2026 - Fall Semester
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GRADUATE ONLINE COURSES
Course/Section |
Class # |
Title |
Day & Time |
Instructor |
| Math 5310-01 | 16344 | History of Mathematics | Asynchronous; Online | G. Heier |
| Math 5331-01 | 17095 | Linear Algebra w/ Applications | Asynchronous; Online | J. He |
| Math 5333-01 | 16343 | Analysis | Asynchronous; Online | D. Blecher |
| Math 5382-01 | 14764 | Probability | Asynchronous; Online | P. Zhong |
GRADUATE COURSES
Course/Section |
Class # |
Course Title |
Course Day & Time |
Rm # |
Instructor |
| Math 6302-01 | 11380 | Modern Algebra | TTh, 4–5:30PM | MH 129 | Y. Wu |
| Math 6308-04 | 12579 | Advanced Linear Algebra I | TTh, 10–11:30AM | S 116 | A. Török |
| Math 6312-02 | 12577 | Introduction to Real Analysis | TTh, 8:30–10AM | S 119 | A. Sanchez |
| Math 6320-01 | 11407 | Real Analysis I | MWF, 9–10AM | SEC 205 | A. Vershynina |
| Math 6322-01 | 21257 | Func. Complex Variable | TTh, 8:30–10AM | C 118 | C. Lutsko |
| Math 6326-01 | 17108 | Partial Differential Equations | MWF, 10–11AM | F 154 | M. Perepelitsa |
| Math 6342-01 | 11408 | Topology | TTh, 1–2:30PM | CV N113 | D. Blecher |
| Math 6366-02 | 26456 | Optimization Theory | TTh, 8:30–10AM | CBB 124 | Y. He |
| Math 6370-01 | 11410 | Numerical Analysis | MW, 4–5:30PM | S 202 | M. Olshanskii |
| Math 6378-01 | 21258 | Basic Scientific Computing | TTh, 1–2:30PM | SW 423 | R. Sanders |
| Math 6382-01 | 13729 | Probability | MWF, 11AM–Noon | C 125 | A. Haynes |
| Math 6397-01 | 21259 | Dynamic group: Alg topology | TTh, 2:30—4PM | F 154 | W. Ott |
| Math 6397-04 | 21265 | Linear Models with Application | TuTh 2:30PM - 4:00PM | S 102 | H. Jeon |
| Math 7320-01 | 21267 | Functional Analysis | TTh, 10–11:30AM | SW 221 | B. Bodmann |
| Math 7374-01 | 21268 | Finite Element Methods | TTh, 11:30AM–1PM | ARC 209 | M. Olshanskii |
MSDS GRADUATE COURSES
(MSDS Students Only - Contact Ms. Tierra Kirts for specific class numbers)
Course/Section |
Class # |
Course Title |
Course Day & Time |
Rm # |
Instructor |
| Math 6350-01 | not shown to students | Statistical Learning and Data Mining | MW, 2:30–4PM | M 1019 | J. Ryan |
| Math 6357-01 | not shown to students | Linear Models and Design of Experiments | MW, 1–2:30PM | M 1019 | W. Wang |
| Math 6358-02 | not shown to students | Probability Models and Statistical Computing | Friday, 1–3PM | CBB 122 | C. Poliak |
| Math 6358-03 | not shown to students | Probability Models and Statistical Computing | Friday, 1–3PM | online | C. Poliak |
| Math 6380-01 | not shown to students | Programming Foundation for Data Analytics | Friday, 3:30–5:30PM | CBB 122 | D. Shastri |
| Math 6380-02 | not shown to students | Programming Foundation for Data Analytics | Friday, 3:30–5:30PM | online | D. Shastri |
| Math 6393-01 | not shown to students | Statistics II | MW, 1–2:30PM | S 201 | M. Jun |
| Math 6397-03 & 05 | not shown to students | Computational Statistics | MW, 4—5:30PM | S 116 | J. Cao |
ONLINE GRADUATE COURSES
MATH 5310 - History of Mathematics
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Text(s): Instructor's notes |
| Course description: Mathematics of the ancient world, classical Greek mathematics, the development of calculus, notable mathematicians and their accomplishments. |
MATH 5331 - Linear Algebra w/Applications
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Text(s): Linear Algebra Using MATLAB, Selected material from the text Linear Algebra and
Differential Equations Using Matlab by Martin Golubitsky and Michael Dellnitz)
The text will made available to enrolled students free of charge. Software: Scientific Note Book (SNB) 5.5 (available through MacKichan Software, ) Syllabus: Chapter 1 (1.1, 1.3, 1.4), Chapter 2 (2.1-2.5), Chapter 3 (3.1-3.8), Chapter 4 (4.1-4.4), Chapter 5 (5.1-5.2, 5.4-5-6), Chapter 6 (6.1-6.4), Chapter 7 (7.1-7.4), Chapter 8 (8.1) Project: Applications of linear algebra to demographics. To be completed by the end of the semester as part of the final. |
| Course description: Solving Linear Systems of Equations, Linear Maps and Matrix Algebra, Determinants
and Eigenvalues, Vector Spaces, Linear Maps, Orthogonality, Symmetric Matrices, Spectral
Theorem.
