“The VRS project pushes you out of your intellectual comfort zone
and challenges you to learn new things and develop skills to
solve unexpected problems.”
Tobin South, The University of Adelaide
Research Projects
VRS research reports & student blogs are available for download via the student profiles. Please click on the links below under ‘Details’ to view student biographies and project abstracts.
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The VRS reports and blogs are written and proofed by individual authors and supervisors. Any of the opinions or work presented in these reports and blogs belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute or any of its staff.
Past Projects
2020/21
VRS Research Reports & Student Blogs are available for download via the Student Profile. Please click on the arrow under Details to view the Student Biography and Project Abstract.
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| University | Student | Supervisor(s) | Project Title | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian National University | Iulian Pavel Stoilescu | Associate Professor James Borger | Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry of Curves | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/pavel-stoilescu/ |
| Australian National University | Nicholas Bermingham | Dr Vanessa Robins | Entangled Structures | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/nick-bermingham/ |
| Curtin University | Ponpot Jartnillaphand | Dr Hoa Bui | Pallet-Packing Vehicle Routing Problem | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/ponpot-jartnillaphand/ |
| Deakin University | Bob La | Dr Julien Ugon | Piecewise Rational Approximation | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/bob-la/ |
| Flinders University | Susanna Grigson | Associate Professor Vladimir Ejov, Professor Robert Edwards & Professor Jim Mitchell | Hierarchical Classification of Protein Sequences | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/susanna-grigson/ |
| La Trobe University | Nauvoo Perez | Dr Hien Duy Nguyen | Predicting Relapse in Colorectal Cancer Patients Using Feature Extraction | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/nauvoo-perez/ |
| La Trobe University | Kristian Caracciolo | Dr Joel Miller | Control Strategies for a Superspreading Virus at Very Low Prevalence | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/kristian-caracciolo/ |
| Macquarie University | Peter (Hoang Nhat Huy) Nguyen | Dr Georgy Sofronov & Dr Houying Zhu | Efficient Estimation of Risk Measures Using Monte Carlo Methods | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/peter-nguyen/ |
| Macquarie University | Ashley (Yannan) Lin | Dr Georgy Sofronov & Dr Chong It Tan | Exploring Exotic Probability Theory | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/ashley-lin/ |
| Macquarie University | Gaurangi Gupta | Dr Georgy Sofronov & Dr Nan Zou | When Does Machine Learning Work in Time Series Forecasting? | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/gaurangi-gupta/ |
| Monash University | Jacob Vandenberg | Professor Santiago Badia & Dr Alberto Martin | Performance of Multiscale Finite Element Methods | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jacob-vandenberg/ |
| Monash University | Jiayu Li | Associate Professor Andrea Collevecchio & Associate Professor Kais Hamza | The Percolation on Cellular Automata | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jiayu-li/ |
| Monash University | Aram Perez | Dr Tim Garoni | Limit Theorems for the Curie-Weiss Model | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/aram-perez/ |
| Murdoch University | Monica Seeber | Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk | Accuracy and Limits of Nodal Surface Approximations of the Lonsdaleit Minimal Surface | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/monica-seeber/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Jack Powers | Associate Professor Paul Corry | Optimisation of Surgical Waiting List Management | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jack-powers/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Abhishek Varghese | Professor Christopher Drovandi | Adaptive Tolerance Selection for SMC ABC | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/abhishek-varghese/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Montana Wickens | Associate Professor Michael Bode | Optimal Control of Translocation Strategies for Threatened Australian Mammals | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/montana-wickens/ |
| RMIT University | Angus Walsh | Associate Professor Nicolas Menicucci | Entanglement Harvesting in Flat Spacetime | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/angus-walsh/ |
| RMIT University | Cameron Mclaren | Dr Arathi Arakala | Studying the Human Mobility Patterns in Victoria Pre- and Post-COVID-19 | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/cameron-mclaren/ |
| RMIT University | Eamonn Kashyap | Associate Professor Marc Demange | Online Colouring Overlap Graphs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/eamonn-kashyap/ |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Joshua Rogers | Dr Nathan Clisby | Accurate Multi-Gas Emissions Equivalence Modelling of Greenhouse Gases | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/joshua-rogers/ |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Ngoc Phuong Van Nguyen | Associate Professor Tonghua Zhang | Mathematical Modelling of Harmful Algal Blooms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/ngoc-phuong-van-nguyen/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Liam Blake | Associate Professor Sanjeeva Balasuriya | Improving Clustering Techniques for Identifying Lagrangian Coherent Structures | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/liam-blake/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Bridget Smart | Dr Lewis Mitchell | Understanding How Influence Affects Information Flow in Online Social Networks | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/bridget-smart/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Meg Tully | Dr Jennifer Flegg & Dr Sophie Zaloumis | Statistical Modelling of Malaria Parasite Clearance | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/meg-tully/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Ashley Hanson | Dr Mark Fackrell | The Price of Anarchy, the Price of Stability, and the Price of Communication in Interacting Intensive Care Units | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/ashley-hanson/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Michael Law | Dr Thomas Quella | Topological Phases in Quantum Systems with Quantum Group Symmetries | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/michael-law/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Gyu Hwan Park | Dr Heejung Shim | Variational Inference for Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorisation | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/gyu-hwan-park/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Rebecca Rasmussen | Professor Barry Hughes | What Kind of Random Walk are These Biological Cells Doing? | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/rebecca-rasmussen/ |
| The University of Melbourne | MohammadSaleh Naghdi | Dr Charles Hill & Dr Thomas Quella | Quantum Boltzmann Machines: An Investigation | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/saleh-naghdi/ |
| UNSW | Tiana Tsang Ung | Dr Thomas Britz | Computational Searches for Combinatorial Designs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/tiana-tsang-ung/ |
| UNSW | Juan Avila Molina | Dr Vera Roshchina | Finding the Body of Minimal Resistance | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/juan-avila-molina/ |
| UNSW | Sona Reddy | Dr Vera Roshchina & Vinesha Peiris | Distribution of Maximal and Minimal Deviation in Multivariate Chebyshev Approximation Problem | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/sona-reddy/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Cameron Shaw-Carmody | Professor Florian Breuer | Experimental Number Theory with Sage | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/cameron-shaw-carmody/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Bowen Parnell | Dr Hamish Waterer | Lot Sizing on a Cycle | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/bowen-parnell/ |
| The University of Queensland | Wilson Lorensyah | Dr Alan Huang | Robust Adjustments to Random Effects Models for Dispersed Counts | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/wilson-lorensyah/ |
| The University of Queensland | Marcus Flook | Dr Artem Pulemotov | Naturally Reductive Metrics on Homogeneous Spaces | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/marcus-flook/ |
| The University of Queensland | Benjamin Solomon | Dr Travis Scrimshaw | Super Box-Ball Systems | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/benjamin-solomon/ |
| The University of Sydney | Elizabeth Rose | Dr Robert Marangell | Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Convection Effects in Classical Snowball Earth Models | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/elizabeth-rose/ |
| The University of Sydney | Dibyendu Roy | Dr Alexander Fish | The Polynomial Method in Additive Combinatorics | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/dibyendu-roy/ |
| The University of Sydney | Andrew Rajchert | Dr Alexander Fish & Associate Professor Dzmitry Badziahin | Glasner Property for (Semi-)Group Actions | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/andrew-rajchert/ |
| The University of Sydney | Youheng Yao | Professor Stephan Tillmann | Representation Varieties of Once-Punctured Torus Bundles | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/youheng-yao/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Jack Mulqueeney | Dr Thomas Stemler & Dr Thomas Jüngling | Stochastic Modelling of Deterministic Time Series | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jack-mulqueeney/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Joshua Crawford | Professor Luchezar Stoyanov | Inverse Scattering in the Recovery of a Single Concave and a Finite Union of Disjoint Convex Obstacles | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/joshua-crawford/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Luke Thomas | Associate Professor Leandro Magnusson & Professor Inge Koch | The Robustness of Limited Dependent Variable Modles to Misspecification | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/luke-thomas/ |
| University of South Australia | Benjamin Babu | Dr Bronwyn Hajek & Associate Professor Marta Krasowska | Nanoscale Sessile Droplets Shape Prediction Comparison Between Theory and Experiment | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/benjamin-babu/ |
| University of Technology Sydney | John Cu | Professor Murray Elder | Length of Embedded Circuits in Geodetic Graphs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/john-cu/ |
| University of Wollongong | Alex Paviour | Associate Professor Adam Rennie & Dr Alexander Mundey | Facts Are Relative | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/alex-paviour/ |
| University of Wollongong | Tianze Wei | Associate Professor Mark Nelson | The Effect of Population Heterogeneity on the Spread of Contagious Diseases | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/tianze-wei/ |
| Western Sydney University | Anthony Warwick | Professor Roozbeh Hazrat | Order Ideal Relations and Structural Properties of Leavitt Path Algebras | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/anthony-warwick/ |
2019/20
VRS Research Reports & Student Blogs are available for download via the Student Profile. Please click on the arrow under Details to view the Student Biography and Project Abstract.
