Graduate Study

Graduate Program in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics has a graduate program leading to a Ph.D. The faculty contains leading researchers in analysis, algebraic geometry, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, dynamics, and mathematical physics.

Mathematics at Rice

Rice University has a tradition of excellence in mathematics that reaches back to its beginnings. The university (then the Rice Institute) was planned by a mathematician, Edgar Odell Lovett, who was the first professor of mathematics upon the opening of the school in 1912. In addition to President Lovett, the initial faculty consisted of Percy Daniell and Griffith C. Evans. It was while at Rice that Daniell developed the theory of the Daniell integral, which remains an important part of the modern theory of integration. G. C. Evans' work on potential theory earned him an international reputation, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences.

The tradition of excellence in mathematics continues at Rice. We have a small faculty consisting of fourteen permanent members, and five instructors, plus occasional visitors and post-doctoral fellows. Every member is actively engaged in research and most receive support from the National Science Foundation. Several have been representatives on committees of the National Science Foundation and the American Mathematical Society. We are especially proud of our younger faculty members, who have been awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, four National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, several teaching awards, and three Sloan Foundation Fellowships in recent years.

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