The School congratulates its many successful research graduates. Past and recent theses are listed here, with a link to the text in Australian Digital Theses, where available.

2012

Michelle Dunbar, PhD, Minimising propagated delay in an integrated aircraft routing and crew pairing framework (Applied, supervisor Gary Froyland)

Boris Lerner, PhD, Line bundles and curves on a del Pezzo order (Pure, supervisor Daniel Chan)

Kundan Misra, MSc, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the humanist agenda and the scientific method (supervisor James Franklin

2011

Dale Roberts, PhD, Stochastic partial differential equations with boundary noise (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, PhD, The explicit construction of orders on surfaces (Pure, supervisor Daniel Chan)

Ognjen Stancevic, PhD, Dynamical systems & ergodic theory (Applied, supervisor Gary Froyland)

Peter Straka, PhD, Continuous time random walk limit processes (Applied, supervisor Bruce Henry)

Thanh Duong Pham, PhD, Pseudodifferential equations on spheres with spherical radial basis functions and spherical splines (Applied, supervisor Thanh Tran)

Lester Hing Fung Tsang, MSc, Bootstrapping linear models, and its applications (Statistics, supervisors David Warton and Sally Galbraith)

2010

Gareth Peters, PhD, Advances in approximate Bayesian computation and trans-dimensional sampling methodology (Statistics, supervisor Scott Sisson)

Han Zhang, PhD, Levy stochastic differential geometry with applications in derivative pricing (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Nathan Pearce, PhD, Kernel methods for data analysis (Statistics, supervisor Matthew Wand)

Jan Baldeaux, PhD, Higher order nets and sequences (Applied, supervisor Iam Sloan)

Mehera Kidston, PhD, Parameter optimisations of a marine ecosystem model in the Southern Ocean (Applied, supervisors Richard Matear and Mark Baird)

Carlos Teixeira, Ocean dynamics of Spencer Gulf (Applied, supervisor John Middleton)

2009

Shuling Chen, PhD, A study of term structure of interest rates - theory, modelling and econometrics (Statistics, supervisors Ben Goldys and William Dunsmuir)

Atiya Zaidi, Existence and uniqueness of solutions to first order dynamic equations on time scales (Applied, supervisor Chris Tisdell)

Therese Keane, PhD, Combat modelling with partial differential equations (Applied, supervisors James Franklin and Gary Froyland)

Dalia Terhesiu, PhD, On the approximation of finite and infinite equilibrium states and some aspects of Young towers with non-integrable return function (Applied, supervisor Gary Froyland)

Michael Roper, PhD, Implied volatility: general properties and asymptotics (Statistics, supervisor Ben Goldys)

Zhi Jun Guo, PhD, Small time asymptotics of implied volatility under local volatility models (Statistics, supervisors Ben Goldys and Rob Womersley)

Rupert MacCallum, PhD, Generalisations of the fundamental theorem of projective geometry (Pure, supervisor Michael Cowling)

Jim Pettigrew, PhD, Characterising Singular Curves in Parametrised Families of Biquadratics (Applied, supervisors John Roberts and Bruce Henry)

Ibrahim Alhawari, MSc, High resolution non-hydrostatic numerical simulations for wind energy assessment over Libya (Applied, supervisor Russel Morison)

2008

Stephen Howe, PhD, The deprioritised approach to prioritised algorithms (Pure, supervisor Catherine Greenhill)

Caroline Ummenhofer, PhD, Interannual to interdecadal extra-tropical climate variability (CEDL, supervisor Matthew England)

Danesh Jogia, PhD, Algebraic aspects of integrability and reversibility in maps (Applied, supervisor John Roberts)

Robert Taggart, PhD, Evolution equations and vector-valued Lp spaces: Strichartz estimates and symmetric diffusion semigroups (Pure, supervisor Michael Cowling)

Terence Jegaraj, PhD, On small time asymptotics of solutions of stochastic equations in infinite dimensions (Statistics, supervisor Ben Goldys)

Ariyani, PhD, The generalized continuous wavelet transform on Hilbert modules (Pure, supervisors Tony Dooley and Astrid an Huef)

2007

Raed Raffoul, PhD, Functional calculus and coadjoint orbits (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Benjamin Waterhouse, PhD, New developments in the construction of lattice rules. Applications of lattice rules to high-dimensional integration problems from mathematical finance (Applied, supervisor, Ian Sloan)

