Sydney Mathematics and Statistics Projects in Applied Mathematics and Modelling

Applied Mathematics and Modelling Research Projects


School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

  • Astrophysics and Solar Physics

  • Biological Systems

  • Biomedical and Medical Applications

  • Environmental and Earth Sciences

  • Financial Mathematics

  • Industrial Applications

  • Mathematical Physics

  • Key:
    Staff
    Students
    External collaborators

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    Astrophysics and Solar Physics

    Solar surface magnetic fields

    (Durrant, Galloway, Wilson,
    Turner, Kress )

    Fast dynamos
    with dynamics

    (Galloway, Podvigina )

    Driving currents in
    the Sun's corona

    (Galloway, Melrose, Uchida, Weiss )

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    Biological Systems

    Scales in modelling social insect colonies

    (Myerscough, Vincent)

    The role of genetic variance in bee colonies.

    (Myerscough, Cox, Oldroyd )

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    Biomedical and Medical Applications

    Collaborative Research
    in Physiology

    (Gibson, Farnell, Robinson,
    van Kleef, Lemon,
    Bennett, Lin, Dickens, Henery
    )

    Modelling in NMR
    spectroscopy

    (Durrant, Kuchel )

    Jaw-tracking in
    dentistry

    (Durrant, Huang,
    Johnson, Murray
    )

    Biomedical ultrasound

    (Thompson, Macaskill, Fraser,
    Aldis, Tortoli )

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    Environmental and Earth Sciences

    Atmospheric and oceanic
    vortex modelling

    (Macaskill, Jomaa, Schaerf,
    Dritschel, Padden
    )

    Analysis of the
    Earth's magnetics field

    (Winch, Ivers, Turner
    Barton, Lewis, Milligan
    )

    Tidal analysis

    (Goulter)

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    Financial Mathematics

    Pricing derivative
    securities with binomial
    trees

    (Buchen, Konstandatos,
    Kelly
    )

    Maximum entropy modelling

    (Buchen, Kelly,
    Edelman, Hardman
    )

    Genetic algorithms for
    financial trading rules

    (Buchen, Magri )

    American options

    (Buchen, Rodolfo , Kelly )

    Quantum field theory
    methods for pricing securities

    (Luckock, Spence )

    The bid-ask spread
    and trading liquidity

    (Luckock, Klinger )

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    Industrial Applications

    Mathematical modelling for
    better yarn production

    (Fraser, Batra, Ghosh, Rahn, Wang)

    Spontaneous combustion
    and drying-out of bagasse

    (Gray, Macaskill, Dixon, Sexton)

    Spontaneous combustion in
    shipping containers

    (Gray, Macaskill)

    Elastic rods:
    Yarn spinning, undersea drilling
    and DNA supercoiling

    (Fraser, Champneys,
    van der Heijden
    )

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    Mathematical Physics

    Boundaries of
    supermanifolds

    (Luckock)

    Observables and the
    role of time in
    General Relativity

    (Luckock)

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