• MATH 7751

    Algebra I
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    3.72

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Studies groups, rings, fields, modules, tensor products, and multilinear functions. Prerequisite: MATH 5651, 5652, or equivalent.

  • MATH 7752

    Algebra II
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    3.40

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    Spring 2026

    Studies groups, rings, fields, modules, tensor products, and multilinear functions. Prerequisite: MATH 5651, 5652, or equivalent.

  • MATH 7800

    Algebraic Topology I
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    3.58

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    Spring 2026

    Topics include the fundamental group, covering spaces, covering transformations, the universal covering spaces, graphs and subgroups of free groups, and the fundamental groups of surfaces. Additional topics will be from homology, including chain complexes, simplicial and singular homology, exact sequences and excision, cellular homology, and classical applications. Prerequisite: MATH 5352, 5770, or equivalent.

  • MATH 7810

    Algebraic Topology II
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    3.71

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Devoted to chomology theory: cohomology groups, the universal coefficient theorem, the Kunneth formula, cup products, the cohomology ring of manifolds, Poincare duality, and other topics if time permits. Prerequisite: MATH 7800.

  • MATH 7820

    Differential Topology
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    3.60

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Topics include smooth manifolds and functions, tangent bundles and vector fields, embeddings, immersions, transversality, regular values, critical points, degree of maps, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, and connections. Prerequisite: MATH 5310, 5770, or equivalent.

  • MATH 7840

    Homotopy Theory
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    Fall 2025

    Definition of homotopy groups, homotopy theory of CW complexes, Huriewich theorem and Whitehead's theorem, Eilenberg-Maclane spaces, fibration and cofibration sequences, Postnikov towers, and obstruction theory. Prerequisite: MATH 7800.

  • MATH 8250

    Partial Differential Equations
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    Fall 2025

    Theory of distributions. Sobolev spaces and their properties (trace and embedding theorems). Theory of elliptic equations. Time-dependent partial differential equations: parabolic and hyperbolic equations. Topics in nonlinear partial differential equations. Prerequisites: MATH 7410 and 7250.

  • MATH 8320

    Operator Theory I, II
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    Fall 2025

    Topics in the theory of operators on a Hilbert space and related areas of function theory.

  • MATH 8380

    Random Matrices
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    Fall 2026

    Discusses fundamental problems and results of the theory of random matrices, and their connections to tools of algebra and combinatorics: Wigner's semicircle law, free probability, Gaussian, circular, and beta ensembles of random matrices, bulk and edge asymptotics and universality, Dyson's Brownian motion, determinantal point processes, and discrete analogues of random matrix models. Prerequisite: MATH 7360 or instructor permission.

  • MATH 8510

    Topics in Number Theory
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    3.92

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Studies selected topics in algebraic or analytic number theory