Choosing your project
Types of projects and finding out which topic you will be doing.
Finding your project allocation
List of project allocations 2023-24 [Password protected]
Choosing your projects:
Once supervisors have submitted the project descriptions, you will be able to select 5 projects, ranked in order of your preference.
After some tweaking (making sure that projects that have been selected by many students run as group projects, and possibly running several instances of them), the selection will be done by a computer algorithm. Most students get one of their first top three choices, but in the past two years, all possible solutions had to assign some students their fifth choice.
Types of projects
Mathematics Project
Mathematics Project (20 points)
A group project is taken by 2-4 students working as a team, a single report is produced, a single presentation is given.
An individual project is worked on individually with a limited number of available topics.
Mathematics Project (double)
Project in Mathematics (Double) (40 points)
Students on combined degrees normally have to take this, or an equivalent 40-point project in the other School.
Applied mathematics students must do a double project in an agreed area of applied mathematics.
Mathematics and physics students may take the 20 points (individual or group) project as an alternative.
Mathematical Education
Mathematical Education (20 credits)
As an alternative to (or as an addition to) projects, students can get enrolled into Mathematical Education.
Find out if your degree gives you the option to do this
Mathematics Dissertation
Mathematics Dissertation (40 points)
This is compulsory for MMath students in their final year and is not available for MMath students in year 4.
The credit level is 11. A high standard of mathematical presentation and reasoning is required to gain a good grade.