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Head of Department :

Associate Department Heads: Özlem Beyarslan

Professors : Talin Budak, Sadık Değer, Ahmet Feyzioğlu, Burak Gürel, İlhan İkeda, Ferit Öztürk, Betül Tanbay, Cem Yalçın Yıldırım , Fatih Ecevit

Associate Professor : Özlem Beyarslan, Arzu Boysal, Dr. Craig Charles Van Coevering, Ayhan Günaydın, Müge Taşkın, Ümit Işlak

Assistant Professor : Yasemin Kara

Instructor : Sinan Işık

MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS

Total Credits: 24
Total ECTS: 121

* ECTS and credit hours specified are the minimum required values.
** “Elective Course”s must be either MATH courses or courses from PHYS, ECON, IE, EE, CMPE, subject to the approval of Mathematics Department.

The M.S. program in Mathematics comprises 22 credits or more credits of course work (minimum 7 courses), graduate seminar and a Master's thesis. The total number of credits includes 9 credits of required courses. The required courses are:

The elective courses are chosen from the graduate courses offered by the Program or the Institute, and are subject to the approval of the student's advisor.

There is a breadth requirement and a depth requirement to fulfill as follows.

1. Breadth requirement :

Students are expected to take at least one course from four of the topics chosen from the list below. Two of these courses can be chosen from 400 level courses approved by the department.

• a. Algebra and Number theory
  b. Analysis
  c. Topology and Geometry
  d. Probability and Statistics
  e. Discrete Mathematics
  f. Applied Mathematics
  g. Logic and Foundations of Science
  h. Physics
  i. Mathematical Economics
  j. Industrial Engineering
  k. Electrical Engineering
  

2. Depth requirement :

Students must take a two course sequence chosen from one topic among the list above from a) to f) such as MATH 531-532, MATH 521-522 etc. None of these courses can be a reading course nor a 400 level course.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM

The Ph.D. program in Mathematics is composed of 21 or more credits of course work planned under the supervision of an advisor and Ph.D. thesis carried out according to the regulations of the Institute.

Total Credits: 25
Total ECTS: 242

* ECTS and credit hours specified are the minimum required values.
** PhD students who took any of MATH 522, 532, 533 courses during their MSc studies must take other MATH courses to fulfill the corresponding credit load.