Lisansüstü Ders Kataloğu

Galois theory, solvability of equations by radicals, separable extensions, normal basis theorem, norm and trace, cyclic and cyclotomic extensions, Kummer extensions. Modules, direct sums, free modules, sums and products, exact sequences, morphisms, Hom and tensor functors, duality, projective, injective and flat modules, simplicity and semisimplicity, density theorem, Wedderburn-Artin theorem, finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain, basis theorem for finite abelian groups.

Method of descent, unique factorization, basic algebraic number theory, diophantine equations, elliptic equations, p-adic numbers, Riemann zeta function, elliptic curves, modular forms, zeta and L-functions, ABC-conjecture, heights, class numbers for quadratic fields, a sketch of Wiles' proof.

The prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions. Sums over primes, exponential sums. The large sieve, Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem,Selberg’s sieve. Results on the distribution of primes.

Normed and Banach spaces, Lp-spaces and duals, Hahn-Banach theorem, category and uniform boundedness theorem, strong, weak and weak*-convergence, open mapping theorem, closed graph theorem.

Runge's theorem, analytic continuation, Riemann surfaces, harmonic functions, entire functions, the range of an analytic function.

An introduction to measure theory, Kolmogorov axioms, independence, random variables, expectation, modes of convergence for sequences of random variables, moments of a random variable, generating functions, characteristic functions, product measures and joint probability, distribution laws, conditional expectations, strong and weak law of large numbers, convergence theorems for probability measures, central limit theorems.

From random walk to Brownian motion, quadratic variation and volatility, stochastic integrals, martingale property, Ito formula, geometric Brownian motion, solution of Black-Scholes equation, stochastic differential equations, Feynman-Kac theorem, Cox-Ingersoll-Ross and Vasicek term structure models, Girsanov's theorem and risk neutral measures, Heath-Jarrow-Morton term structure model, exchange-rate instruments.

Hölder spaces, Sobolev spaces, Sobolev embedding theorems, existence and regularity for second-order elliptic equations, maximum principles, second-order linear parabolic and hyperbolic equations, methods for non-linear PDE's, variational methods, fixed point theorems of Banach and Schauder.

Basic notions on categories and functors, the fundamental group, homotopy, covering spaces, the universal covering space, covering transformations, simplicial complexes and their homology.

Differentiable manifolds, vectors and tensors, riemannian metrics, connections, geodesics, curvature, jacobi fields, riemannian submanifolds, spaces of constant curvature.

Presentation of topics of interest in mathematics through seminars offered by faculty, guest speakers and graduate students.

Literature survey and presentation on a subject to be determined by the instructor.

Survey of differentiable manifolds, Lie groups and fibre bundles, theory of connections, holonomy groups, extension and reduction theorems, applications to linear and affine connections, curvature, torsion, geodesics, applications to Riemannian connections, metric normal coordinates, completeness, De Rham decomposition theorem, sectional curvature, spaces of constant curvature, equivalence problem for affine and Riemannian connection.

Fourier transforms, exponential, cosine and sine, Fourier transform in many variables, application of Fourier transform to solve boundary value problems, Laplace transform, use of residue theorem and contour integration for the inverse of Laplace transform, application of Laplace transform to solve differential and integral equations, Fourier-Bessel and Hankel transforms for circular regions, Abel transform for dual integral equations.

Fundamentals of linear and nonlinear optimization theory. Unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization, saddlepoint conditions, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, post-optimality, duality, convexity, quadratic programming, multistage optimization.

Basic notions on categories and functions, the fundamental groups, homotopy, covering spaces, the universal covering space, covering transformations, simplicial complexes and homology of simplicial complexes.

Calculus in Banach spaces. Implicit function theorems. Degree theories. Fixed Point Theorems. Bifurcation theory. Morse Lemma. Variational methods. Critical points of functionals. Palais-Smale condition. Mountain Pass Theorem.

Tightness, Prohorov's theorem, existence of Brownian motion, Martingale characterization of Brownian motion, Girsanov's theorem, Feynmann-Kac formulas, Martingale problem of Stroock and Varadhan, applications to mathematics of finance.

Basic algebraic number theory; number fields, ramification theory, class groups, Dirichlet unit theorem; zeta and L-functions; Riemann, Dedekind zeta functions, Dirichlet, Hecke L-functions, primes in arithmetic progressions, prime number theorem; cyclotomic fields, reciprocity laws, class field theory, ideles and adeles, modular functions and modular forms.

Recent developments in pure mathematics.

Recent developments in applied mathematics.

Research in the field of Mathematics, by arrangement with members of the faculty; guidance of doctoral students towards the preparation and presentation of a research proposal.