TIP: Use the search function to locate student by university or name
| University | Student | Supervisor(s) | Project Title | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian National University | James Morgan | Dr Vigleik Angeltveit | Model Categories | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/james-morgan/ |
| Deakin University | Duong Thuy Dung Le | Dr Dhananjay Thiruvady, Dr Sergey Polyakovskiy |
Advanced Solution Techniques to Multi-Component Optimisation Problems | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/duong-thuy-dung-le/ |
| La Trobe University | Julian Ceddia | Dr Anja Slim, Dr Joel Miller |
Bouncing Balls on Tables Vibrating With Two Frequencies | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/julian-ceddia/ |
| La Trobe University | Daniel Roberts | Dr Joel Miller | Ethical Considerations in Vaccine Hesitancy | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/daniel-roberts/ |
| La Trobe University | Aidan Brohm | Dr Grant Cairns, Dr Yuri Nikolayevsky |
Escher Configurations on Triangles | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/aidan-brohm/ |
| La Trobe University | Grace Klimek | Dr Tomasz Kowalski Dr Chris Taylor |
Conway's Tiling Groups | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/grace-klimek/ |
| La Trobe University | An Ky Duy Nguyen | Dr Yuri Nikolayevsky | Stability of Geodesics on Three-Dimensional Lie Groups | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/an-ky-duy-nguyen/ |
| Macquarie University | Matthew Hanna | Dr Georgy Sofronov | Optimising Probability Inequalities and its Theoretical Implications | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/matthew-hanna/ |
| Monash University | Baihe Zhang | Dr Andrea Collevecchio | The Geometry of Nash Equilibria | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/baihe-zhang/ |
| Monash University | Connor Mallon | Dr David Lee, Professor Santiago Badia |
Numerical Simulation of Pressure Drops from Patient-Specific 4D MRIs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/connor-mallon/ |
| Monash University | Jia Jia Qian | Dr Julie Clutterbuck | Recent Progress in Planar Curves | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jia-jia-qian/ |
| Monash University | Will Veenman | Professor Nick Wormald | Determining the Metric Dimension of Random Regular Graphs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/will-veenman/ |
| Murdoch University | George Malone | Dr Alethea Rea, Professor Brenton Clarke |
Monte Carlo Simulation Comparing Maximum Likelihood and L2 Estimates for ACTH Levels in Equids (Horses) | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/george-malone/ |
| Murdoch University | Louise Branch-Smith | Associate Professor Nicola Armstrong | Getting the Most Out of Electropherograms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/louise-branch-smith/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Caren Rattray | Associate Professor Michael Bode | The Perverse Incentives of Strong Enforcement | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/caren-rattray/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Jonah Klowss | Dr Elliot Carr | Finite Transition Times for Diffusion-Decay Problems | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jonah-klowss/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Joshua Wilson | Dr Elliot Carr, Professor Timothy Moroney |
Computational Modelling Using Exponential Integrators | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/joshua-wilson/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Michael Carr | Assistant Professor Chris Drovandi, Professor Matthew Simpson |
Advanced Bayesian Statistical Inference Methods for Simulation-Based models in Cell Biology | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/michael-carr/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Reuben Hill | Dr Pascal Buenzli | Modelling of Tissue Formation on 3D-printed Scaffolds | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/reuben-hill/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Stefano Giannini | Associate Professor Petrus Heijster | Multi-Pulse Solutions in a Generalised Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/stefano-giannini/ |
| RMIT University | Lucky Antonopoulos | Dr Nicolas Menicucci | Continuous-Variable Wigner Representation of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill-Encoded Quidits | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/lucky-antonopoulos/ |
| RMIT University | Bayan Khalili | Dr Alice Johnstone | Comparison of Pre-Processing Normalisation Techniques Used in the Bioinformatic Analyses of RNA-Seq Data | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/bayan-khalili/ |
| RMIT University | Stephanie Fuser | Associate Professor Stephen Davis | Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Model for Cyprinid Herpes Virus 3 as a Biocontrol Agent of Common Carp | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/stephanie-fuser/ |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Holly Casey | Associate Professor Federico Frascoli | Understanding the Mechanisms of Fate Determination during T Cell Development: A Mathematical Model | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/holly-casey/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Yuchen Jiang | Professor Finnur Larusson | Exploring Toposes | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yuchen-jiang/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Christina Tait | Dr Jonathan Tuke | Association Network of World War One Primary Sources | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/christina-tait/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Eunice Blessica Yuwono | Dr Edward Green, Dr Emily Hackett-Jones |
Mathematical Modelling of Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/eunice-blessica-yuwono/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Jesse Tonkin | Dr Barry Cox, Dr Mike Chen |
