<p>I have heard that the University of Chicago has, possibly, the best mathematics department in the US. Is this true? </p>
<p>Also, I am wondering how good its Physics department is in comparison to other top tier universities.</p>
<p>physics is top notch, they have a lot of noble prize winners, and the fact that they are connected with argonne national labs makes them even stronger.. math is also one of the top 7 majors.. either major is incredibly strong at u of c.</p>
<p>Although not as strong as it was in the 70s (Calder</p>
<p>Could you talk about some of the math faculty members? Who to seek out, who to avoid...</p>
<p>According to the mit website, the schools Diocletian named are indeed the top 5 ranked in mathematics(<a href="http://math.mit.edu/undergraduate/major.html%5B/url%5D">http://math.mit.edu/undergraduate/major.html</a>). I don't see why their physics departments would be far behind.</p>
<p>how strong is the biochemistry department? or chemistry?</p>
<p>And is there a way of finding out who will be teaching the calc sequences? They aren't up on timeschedules...</p>
<p>i have heard physics is #7 in the country...( u of illinois is #8)...but U of Chicago has access to Fermi, which has the world's best particle accelerator! (although the Swiss are building a bigger and better one as we speak; Fermi will still be the best in this hemisphere)</p>
<p>Once CERN comes on line, I believe the Fermi accelerator will be shut down shortly thereafter. However, Fermi is the leading candidate for the new "linear" accelerator to be built in this country. This will be a high priority for Zimmer.</p>
<p>Could you talk about some of the math faculty members? Who to seek out, who to avoid...</p>
<p>My favorite professors have been Paul Sally, Joseph Mileti, and Laszlo Babai. I'd leap at the chance to take any class of theirs that interests you, especially Babai. I'm not going to speak ill of any currently serving faculty.</p>
<p>did u take honors analysis with Sally? I hear that's supposed to be the roughest math class ever...</p>
<p>Yes, I took it my second year. It was hard, but not as hard as taking Combinatorics and Probability with Babai.</p>
<p>you migt know this... to take the analysis with sally, do u have to take the honors calc ur freshamn year or can you take the 150s sequence?</p>
<p>Unless I'm mistaken, you would need the honors calc your freshman year, and that still does not guarantee that you will be able to take honors analysis.</p>
<p>Diocletian,</p>
<p>My siblings used to take fencing lessons with Laszlo Babai's son. We didn't even know he was a hot math prof at Chicago until he mentioned that in the elevator (in a very humble way, I must add). Also, he won the Quantrell Award last year, so he is high on my list of professors from whom I must take a class.</p>
<p>there was that newspaper we got with all the quantrell winners... certainly a great reference when picking classes.</p>
<p>You can get into Honors Analysis from the 150s, although you'd better have straight A's and show a lot of promise. The only prerequisite is that whoever is teaching the class gives you the okay, i.e., it is officially listed as "invitation only." But Sally doesn't teach it every year, and usually when he does he only teaches one of the three quarters. So don't bank on having him as a professor.</p>
<p>Yes, I took Greek with this year's Quantrell Award winner from the classics department; she deserved the award, and I can recommend her enthusiastically to all those considering studying Greek.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a link to those ACE rankings for other departments?That's where the MIT site said it got the top 5 math programs statistics.</p>
<p>i tried looking for that too and didn't find it</p>