A Taught Course Centre for the Mathematical Sciences based at Oxford, Warwick, Imperial, Bath & Bristol

讲座将涵盖纯数学和应用数学的所有领域，统计学除外。我们所有的大学都进行出色的研究，但每一所大学都不可避免地有特定的专业领域。通过结合这些优势，我们将能够创建一套比我们任何一所大学单独可能的更平衡的讲座课程。此外，我们将扩大听众规模，从而使原本不可行的讲座课程变得可行。目前难以开设研究生课程的不仅仅是经济方面的考虑：为了在学生之间以及与讲师之间产生互动，必须有足够多的听众。这就是为什么直播视频链接在我们的提案中很重要的另一个原因。

The lectures will cover all areas of pure and applied mathematics, with the exception of statistics. All of our universities conduct outstanding research, but each, inevitably, has certain areas of specialisation. By combining these strengths, we will be able to create a far more balanced set of lecture courses than would be possible for any of our universities individually. In addition, we will increase audience sizes, thereby making lecture courses viable that would otherwise not be. It is not just economic considerations that currently make it difficult to put on graduate lecture courses: a critical mass of audience size is necessary, in order to generate interaction between students and with the lecturer. This is an added reason why live video links are important in our proposal.