PhD

PhD Program
PhD in Mathematics

The Department offers Ph.D programs in recent and emerging research areas in pure and applied mathematics. More than 50 Ph.D scholars are actively engaged in quality research in a wide range of topics in pure and applicable mathematics.

PhD Courses

Ordinary differential equations: Phase space, existence and uniqueness theorems, The method of successive approximations, dependence on initial conditions, Boundary value problems, Green’s functions, Sturm-Liouville problems.

Partial differential equations: First order partial differential equation; Cauchy problem and classification of second order equations, Laplace equation; Diffusion equation; Wave equation; Methods of solutions (variable separable method, integral transform method).

Error Analysis: Introduction to Interpolation, differentiation and integration. Finite difference methods for Parabolic Equations: One space dimension, Convergence and stability analysis, two space dimensions. Elliptic Equations: Dirichlet, Neumann and Mixed problems. Hyperbolic equations: One space dimension, two space dimensions, first order equation, system of equations, Lax’s equivalence theorem, Lax-Wendroff explicit method, CFL conditions, Wendroff implicit approximation. Finite Element Methods.Spectral Methods.