Existence and uniqueness of solutions of abstract evolutionary equations. Global non-existence and blow up theorems. Applications to the study of the solvability and asymptotic behavior of solutions of initial boundary-value problems for reaction diffusion equations, Navier-Stokes equations, nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations and nonlinear Schrödinger equations.

Stochastic processes, stopping times, Doob-Meyer decomposition, Doob's martingale convergence theorem, characterization of square integrable martingales, Radon-Nikodym theorem, Brownian motion, reflection principle, law of iterated logarithms.

Balanced incomplete block designs, group divisible designs and pairwise balanced designs. Resolvable designs, symmetric designs and designs having cyclic automorphisms. Pairwise orthogonal latin squares. Affine and projective geometries. Embeddings and nestings of designs.

Topological spaces, subspaces, continuous functions, base for a topology, separation axioms, compactness, locally compact spaces, connectedness, path connectedness, finite product spaces, set theory and Zorn?s lemma, infinite product spaces, quotient spaces, homotopic paths, the fundamental group,induced homomorphisms, covering spaces, applications of the index, homotopic maps, maps into the punctured plane, vector fields, the Jordan curve theorem.

Differentiable manifolds; differentiable forms; integration on manifolds; de Rhamm cohomology; connections and curvature

From random walk to Brownian motion, quadratic variation and volatility, stochastic integrals, martingale property, Ito formula, geometric Brownian motion, solution of Black-Scholes equation, stochastic differentialequations, Feynman-Kac theorem, Cox-Ingersoll-Ross and Vasicek term structure models, Girsanov's theorem and risk neutral measures, Heath-Jarrow-Morton term structure model, exchange-rate instruments.

Matchings, edge colorings and vertex colorings of graphs. Connectivity, spanning trees, and disjoint paths in graphs. Cycles in graphs, embeddings. Planar graphs, directed graphs. Ramsey Theory, matroids, random graphs.

Fundamental group, Seifert-van Kampen theorem, CW complexes, covering spaces and deck transformations; simplicial and singular homology, homotopy invariance, exact sequences and excision, cellular homology, Mayer-Vietoris sequences; cohomology, universal coefficient theorem, cup product, Kunneth formula, orientation, Poincare duality.