This year there are 12 courses. The level is sufficiently high for the courses to be of interest to staff members, and it is common for an MSc course to have several members of staff, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in the audience. A member of staff supervises about 2-3 postgraduates, each of whom is seen for approximately one hour a week. In addition there are presently 7 postdoctoral fellows working in this area and about 10 PhD students. As mentioned the mathematics department was rated to be in the top 3 UK Universities for research in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise.
Various people hold prizes, large grants or are involved in large networks.
The training programme provided above. Evidence of past succesful postgraduate training Members of this group have supervised probably about 30 international PhD students in the last 5 years, and about 15 postdocs. Many of these left for very good positions.