The following recommendations are tentative. For additional course recommendations see the Recommended Elective Courses on the Program Curriculum Page.

See also MISI courses page.

1. Computational Finance
   
   * Primary Advisors:
   
   # Professor Floyd B. Hanson, 718 SEO, hanson@uic.edu.
   # Professor Stanley R. Pliska, Finance, 2423 UH, srpliska@uic.edu.
   # Professor Charles Tier, 720 SEO, tier@uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   # MCS 586 Computational Finance (Tier)
   # Fin 551 Financial Decision Making (Pliska)

2. Data Mining & Data Intensive Computing
   
   * Primary Advisor:
   
   # Professor Robert L. Grossman, 727 SEO, grossman@uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   # MCS 590 Advanced Topics: Industrial Workshop II
   # Math 590 Advanced Topics: Data Mining.

3. High Performance Scientific Computing
   
   * Primary Advisors:
   
   # Professor Floyd B. Hanson, 718 SEO, hanson@uic.edu.
   # Professor Charles Tier, 720 SEO, tier@uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   MCS 572 Introduction to Supercomputing (Hanson)
   MCS 575 Computer Performance Evaluation (Tier)

4. Mathematical Control, Information, and Optimization
   
   * Primary Advisors:
   
   # Professor Floyd B. Hanson, 718 SEO, hanson@uic.edu.
   # Professor Stephen S. T. Yau, 409 SEO, yau@uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   # Math 574 Applied Optimal Control (Hanson)
   # Math 590 Advanced Topics: Control (Yau)

5. Statistical Sciences
   
   * Primary Advisors:
   
   # Professor T.E.S. Raghavan, 517 SEO, ter@uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   # Stat 461 Applied Probability Models I
   # Stat 462 Applied Probability Models II
   # Stat 471 Linear and Non-Linear Programming
   # Stat 473 Game Theory (Raghavan)
   # Stat 481 Applied Statistical Methods II
   # Stat 486 Statistical Consulting
   # Stat 571 Non-Cooperative Games (Raghavan)
   # Stat 577 Reliability Theory

6. Symbolic, Numeric, and Computational Mathematics
   
   * Primary Advisors:
   
   # Professor Floyd B. Hanson, 718 SEO, hanson@uic.edu.
   # Professor Jan Verschelde, 728 SEO, jan@math.uic.edu.
   * Primary Course Recommendations:
   
   # MCS 571 Numerical Methods for PDEs (Hanson)
   # MCS 590 Advanced Topics: Symbolic Computation and Follow-ups to MCS 320 (Verschelde)

MCS 597. MISI Master's Project. 2 to 4 Hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 hours of credit. S/U grade only. Specialized project under close faculty supervision to satisfy the project requirement for the M.S. degree in Mathematics and Information Science for Industry. Prerequisites: MCS 504 and approval of the department.