Past Honours Students

The following students are a sample of those who have completed Honours degrees in the School over the last few years:

Applied Mathematics Students

  • Miriam Greenbaum (2018), with Josef Dick and Peter Straka
  • Christopher Bladwell (2017), with Gary Froyland
  • Daniel Picone (2017), with Gary Froyland
  • Antony Patterson (2016), with Trevor McDougall, "Approximating neutral density surfaces using cellular automata".
  • Manoj Kumar Palani (2016), with Chris Tisdell, "Fractional differential equations".
  • Chris Rock (2016), with Gary Froyland
  • Sen Yun Katherine Tay (2016), with Chris Tisdell, "How can mobile devices improve learning by allowing instant and scaled feedback?".
  • Fadi Antown (2015), with Gary Froyland
  • Anna McGann (2015), with Bruce Henry and Chris Angstmann, "Generalising epidemiological SIR models with continuous time random walks".
  • James Ross (2015), with Gary Froyland
  • Adam Gray (2014), with Chris Tisdell, "Some topics in fractional differential equations".
  • Peter Nguyen (2014), with Adelle Coster, "Modelling neural populations through evolving probability distributions: a mean field approach".
  • Jeremy Nugent (2014), with Gary Froyland and Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, "Markov chain models for metastable dynamical systems".
  • Chanduni Wijesinghe (2014), with Adelle Coster, "Sensitivity and control of cell characteristics".
  • Kent Yang (2014), with Guoyin Li, "Global optimization with polynomials: Theory, algorithms, applications".
  • Erika Degens (2013), with Thanh Tran, "Spherical splines".
  • Alec Gilbert (2013), with Gary Froyland, "Continuous-time dynamical systems: the infinitesimal generator approach and applications".
  • Timothy Siu (2013), with John Roberts, "(Piecewise) linear dynamics restricted to lattices".
  • Elias Istanbouli (2012) with John Roberts, "Discrete dynamical systems with non-constant parameters".

