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• Mathematical Sciences
• Teaching and Scientific Communication

Mathematical Sciences offers several recommended orientations.
To write down a valid study plan, a student has to choose:

  • 24 credits of compulsory courses in MAT/01 to 05
  • 12 credits of compulsory courses in MAT/06 to 09
  • 36 credits in related courses
  • 15 free-choice credits
  • language skills requirements
  • thesis and internship

Higher Mathematics, is aimed especially at students wishing to pursue a PhD in Mathematics.
Distinctive courses:

  • Advanced Analysis (9 crediti)
  • Advanced Geometry (9 crediti)
  • Computational Algebra (6 crediti)
  • Stochastic Processes - 1st modul (6 crediti)
  • Numerical methods for PDE (6 crediti)

Related courses:

  • Mathematical Physics (9 crediti)
  • Stochastic Processes - 2nd modul (3 crediti)

Students also take the following credits:

  • related (24 credits)
  • free-choice (15 credits)
  • language skills (3 credits)
  • interniship/stage (12 credits)
  • thesis (18 crediti)

Orientation Computational Algebra, Cryptography and Error-Correcting Codes

Courses:

  • One more course in MAT/06 to 09 for (at least) 6 CFU
  • Computational Algebra (6 credits)
  • Coding Theory (12 credits)
  • Integral Transforms (6 credits)
  • Stochastic Processes - primo modulo (6 credits)

36 credits to be chosen among the following related compulsory courses:

  • Multimedia signal processing and communication (6 crediti)
  • Data hiding (6 crediti)
  • Discrete Fourier Analysis (6 crediti)
  • Elliptic curves and cryptography (6 crediti)
  • Finite Fields and Symmetric Cryptography (6 crediti)
  • Communication systems (12 crediti)
  • Communication Systems (12 crediti)
  • Digital Signal Processing (6 crediti)

Students also take the following credits:

  • Free-choice (15 credits)
  • Language Skills (3 credits)
  • Internship/stage (12 credits)
  • Thesis (18 credits)

Orientation Mathematics for Economy and Finance compulsory courses:

Advanced Analysis (9 crediti)
Integral Transforms (6 crediti)
Mathematical Biology (9 crediti)
Stochastic Processes - 1st modul (6 crediti)
Stochastic Differential Equations (6 crediti)

Students take the following related courses in the study plan:

  • Stochastic Processes - 2nd modul (3 crediti)
  • Data analysis and exploration (6 crediti)
  • Mathematical Finance I (6 crediti)
  • Mathematical Finance II (6 crediti)
  • Numerical Methods for Finance (6 crediti)
  • Statistics of Stochastic Processes (6 crediti)

Furthermore:

  • related courses (3 credits)
  • free-choice (15 credits)
  • Language Skills (3 credits)
  • Internship/stage (12 credits)
  • Thesis (18 credits)

Orientation Mathematics for Biology
Compulsory courses:

Advanced Analysis (9 credits)
Integral Transforms (6 credits)
Mathematical Biology (9 credits)
Stochastic Processes - 1st modulo (6 credits)
Stochastic Differential Equations (6 credits)

Students take the following related courses in the study plan:

  • Data analysis and exploration (6 credits)
  • Advanced topics in biomathematics (6 credits)
  • Statistics of Stochastic Processes (6 credits)
  • Simulation of biological systems (6 credits)

Students choose 12 credits among the following related courses in the study plan:

  • Biology (12 crediti)
  • Data mining for biological data (6 crediti)
  • Machine learning (6 crediti)

Furthermore:

  • Free-choice (15 credits)
  • Language Skills (3 credits)
  • Internship (12 credits)
  • Thesis (18 credits)

Percorso Teaching and Scientific CommunicationCompulsory courses:

  • Elementary Mathematics from a higher Viewpoint I (6 credits)
  • Elementary Mathematics from a higher Viewpoint II (6 credits)
  • Laboratory of Didactics of Mathematics (6 credits)
  • Foundations of Analysis (6 credits)
  • Mathematical models for the Physical, Natural and Social Sciences (6 credits)
  • Foundations of geometry (6 credits)

Students take the following related courses in the study plan:

  • Experimental Mathematics Laboratory at High School Level (6 crediti)
  • Experimental Physics Laboratory at High School Level I (6 crediti)
  • Modern Physics (12 crediti)
  • Didactics of Computer Science (6 crediti)

Students also take the following credits:

  • free-choice (15 credits)
  • language skills (3 credits)
  • internischip/stage (12 credits)
  • thesis (18 credits)