Study Programme

The course part of this programme consists of: 

• 2 compulsory courses (15 EC) 
• 8 elective courses (60 EC) 
  The elective courses allow you to specialize in your area of interest and are subdivided in primary and secondary electives. You choose 8 elective courses in total, of which 6 primary electives (45 EC) + 2 secondary electives (15 EC). 

Note that this Master's is part of the Dutch national Mastermath Programme. This means you have an exceptional list of mathematical courses to choose from. You can choose courses here at Utrecht University (UU), but also courses offered by other participating Dutch Universities. The UU electives are listed in the dropdown menu above. For an overview of all courses offered in the national Mastermath programme: please visit the Mastermath website. 

The credits are in EC (European Credits), where 1.5 EC is equivalent with 40 hours of work.   

In your second year, you’ll devote the majority of your time to a supervised research project (45 EC) within one of our research programmes. You’ll report on your research in your Master’s thesis. 

Your Master’s thesis project can be carried out in the Mathematical Institute or in a company in the Netherlands or abroad. You will plan and conduct your own research in one of the specialisations under the supervision of a staff member, and possibly with the help of an external tutor.

• Mathematics for industry (compulsory)
• Orientation on mathematical research (compulsory)
• Mathematics colloquium (compulsory)

• Complex manifolds
• Computational finance
• Higher category theory
• High-dimensional probability theory with its applications in data analysis
• Introduction to complex systems
• Invariant theory
• Laboratory class scientific computing
• Reading seminar on mazur’s theorem about torsion of elliptic curves
• Seminar algebraic topology: the immersion conjecture and cobordism
• Seminar bifurcation theory
• Seminar differential geometry: analysis on manifolds
• Seminar ergodic theory
• Seminar history of mathematics
• Seminar logic
• Seminar on neural networks and finance
• Seminar number theory: arithmetic manifolds
• Seminar random graphs