Wash U Graduate Program in Mathematics : Physical Resources

While excellent faculty and students are essential ingredients of a strong graduate program, good physical facilities are also necessary. Noteworthy features of the Washington University environment are the following:

• The Department of Mathematics has its own building, Cupples Hall. Forming one of the boundaries of the campus' main quadrangle, this Gothic-style ninety-year-old building is home to the Department of Mathematics. All faculty and students are housed here, and practically all graduate courses are taught within the building. For individual study, every graduate student has his or her own study space.
• The university's collection of mathematical literature includes 20,000 books and 285 current journals. Some books, and the most frequently used journals, are housed in the mathematics research library in Cupples Hall. The rest of the collection is in open stacks in the main university library, a three minute walk away.
• Washington University is home of the Journal of Geometric Analysis, an important new journal. It is also the home of the book series Studies in Advanced Mathematics.
• All students have free accounts on the dozens of computers in the Student Computing Laboratory: PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix workstations, all with Internet access. Graduate mathematics students can also get unlimited accounts in the Research Computing Laboratory, which contains seven networked high performance scientific workstations from DEC, SGI, SUN, and NeXT. We support various public and commercial software packages such as TeX, Emacs, Mathematica, Maple, SAS, FORTRAN, C and C++, various web browsers, news readers, and electronic mailers. The Research Computing Lab is in our own building. It is open around the clock and help is availabe during the day.
• The Mathematics Lounge is a comfortable, unpretentious place to relax and talk with faculty, staff, and fellow graduate students. It is a place to read your mail, have coffee and a snack, talk out an idea at the blackboard, or just hang out.

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