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Mathematics in today’s world
Is changing very fast.

It is increasingly blending with, contributing to &

is enriched by
Engineering
Medical Science
Computer Science
etc.
The old ways of doing and thinking
mathematics are changing rapidly in the
USA and in Europe.

But India has not yet fully woken up to

winds of change.
One of the pioneering universities that advocate
this new approach and encourage students to
think on their own is the University of Houston
(at Houston in Texas, USA),

the line between the so called Pure and Applied

Mathematics – or between Mathematics and
disciplines like Physics, Computer Science, and
Medicine – is not always distinct
Graduate Studies (PhD) Programme
With
Full Teaching Assistantships
And
Fee Waiver

At

University of Houston
Houston, Texas, USA

(from second year)

University Campus
 Subjects Offered

• MATHEMATICS

• COMPUTER SCIENCE

• PHYSICS
 WHAT ARE THESE?
Options Available With MATHEMATICS
• Master of Science in Mathematics (MSM)

• Master of Science in Applied Mathematics

(MSAM)
with the following options

Computational Mathematics Option (CMO)

Financial Mathematics Option (FMO)

Mathematical Statistics Option (MSO)
 Eligibility
Undergraduate Degree
With at least one of the following
subjects
Mathematics
Physics
Computer Science
Engineering
 About the Programme
• Students are first admitted to MSF where they
undergo rigorous training for one year.

• Houston admission assured upon successful

completion of first year with MSF.

• Full Teaching Assistantship and Tuition fee waiver

at University of Houston.
 Admission Criteria
• You should be bright, motivated and should like the subject
chosen (Mathematics/Physics/Computer Science)
• We do not expect or require you to be an expert in any area
• Admission on the basis of a test followed by an interview.
The test requires a background of basic mathematics.
• the TOEFL and Subject GRE requirements has been waived
for our students. The General GRE needs to be cleared with
a minimum score of 1100 on the Verbal and Mathematical
sections.
 IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• 47 students who have done this course are already
either studying or have finished their studies at
Houston.

• You may apply using the online application

procedure, information on which can be obtained on
www.mathscifound.org

• New session started from 19th July, 2010

 The Department of Mathematics at
University of Houston

• The department is well funded, has excellent computing

resources and has a large group of research students and
faculty.

• It is currently engaged in front rank research in various

areas of mathematics – both pure and applied. It has
collaborations with NASA, the medical centre, the
petrochemical and aerospace industries.

Some of the faculty members of the

department are
 Roland Glowinski

Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Director of Center for Advanced Scientific Computation

 Martin Golubitsky

Immediate Past President of SIAM

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics;
the world's largest society for applied mathematicians)

Director of Mathematical Biosciences Institute

 Barbara Lee Keyfitz

Former Director of the Fields Institute

(The Fields Institute is a center for mathematical research activity
– a place where mathematicians from Canada and abroad, from
business, industry and financial institutions, can come together
to carry out research and formulate problems of mutual
interest.)

President-elect, International Council on Industrial and Applied

Mathematics
 Neal Amundson

Member of The National Academy of Sciences

Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

 William Fitzgibbon

Dean of the College of Technology

Some other renowned mathematicians at Houston are

Vern Paulsen & David Blecher

- after whom is named the Blecher –Paulsen – Ruan Theory in C* Algebras

Min Ru
- Differential Geometry

Sunica Canic
-Differential Equations & Modeling

Mike Fields
-Dynamical systems
The mathematical research done at
Houston is comparable to the best in the
world.
The faculty is very supportive and
encourage and nurture graduate
students.
The atmosphere is very friendly - much
more than some of the institutes in
India.
 The Department of Physics at
University of Houston

The Department of Physics at University of Houston has

faculty members that have been recognised on the national
and international level. They include
• A member of the National Academy of Sciences and American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Recipients of awards such as the National Medal of Science,
the Freedoms Foundation Award, the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award, and others.
• Five of the top fifty cited physicists in the world are at
University of Houston.
 The Department of Physics at
University of Houston

Students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty interact to

create a research-intensive atmosphere.

Collaborations are common with faculty in other

departments, the UH Cullen College of Engineering,
and outside the university with agencies such as
NASA, and many U.S .and foreign universities.
 The Department of Computer Science
at
University of Houston

The Department of Computer Science at University

of Houston is engaged in front rank research in some
of the highly challenging areas of both theoretical
and applied research.

It has highly recognised and valued collaborative

programmes with medical and other centers all over
the USA .
 The Department of Computer Science
at
University of Houston
The department's teaching and research fields include
artificial intelligence computer networks
computer graphics and databases
vision
high-performance software engineering
computing
scientific computing and biocomputing and
visualization bioinformatics
The department maintains state of the art computer equipment
and students have access to over 100 workstations and to high
performance computing facilities
Jobs in the corporate world or the academic world are
becoming much easier if you have a PhD from a university like
Houston. All those who have graduated from the MSF
programme are doing very well:

1. Mrinal Raghupathi is working as an Assistant Professor at

Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

2. Deepti Kalra is working as a Corporate Portfolio Risk

Analyst at MetLife, New York.

