Taught Course Centre

The Taught Course Centre or TCC is a collaboration between the mathematics departments at five UK universities aimed at providing a broader range of lecture courses for postgraduate students.

Members

The five collaborating universities are:
*University of Bath
*University of Bristol
*Imperial College London
*University of Oxford
*University of Warwick

Lectures are given at all five universities and, using Access Grid technology, students at each of the other four institutes may participate with each lecture.

The TCC was set up in 2007 with funding from the EPSRC. Twenty six courses have been made available to students in the first year of the collaboration, with topics from diverse areas of mathematics including number theory, partial differential equations, random matrix theory, and group theory. One of the aims of the project was to encourage contact between postgraduate mathematics students at the five universities and set up future collaborative work. To this end on January 21 2008 a TCC Number Theory Event Day was held at Bristol and students were given a chance to talk about their research to their peers and share ideas.

ee also

*MAGIC (postgraduate mathematics) a similar project with a different group of UK universities

External links

* [http://tcc.maths.ox.ac.uk/ The TCC website]