Qualifying Exams

**This has changed updates coming soon**

As of Fall 2015, the requirements for the qualifying exams are:

• Pure Mathematics: algebra and analysis as well as one area of the student's choosing
• Computational Mathematics: analysis and numerical analysis as well as one area chosen from the following:
  • software systems & parallel processing
  • PDEs
  • numerical optimization & numerical PDEs
• Computer Science and Informatics: This consists of an area exam that covers foundational materials within the student's area of research, and a thesis proposal in which the student describes a set of open research questions and the approaches that will be taken to answer them.