Mathematics
Gain the numerate and analytical skills that are the core of modern research and the digital economy
Highly self-directed programmes, enabling you to tailor your learning to your interests
Taught by leading experts in their field with strong links to industry
Successful research and business partnerships with leading and ambitious companies
Excellence in pure, applied, statistics and interdisciplinary mathematics research
Mathematics plays a fundamental role in many aspects of modern life, providing the underpinning language and tools for a wide variety of disciplines and technologies. At Exeter, students will encounter a wide variety of mathematics covering pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and computation, and will be given the opportunity to explore applications in high-impact fields including climate, healthcare and industrial challenges.
As a department, we combine a breadth of academic expertise with a caring and supportive learning environment. We provide high quality teaching, supervision, pastoral care and learning opportunities designed to challenge and bring out the very best of our students' intellectual and personal skills.
Professor Geoffrey Vallis, Head of Mathematics
Latest news
Landmark CFC ban gave planet fighting chance against global warming, research shows
Without the global CFC ban we would already be facing the reality of a ‘scorched earth’, according to researchers measuring the impact of the Montreal Protocol.
Major Atlantic Ocean current system may be approaching critical threshold, research shows
A major current of the Atlantic Ocean – which acts like a global-scaled conveyor belt and includes the Gulf Stream - may have been losing stability over the last century, research has shown.
Climate 'tipping points' need not be the end of the world
The disastrous consequences of climate "tipping points" could be averted if global warming was reversed quickly enough, new research suggests.
Research breakthrough in understanding how neural systems process and store information
A team of scientists from the University of Exeter and the University of Auckland have made a breakthrough in the quest to better understand how neural systems are able to process and store information.
Variant B.1.1.7 of COVID-19 associated with a significantly higher mortality rate, research shows
The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 discovered in Kent, which swept across the UK last year before spreading worldwide, is between 30 and 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains, new analysis has shown.
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Colloquia and seminars
Wednesday 29 Sep 2021: Hunting for Planets and Low-Mass Companions around Hot Stars: The ARMADA Survey at CHARA and VLTI
Tyler Gardner -
remote 14:00-15:00
Friday 01 Oct 2021: Dr Kate Marvel: Climate, clouds and communication talk
Dr Kate Marvel - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-clouds-and-communication-tickets-167048539679
Online 16:00-17:30
Thursday 07 Oct 2021: [Journal Club] Title: The statistical properties of protostellar discs and their dependence on metallicity
Dan Elsender -
4th floor interaction area 11:15-11:45
Friday 08 Oct 2021: High-dimensional quantum photonics: Pushing the limits of quantum technologies
Mehul Malik - Heriot Watt University
Online 12:30-13:30
Friday 15 Oct 2021: What the fragile upper atmospheres of Giant Planets reveal
James O'Donoghue - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Online 12:30-13:30
Friday 29 Oct 2021: Staying alive? - New physics at the LHC and beyond
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez - Uppsala Universitet
Online 12:30-13:30
Friday 12 Nov 2021: Engineering and measurement of thermal radiation
Mikhail Kats - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Online 12:30-13:30
Friday 03 Dec 2021: Secure communications in quantum networks
Eleni Diamanti - Sorbonne Université
Online 12:30-13:30