3D printing for Biofabrication | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jesse-tonkin/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Lin Jiang | Dr Edward Green, Dr Mike Chen |
Fixing Sore Knees: Mechanics of Artificial Cartilage | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/lin-jiang/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Megan Crossing | Professor Matthew Roughan | Analysis of Information Entropy in Constructed Languages | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/megan-crossing/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Sean McGowan | Dr Jonathan Tuke, Dr Mike Chen |
PDE Discovery Using Machine Learning | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/sean-mcgowan/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Yong See Foo | Dr Heejung Shim | A Comparison of Bayesian Inference Techniques for Sparse Factor Models | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yong-see-foo/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Kulunu Dharmakeerthi | Professor Kate Smith-Miles | Generating New Instance Spaces for Stress-Testing Classification Algorithms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/kulunu-dharmakeerthi/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Rohan Hitchcock | Dr John Bamberg, Professor Michael Giudici |
Alternative Construction of Groups of Type E6 | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/rohan-hitchcock/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Matthew Walker | Dr Jesse Collis, Professor John Sader |
Vector Spherical Harmonics and Their Application to Nanoparticles Trapped in an Acoustic Field | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/matthew-walker/ |
| The University of New England | Ana Vintila | Professor Brenda Vo | Study and Application of Concept-Extraction Algorithms in Statistical and Programming Sciences | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/ana-maria-vintila/ |
| The University of New England | Nicholas Garrett | Dr Matthew Cooper | Curve Shortening Flow and Grayson's Theorem | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/nicholas-garrett/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Aditya Joshi | Professor Brian Alspach, Professor George Willis, Associate Professor Jeffrey Hogan |
Fourier Analysis on Graphs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/aditya-joshi/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Jack Berry | Dr Stephan Tornier | Groups Acting on Trees Without Involutive Inversions | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jack-berry/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Thomas McCarthy McCann | Dr Ali Eshragh | Nexus Between Randomised Numerical Linear Algebra and Big Time Series Data | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/thomas-mccarthy-mccann/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Luke Yerbury | Dr Ali Eshragh, Dr Glen Livingston Jr |
A New Algorithm for Analysing Big Time Series Data | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/luke-yerbury/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Mikayla Goodwin | Dr Robert King | Effect Size Measures, Sampling Behaviour and Use Across Fields of Study | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/mikayla-goodwin/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Thomas Vandenberg | Associate Professor Mike Meylan | Bragg Edge Neutron Strain Tomography | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/thomas-vandenberg/ |
| The University of Queensland | Jonathan Wilton | Professor Dirk Kroese | Design of Neural Networks Using Randomised Algorithms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jonathan-wilton/ |
| The University of Queensland | Nicholas Maurer | Associate Professor Tony Roberts | Solving 2D Unconditional MFPT Problems with Arbitrary Confining Geometries | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/nicholas-maurer/ |
| The University of Sydney | Cameron Eggins | Associate Professor Stephan Tillmann | Convex Projective Surfaces | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/cameron-eggins/ |
| The University of Sydney | Kenneth Guo | Dr Zhou Zhou | Optimal Exit Times in a Declining Industry | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/kenneth-guo/ |
| The University of Sydney | Martin Gossow | Professor Georg Gottwald, Dr Lachlan Smith |
Mixing, Twisty Puzzles, and the Fractal Geometry of Piecewise Isometries | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/martin-gossow/ |
| The University of Sydney | Samantha Chew | Professor Jean Yang | Methods Towards Precision Medicine | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/samantha-chew/ |
| The University of Sydney | Steven Condell | Dr Jonathan Spreer | Graph-Encoded Manifolds | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/steven-condell/ |
| The University of Sydney | Tony Wang | Dr Nathan Brownlowe, Dr Zahra Afsar |
C?-Algebras of Self-Similar Groupoid Actions on Higher Rank Graphs | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/tony-wang/ |
| The University of Sydney | Yee Chin | Dr Nathan Brownlowe | Compact Quantum Groups | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yee-chin/ |
| The University of Western Australia | David Perrella | Professor Luchezar Stoyanov | Inner Product Spaces on Subsets of the Powerset of Riemannian Manifolds | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/david-perrella/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Timothy Chapman | Professor Inge Koch | Feature Extraction of Wheat Data from Genotypes and Peptide Sequences | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/timothy-chapman/ |
| The University of Western Australia | David Adams | Professor Enrico Valdinoci | Can Machines Learn Like Fish? An Application of Simulated Multi-Timescale Nexting | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/david-adams/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Aaron Jenkins | Professor Michael Giudici | Understanding and Exploring Skew Morphisms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/aaron-jenkins/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Luke Robinson | Professor Snezhana Abarzhi | Interface Stability and Interplay of Surface Tension and Inertial Stabilisation Mechanisms | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/luke-robinson/ |
