SMS MSc Student Handbook 2024/2025 (Sep 2024 Start)

Maths office

Your main point of contact for administrative matters is the Maths School Office, MB102, on the first floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building. There is a student notice board displaying key information. The Maths School Office opening hours during term time are 9:00am–5:00pm (last admission 4:45pm) every weekday. More limited opening hours may apply during vacations. Notice boards are for official notices from members of staff and sometimes carry urgent information such as changes to examination rooms, so you should check them regularly.

MSc student facilities

The School provides a shared computer lab, room MB-302 on the third floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building, for MSc and final year MSci students, with computer facilities for project work, writing dissertations, online research and online access to the library catalogue, e-journals and e-books.

Electronic displays

There are electronic displays are located throughout the Mathematical Sciences Building and more prominent in the student social and study areas. There is an additional electronic display located in the main seating area in the Maths School Office, MB-102.  They show breaking news, events, short-term information such as details of forthcoming meetings and examinations, and topical information such as the "Theorem of the Day". 

Websites and QMplus

The School of Mathematical Sciences website has a few pages relevant to current postgraduate students, but most information for current postgraduates is in QMplus, the Queen Mary online learning environment. Other key websites are the Queen Mary Student Information System, MySIS, and the Queen Mary student portal, MyQMUL. You will need to log into MySIS and (sometimes) QMplus, using your Queen Mary username and password, to access personal or confidential information: MySIS for the name of your academic adviser or your main examination results; QMplus for your personal timetable and other teaching information. Queen Mary uses QMplus to support all taught modules, which should be explained at the start of each module. We also use it to provide a lot of general information (including this handbook). 

Online media

The School has an official Twitter feed and Facebook page which we use to provide the most up-to-date information regarding the School and mathematics generally.

Timetable

The teaching timetable provides information about the times and locations of lectures, exercise classes and computing labs. Your timetable will include lectures and support classes for all your modules. You have access to your own personal timetable by logging in to QMplus or you can access the complete Queen Mary Central Web Timetables.

Study programme and module details

You can find postgraduate study programme and module details, and past exam papers, on QMplus via links on the landing page. The postgraduate module list includes links to the individual QMplus module pages, which provide teaching materials such as lecture notes and exercises.

Computer facilities

All the software that you need for your course should be available on the Queen Mary Student Service, which runs Microsoft Windows. There are also laptops which students can sign out for academic use from the Library. Student Service computer availability around the campus is shown on the electronic display screen located around the Mathematical Sciences Building and around campus.

If you prefer to use your own computer then, as a Queen Mary student, you can obtain certain software for a discounted price or for free. This will depend on the software and all information can be found here. Under each software it will not the cost.