Vacation Research Scholarships 2006/07

For 2006-2007

Vacation Research Scholarship Projects 2006-2007
The Vacation Scholars, their research supervisors were as follows.

Australian National University

Paul Anthony Bryan

Dr Ben Andrews

The curve shortening flow

Simon Kitson

Prof. Alan Carey

Probability modelling

Deakin University

Simon James

G Beliakov

Aaggregation functions: properties and their visualizations

La Trobe University

Nathan Bock

Luke Prendergast

A sensitivity analysis of the ordinary least squares slope vector

Lincoln Grant

Luke Prendergast

Statistical analysis of financial time series

Delia Negrea

Mitra Jazageri

Extreme value theory in risk management

Macquarie University

Jacky Hin Lung Poon

Dr Gerry Myerson

Incongruent restricted disjoint covering systems

Monash University

David Hartley

Prof. Robert Bartnik

Minimal sumanifolds

Wendy Baratta

Assoc. Prof. Alan Pryde

The Laplace and Carleman spectra of Banach Space valued functions

Alex Lee

Dr Kais Hamza

Markov decision processes and the cutting problem

Martin Koslov

Dr Robert Bartnik

General investigations into the structure of 3+1 dimensional space times

James Nicholson

Dr Ian Wanless

Mutually orthogonal Latin Squares

RMIT University

Hua Min Situ

Dr Robin Hill

Aircraft response to gust

Natalie Aisbett

Assoc. Prof. Serdar Boztas

Orthogonal transforms applied to biometrics

Sam Sedgman

Dr John Gear and/or Dr Yan Ding

Acoustic wave propagation in gusty environments

Jessica Dunn

Prof. John Hearne

Individual based modeling of the endangered South African Black Rhino

Joshua Camm

Assoc. Prof. John Shepherd

Variational principles applied in film blowing

University of Adelaide

Edward Ross

Dr Finnur Larusson

A real Shabat polynomial

University of Melbourne

Jonathan Brailey

Dr Owen Jones

Estimating the time change of Brownian Motion

Mark Bennett

Assoc. Prof. Jerry Koliha

An introduction to C*-algebras

Matthew Kotros

Assoc. Prof. John Groves

Tropical geometry

Stephen McAteer

Assoc. Prof. Antoinette Tordesillas

Topological evolution and nonaffine mapping in complex materials

James Saunderson

Prof. Peter Forrester

Properties of a special Fuchsian Differential Equation

University of New South Wales

Laurence Field

Assoc. Prof. N. J. Wildberger

Chromogeometry and conic sections

Katharine Turner

Prof. M. G. Cowling

The geometry of hyperbolic platonic surfaces

Catheryn Gray

Dr J. Murray

Ontologies in biomedicine

Michelle Dunbar

Assoc. Prof. V. Jeyakumar

Non-linear optimisation in classification and gene selection

Ognjen Stancevic

Dr J. Murray

Selection in an uncertain environment

University of Newcastle

Daniel Sutherland

George Willis

Non-linear network dynamics: the groupoid formalism

University of Queensland

Ivan Miljenovic

Peter Adams

Constructing a special class of partial Latin Square

Sean Wilson

Victor Scharaschkin

Elliptic Curves

Ryan Deslandes

Victor Scharaschkin

Category Theory

James Caffrey

Dr A. P. Roberts

Simulation of X-ray scattering patterns

University of South Australia

Joel Yan Scen Ang

M Korolkiewicz

Real options approach to evaluating capital investment decisions

University of Sydney

Joanna Wang

Prof. John Robinson

Saddlepoint approximation of lattice random variables

Lydia Byrne

Assoc. Prof. Ruibin Zhang

Representations of the general linear algebra on polynomial rings over C

Jason Zhi Yong Chung

Dr Martin Wechulberger

Investigation of class 1 type models for calcium oscillations

Michael Donovan

Dr Anthony Henderson

Minimal permutation degrees

Julian Gibbons

Dr Jonathan Hillman

Kirby calculus and handle body theory

University of Western Australia

Christopher Hopper

Prof. Adrian Baddeley

Spatial point patterns in astronomy

University of Wollongong

Stephen Maher

Dr Grant Cox

Formation and excitation of a nanotorus orbiter

Victoria University

James Villigner

Dr Alisdair McAndrew

Randon number generators: algorithms and analysis