| University of South Australia | Zhou Dai | Professor Jiuyong Li | Study of Causal Inference Techniques for Data-Driven Personalised Decision-Making | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/zhou-dai/ |
| University of Tasmania | Alex Oakley | Professor Anya Reading, Professor Larry Forbes |
Appraisal of Machine Learning Evaluation Techniques in the Context of Glacier-Generated Events | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/alex-oakley/ |
| University of Technology Sydney | Alexander Hiller | Professor Anthony Dooley | Harmonic Analysis on Lie Groups and Applications to Optical Communications | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/alexander-hiller/ |
| University of Technology Sydney | Rory Jacques | Professor Anthony Dooley | Lie Symmetries of Stochastic Differential Equations | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/rory-jacques/ |
| University of Wollongong | Amelia Lee | Dr Ben Whale | A Computational Approach to the Conjugacy Problem | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/amelia-lee/ |
| University of Wollongong | Dion Nikolic | Professor Aidan Sims, Professor Glen Wheeler |
Fredholm Operators and Differential Equations | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/dion-nikolic/ |
| University of Wollongong | Dean Noble | Professor Glen Wheeler | Nonlinear Galerkin Methods | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/dean-noble/ |
| University of Wollongong | Dylan Green | Dr Maureen Edwards | Compactly Supported Solutions Through Symmetries | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/dylan-green/ |
| Western Sydney University | Daniel Stratti | Dr Laurence Park | Rank Embeddings for Detecting Ranking Outliers | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/daniel-stratti/ |
2018/19
VRS Research Reports & Student Blogs are available for download via the Student Profile. Please click on the arrow under Details to view the Student Biography and Project Abstract.
TIP: Use the search function to locate student by university or name
| University | Student | Supervisor(s) | Project title | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Adelaide | Alexander Lai De Oliveira |
Professor Finnur Larusson |
Schemes and Their Functors of Points | https://vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-alexander-lai-de-oliveira/ |
| The University of Adelaide | James McCusker | Dr Thomas Leistner |
Quarternions and Octonions | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-james-mccusker/ |
| The University of Adelaide | John Davey | Dr Lewis Mitchell | Do the Rich get Richer on Reddit? |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-john-davey/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Scott Carnie-Bronca | Dr Giang Nguyen | A Markov-Chain-Based Investigation into Renewable Energy Storage in South Australia | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-scott-carnie-bronca/ |
| The University of Adelaide | William Abbottt | Dr Giang Nguyen | Modelling Wind Farm Power Output Using Hidden Markov Models and its Implications for South Australian Wind Farms |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-william-abbott/ |
| The Australian National University | Alexander Cox | Dr Michael Norrish | Proof of Calculi Equivalence in the HOL Theorem Prover | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-alexander-cox/ |
| The Australian National University | Douglas Coulter | Dr Laurence Field | Harmonic Functions and Brownian Motion | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-douglas-coulter/ |
| The Australian National University | James Martini | Professor Steve Roberts | Uncertainty Quantification and Aerofoil Simulations | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-james-martini/ |
| The University of Sydney | Michael Zhao | Associate Professor Stephan Tillmann | Trisecting Hyperbolic 4- Manifolds |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-michael-zhao/ |
| Deakin University | Rudra Kumar | Sophie McKenzie, Dr Shaun Bangay | Evaluating an Augmented-Reality Experience to Determine Play Strategies | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-rudra-kumar/ |
| La Trobe University | Emily Groves | Dr Yuri Nikolayevsky, Associate Professor Grant Cairns | Drawings of the Complete Graphs K_5 and K_6, and the Complete Bipartite Graph K_{3,3} | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-emily-groves/ |
| La Trobe University | Jade Bujeya | Dr Toen Castle, Dr Hien Nguyen | Chemical Geometry and Topology | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jade-bujeya/ |
| La Trobe University | Kevin Newman | Dr Natalie Karavarsamis, Dr Hien Nguyen | Is Anybody Home? Modelling Frog Occupancy at the La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-kevin-newman/ |
| La Trobe University | Phillip Newbold | Dr Natalie Karavarsamis | An R Package for Occupancy Model Parameter Estimation Using the Two-Stage Approach | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-phillip-newbold/ |
| Macquarie University | Andy Tang | Dr Georgy Sofronov | Analysis of Chances of Winning in a Poker Game: Combinatorial Probability and the Law of Large Numbers | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-andy-tang/ |
| Macquarie University | Hugh Entwistle | Dr Georgy Sofronov | Rate of Convergence for the Central Limit Theorem | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-hugh-entwistle/ |
| Macquarie University | Shay Tobin | Dr Frank Valckenborgh | The Geometric and Probabilistic Structure of Classical Physical Theories | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-shay-tobin/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Adrian Hendrawan Putra | Dr Marcy Robertson |