Students will also learn how to use the computer algebra portion of SNB for completing the project. |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and two semesters of Calculus. |
| Text(s): Analysis with an Introduction to Proof | Edition: 5, Steven R. Lay, 9780321747471 |
| Course description: A survey of the concepts of limit, continuity, differentiation and integration for functions of one variable and functions of several variables; selected applications. |
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Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Instructor's prerequisite: Calculus 3 (multi-dimensional integrals), very minimal background in Probability. |
| Text(s): Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability (10th Edition) |
| Course description: This course is for students who would like to learn about Probability concepts; I’ll assume very minimal background in probability. Calculus 3 (multi-dimensional integrals) is the only prerequisite for this class. This class will emphasize practical aspects, such as analytical calculations related to conditional probability and computational aspects of probability. No measure-theoretical concepts will be covered in this class. This is class is intended for students who want to learn more practical concepts in probability. This class is particularly suitable for Master students and non-math majors. |
MATH 5397 - Partial Differential Equations
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Instructor's prerequisite: TBA |
| Text(s): TBA |
| Course description: TBA |
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GRADUATE COURSES
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Text(s): Abstract Algebra by David S. Dummit and Richard M. Foote, ISBN: 9780471433347 (required
text)
This book is encyclopedic with good examples and it is one of the few books that includes material for all of the four main topics we will cover: groups, rings, field, and modules. While some students find it difficult to learn solely from this book, it does provide a nice resource to be used in parallel with class notes or other sources. |
| Course description: We will cover basic concepts from the theories of groups, rings, fields, and modules. These topics form a basic foundation in Modern Algebra that every working mathematician should know. The Math 6302--6303 sequence also prepares students for the department’s Algebra Preliminary Exam. |
MATH 6304 - Theory of Matrices
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Consent of instructor. |
| Text(s): Matrix Analysis, by Roger A. Horn and Charles R. Johnson, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 0521548233 |
| Course description: Emphasis on canonical forms and finite dimensional spectral theory. |
MATH 6308 - Advanced Linear Algebra I
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing, MATH 2318 and a minimum of 3 semester hours of 3000-level mathematics |
| Text(s): S.H. Friedberg, A.J. Insel, L.E. Spence, Linear Algebra, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall/Pearson |
| Course description: Linear systems of equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces and linear transformations, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors. An expository paper or talk on a subject related to the course content is required. |
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MATH 6312 - Introduction to Real Analysis
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and MATH 3334. |
| Text(s): A. Davidson and A. P. Donsig, Real Analysis with Real Applications. ISBN: 978-0130416476 |
| Course description: Properties of continuous functions, partial differentiation, line integrals, improper
integrals, infinite series, and Stieltjes integrals. An expository paper or talk on
a subject related to the course content is required.
Topics: The course introduces foundational ideas in real analysis, focusing on structure and behavior of functions on subsets of ℝⁿ. Topics include:
Students will develop proof skills, explore counterexamples, and connect topological ideas with analytic results. |
MATH 6320 - Theory Functions of a Real Variable
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and Math 4332 |
| Text(s): Refer to the instructor's syllabus |
| Course description: Lebesque measure and integration, differentiation of real functions, functions of bounded variation, absolute continuity, the classical Lp spaces, general measure theory, and elementary topics in functional analysis |
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MATH 6322 - Function Complex Variable
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and MATH 4331 |
| Text(s): TBD |
| Course description: Geometry of the complex plane, mappings of the complex plane, integration, singularities, spaces of analytic functions, special function, analytic continuation, and Riemann surfaces. |
MATH 6326 - Partial Differential Equations
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and MATH 4331 |
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| Course description: Existence and uniqueness theory in partial differential equations; generalized solutions and convergence of approximate solutions to partial differential systems |
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| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. MATH 4331. |
| Text(s): Topology, A First Course, J. R. Munkres, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall Publishers. (required). . |
| Course description: Point-set topology: compactness, connectedness, quotient spaces, separation properties, Tychonoff’s theorem, the Urysohn lemma, Tietze’s theorem, and the characterization of separable metric spaces |
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MATH 6350 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining
| Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and must be in the MSDS Program. Undergraduate Courses in basic Linear Algebra and basic descriptive Statistics |
| Text(s):
Recommended text: Reading assignments will be a set of selected chapters extracted from the following reference text:
