London Taught Course Centre (LTCC)
for PhD students in the Mathematical Sciences

The consortium running the LTCC has the aim to ensure that all mathematical sciences research students have a broad mathematical culture covering at least one (and ideally more) of the three areas: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics.

The LTCC is also to offer doctoral students opportunities to acquire a working knowledge of classical results and recent developments in their own broad research fields but outside the specialised domains of their individual research projects. This will be aided by the range of institutes in the consortium: UCL, Queen Mary College, Imperial College, King’s College, LSE, City, Kent and Brunel.

The vision for this Centre stems directly from the international-review finding that, while the UK PhD standard remains high, recent changes in content of undergraduate degrees along with pressure for PhD completion result in reduced opportunity for PhD candidates to study mathematical sciences outside the immediate areas of their research projects. Modular lecture courses and short intensive courses are included, with an emphasis on personal contact, introducing students to an exciting wide range of topics in pure and applied mathematics and statistics, and striking a balance between classical results and recent developments.

Support for the LTCC is from EPSRC.

The courses will run at De Morgan House in Russell Square under the auspices of the London Mathematical Society and the Lighthill Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Further information regarding the LTCC can be found at www.ltcc.ac.uk

This page was last modified on May 6, 2010 by Helen Higgins