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Kyushu University Leading PhD Program in Mathematics for Key Technologies is designed to educate doctors in mathematics, referred to as "Mathematics Navigators", who will lead the development of future key technologies. Using abstraction and generalization skills based on modern mathematics, and capability to fully utilize modern computers, they will analyze actual data and phenomena, and construct mathematical models for solving problems. They will thereby lead research teams with strong leadership.
This is for smoothly carrying out the internship in foreign companies etc., removing the barriers of overseas stays.
(1) For about three months prior to the internship, in order to develop English skills in different cultures, students are to stay in departments of mathematics of our overseas liaison institutions where our overseas academic staffs work.
(2) Subsequently, students are to take part in academia-industry cooperation projects run by overseas institutions of various fields, or carry out internships in foreign companies, for 3-6 months.
In this way, students experience collaborative researches in industrial technology fields in practical situations.
The PhD defense is examined by a Defense Committee which includes a specialist from industry as a member. In this way, we educate students systematically, so that they can take the needs of R & D sections of companies into consideration.
We invite researchers in companies who are successfully active in the society based on their skills and knowledge in Mathematics or Mathematical Sciences. They give lectures from a practical point of view about their researches.
Students are required to take at least 4 credits from "Probability", "Computational Mathematics", and "Statistics".
Students are to study English language using Kyushu University Net Academy and Optional Language Classes in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.
Students prepare for the long-term internship abroad for about 6 months, participating in short-term stays in research institutions abroad.
Study Group Workshops provide a forum for industrial scientists to work alongside academic mathematicians, including students, on latest open problems of direct industrial relevance. Throughout such actitivies and/or participation in collaborative researches with industries, students can learn practical side of mathematics for industry.
The program provides qualified students who meet all the requirements with a scholarship. (For master course students 50,000 yen per month, for doctoral course students 100,000 yen per month). For details, see the [Scholarship page].
The program provides the students with financial support for their various research activities within certain limit.
After completion of the course, Doctoral degree in Functional Mathematics in recognition of the completion of the Doctoral Program of the Department of Functional Mathematics, together with a completion certificate of the Kyushu University Leading PhD Program in Mathematics for Key Technologies, is conferred.