3. Aditya Agarwal is working as a Senior Financial Analyst

at Google, San Francisco Bay Area.

4. Ishaan Kapoor is working for Exelon Corp. – one of the

largest power generating and supplying companies in the
USA – as Principal Structuring Analyst.
The MSF Students are doing research in diverse fields like:

1. Saurabh Jain (Mathematics) has just completed a PhD in

applications of Harmonic & Wavelet Analysis to medical
and seismic data.

2. Yutheeka Gadhyan (Mathematics) is now pursuing research

in Stochastic Differential Equations with applications to
Finance and Medicine.

3. Avinash Wesley (Computer Science) is now pursuing

research in Observational Psychology and Affective
Science.

4. Soniya Devi Yambem (Physics) is working in Biophysics –

Physical Mechanisms of Biological Molecular Motors.
 Research Areas of Present Students

Aanchal Aggarwal is doing research in Large Deviation Theory.

Aarti Jajoo is working on Adaptive finite element methods, her task

at the moment is to develop algorithms to solve some optimal
control systems.

Ajit Kumar’s research is linked to Mathematical Biology group.

The interaction of proteins and enzymes in a cell can be
modelled by a set of differential equations. Currently he is
trying to simplify this system.

Amrita Haldar is working on Solar Cells.

Anando Sen’s research is based on localizing the Radon

transform. In practical terms it amounts to carrying out the CT
scan in a particular portion of the organ rather than the whole
organ hence reducing exposure to radiations and the clarity of
the CT scans should be maintained.
 Research Areas of Present Students

Charu Hans is working in area of image processing.

Pankaj Kumar Singh is about to finish a project related to missing

data and then will start working in the area of signal
processing or related area.

Joseph Mathew is working in area of image processing.

Meghna Mittal’s research area is function theory and operator

theory.
Natasha Sharma’s research area is to understand the behavior of
the solutions of Partial Differential Equations using Finite
Element Methods .
Pallavi Arora’s research area is Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Sneh Lata is working in operator theory which involves function

theory as well.
 Feedback from former students
My thesis advisor at the University of Houston was very
surprised to know that I did not receive my undergraduate
training in mathematics. Having learnt that I received almost all
my training in mathematics in one year at the MSF, his words
were, “that year did a miracle”

-Saurabh Jain
(MSAM(CMO); PhD completed at Houston)
Research in developing image processing
algorithms for seismic and medical
imaging applications.
 Feedback from former students
I am working in the finance department of the search giant
Google and I owe my success to MSF in ways more than one.
Some of my seniors have got a chance to work at big oil
companies like Shell, Halliburton and Schlumberger and MSF
efforts have played an important role in all these placements.
It was a great learning experience at MSF for one year. In fact,
the amount I learned in just one year was, worth 2 years of hard
work and dedication.
-Aditya Aggarwal
(MSAM(CMO), Senior Financial Analyst, Google)
Delhi University Topper of B.Sc.(H) Physics
 Feedback from former students
I enjoyed each and every activity at MSF and found it the best
place in my academic life so far. The environment is very
conducive; teachers and staff are very supportive.
The assignments and questions in class were really challenging
and interesting as most of them were unseen to us and were not
from books. So there was no point in looking for solutions in
books, rather we had to think and get the solutions.

-Pankaj Kumar Singh

(MSM, 2006-07 ; PhD student at Houston)
Research in Signals Processing
 Feedback from former students
I had a life time experience at MSF. I developed real interest in
Mathematics at MSF. I think it provides a very good platform for
students in India to pursue higher studies in Mathematics, which is
unique in its own. I was there just for a year and I have learned so
much in that time. I think it's a great institute doing great job and I
would really like to do something for this institute.

- Upasana Kashyap
(MSM, 2003-04 ; PhD completed at Houston)
Publications in:
•Journal of Functional Analysis
•Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
• Transactions of the
American Mathematical Society
 Feedback from former students

For the first time studying became enjoyable. For three years I’d
been taught the ‘Delhi University way’. Despite having some very
good teachers the course structure and the classroom
environment prevented any mathematical thinking from the
students. That was not the case at MSF.

- Anando Sen
(MSM, 2006-07 ; PhD student at Houston)
Working on localizing the Radon transform,
with applications to CT scans with
reduced exposure to radiation.
 Feedback from former students

I realize now, as a research student,

that we did mathematics in MSF the way one does
research.
-Mrinal Raghupathi
(MSM, 2003-04 ; completed PhD at Houston)

Publications in:
• Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
•Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
• Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
 Feedback from former students
Houston is a nice place to be if you want to do a good PhD.

There are scientists working in different fields and lots to choose

from.

-Harbir Antil
(Completed PhD at Houston)

Worked on localizing the Radon transform,

with applications to CT scans with
reduced exposure to radiation.
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