The UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL).[2] The Faculty, the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) together form the UCL School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Departments
The Faculty currently comprises the following departments:[3][4]
UCL Department of Chemistry
UCL Department of Earth Sciences
UCL Department of Mathematics
Chalkdust is an online mathematics interest magazine published by Department of Mathematics students starting in 2015[5]
UCL Department of Natural Sciences
UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies
UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
UCL Department of Statistical Science
London Centre for Nanotechnology - a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London established in 2003 following the award of a £13.65m higher education grant under the Science Research Infrastructure Fund.[6][7]
Research centres and institutes
University College London
The Faculty is closely involved with the following research centres and institutes:[4]
UCL Centre for Materials Research
UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX) - an inter-disciplinary virtual centre that seeks to bring together mathematicians, physical scientists, computer scientists and engineers upon the problems posed by complexity in biology and biomedicine. The centre works with 29 departments and Institutes across UCL. It has a MRes/PhD program that requires that its students also belong to at least one of these Departments/Institutes. The centre is based in the Physics Building on the UCL main campus.
Centre for Planetary Science at UCL/Birkbeck
UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU) - CORU[8] sits within the Department of Mathematics and is a team of researchers dedicated to applying operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to problems in health care.
UCL Institute of Origins
UCL Institute for Healthcare Engineering (IHE) - IHE[9] is dedicated to transforming lives through digital and medical technologies and fosters collaboration across UCL areas of expertise.
UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
The Thomas Young Centre
Rankings
In the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities, UCL is ranked joint 51st to 75th in the world (and joint 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences and Mathematics.[10]
In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 38th in the world (and 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences.[11] In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL is ranked joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 12th in Europe) for Chemistry,[12] joint 27th in the world (and 8th in Europe) for Earth & Marine Sciences,[13] joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 13th in Europe) for Materials Science,[14] joint 36th in the world (and joint 10th in Europe) for Mathematics,[15] 35th in the world (and 13th in Europe) for Physics & Astronomy,[16] and 47th in the world (and 9th in Europe) for Statistics & Operational Research.[17]
In the 2013/14 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 51st in the world (and 16th in Europe) for Physical Sciences.[18]
Notable people
Michael Abraham
William Ramsay
Steven T. Bramwell
M. J. Seaton
Sigurd Zienau
Andrew Fisher
Paul Davies
Edwin Power
Peter Higgs
Otto Hahn
Charles K. Kao
Andrea Sella
Raman Prinja
Helen Wilson
Hannah Fry
See also
Birkbeck, University of London
Imperial College London
References
"UCL Review 2009". University College London. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
"The Academic Units of UCL". University College London. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
"Academic Departments by Faculty". University College London. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
"Departments and Institutes". UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
Clegg, Brian (26 March 2015). "Stretching mathematical minds". Now Appearing. Brian Clegg - Science author (blog). Retrieved 2015-07-03.
"London's little idea". BBC News. 27 January 2003. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
"Nanotech under the microscope". BBC News. 12 June 2003. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
UCL. "UCL - London's Global University". Clinical Operational Research Unit. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
UCL. "UCL - London's Global University". UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
"Academic Ranking of World Universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics – 2013". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
"QS World University Rankings by Faculty 2013 – Natural Science". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Chemistry". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Earth & Marine Sciences". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Materials Science". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Mathematics". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Physics & Astronomy". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 - Politics and International Studies". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
"Top 100 universities for Physical Sciences 2013–14". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
External links
UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
UCL School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences
University College London
CoMPLEX homepage
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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