Second, the stream of faculty-level visitors referred to above is mostly from continental Europe, and the School's various research seminar series therefore have a pronounced international flavour. Female Marie Curie Fellows will be warmly welcomed and encouraged. Graduate students are required to attend these. There is also a seminar series run by the graduate students and post doctoral fellows in which the students have an opportunity to talk about their work. Marie Curie Fellows will be asked to give a talk in this series.
Advanced course are available for both research students and MSc students.
The course Mathematical Models in Industry and Finance gives students the opportunity to work in groups and to present the results of their work in a talk, bringing together models, analysis and computation. All courses are subjected to the University's rigorous quality assurance procedures. In addition, the school was subjected to detailed external scrutiny in the January 1999 Subject Review of the School's taught provision by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the national body for the inspection of university teaching. The School was awarded the overall total of 23 points out of a possible 24, which is equal highest for any awarded to mathematics departments in the UK up to this time.