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Summary: A typical task of Machine Learning is to automatically classify observed "cases" or "individuals" into one of several "classes", on the basis of a fixed and possibly large number of features describing each "case". Machine Learning Algorithms (MLAs) implement computationally intensive algorithmic exploration of large set of observed cases. In supervised learning, adequate classification of cases is known for many training cases, and the MLA goal is to generate an accurate Automatic Classification of any new case. In unsupervised learning, no known classification of cases is provided, and the MLA goal is Automatic Clustering, which partitions the set of all cases into disjoint categories (discovered by the MLA). Numerous MLAs have been developed and applied to images and faces identification, speech understanding, handwriting recognition, texts classification, stock prices anticipation, biomedical data in proteomics and genomics, Web traffic monitoring, etc. This MSDSfall 2019 course will successively study : 1) Quick Review (Linear Algebra) : multi dimensional vectors, scalar products, matrices, matrix eigenvectors and eigenvalues, matrix diagonalization, positive definite matrices 2) Dimension Reduction for Data Features : Principal Components Analysis (PCA) 3) Automatic Clustering of Data Sets by K-means algorithmics 3) Quick Reviev (Empirical Statistics) : Histograms, Quantiles, Means, Covariance Matrices 4) Computation of Data Features Discriminative Power 5) Automatic Classification by Support Vector Machines (SVMs) Emphasis will be on concrete algorithmic implementation and testing on actual data sets, as well as on understanding importants concepts. |
MATH 6357 - Linear Models and Design of Experiments
| Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and must be in the MSDS Program. MATH 2433, MATH 3338, MATH 3339, and MATH 6308 |
| Text(s): Required Text: ”Neural Networks with R” by G. Ciaburro. ISBN: 9781788397872 |
| Course description: Linear models with L-S estimation, interpretation of parameters, inference, model diagnostics, one-way and two-way ANOVA models, completely randomized design and randomized complete block designs. |
MATH 6358 - Probability Models and Statistical Computing
| Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and must be in the MSDS Program. MATH 3334, MATH 3338 and MATH 4378 |
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| Course description: Probability, independence, Markov property, Law of Large Numbers, major discrete
and continuous distributions, joint distributions and conditional probability, models
of convergence, and computational techniques based on the above.
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MATH 6360 - Applicable Analysis- TBD
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Text(s): No obligatory text. Part of the material will be collected from Ken Davidson and Alan Donsig, “Real Analysis with Applications: Theory in Practice”, Springer, 2009. Other sources on Applied Functional Analysis will complement the material |
Course description: This course covers topics in analysis that are motivated by applications.
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MATH 6366 - Optimization Theory
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and MATH 4331 and MATH 4377 |
| Text(s): Convex Optimization, Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe, Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| Course description: Constrained and unconstrained finite dimensional nonlinear programming, optimization and Euler-Lagrange equations, duality, and numerical methods. Optimization in Hilbert spaces and variational problems. Euler-Lagrange equations and theory of the second variation. Application to integral and differential equations |
MATH 6370 - Numerical Analysis
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Students should have knowledge in Calculus and Linear Algebra. |
| Text(s): View the instructor's syllabus |
| Course description: Ability to do computer assignments. Topics selected from numerical linear algebra, nonlinear equations and optimization, interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. |
MATH 6378 - Basic Scientific Computing
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Text(s): View the instructor's syllabus |
| Course description: TBA |
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MATH 6380 - Programming Foundation for Data Analytics
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Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and must be in the MSDS Program. Instructor prerequisites: The course is essentially self-contained. The necessary material from statistics and linear algebra is integrated into the course. Background in writing computer programs is preferred but not required. |
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| Instructor's Description: The course provides essential foundations of Python programming language for developing powerful and reusable data analysis models. The students will get hands-on training on writing programs to facilitate discoveries from data. The topics include data import/export, data types, control statements, functions, basic data processing, and data visualization. |
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MATH 6382 - Probability and Statistics
| Prerequisites: MATH 3334, MATH 3338 and MATH 4378, or consent of instructor. |
| Text(s): View the instructor's syllabus |
| Course description: A survey of probability theory and probability models. Includes basic probability theory and introduction to stochastic processes. |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. MATH 6382 and MATH 6383 |
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| Course description: This is the second of two core statistics courses on mathematical statistics and statistical inference, designed for PhD students in statistics and mathematics. The Probability course (MATH 6382) and the first-semester sequence (MATH 6383) are required prerequisites. This course will cover more advanced topics in statistical inference, statistical computation, and applied statistics. There will be some computational components, and students are expected to use R or Python for statistical computing. |
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MATH 6397-01 - Dynamic group: Alg topology
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
| Text(s): TBA |
| Course description: TBA |
MATH 6397-04 - Linear Models with Application
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
| Text(s): TBA |
| Course description: TBA |
MATH 6397-03/05 - Computational Statistics
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
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| Course description: TBA |
MATH 7320 - Functional Analysis
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. MATH 6320 or consent of instructor. |
| Text(s): Walter Rudin, Functional Analysis, 2nd edition. McGraw Hill, 1991. (Instructor may suggest other tests or have their own typed notes) |
| Course description: Linear topological spaces, Banach and Hilbert spaces, duality, and spectral analysis. |
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