EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Analysis and its Applications
Analysis and its Applications fully funded CDT is the four-year programme associated with the Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis and its Applications (MIGSAA), a Centre for Doctoral Training that provides high quality instruction in analysis and the applications of analysis to a wide range of areas.
The programme is a collaboration with University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.
PhD study in MIGSAA may be undertaken with over 40 supervisors on topics ranging from pure analysis to applied mathematics relevant for scientific, engineering, environmental or social challenges.
Most projects will relate to one of the following themes:
- Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
- Harmonic Analysis
- Stochastic Analysis
- Interdisciplinary and Industrial Mathematical Modelling
- Numerical Analysis
- Continuum Mechanics
- Pure and Applied Probability
Unlike a standard PhD, standard MIGSAA students are admitted to the programme (rather than with a specific supervisor), and take PhD training courses and projects over their first year, which help shape their perspective, leading to a match with a supervisor in the second half of Year 1. However, we also have an Industry Stream where students apply for a particular industry-related project from the start. More details of the Industry Stream projects and how to apply for these are at www.maxwell.ac.uk/migsaa/industry
The research project directed by the supervisor is still the centrepiece of the PhD, but this is augmented by an on-going training programme in Years 2-4 of the student’s studies.
The MIGSAA cohort will consist of approximately 12 students per year, however students are also part of the larger PhD community at both the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, with access to supervisors from both institutions as well as MIGSAA's industrial partners.