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School of Mathematics

Welcome to the School of Mathematics

We are one of the largest and most prestigious mathematics departments in the UK, with an international reputation for our teaching and research excellence.

We cover the areas of applied and pure mathematics, as well as statistics and financial mathematics where we have close teaching and research links with Leeds University Business School.

We have 74 academic and academic-related staff, in excess of 70 postgraduate students and 17 postdoctoral fellows.

Forthcoming seminars
Thu 23rd February, 2012
Dr Todor Kondic
Hall MHD in Neutron Stars
Fri 24th February, 2012
Patrick Dorey
Stokes Phenomena, Spectral Problems, and Integrability
Mon 27th February, 2012
Prof. Sam Falle
Microbial Chemotactic Waves in Groundwater
Mon 27th February, 2012
Julia Sauter
A survey on Springer theory
Tue 28th February, 2012
Karen Strung
Classification and the tracial approximation of some simple UHF-stable C*-algebras

Please see our seminars page for more details.

Latest news

14 November 2011

Honoured in Bulgaria

Professor Barry Cooper received an honorary degree from the University of...

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4 October 2011

Perfect plastic

Researchers from the School of Mathematics have developed a computational model...

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Position available

Chair in Geophysical Fluids Dynamics
Reference: MAPMA0023
Closing date: Wednesday 7th March 2012

Forthcoming events

Complexity Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) Meeting on "Evolution and diversity in complex systems"

2 March 2012

The CoSyDy network is funded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and aims at bringing together people interested in the dynamics of complex systems.


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Masters Open Day

7 March 2012
Taught Masters

Register to visit us and find out more about postgraduate taught Masters opportunities. We offer five MSc courses on a full-time basis taught over 12 months.


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PhD Open Day

14 March 2012
Research PhD

Register to visit us and find out more about postgraduate Research PhD opportunities. The School warmly welcomes postgraduate students.


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31st Mathematics Teachers and Advisers Conference

26 June 2012

Teachers and university staff alike are given a rare opportunity to exchange valuable experiences and re-invigorate their perspectives on the ever-changing world of mathematics education.


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