The history of the Department of Mathematics at NUS traces back to 1929, when science education began in Singapore with the opening of Raffles College with less than five students enrolled in mathematics. Today it is one of the largest departments in NUS, with about 70 faculty members and teaching staff supported by 13 administrative and IT staff.  The Department offers a wide selection of courses (called modules) covering wide areas of mathematical sciences with about 6,000 students enrolling in each semester. Apart from offering B.Sc. programmes in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Quantitative Finance, the Department also participates actively in major interdisciplinary programs, including the double degree programme in Mathematics/Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the double major programmes in Mathematics and Economics as well as with other subjects, and the Computational Biology programme. Another example of the Department's student centric educational philosophy is the Special Programme in Mathematics (SPM), which is specially designed for a select group of students who have a strong passion and aptitude for mathematics. The aim is to enable these students to build a solid foundation for a future career in mathematical research or state-of-the-art applications of mathematics in industry.

The Department is ranked among the best in Asia in mathematical research.   It offers a diverse and vibrant program in graduate studies, in fundamental as well as applied mathematics. It promotes interdisciplinary applications of mathematics in science, engineering and commerce. Faculty members' research covers all major areas of contemporary mathematics. For more information, please see research overview, selected publications, and research awards.

Colloquium

No colloquium scheduled this week

Other Current & Upcoming Talks

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
27 May 13 16:00	S17 #04-04 SR3	Ye Guibo	Learning Gradients for variable selection and dimension reduction

 

Past and Current Seminars

Congrats to our staff invited to give talks at ICM 2014!

Professor Bao Weizhu, Professor Gan Wee Teck, Professor Shen Weixiao and Professor Yu Shih-Hsien have been invited to give 45 minute talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2014, to be held in Seoul, Korea from 13 to 21 August 2014.

Professor Bao will be giving a talk in the section on Mathematics in Science and Technology, Professor Gan in the section on Number Theory, Professor Shen in the section on Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations and Professor Yu in the section on Partial Differential Equations.

For further details, please visit http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/topics

Congrats to the National team for 53rd IMO!

Singapore team ranks 7th overall  and team member Lim Jeck was ranked 1st among all individual with the only perfect score!
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Faculty Awards 2012

»	Teaching Excellence Award   - Prof CHAN Heng Huat   - Prof LEE Soo Teck   - A/Prof GOH Say Song   - A/Prof Denny LEUNG   - A/Prof Victor TAN   - Dr KU Cheng Yeaw
»	Honour Roll AY2011/2012   - Mr NG Wee Seng
»	Teaching Assistant (Full-time) Award   - Mr MIAO Weimin
»	Teaching Assistant (Part-time) Award   - Mr HUANG Mengmin   - Mr JI Feng   - Ms LI Wei   - Mr LIU Minghui   - Mr WANG Nan   - Mr ZHOU Feng
»	Outstanding Scientist Award   - Prof BAO Weizhu   - Prof XU Xingwang
»	Outstanding Service Award   - Mdm PHANG Chow Sian

Curriculum Updates as at 21 Dec 2012

Math Clinic

Lab Clinic

Math module planning tool

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