Candidates should complete their dissertation by the middle of September, and will be orally examined on the dissertation and the background material to it. The written assessment on each lecture course will be made by giving the candidate a choice of mini-projects to develop and candidates will be required to sign a statement that the work offered for assessment is theirs alone. The mini-projects will be set at the start of the last week of the relevant lecture course and will be suggested by the course lecturers. All students have access to this library, which holds, or can readily obtain, all books and periodicals of interest, and also to the Whitehead Library in the Mathematical Institute. The Computing Laboratory has its own library comprising mainly books on numerical analysis and computation.
Students have access to a wide range of computing facilities.
These include a Micro VAX and an extensive network of SUN workstations. The University Computing Service has a large VAX installation and a Convex vector processor, and provides, if required, connections to national and international data networks. Two powerful parallel computing systems are installed in the Computing Laboratory. All these machines are linked together on a University-wide network, so that it is possible to access any of them from terminals and workstations in the Computing Laboratory and the Mathematical Institute, and from terminals in the colleges and other departments. Facilities for printed and graphical output, and for scientific word processing are also provided.