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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Mathematics Major, PhD

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Designed to prepare students for industrial employment and for college and university teaching and research.

Concentrations (Optional)

Mathematical Biology

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Credit Hours Required

Minimum of 72 graduate credit hours beyond the Bachelor’s or
Minimum of 48 graduate credit hours beyond the Master’s

Required Courses

  • These requirements must be completed no later than the start of the student’s seventh year (as a mathematics graduate student at UT).
    • Demonstrate competency with a satisfactory performance on two diagnostic examinations in the areas of advanced calculus and linear algebra. (Additional requirements for GTAs can be found in the Mathematics Graduate Student Handbook.) The appropriate courses upon which the exams are based are the MATH 447 -MATH 448  sequence and for linear algebra MATH 457 -MATH 458  sequence or MATH 453 .
    • Pass two written examinations each based on material from a course sequence in the following list:
    • Take at least two different one-semester research seminars
    • Pass an examination in the field of specialization after requirements in first three bullets have been met.
      • This examination will be given by a committee appointed by the department head.
      • A student may take this specialty examination no more than two times.
    • Pass a one-year, 600-level sequence in mathematics outside the student’s area of specialization. The sequence selected to fulfill this requirement must be approved by the department head and the student’s doctoral committee.
    • MATH 600 , 24 credit hours

Non-Course Requirements

  • Pass an oral defense and complete a written dissertation

Mathematical Biology Concentration

Designed to prepare students for industrial employment and for college and university teaching and research in which an emphasis on applications of mathematics to ecology and the biological sciences is desired.

Credit Hours Required

Minimum of 72 graduate credit hours beyond the Bachelor’s or
Minimum of 48 graduate credit hours beyond the Master’s

Required Courses

  • These requirements must be completed no later than the start of the student’s seventh year (as a mathematics graduate student at UT).
    • Demonstrate competency in advanced calculus and linear algebra by either a satisfactory performance on a diagnostic examination or by passing the appropriate 400-level course with a grade of B or better by the end of the student’s first year of graduate school. The appropriate course for advanced calculus is the MATH 447 -MATH 448  sequence and for linear algebra MATH 457 -MATH 458  sequence or MATH 453 .
    • A student must pass written examinations on mathematical ecology (MATH 581-MATH 582) and one of the following year-long sequences –
      • Analysis (MATH 545 -MATH 546 ),
      • Computational and Applied Mathematics (MATH 571 -MATH 572 ),
      • Differential Equations (MATH 535 -MATH 536 ),
      • Stochastics (MATH 523 -MATH 524 ), and
      • Topology-Geometry (MATH 561 -MATH 562 )
      • A student must pass one examination by the middle of their third year and both examinations by the middle of their fourth year. A student cannot take any examinations after four failures.
    • Take at least two different one-semester research seminars (MATH 519 , MATH 529 , MATH 539 , MATH 549 , MATH 559 , MATH 569 , MATH 579 , MATH 589 , MATH 619 , MATH 629 , MATH 639 , MATH 649 , MATH 659 , MATH 669 , MATH 679 , and MATH 689 )
    • Pass an examination in the field of specialization after requirements in first three bullets have been met.
      • This examination will be given by a committee appointed by the department head.
      • A student may take this specialty examination no more than two times.
    • Pass a one-year, 600-level sequence in mathematics outside the student’s area of specialization. The sequence selected to fulfill this requirement must be approved by the department head and the student’s doctoral committee.
    • In addition to the two year-long sequences chosen for the written examinations (second bullet), a student must take six other one-semester 500-600 level courses.
    • MATH 600 , 24 credit hours

Non-Course Requirements

  • Pass an oral defense and complete a written dissertation

 

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