Pure Mathematics Students

  • Daniel Altman (2018), with David Harvey, "Deterministically factorising integer polynomials modulo many primes simultaneously".
  • Jessica Dai (2018), with Thomas Britz, "Matroid properties of linear codes".
  • Madeleine Kyng (2018), with David Harvey, "Computing zeta functions of smooth projective curves"
  • Sean Lynch (2018), with Lee Zhao, "Explicit Large Sieve Inequalities for Square Moduli"
  • Michela Castagnone (2017), with Catherine Greenhill, "Algorithms for generating uniformly random graphs"
  • Matthew Hircock (2017), with Ian Doust
  • Alan Stoneham (2017), with Ian Doust
  • Johann Blanco (2016), with Alina Ostafe, "Dynamics of monomials and Dickson polynomials over finite fields".
  • Sebastian Blefari (2016), with Norman Wildberger, "New insights for projective quadrangle geometry".
  • Peter Bradshaw (2016), with David Harvey, "Algebraic function fields and the Riemann-Roch Theorem".
  • Timothy Chan (2016), with Daniel Chan, "Dimer models and their characteristic polygons".
  • Tyson Churcher (2016), with Thomas Britz, "The completability of partial Latin squares".
  • Duncan Crowley (2016), with Thomas Britz, "Turan numbers of bipartite graphs".
  • Harry Gibbs (2016), with Gary Froyland and Davor Dragicevic, "Statistical laws for dynamical systems by spectral methods".
  • Nathan Jackson (2016), with Fedor Sukochev, "The Hilbert Transform: an examination of boundedness and noncommutative generalisations".
  • Bradley Lewis (2016), with John Steele, "Spacetimes and their curvature invariants".
  • Dorothy Cheung (2015), with Daniel Chan, "Classification of quadratic forms with Clifford algebras".
  • Raveen de Silva (2015), with Ian Doust, "Composition C*-algebras".
  • Terence Harris (2015), with Michael Cowling, "Rank-one convexity and Lipschitz functions".
  • Tracy Jiang (2015), with Jie Du, "Superalgebras".
  • Barton Lee (2015), with Catherine Greenhill, "To infinity and beyond: the theory and application of graph limits".
  • William Liu (2015), with Donna Salopek and Ben Goldys, "A stochastic partial differential equation for a super Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and its applications in finance".
  • Edward McDonald (2015), with Fedor Sukochev, "Quantised calculus in one dimension".
  • Ramanan Rajkumar (2015), with David Harvey, "An extension of Kummer's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to the Gaussian integers".
  • Dominic Vella (2015), with Ian Doust, "Modern harmonic analysis and the T(1) Theorem".
  • Michael Carr  (2015), with David Harvey, "Elliptic curves over qudratic fields".
  • Stuart Hatzioannou (2015), with Ian Doust, "An introduction to the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem".
  • Adam Mammoliti (2014), with Thomas Britz, "The Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem, generalisations and beyond".
  • Roberto Riedig (2014), with Norman Wildberger, "Simple Lie algebras, Dynkin diagrams, and fun games on graphs".
  • Matthew Kwan (2014, University Medal) with Catherine Greenhill, "Stein's method".
  • Peter Ayre (2013) with Fedor Sukochev, "Double operator integrals and operator Lipschitz estimates".
  • Nicholas Bouzanis (2013) with Denis Potapov, "Double operator integrals and operator monotone functions".
  • Jason Ng (2013) with Peter Brown, "Reciprocity".
  • Steve Siu (2013) with Daniel Chan, "K-theory and the Adams operators".
  • Georgia Tsambos (2013) with Gary Froyland, "Asymptotic properties of piecewise expanding transformations".
  • Kirsten Vo-Phuoc (2013) with Michael Cowling, "Gauge theories and their mathematical formulations".
  • Elizabeth Alford (2012) with Thomas Britz, "Extending shortest-path algorithms".
  • Joel Beeren (2012) with David Harvey, "Elliptic curves and factorisation".
  • Matthew Brassil (2012) with Daniel Chan, "Geometric invariant theory".
  • Dean Garden (2012) with David Harvey, "Rationality of the zeta function of a hypersurface over a finite field".
  • Richard Tierney (2012) with Michael Cowling, "Rigidity of coset-preserving maps on nilpotent Lie groups".

Statistics Students

  • Yi-Lung Chen (2016), with Zdravko Botev, "Simulation from the posteriof of the Bayesian lasso".
  • Pradeesh Nallainathan (2016), with Zdravko Botev, "Maximum of random variables under a Gaussian copula".
  • Smarak Nayak (2016), with Peter Straka, "Inference on heavy-tailed max-renewal processes".
  • Daniel Shnier (2016), with Mircea Voineagu, "Topological data analysis and the neurogenomics of autism".
  • Patrick Wong (2016), with Libo Li, "Applications of the Wiener-Hopf factorisation for Levy processes".
  • Hiram Yu (2016), with Yanan Fan, "Simultaneous linear quantile regression: a Bayesian approach through g-and-k distribution".
  • Richard Dunn (2015), with Gery Geenens, "A nonparametric copula approach to value at risk". (Quantitative Risk Honours)
  • Nathan Giang (2015), with Peter Straka, "Extremes of bursty events"
  • Hunter Huang (2015), with Pierre Del Moral, "Snell envelope: Approximation framework and application to American options"
  • Kevin Lam (2015), with Zdravko Botev, "The dynamic splitting method with an application to portfolio credit risk"
  • Kevin Lian (2015), with Scott Sisson, "The theory and analysis of approximate Bayesian computation"
  • Jonny Li (2015), with Scott Sisson, "Linear regression modelling for symbolic data via an integrated likelihood approach
  • Varun Nayyar (2015), with Scott Sisson, "Iterative subsampling: Contamination models for intractable likelihoods using ABCs"
  • Junyu Nie (2015), with William Dunsmuir, "Continuous time limits of GARCH processes and their stochastic properties"
  • Thomas Stindl (2015), with William Dunsmuir, "Estimation for nonlinear non-Gaussian state-space models using higher order Laplace approximation"
  • Thomas Whitaker (2015), with Scott Sisson, "Symbolic data analysis using composite likelihoods with an application to spatial extremes"
  • James Yang (2015), with Pierre Del Moral, "A mean field approach to conditional diffusions". (Quantitative Risk Honours)
  • Xuebin Zheng (2015), with Zdravko Botev, "Perfect simulation from the constrained and censored Bayesian linear regression models"
  • Vivian Zhong (2015), with Zdravko Botev, "Auxiliary variable methods in Bayesian inference"
  • Aram Asatryan (2014), with Spiro Penev, "Cures for curing - A study of loss given default".
  • Alexander Kwok (2014), with Peter Straka, "Performance evaluation and dynamic method for probability of default modelling".
  • Albert Lam (2014), with Zdravko Botev, "Multilevel Monte Carlo applications to options pricing".
  • Tony Vo (2014), with Feng Chen and Peter Straka, "A geomdemographic study of customer default and churn rates on residential mortgages using census data".
  • Trevor Rose (2014) with Spiridon Penev, "Support vector machine and maximum likelihood approaches to F-measure optimisation".
  • Aaron Blackwell (2013) with William Dunsmuir, "Multiple independent time series with random effects".
  • Victor Chan (2013) with Ben Goldys and Donna Salopek, "Indifference pricing of derivatives using power utility".
  • Alvin Huang (2013) with Zdravko Botev, "Rare-event probability estimation via empirical likelihood maximization".
  • Pengxi Chen (2012) with William Dunsmuir and Feng Chen, "PIT residual diagnostics for count time series models".
  • But-Elle Hatooka (2012) with Spiridon Penev, "Higher order coherent risk measures and their role in risk-averse optimization".

