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，但统计学除外。我们所有的大学都进行杰出的研究，但每个大学都不可避免地有某些专业领域。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都更平衡的讲座课程。此外，我们将增加听众人数，从而使讲座课程可行，否则就不会。这不仅仅是经济上的考虑，目前很难把研究生讲座课程：一个临界质量的观众规模是必要的，以产生学生之间的互动和与讲师。这也是我们提案中实时视频链接非常重要的另一个原因。

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.