Paul Leopardi, PhD, Distributing points on the sphere: Partitions, separation, quadrature and energy (Applied, supervisors Ian Sloan and Rob Womersley)

Alex Sen Gupta, PhD, Global ocean ventilation and Southern Hemisphere climate variability using observations, oceanic, atmospheric and coupled climate models (CEDL, supervisor Matthew England)

Jack Hall, MSc, Some branching rules for GL(N,C) (Pure, supervisor Norman Wildberger)

2006

David Maher, PhD, Brownian motion and heat kernels on compact lie groups and symmetric spaces (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Willem Sijp, PhD, The effect of the Drake Passage and subgrid-scale eddy parametrization on the global thermohaline circulation (CEDL, supervisor, Matthew England)

Venta Terauds, PhD, Extensions of functional calculus for Banach space operators (Pure, supervisor, Ian Doust)

Craig Arthur, PhD, The Flinders current and upwelling in submarine canyons (Applied, supervisor, John Middleton)

Frank Reid, MSc, The weakly nonlinear stability of an oscillatory fluid flow (Applied, supervisor, Peter Blennerhassett)

2005

Ben Warhurst, PhD, Jet spaces as nonrigid Carnot groups (Pure, supervisor Michael Cowling)

Ed Cripps, PhD, Bayesian variable selection and covariance selection in Gaussian linear regression (Statistics)

Helen Armstrong, PhD, Bayesian estimation of decomposable Gaussian graphical models (Statistics, supervisor Rob Kohn)

Agus Santoso, PhD, Evolution of climate anomalies and variability of Southern Ocean water masses on interannual to centennial time scales

Xie Shuguang, PhD, Stochastic heat equations with memory in infinite dimensional spaces

Jaclyn Brown, PhD, The kinematics and dynamics of cross-hemispheric flow in the Central and Eastern Equatorial Pacific (with CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart; winner of Royal Society of Tasmania's award for best PhD, 2007)

Kevin Sun, MSc, Aspects of G2

2004

Peng Xu, PhD, A computational model for the assessment and prediction of salinisation in irrigated areas (Applied, supervisors Shao and Leslie)

Bill Cruickshank, PhD, Vershik systems and non-singular ergodic theory (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Josef Dick, PhD, Digital lattice rules: multivariate integration and discrepancy estimates (Applied, supervisor Ian Sloan)

Kassim Mustapha, PhD, Analysis of fully discrete element methods with quadrature for second order nonlinear parabolic and hyperbolic problems (Applied, supervisors Ganesh and Sloan)

Keith Rogers, PhD, Real and p-adic oscillatory integrals (Pure, supervisor Michael Cowling)

Ann-Marie Wong, PhD, Deep convection processes off the coast of Adelie Land, East Antarctica (Applied, supervisors J.H.F. Middleton and W. McKee)

Haixiong Zhuang, PhD, Parameterizations of atmosphere-ocean and atmosphere land surface interactions, with an application to the Australian Monsoon (Applied, supervisors Shao and Leslie)

Eunjoo Jung, Numerical simulation of Asian dust events: the impacts of convective transport and wet deposition (Applied, supervisors Shao and Leslie)

Glenn Grice, MSc, Constant speed flows and the nonlinear Schrodinger equation (Applied, supervisors C. Rogers and W. Schief)

Oldrich Klima, MSc, Analysis of a subelliptic operator on the sphere in complex N-space (Pure, supervisor Michael Cowling)

Catherine Morgan, MSc, Robust optimization with applications to naval force stucture (Applied)

2003

Daniela Leonte, PhD, Flexible Bayesian modelling of gamma ray count data (Statistics, supervisor David Nott)

Chi Mak, PhD, On complex reflection groups G (m,1,r) and their Hecke algebras (Pure, supervisor Jie Du)

Bradley D. Morris, MSc, Infragravity waves on the Sydney Coast (Applied)

Matthew Maccallum, Msc, The long term behavior of some interacting particle systems (Statistics)

2002

Moninya Roughan, PhD, On the East Australian Current: Upwelling and Separation (Applied, supervisor Jason Middleton) 

An Li, PhD, Computational modelling of sediment entrainment and motion in atmospheric surface layer(Applied, supevisor Yaping Shao)

