Computing and Mathematical Sciences

The School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences has an outstanding research record: our Fire Safety Engineering Group, for instance, has won the Queen's Anniversary Prize and the top award at the British Computer Society IT Awards for its EXODUS software.

Each student normally first enrols on the MPhil degree. After completing the first year of the MPhil, the student's progress is reviewed, and, if considered satisfactory, the student is permitted to transfer to the PhD for a further two to three years of research. A student who does not wish to continue at this point may write up and submit the work to be considered for an MPhil degree.

MPhil/PhD students are usually provided with two supervisors, who guide them through the research. The supervisors are usually research staff from within the School, although a supervisor may be appointed from another School or from outside the university. The School has a number of research groups focusing on practical and important real-life problems.

The School also offers a one-year MSc by Research.

Research areas

(If your research area does not fall exactly into one of the following categories, contact the School to discuss your requirements)

• Thermal stress analysis
• Coupled structures and flow
• Electronic packaging
• Internet technologies
• Multimedia
• E-learning
• Fire safety engineering and evacuation,
• Human behaviour, pedestrian dynamics, combustion and ventilation
• Parallel computing
• Continuum physics
• Algorithms and codes
• Computational fluid dynamics modelling
• Computer science
• Artificial intelligence
• Operations research