Earlier Honours Students

Applied Mathematics Students

  • Ellese Cotterill (2011, University Medal) with Adelle Coster, "Molecular diffusion on membrane manifolds".
  • Isaac Donnelly (2011) with Bruce Henry, "Selfish routing and the price of anarchy on complex systems".
  • Ian Ting (2011) with Mark Holzer, "Transport in atmosphere and ocean".
  • Wei Wu (2011) with Rob Womersley, "Hedging an option portfolio using conditional value at risk".
  • Daniel Cramsie (2010) with Bruce Henry, "Random Walks on Fractal Lattices".
  • Andrew Duong (2010) with Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, "Portfolio optimization under uncertainty: A robust approach".
  • Hugh Macfarlane (2010) with Rob Womersley, "Covariance matrices for portfolio optimisation utilising random matrix theory for eigenvalue filtering". 
  • Suzanna Rona (2009) with Bruce Henry, "Turing pattern formation with chemotaxis".
  • Sittisede Polwiang (2008) with Adelle Coster, "Synchronization of cardiac sinoatrial node cells: coupled biological oscillators".
  • Michelle Dunbar (2007) with Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, "Optimisation approaches to simultaneous classification and feature selection".
  • Amy Kwon (2007) with Bruce Henry, "Mathematical modelling of Amyloid beta plaque deposits in Alzheimer's Disease".
  • Ognjen Stancevic (2007) with Gary Froyland, "Transfer operator methods in continuous time dynamical systems".
  • Douglas Chew (2006) with Bruce Henry, "Multifractal Analysis of Biomedical Datasets".
  • Gina Choutis (2006) with Gary Froyland, "Stochastic Price Modelling for Mine Optimisation".
  • Ambros Gleixner (2006) with Gary Froyland, "Integer programming formulations, various solution techniques, and application to the open pit mine production scheduling problem".
  • Tomasia Kulik (2006) with Peter Blennerhassett, "General non-linear mathematical theory of fluid flow through a porous medium".
  • Scott Rowe (2006) with Jason Middleton, "The Canberra easterly and deeply penetrating sea-breezes".
  • Tony Siu (2006) with Rob Womersley, "Application of Quasi Monte-Carlo Methods to Financial Price and Hedging".
  • Lit-Hau Tan (2006) with Chris Tisdell, "Investigations Into Dynamic Equations on Time Scales".
  • Danny Wong (2006) with Rob Womersley and John Evans (Actuarial Studies), "Quantifying Operational Risk in the Aust. Banking Environment".
  • John Ormerod (2003) with Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, investigated semidefinite programming approaches to data mining problems.

