We thank you for your interest in our programs and hope that you can find all the information that you need quickly and easily. If anything remains unclear, don't hesitate to contact us.

First take a look at our brochure and advertisement for a quick overview of the opportunities that we offer: academic, financial, social, cultural, and so on. We encourage you to check with your home department to see if they have an up to date printed copy of the AMS Publication "Assistantships and Graduate Fellowships in the Mathematical Sciences". The online version is free, but at 112 pages it is a little bit hard to skim. We encourage you to compare our program with others; many are very good, but we think we have special strengths worth considering.

You may wish to print out the Directory of Department Faculty and bring this with you to your undergraduate advisor. He or she will very likely recognize some of the names, and be able to describe some of our research areas for you. The following is the list of specialty areas that we use for administrative purposes, but it also serves as a fairly accurate and complete guide to our active research areas.

• algebra (commutative, algebraic geometry, universal, lattice theory)
• theoretical ("modern") analysis (complex, functional, harmonic, operator theory)
• discrete mathematics (graph theory, combinatorics, applications)
• geometry (differential, algebraic, convex)
• foundations (logic, set theory, general topology, model theory)
• number theory

• applied ("classical") analysis (approximation theory, Fourier analysis, theoretical differential equations)
• scientific computation (numerical methods for linear algebra and differential equations, scientific computing)

Our main links to the most important information are listed to the left. The following are quick links to more specialized information, and to sites outside of the university.

• Spousal opportunities
• Living here: Columbia and environs
• Housing
• Campus visits
• Teaching orientation programs
• University
• Departmental
• Summer programs (bridges to graduate level mathematics)
• Course blurbs(scroll down a few pages)