A Topological Study of the Grothendieck-Teichmüeller Group | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-adrian-hendrawan-putra/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Alex Savvinos | Professor John Sader | Propulsion of Small-Scale Devices in Gas | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-alex-savvinos/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Amir Farid Kaveh | Professor James McCaw |
Modelling the Effect of Multidrug Therapy on the Dynamics of Influenza A Infection in a Human Host | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-amir-farid-kaveh/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Jonathon Liu | Dr Thomas Wong, Dr Nicholas Beaton | Directed Walk Model for Polymer Propagation | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jonathon-liu/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Leo Li | Dr Thomas Wong, Dr Nicholas Beaton | Polymer Models and Directed Walks | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-leo-li/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Somya Mehra | Dr Jennifer Flegg, Professor James McCaw | Developing a Within-Host Model for Plasmodium Vivax in an Endemic Setting | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-somya-mehra/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Stephen Zhang | Professor Barry Hughes | Multi-Species Exclusion Processes with Motion Persistence | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-stephen-zhang/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Tim Kay | Professor John Sader, Jesse Collis | Hydrodynamic Particle Trapping in Microvortices | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tim-kay/ |
| Monash University | Chang Yu Wang | Associate Professor Todd Oliynyk | Gravitational Waves: A Mathematical Analysis | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-chang-yu-wang/ |
| Monash University | Eliza Jones | Dr Anja Slim | Dynamics of Compound Droplets | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-eliza-jones/ |
| Monash University | Kshitija Vaidya | Dr Santiago Barrera Acevedo | Cocyclic Hadamard Matrices |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-kshitija-vaidya/ |
| Monash University | Kyria Wawryk | Dr Leo Brewin | Precession of the Perihelia in a Schwarzschild Spacetime | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-kyria-wawryk/ |
| Monash University | Siksha Sivaramakrishnan | Dr Julie Clutterbuck | Symmetrisations and Other Rearrangement Inequalities | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-siksha-sivaramakrishnan/ |
| Murdoch University | Michelle Gardiner | Dr Gerd Schroeder-Turk | A Computational Mathematics Study of Disordered Analogues of Triply-Periodic Minimal Surfaces | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-michelle-gardiner/ |
| University of Newcastle | Alastair Anderberg | Dr David Robertson | Random Walks on Derived Graphs | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-alastair-anderberg/ |
| University of Newcastle | Chloe Wilkins | Dr Bishnu Lamichhane | Modelling with Differential Equations | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-chloe-wilkins/ |
| University of Newcastle | Max Carter | Professor George Willis | Free Products of Graphs | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-max-carter/ |
| University of Newcastle | Peter Groenhout | Professor George Willis, Dr Colin Reid | Simple Groups of Infinite Matrices | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-peter-groenhout/ |
| University of Newcastle | William Roland-Batty | Dr Jeffrey Hogan | Fourier Optics, Hermite Functions and Prolates | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-william-roland-batty/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Christyn Wood | Dr Elliot Carr | Calculating Thermal Diffusivity from Laser Flash Experiments | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-christyn-wood/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Jamie Owen | Dr Belinda Spratt | Outpatient Scheduling in Public Hospitals | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jamie-owen/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Kanupriya Agarwal | Associate Professor Michael Bode | How to Measure a Halo | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-kanupriya-agarwal/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Ryan Watson | Dr Elliot Carr | Extracting Insight Into Advection-Dispersion Processes Through Moment Analysis | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-ryan-watson/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Solene Hegarty-Cremer | Dr Pascal Buenzli, Professor Matthew Simpson | A Grid-Based Particle Method for Solving Hyperbolic Curvature Flows | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-solene-hegarty-cremer/ |
| RMIT | Daniel Glasson | Dr Graham Clarke | Cayley Graphs of Finite Semigroups | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-daniel-glasson/ |
| RMIT | Daniel Molent | Professor Andrew Eberhard | Experiments with Trust Regions and the BFGS Method in Nonsmooth Optimisation | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-daniel-molent/ |
| RMIT | Genevieve Batten | Dr Stephen Davis | Mathematical Modelling of the Long-Term Dynamics of Cyprinid Herpes Virus 3 | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-genevieve-batten/ |
| RMIT | Guo Feng Anders Yeo | Dr Vural Aksakalli | Key Phrase Identification and Clustering in Internet Advertising | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-guo-feng-anders-yeo/ |
| RMIT | Shidan Liu | Dr Laleh Tafakori | Predicting Behaviour of Financial Systems Based on a Multivariate GARCH Perspective and Dynamical Network | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-shidan-liu/ |
| The University of Sydney | John Su | Dr Emi Tanaka | Diagnostic Tools for Linear Mixed Models | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-john-su/ |
| The University of Sydney | Nicholas Fazio | Associate Professor Peter Kim | Mathematical Modeling of Mating Strategies among Primates | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-nicholas-fazio/ |
