This year AMSI awarded 22 Vacation Research Scholarships.
Student
Supervisor
Topic
Deakin University
Shaowu Liu
Gleb Beliakov
Cutting plane approach to parallel sorting on GPUs
La Trobe University
Adam Rentsch
Marcel Jackson
Mathematical Investigations of Rhythm
Macquarie University
Christopher Nguyen
Paul Smith
Special functions
Monash University
James Kwiecinski
A/Prof. Michael Page
Unsteady Free Surface Flows
Peter Lin
Dr Gilbert Weinstein
Geodesics in General Relativity
Queensland University of Technology
Megan Farquhar
Daniel Mallett
Determining Efficient Boarding Strategies for Passenger Aircraft
Stuart Johnston
Matthew Simpson
Mathematical Modles of Cell Migration Incorporating Cell-to-Cell Adhesion
RMIT
Bradley O'Bree
Anthony Bedford
Predicting Match and Tournament Outcomes in Professional Golf
The University of Adelaide
William Crawford
Associate Professor Finnur Larusson
Finite Simple Groups, Trees, and Complex Polynomials
Kelli Francis-Staite
Dr Thomas Leistner
The Classical Groups
University of Newcastle
Mitchell Stewart Metcalfe
Natashia Boland
Scheduling Arc Outages so as to Maximize Network Flow Over Time
Matthew Tam
Jon Borwein
Alternating Projections
University of Queensland
Alexander Dunn
Dr. Victor Scharaschkin
Additive Combinatorics
University of Sydney
Alexander Campbell
Dr Zhou Zhang
Characteristic Classes
The University of Western Australia
Murray Smith
John Bamberg
Intriguing Sets of Strongly Regular Graphs
Tao Mantaras
Gordon Royle
Roots of Chromatic Polynomials
University of Wollongong
Thomas O'Brien
A/Prof David Pask
Higher Dimensional Graph Algebras, Quantum Spaces and Spectral Triples
Ben Whitehead
Mike Whittaker
Cohomology of the Pinwheel Tiling
The University of Melbourne
Yuxin Joy Chen
Professor Barry Hughes / Professor Kerry Landman
Mathematical Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems with Applications in Biology and Medicine
Ellen Muir
Professor Peter Taylor
Design of Incentives in Distributed Stochastic Networks
Timothy Trott
Professor Paul A. Pearce
Off-Critical Logarithmic Minimal Models