MA501     
Research Student Seminar

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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The seminars range across many areas of pure, applied and financial mathematics. The emphasis is on topics in discrete mathematics, algorithms, operations research, game theory, financial mathematics and control theory. The seminars are regarded as an important part of research students' formal training and they will all be expected to attend and contribute.  Throughout the academic year, students are also invited to give presentations.

There are additional reading groups aimed at students working in financial mathematics and discrete mathematics. These are compulsory for students working in this area but other students of the MPhil/PhD in Mathematics are welcome to attend.

PhD Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation (MA501.1): 11 one-and-a-half-hour seminars in the AT and WT. 7 one-and-a-half-hour seminars in the ST.

LGSMF Portfolio Optimisation Seminar (MA501.2): 11 three-hour seminars in the WT. 7 three-hour seminars in the ST.

Financial Mathematics Reading Group Seminar (MA501.3): 11 three-hour seminars and 11 one-hour seminars in the AT and WT. 7 three-hour seminars and 7 one-hour seminars  in the ST.

Discrete Mathematics Reading Group Seminar (MA501.4): 11 three-hour seminars in the AT and WT. 7 three-hour seminars in the ST.

Approximately 80-90 meetings of between 1 and 3 hours throughout the AT, WT, and ST, dependent on speakers. See http://www2.lse.ac.uk/maths/Seminars/Research_Seminars.aspx for schedule and more details.