 

Pure Mathematics Students

  • Anthony Christie (2011) with Daniel Chan, "Classification of simple plane curve singularities and their Auslander-Reiten quivers".
  • Randell Heyman (2011) with Michael Cowling, "Modular forms and the sum of four squares".
  • Corey Lewis (2011) with Catherine Greenhill, "Models of the web graph".
  • Anthony Morris (2011, University Medal) with Tony Dooley, "The ergodic approach to Szemeredi's theorem and beyond".
  • Jessica Egan (2010) with Ian Doust, "Semigroups of composition operators".
  • Nicholas Fewster-Young (2010) with Chris Tisdell, "Topological theory and its applications".
  • Guy Flint (2010) with Fedor Sukochev, "Extensions of the Dixmier approximation theorem to algebras of unbounded operators".
  • Daniel Gow (2010) with Teresa Bates, "C*-algebras associated to directed graphs and labelled graphs".
  • Stephen Sanchez (2010) with Ian Doust, "Central sections of high-dimensional bodies".
  • Simon Sillitoe (2010) with Norman Wildberger, "Hypergroups and graphs associated to finite hyperbolic planes".
  • Daniel Smyth (2010) with Daniel Chan, "Finitely generated powerful pro-p groups".
  • Chin Pin Wong (2010, University Medal) with Fedor Sukochev, "Comparing Sums of Random Variables - the Operator K Approach".
  • Oliver Nunn (2009) with Tony Dooley, "Entropy balance methods for heat equations with a stochastic heat supply".
  • Stephen Ozvatic (2009) with Daniel Chan, "Factorisation theory in a non-commutative algebra".
  • Etienne Chan (2008) with Marek Rutkowski, "Predictable representation properties".
  • Michael Leeming (2008) with Astrid an Huef, "Upper multiplicities in C*(p4gm).
  • Libo Li (2008) with Marek Rutkowski, "Girsanov-type theorems and their applications".
  • Charles Qin (2008, University Medal) with Ben Goldys and Bernard Wong, "Probabilistic approach to gradient estimate for backward Kolmogorov equations".
  • Louise Wilkinson (2008) with Tony Dooley, "Ergodic theory of Bratteli-Vershik systems".
  • Boris Lerner (2007) with Daniel Chan, "The Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle".
  • Koushik Panda (2007, University Medal) with Daniel Chan, "Twisted Rings of Differential Operators on the Projective Line and the Beilinson-Bernstein Theorem".
  • Beren Sanders (2007, University Medal) with Ian Doust, "The Busemann-Petty Problem in Convex Geometry".
  • Mandy Seet (2007) with James Franklin and Peter Brown, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography: Improving the Pollard-Rho Algorithm".
  • Cris Koch (2006) with Catherine Greenhill, "Term rewriting approaches to polycyclic group collection".
  • Maike Massierer (2006) with James Franklin and Richard Buckland, "Provably secure cryptographic hash functions'".
  • Hoi-man Kiang (2005) with Jie Du, "Kazhdan-Lusztig left cells in the symmetric group".
  • Ka-shu Wong (2004) with Catherine Greenhill, "The complexity of counting".
  • Erika Davies (2003) studied non-standard analysis with David Tacon.
  • Ronny Lan (2003) did his thesis in operator theory with Ian Doust.
  • Rupert McCallum's thesis (2003) "Free groups in SL(n,Q)" was written under the supervision of Michael Cowling.
  • Antony Orton (2003) worked with Daniel Chan on a project called "Algebraic geometry and the generalization of Bezout's theorem".
  • Petrina So (2003) completed an Honours year at UNSW after finishing a mathematics degree in Auckland. Petrina's thesis was on the safety of RSA cryptography, written under the supervision of Dennis Trenerry.
  • Kevin Sun (2003) received a University Medal for his thesis which linked combinatorics and group representation theory. His thesis was supervised by Tony Dooley.

