Primary Faculty: Professors ASENJO, BEATROUS, BURBEA, CAGINALP, CHADAM (Chair), CHAO, CONSTANTINE (Joint, Statistics), ERMENTROUT, HASTINGS, HEATH, LAU, LAYTON, MANFREDI, McLEOD (University Professor), PORSCHING (Director of Graduate Studies), RABIER, TROY; Associate Professors CHEN, COHEN, HEBERT, LENNARD, MARSDEN, METZGER, PAN, SPARLING, THOMPSON (Undergraduate Chair), WHITEHEAD; Assistant Professors ANITESCU, CHOW, YOTOV; Instructor ELDER; Senior Lecturers ARRINGTON, MICHAEL

Emeritus Faculty: Professors BENEDICTY, DESKINS (Dean Emeritus), HALL, KNIPP, LAUSH, LEHNER (Andrew Mellon Professor), MacBEATH, MASANI (University Professor), MYERS, RHEINBOLDT (Andrew Mellon Professor); Associate Professors CULLEN, KOVACS, PORTER, SACKS, SLAUGHTER, TEATS

The Graduate Faculty offers various opportunities for study and research in mathematics which may be pursued by full-time and part-time students. Cooperative programs exist with other departments in the arts and sciences and with other branches of the University, such as a dual master’s program with the Department of Computer Science and a joint master’s program with the School of Engineering. The department also accommodates students engaged in graduate studies in other disciplines requiring mathematics, and serves the community by providing mathematics education to those not necessarily pursuing a graduate degree program. Details on graduate programs and departmental regulations are contained in the document, Handbook for Graduate Study in Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, obtainable from 301 Thackeray Hall or by telephoning (412) 624-1175.

The programs that lead to the master's degree in Applied Mathematics contain several tracks, each having a selection of required and elective courses. An MS option is available that requires a thesis. The departmental handbook should be consulted for details on these programs. The department also offers dual-degree programs at the master's level, which enable a student to coordinate studies in mathematics with those in a discipline exploiting their application. The degree objective in such programs is the master’s degree in Mathematics and a master's degree in some selected other area.

Most candidates will require from three to five years of full-time study to complete the degree. Part- time students may be allowed as many as 10 years to finish all requirements (see Statute of Limitations and Leaves of Absence in the first section of this bulletin).

Additional information and details concerning examinations, requirements, and the advising system can be found in the departmental handbook.

In addition to the extensive computing facilities provided by the University, the department maintains several in-house computing sites for use by all departmental graduate students. Available equipment includes a departmental Unix-based server and various Macintosh, Windows-based PCs, and Unix- based PCs. Most of these machines are connected to the University’s Ethernet network. There is also easy and reliable access to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and its state-of-the-art parallel computers, the CRAY C90 and massively parallel T3E.