Lixin Qi, PhD, Cut-off low pressure systems over southern Australia (Applied, supervisor Lance Leslie)

Zhou Wang, PhD, A numerical model for the study of sediment diagenesis, iron-phosphorus dynamics, and microphytobenthos (Applied, supervisor Yaping Shao)

Peter Robin Oke, PhD, The efffects of the East Australian Current on the nearshore zone (Applied, supervisor Jason Middleton) 

Peter M. Tate, PhD, The rise and dilution of buoyant jets and their behaviour in an internal wave field (Applied)

Atsushi Kawai, PhD, Pricing and hedging swaptions in the LIBOR market model (Stats/Applied, supervisors Ben Goldys/Rob Womersley)

Eric Schulz, PhD, Air-Sea Flux Parametrizations in Shallow Tropical Sea (Applied, supervisors Brian Sanderson, Frank Bradley, Mike Banner)

Kevin J. Dahl, PhD, Neural network applications of high frequency financial time-series prediction (Pure, supervisor Jim Franklin)

2001

Paul Rothnie, PhD, Bilinear integration and the Feynman-Kac formula (Pure, supervisor Brian Jefferies)

Xuan Jiang, PhD, Non-ergodicity in symmetry Hamiltonians and the reliability of numerical simulations (Applied, supervisor Bruce Henry)

Bruce William Buckley, PhD, Real-time prediction of significant weather near the Tasman Sea: High resolution numerical weather prediction studies (Applied, supervisor Lance Leslie)

Peter Francis Coutis, PhD, Currents, coasts and cays: a study of tidal upwelling and island wakes (Applied, supervisor Jason Middleton)

Peter Wright, PhD, On process capability indices for processes with symmetric tolerances (Stats, supervisor William Dunsmuir)

Renato David Ghisolfi, PhD, Oceanic fronts off the southern Brazilian coast (supervisor Bill McKee)

Jinbao Song, PhD, Breaking of surface gravity waves (Applied, supervisor Mike Banner)

Chris Aiken, PhD, Stochastic forcing of nonnormal coastal flows (Applied, supervisor Jason Middleton)

Zhanhai Gao, PhD, Modelling human immunodeficiency virus and Hepatitis C virus epidemics in Australia (Applied, supervisor John Murray)

2000

Clio Cresswell, PhD, The discrete Painleve equations: hierarchies, Backlund transformations and singularity confinement (Applied, supervisors Nalini Joshi and Bruce Henry)

Kin Hoong Chung, PhD, Compact actions and harmonic analysis (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

Hua Lu, PhD, An integrated wind erosion modelling system with emphasis on dust emission and transport (Applied, supervisor Yaping Shao)

Nino Toronjadze, PhD, The change set problem (Stats, supervisor E. Khmaladze)

Karen Karmen Lau, PhD, Multistage quadratic stochastic programming (Applied, supervisor Rob Womersley)

Helen Jane Reid, PhD, Modelling coastally trapped wind surges over southeastern Australia (Applied, supervisor Lance Leslie)

Guanglu Zhou, PhD, Algorithms for variational inequalities and minimizing a sum of norms (Applied, supervisor L. Qi)

Christopher Jude Amies, PhD, Mathematical optimisation of radiation treatment of tumours (Applied, supervisor J. Murray)

Brenden Craig Ashton, PhD, Functions of bounded variation in two variables and AC(sigma) operators (Pure, supervisor Ian Doust)

Anthony Joseph Corr, PhD, Finite dimensional representability of forward rate and LIBOR models (Statistics, supervisor Ben Goldys)

Ekatherine Shinjikashvili, PhD, Extremes and probabilities of crossing high and medium levels (Statistics, supervisor E. Khmaladze)

Xiang Wang, PhD, A new generalised Jacobian and its application in nonsmooth optimization (Applied, supervisor V. Jeyakumar)

Jose Henrique Gomes de Mattos Alves, PhD, A saturation-dependent dissipation source function for wind-wave modelling applications (Applied, supervisor Mike Banner)

Mauro Cirano] PhD, Wintertime circulation within the Southeast Indian Ocean: A numerical study (Applied, supervisor John Middleton)

Duncan Smith, MSc, The families of period 1 of 2-groups of co-class 3 (Pure, supervisor Rod James)

