MA500     
Mathematics: Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation

This information is for the 2024/25 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Ahmad Abdi and Prof Bernhard Von Stengel

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in Mathematics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Other members of the research community are welcome to attend.

Course content

The seminar ranges over many areas of pure and applied mathematics. The emphasis is on topics in discrete mathematics, operations research and game theory.  The seminar is regarded as an important part of research students' formal training and they are expected to attend and contribute.

Teaching

33 hours of seminars and 33 hours of seminars in the AT. 33 hours of seminars and 33 hours of seminars in the WT. 21 hours of seminars and 21 hours of seminars in the ST.

Key facts

Department: Mathematics

Total students 2023/24: 2

Average class size 2023/24: 2

Value: Non-credit bearing

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