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{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 The Taught Course Centre or TCC is a collaboration between the
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departments at five UK
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aimed at providing a broader range of lecture courses for postgraduate students.


Members

The five collaborating universities are: *
University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
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University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...
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Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
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University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
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University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...
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 The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...
. Twenty six courses were made available to students in the first year of the collaboration, with topics from diverse areas of mathematics including
number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777â ...
,
partial differential equations In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...
,
random matrix theory In probability theory and mathematical physics, a random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable—that is, a matrix in which some or all elements are random variables. Many important properties of physical systems can be represented mathemat ...
, and
group theory In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ...
. 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.


Configuration

In normal operation, the TCC uses access grid technology for video conferencing using the proprietary IOCOM software suite. The lectures take place in the virtual venue named ''Maths TCC''. These lectures may be recorded upon request if permission from participants is obtained in advance. TCC lectures normally transmit video streams using
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and audio as
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for compatibility with the freely available AG3 software. Each Access Grid session is paired with a Jabber/XMPP session on the Access Grid Support Centre (AGSC) Virtual Venue Server. The XMPP session allows instant messaging with other participants allowing fault diagnosis or communication without interrupting a session.


Oxford

The Oxford TCC is equipped with a
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and Sympodium that can be viewed locally and transmitted to all participants of the meeting.


Events

* January 21, 2008 : 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. * May 21, 2013 : Graduate TCC Conference in Number Theory was a successful continuation of the aforementioned event.


See also

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


External links


The TCC websiteThe Graduate TCC Conference in Number Theory website
College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
Taught Course Centre {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 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 colla ...
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grid computing projects Mathematics education in the United Kingdom Organisations associated with the University of Oxford