If you are keen on Mathematics and have done well in years 1 to 3, you will want to go on to do an honours year.
You will find below some specific information about Applied Mathematics Honours.
For other information about doing Honours in Applied Mathematics, see the
Honours Page.
Suggested Honours Topics
The following are suggestions for possible supervisors and honours projects in applied mathematics. Other projects are possible, and you should contact any potential supervisors to discuss your options.
A description of the offered projects in greater detail is also
available.
- Non-linear dynamical analysis of an open ocean food chain model
- Microscopic Algae
- Dynamics and Stability of Cardiac Pacemaker Cells
- The Insulin Signalling Pathway in Adipocytes - A Mathematical Investigation
- Midlatitude variability in the Southern Ocean and its role in Australian climate
- The effect of enhanced Antarctic meltwater on global ocean circulation and climate
- Topics in dynamical systems and ergodic theory
- Transfer operator methods with applications to fluid mixing
- Stochastic integer programming with applications to mine optimisation
- Industrial modelling and optimisation
- Fractional calculus for fractals
- Mathematical modelling of plaque build up in Alzheimer's disease
- Pattern formation with anomalous diffusion
- Random walks on discrete lattices
- Statistical Mechanics of small particle systems
- Optimization and Data Mining in Biomedicine
- Global Optimization and Bilevel Quadratic Programming
- Impacts of climate change on oceanography of the Great Barrier Reef
- Coastal oceanography of Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay
- Scheduling of cancer chemotherapy with feedback of information during treatment
- Within host dynamics of emerging drug resistant hepatitis B virus
- The effects of contact network structure on the spread of diseases
- Algebraic dynamics
- Discrete integrable systems
- High frequency temperature variability in an upwelling region
- Flow topography interactions in the Tasman Sea.
- The impact of tidal currents on islands on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Growth of algae in aquatic systems
- Exact controllability of dynamical systems and their applications
- A deeper understanding of discrete and continuous systems through analysis on time scales
- A posteriori error estimates for the finite-element method of lines for nonlinear parabolic equations
- Optimal placement of points on manifolds, for example spheres and tori
- Estimation of constrained probability density functions
- Constrained covariance matrix estimation using semi-definite programming
- Computational methods in finance
Course Coordinator
The coordinator for Applied Mathematics Honours in Semester 2 2008 is Dr John Roberts:
Email:
jag.roberts@unsw.edu.au Phone: 9385 7052
Office: Room 3065, Red Centre
If you have any questions about the Honours year, don't hesitate to contact John. In particular, if you are just starting 3rd year and vaguely thinking ahead to honours, then it is important to choose a sufficiently wide variety of 3rd year courses. Please see John to discuss your choice of 3rd year courses.
Timetables
The timetabling for Applied Honours courses is arranged at a meeting RC-4082 Red Centre on Friday 1:00 pm in Week Zero of each Semester. Students are advised to attend this meeting in order to have their preferences noted.