1999

Gary Bruce Brassington, PhD, High order methods for computational geophysical fluid dynamics (Applied, supervisor Lance Leslie)

Ian Roderick Campbell, PhD, On the application of the Takesaki-Bichteler represetnation theory to C*-algebra crossed products by actions and coactions (Pure)

Parviz Irannejad, PhD, Impact of land surface scheme structure on the prediction of soil moisture and surface energy fluxes (Applied)

Guanglu Zhou, PhD, Algorithms for variational inequalities and minimizing a sum of norms (Applied)

1998

Leonie B. Burgess, PhD, Orthogonal main effect plans and an extension to resolution V

Pritha Das, PhD, Modelling of ocean tides

Andrew Francis, PhD, Centres and centralizers of Iwahori-Hecke algebras

Mark T. Gibbs, PhD, Baroclinic processes in the Sydney coastal ocean 

Jiuzhao Hua, PhD, Representations of quivers over finite fields

Kenan M. Matawie, PhD, Recursive residuals in generalised linear models

Bassam Mourad, PhD, Generalized doubly-stochastic matrices and inverse eigenvalue problems

William L. Peirson, PhD, On the dynamics and kinematics of microscale-breaking wind waves

Yi Zeng, PhD, Approximation of the boundary in Galerkin boundary element methods

Yuan Zou, PhD, Weighted median filters and related nonlinear filters with applications in image processing

Adrian D. Banner, MSc, The geometry of symmetric spaces and Clifford algebras 

Marina Therese De Gabriele, MSc, Internal wave shear modes

Selected older theses

Genevieve Catherine Mortiss, PhD, Average co-ordinate entropy and a non-singular version of restricted orbit equivalence, 1997 (Pure, supervisor Tony Dooley)

1970s

Robert J. Adler, PhD, Excursions above fixed levels by random fields, 1975

Michael Charles Cullinan, PhD, On the structure of geometries with spinor-type connexion, 1975

Peter G. Gipps, PhD, Development and manipulation of mathematical models of traffic flow, 1975

Robert William Perry, PhD, Analytic functions over Banach algebras, 1975

Lyle Beresford Shaw, PhD, Thermal conductivity of liquid metals, 1975

Andrew Ian Macfarlane, MSc, Topological objects in elementary topoi, 1975

Neville de Mestre, PhD, Low-Reynolds-number flows : the application of fundamental singularities, 1974

Sangbok David Hahn, PhD, Variabilities of hydrological properties of coastal waters off eastern Australia and their associated factors, 1974

Geoffrey Peter Kirkwood, PhD, A discrete Round Robin queueing model, 1974

Geoffrey Lewis, PhD, Coherence for a closed functor, 1974

John Robert Macdonald, PhD, Some aspects of the Hartree-Fock method, 1974

Gregory Charles Leonard Searle, PhD, A sequential test with power one and its application to cusum charts, 1974

Peter N. Jones, MSc, Analysis of hydrological recession curves, 1974

Peter Lind, MSc, Properties of and estimation in the Thomas distribution, 1974

John William Rice, PhD, Functional calculi and the structure of operators, 1973

Peter G. Gipps, MSc, Response surfaces under transformations of the independent variables, 1973

Don Julian Bennett, MSc, Paired comparisons with more than two response categories, 1973

Ronald James McKay, PhD, Simultaneous procedures in discriminant and regression analysis, 1973

Brian John Day, PhD, Construction of biclosed categories, 1970

Before 1970

Phillip Morris Diamond, PhD, Fractional iteration of functions of several variables, 1969

Peter Anthony O'Kelly, PhD, A feasibility study of trial function methods for the computation of optimal controls, 1968

Constantine Malanos, MSc, Nonlinear programming, 1968

Morgan Alfred Hanson, PhD, Some aspects of mathematical programming, 1965

Colin Thompson, PhD, Investigations in the theory of superconductivity, 1964

Alex Reichel, PhD, Some temperature effects in nuclear reactors, 1962

Angus Henry Low, PhD, Some aspects of fluid flow past porous barriers and surfaces, 1960

Hans Wieler, MSc, Some New types of quality control charts designed to reduce the amount of inspection and the sensitivity to non-normality of the parent distribution, 1956

Austin Keane, PhD, A problem in finite strain and its possible geophysical applications, 1955