| The University of Sydney | Timothy Lapuz | Dr Milena Radnovic | Modelling of Infectious Diseases | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-timothy-lapuz/ |
| The University of Sydney | William Trad | Dr Daniel Hauer | Powers of Maximal Monotone Operators | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-william-trad/ |
| University of New England | Daniel Sykes | Professor Gerd Schmalz | Rigid Spheres and Algebraically Special Solutions in General Relativity | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-daniel-sykes/ |
| University of New England | Mitchell Harris | Dr Thomas Kalinowski | Convex Hulls of Graphs of Structured Bilinear Functions | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-mitchell-harris/ |
| University of South Australia | Maria Kapsis | Dr Amie Albrecht | Optimal Partitioning of Photovoltaic Cells on a Curved Solar Collector | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-maria kapsis/ |
| University of South Australia | Thomas Miller | Dr Peng Zhou, Dr Peter Pudney | Optimal Cruise Control with Dual Electric Motors | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-thomas-miller/ |
| UNSW | Ian Powell | Associate Professor Jake Olivier, Dr Maarit Laaksonen | Estimating Population Attributable Fractions in the Presence of Competing Risks | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-ian-powell/ |
| UNSW | Rumi Salazar | Professor Michael Cowling | The Shape of a Drum | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-rumi-salazar/ |
| University of Wollongong | James Lawless | Associate Professor Adam Rennie, Ben Whale | Measure Theoretic Definition of Black Hole Area | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-james-lawless/ |
| University of Wollongong | Ngoc Lan Chi (Emma) Nguyen | Dr Xiaoping Liu | Laplace Transform Approach to Pricing Convertible Bonds | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-ngoc-lan-chi-emma-nguyen/ |
| University of Wollongong | Theresa O'Brien | Associate Professor Mark Nelson | A Giggle a Minute: Agent-Based Modelling of Laughter Propagation in an Audience | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-theresa-obrien/ |
| University of Wollongong | Vivien Yeung | Associate Professor Mark Nelson | Baking Cake: A Mathematical Model | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-vivien-yeung/ |
| University of Queensland | Gavrilo Sipka | Dr Valentin Buciumas | Fusion Categories from Representations of Quantum sl(2) at Roots of Unity | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-gavrilo-sipka/ |
| University of Queensland | Jackson Ryder | Professor Diane Donovan | Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in African Countries | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jackson-ryder/ |
| University of Queensland | Jacquie Omnet | Dr Chris van der Heide | Non-Uniqueness and Singularities in Geometric Partial Differential Equations | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jacquie-omnet/ |
| University of Queensland | Rohin Berichon | Dr Ramiro Lafuente | Closed Geodesics on Euclidean Homogeneous Spaces | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-rohin-berichon/ |
| University of Technology Sydney | Daniel Condon | Dr Adel Rahmani | Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Structured Datasets | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-daniel-condon/ |
| University of Technology Sydney | Thomas Goodwin | Professor Anthony Dooley | The Mathematics of Neuron Flows in the Brain | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-thomas-goodwin/ |
| University of Western Australia | James Evans | Dr John Bamberg | The Symmetries of Generalised Polygons | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-james-evans/ |
| Western Sydney University | Sajit Gurubacharya | Dr Laurence Park | Detection of Racism in Social Networks | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-sajit-gurubacharya/ |
2017/18
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| University | Student | Supervisor(s) | Project title | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Adelaide | Rose Crocker | Associate Professor Sanjeeva Balasuriya | Extracting coherently moving flow structures from fluid flows | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-rose-crocker/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Miriam Slattery | Dr Giang Nguyen | Optimal Animal Foraging in a Two-Dimensional World | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-miriam-slattery/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Tobin South | Dr Lewis Mitchell, Professor Matthew Roughan | Network Analysis of the Spotify Artist Collaboration Graph | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tobin-south/ |
| The University of Adelaide | Michael Ucci | Professor Patty Solomon, Associate Professor John Moran | Using Meta-Analysis and Statistical Learning to Identify Sepsis Biomarkers |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-michael-ucci/ |
| The University of Adelaide | James Beck | Professor Patty Solomon | A statistical study to validate the ICON-S staging system for a South Australian cohort of patients with HPV-positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-james-beck/ |
| The Australian National University | Jane Tan | Dr Vigleik Angeltveit | Spectral sequences in algebraic topology | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jane-tan/ |
| The Australian National University(The University of Sydney) | Edric Wang | Associate Professor Scott Morrison | Tensor Categories | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-edric-wang/ |
| The Australian National University | Dominique Douglas-Smith | Associate Professor Barry Croke | Nonlinear unit hydrograph models of rainfall-streamflow events for water quality analysis | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-dominique-douglas-smith/ |
