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Future Students> Undergraduate> Honours> Pure> Pure Projects

Pure Mathematics Project Areas

Every Pure Mathematics Honours and postgraduate student is required to complete a project under the supervision of a member of staff. For PhD students this is almost always a member of the Pure Mathematics department, but for Honours and MScTech students it is possible to arrange for supervision by a suitable academic in Applied Mathematics or Statistics. For some projects it may even be appropriate to involve an academic from elsewhere in the university (although in this case we will require a co-supervisor from mathematics). Students wishing to pursue a more multidisciplinary project should discuss their options with the Honours coordinator or postgraduate advisor as early as possible.

Listed below are members of the Pure Mathematics Department (as well as a few others) together with areas in which they are willing to supervise students. We recommend that you speak to a number of people before making your choice of supervisor. Full-time students doing Honours or the MScTech degree should have decided on a project before the start of their final year.

Staff members marked with an asterisk will be taking leave for a significant period in 2006 and so will be unlikely to be taking on Honours students.

The topics listed on this page should only be taken as a guide to help you start finding a supervisor. It should be noted that most staff members are likely to be more restrictive in the areas in which they are willing to supervise a PhD student than those in which they might supervise an Honours or Masters student.

Analysis

 A an Huef: C*-algebras
Dynamical systems
 T Bates:
C*-algebras
Dynamical systems
 M G Cowling:
Harmonic Analysis
Lie groups
Algebras of operators
 A H Dooley: Harmonic Analysis
Lie groups
Ergodic theory
 I R Doust: Operator theory
Banach space geometry
 H B G Grundling: C*-algebras
Mathematical physics
Quantum mechanics
 B R F Jefferies*: Vector measures
Feynman path integrals
Operator theory
 C E Sutherland: Operator algebras
Dynamical systems
 N J Wildberger:
Harmonic analysis
Geometry and hypergroups


Algebra and Number Theory

 D Angell: Number theory
 P G Brown: Number theory
 D Chan: Noncommutative algebra
Algebraic geometry
 M G Cowling:
Algebraic groups
Local fields
 J Du: Quantum groups and Lie algebras
Symmetric groups and combinatorics
Finite groups of Lie type
 N J Wildberger: Discrete maths and combinatorics
Diophantine equations


Other areas

 P G Brown: History of mathematics
 D Chan:
Algebraic geometry
History of Mathematics
 J W Franklin: Neural nets
Philosophy of mathematics
 C S Greenhill*: Graph Theory
Combinatorial algorithms
 J Kress: Mathematical Physics
 J D Steele*: General relativity


Other departments

Possible supervisors include:

G Froyland:  (Applied)
Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
Optimisation
 B Goldys: (Stats) Ergodic theory of diffusion processes
Stochastic differential equations
 B I Henry: (Applied) Multifractal analysis
 J A Roberts: (Applied) Dynamical systems
Algebraic dynamics
 C Tisdell: (Applied) Differential equations
Difference equations