The Department of Mathematics is renowned for its research excellence within its areas of specialisation. Supervision for MPhil and PhD research is available in: combinatorics, combinatorial optimisation, computational learning theory, control theory, financial mathematics, game theory, graph theory, theory of computation and algorithms, and in the applications of mathematics in areas such as telecommunications and economics. You will initially be registered for the MPhil, and will be able to upgrade to MPhil registration during your second year, depending on satisfactory progress. In your first year, you will attend appropriate taught courses provided by either the London Taught Course Centre for MPhil students in the Mathematical Sciences, or the London Graduate School in Mathematical Finance. An important element of the training is participation in the various seminars organised by the Department. In addition, there are Lunchtime Seminars, a Discrete Mathematics Reading Group, Joint Mathematics and Philosophy Reading Group on Game Theory and a Financial Mathematics Reading Group, all of which are organised largely by and for research students on mathematical subjects.