| Federation University | Tanya Pedersen | Dr Diederik Roijers, Dr Dean Webb, Associate Professor Peter Vamplew | Determining and Evaluating Bounded Algorithms for MOMAB | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tanya-pedersen/ |
| La Trobe University | Yao Tang | Dr Grant Cairns, Dr Yuri Nikolayevsky | Algebra and geometry of quandles | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-yao-tang/ |
| La Trobe University | Patrick Adams | Dr Yuri Nikolayevsky, Dr Grant Cairns | Planar Graphic Sequences | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-patrick-adams/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Jiangrong Ouyang | Dr Sophie Hautphenne | Stochastic models for populations with a carrying capacity | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jiangrong-ouyang/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Bing Liu | Dr Laleh Tafakori | Forecasting of Realised Variance Measure | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-bing-liu/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Benjamin Metha | Dr Jennifer Flegg | Modelling the spread of malaria and antimalarial drug resistance | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-benjamin-metha/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Tianhe Xie | Professor David Balding, Dr Jennifer Flegg | The population history of indigenous Australians: what can the available genetic data tell us? | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tianhe-xie/ |
| The University of Melbourne | Finn McGlade | Dr Yaping Yang, Professor Arun Ram | Notes on alcove path models and affine Springer fibres | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-finn-mcglade/ |
| Monash University | Marcus Pensa | Dr Mark Flegg | An inverse modified Helmholtz problem for identifying morphogen sources from sliced biomedical image data | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-marcus-pensa/ |
| Monash University | Robert Hickingbotham | Professor Andreas Ernst | Splitting integer linear programs with a Lagrangian axe | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-robert-hickingbotham/ |
| Monash University | Sean Malcolm | Dr Norman Do | Parallelogram polyominoes, partitions and polynomials | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-sean-malcolm/ |
| Monash University | Michael Fotopoulos | Dr Yann Bernard | Functionals of higher-order derivatives of curvature for surfaces | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-michael-fotopoulos/ |
| Monash University | Tim Banova | Dr Michael Payne | Colouring intersection graphs of complete geometric graphs |
vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tim-banova/ |
| Monash University | Phillip Luong | Professor Hans De Sterck, Professor Grégoire Loeper | Numerical Optimisation Applied to Monte Carlo Algorithms for Finance | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-phillip-luong/ |
| Monash University | Asama Qureshi | Dr Yann Bernard, Ting-Ying Chang | Estimating constants in generalised Wente-type estimates | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-asama-qureshi/ |
| Monash University | Drew Mitchell | Professor Hans De Sterck | Numerical Optimisation Methods for Big Data Analytics | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-drew-mitchell/ |
| Monash University | Liam Hernon | Dr Norman Do, Dr Josh Howie | Knots, polynomials and triangulations | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-liam-hernon/ |
| The University of Newcastle | Riley Cooper | Dr Hamish Waterer | Lot Sizing on a Cycle | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-riley-cooper/ |
| The University of Sydney | Leo Jiang | Dr Zsuzsanna Dancso | Niemeier Lattices and Homological Algebra | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-leo-jiang/ |
| The University of Sydney | Yilun He | Associate Professor Uri Keich, Kristen Emery | Confidence control for false discovery proportion | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-yilun-he/ |
| The University of Sydney | Yueyi Sun | Professor Beniamin Goldys | Can we make money using the game theory? | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-yueyi-sun/ |
| The University of Sydney | Ruebena Dawes | Dr Michelle Dunbar | Mathematics in Medicine: Using Optimisation to Improve Cancer Treatment | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-ruebena-dawes/ |
| The University of Sydney | Syamand Hasam | Associate Professor Uri Keich | The Effects of Dependency in False Discovery Estimation Using Target-Decoy Competition | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-syamand-hasam/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Tamara Tambyah | Professor Matthew Simpson | Incorporating FUCCI technology in discrete random walk models of collective cell spreading | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-tamara-tambyah/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Joel Rutten | Dr Pascal Buenzli, Professor Matthew Simpson | Patterns in Turing patterns: sequential growth and the inhibitory cascade | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-joel-rutten/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Jacob Ryan | Professor Scott McCue | Reaction diffusion models for cell motion | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-jacob-ryan/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Steven Kedda | Professor Fawang Liu | Parameter Estimation for the Fractional Order Nonlinear Dengue and Epidemic Models | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-steven-kedda/ |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Chrishan Christesious Aloysious | Dr Tonghua Zhang | Time delays in modelling the bubble chain system | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-chrishan-christesious-aloysious/ |
| The University of Western Australia | Vishnu Mangalath | Professor Lyle Noakes | Simplicial homology and computation from nerves | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-vishnu-mangalath/ |
| University of Wollongong | