a0original and creative mathematical research that pushes back the frontier of knowledge. \u00a0A PhD is awarded after a successful dissertation defense.<\/p>\n

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Haimei Shao (PhD, 2011) recently rejoined BB&T Funds Management. Four years of rigorous training at UCF made her capable of analyzing and solving problems in the real world by looking into the roots of the problem and creating the solutions from the roots as well.<\/p><\/div>\n

The UCF Math PhD program produces students who attain distinction in their fields of research.\u00a0The faculty in the program are dedicated to the graduate education and many of them are recognized as outstanding scholars. Our\u00a0faculty members include an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics, \u00a0a\u00a0Marcus Wallenberg Prize winner, Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, and a National Science Foundation Career awardee.<\/p>\n

Students in the UCF Math PhD program can specialize in many areas of pure and applied mathematics, including Approximation Theory, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Big Data and Mathematical Statistics, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Control and Optimization, Differential and Symplectic Geometry, Differential Equations, Fluid and Plasma Dynamics,\u00a0\u00a0Inverse and Ill-posed Problems, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Finance, Nonlinear Waves and Nonlinear Dynamics, Numerical Analysis, Orthogonal Polynomials, Real and Functional Analysis, \u00a0Probability and Stochastic Analysis, Tomography and Medical Imaging, Topology, and Wave Propagation.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Masino (PhD 2004) is the supervisor of data science research for the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr Masino says. \u201cVery few graduate students are afforded all of these opportunities.\u201d to do research.<\/p><\/div>\n

Students in the UCF Math PhD program are encouraged to interact with other departments, institutions, and industries. \u00a0For students\u00a0to\u00a0pursue research in a variety of disciplines, the program offers flexibility in the composition of the core courses as well as the qualifying examination. Many faculty members\u00a0in the UCF Math Department conduct interdisciplinary research and supervise graduate students in other departments, research institutes and centers within the university.<\/p>\n

Graduates <\/a>in the UCF Math PhD program regularly go on to successful positions in academics, government agency and industry.<\/p>\n

For additional\u00a0information about the UCF Math PhD program such as curriculum, application requirements, admission procedure, \u00a0financials\u00a0 etc, please explore \u00a0Math PhD program @ UCF graduate Catalog<\/a>\u00a0and the program’s\u00a0Q&A<\/a> website, or contact the program director at qiyu.sun@ucf.edu<\/p>\n

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