Departmental website: lse.ac.uk/maths
Number of graduate students (full-time equivalent)
Taught: 49
Research: 14
Number of faculty (full-time equivalent): 21
REF: 84 per cent of research submitted jointly with the LSE Department of Statistics was rated either world-leading, or internationally excellent
Location: Columbia House
About the Department
The LSE Mathematics Department is internationally recognised for its teaching and research. Located within a world-class social science institution, the Department aims to be a leading centre for mathematics in the social sciences.
The Department is well known for its research excellence in discrete mathematics and algorithms, game theory, and financial mathematics. Research by LSE’s Department of Mathematics has been rated highly by the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessors: 84 per cent of research submitted jointly with the LSE Department of Statistics was rated either world-leading, or internationally excellent.
We run weekly research seminars covering the Department's research interests, which are attended by many people from both inside and outside LSE. We also host informal lunchtime seminars and reading groups, on a weekly basis. The Department regularly attracts eminent visiting academics.
The Department has close ties with other departments at LSE, such as Statistics, Finance, Economics and Management, and we are an integral part of the mathematical community of the University of London.
The Department provides a friendly and supportive environment. Students are part of a community of scholars, and are well-placed to pursue a career building on their academic accomplishments and the skills acquired during their time in the Department. Please visit lse.ac.uk/maths for further information about the department and lse.ac.uk/maths/Research for information about our research.
Opportunities for research
Supervision for MPhil and PhD research is available in: combinatorics, combinatorial optimisation, computational learning theory, control theory, financial mathematics, game theory, graph theory, theory of computation and algorithms, and in the applications of mathematics in areas such as telecommunications and economics.
Our minimum entry requirement is a merit or higher in an MSc in a relevant area of mathematics or related discipline Admission to the PhD programme is highly selective.
Students have access to the School's library and to the libraries of other colleges of the University of London, and also benefit from the School's and the Department's comprehensive computing and information facilities. Mathematics PhD students attend appropriate taught courses provided by either the London Taught Course Centre for PhD students in the mathematical sciences, or the London Graduate School in Financial Mathematics, depending on the focus of their research.
Applicants are invited to follow the advice offered on our website at lse.ac.uk/mathsPhDandMPhil
Taught programmes