Statistics Students

  • Francis Hui (2011) with Gery Geenens, "A discourse on conditional independence in two-way contingency tables".
  • Iao Fong Leong (2011) with Yanan Fan, "Optimal selection of summary statistics for approximate Bayesian computation".
  • Eric Lu (2011) with Feng Chen, "Conditional intensity models for the occurrence of earthquakes".
  • Aaron Byrnes (2010) with Gareth Peters, "Estimation and modelling of heavy-tailed operational risk exposures with insurance mitigation".
  • Joseph Chammas (2010) with William Dunsmuir, "Approximate MLE methods for the discrete time stochastic volatility model".
  • Chris McKendry (2010) with William Dunsmuir, "GLARMA likelihood estimation for multiple time series including random effects".
  • Gary Ngo (2010) with Feng Chen, "Filtering applications in stochastic finance: approximate particle filters using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods".
  • Gordana Popovic (2010) with Scott Sisson, "The application of the posterior coverage property to the selection of the scale parameter in approximate Bayesian computation".
  • Avraham Ruderman (2010) with Scott Sisson, "A two sample test based on a k-nearest-neighbour estimate of the Kullback-Leibler divergence with an application to summary statistic selection".
  • Alison Vo-Phuoc (2010) with Feng Chen, "Modelling ASX transaction data using conditional intensity models".
  • Damien Wee (2010) with Marek Rutkowski, "Valuation of defaultable game options in discrete markets".
  • Chen Yang (2010) with Gareth Peters, "On exploring dependence structures for operational risk models".
  • Joey Lau (2009) with Yanan Fan, "Finessing trans-dimensional proposals in reversible jump MCMC".
  • Leah Shepherd (2008) with David Warton, "Spatial point processes for species distribution modelling".
  • Anthony Armstrong (2007) with Marek Rutkowski, "Valuation Of Credit Default Index Swaptions".
  • Raymond Gutierrez (2007) with Donna Salopek, "Conditions of arbitrage on a range of call options".
  • Xin Lei (2007) was awarded the University Medal. He worked with Spiridon Penev on estimation and testing for Archimedean copulas.
  • Cuong Viet Tran (2007) with Ben Goldys, "Measuring Leverage Effect in Financial Markets".
  • Honglin Jiang (2006) with Scott Sisson, "The ABC of Tuberculosis Transmission".
  • Daniel Lin (2006) with Scott Sisson, "Estimating the spread of tuberculosis through simulation-based indirect inference".
  • Imanuel Costigan (2005) did his thesis with Marek Rutkowski on The Valuation of Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk.
  • Arianna Cowling (2005) worked with Inge Koch on Feature Significance for Flow Cytometry Data. She now works at the Reserve Bank.
  • Smith Huang (2005) worked with Inge Koch on Dimension Reduction and Multidimensional Scaling. He worked for Allianz and is currently at Partners in Performance.
  • Danny Lo (2005) did his thesis with William Dunsmuir on Unknown Change-Point Detection in the Volatility of Financial Time Series. He was awarded the University Medal.
  • Brad Morris (2005) worked with William Dunsmuir on Application and Comparison of Models for High Frequency Price Data.
  • Nancy Guo (2004) worked with Ben Goldys on 'Statistical Analysis of Implied Volatility Surface: an Australian Perspective'.
  • Michael Roper (2004) wrote on 'Perturbation Analysis of the CEV-CIR Stochastic Volatility Model', supervised by Ben Goldys.
  • Tina Chen (2003) worked with Sally Galbraith on 'Inquisition of Missing Covariates Impact on Survival Analysis: PML Case Study'
  • Sanja Lucjic (2003) worked with Peter Cooke on 'Analysis of Sales Data for Woolworths - Regression and Time Series Modelling Approaches'.
  • Nathan Pearce (2003) wrote his thesis 'Exploring Local Dependence in Data' under the supervision of Inge Koch.