Academics

Graduate studies

The Department of Mathematics offers programs covering a broad range of topics leading to a Doctoral Degree. Candidates are admitted to either the Doctoral Program in Mathematics or the Doctoral Program in Statistics and Stochastic Processes. They can also choose to pursue their PhD degree in one of the international IST collaborations:

The Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, jointly offer the Doctoral Program in Information Security.

At the Master's level, the Mathematics Department offers the Master in Mathematics and Applications, with 4 specialization profiles:

Mathematics
Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematics of Computation
Probability and Mathematical Statistics

The Department provides a calendar of the master and PhD level final examinations.

Undergraduate Studies

At the undergraduate level, the Department offers the

Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computation

If you are interested in introductory level undergraduate courses in mathematics you can search for course archives maintained by the lecturer in the Department web servers. These usually predate archives maintained through the school Fenix system.

Faculty members and researchers

The Department of Mathematics has near one hundred faculty members and researchers making it the largest university mathematics department in Portugal.

Scientific areas

All courses offered in the the various degrees in mathematics are structured according with the official IST scientific areas for Mathematics:

Logic and Computation
Real and Functional Analysis
Algebra and Topology
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Geometry
Probability and Statistics
Numerical and Applied Analysis
Mathematical-Physics

Support resources

Mathematics library
LabMat, the undergraduate computer lab.

Agregação em Matemática

Doutoramento em Estatística e Processos Estocásticos