The mission of the Mathematics Department is to offer the opportunity for excellence and development to students with visionary and relevant programs of high quality at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to advance mathematical research to benefit society. Mathematics is in the broadest sense the study of structure. Through quantification, relationships and modeling, mathematics provides students with the intellectual structural framework that permits us to develop an understanding of the phenomena that envelops us. The skills that are developed in mathematical training have broad application in the workplace.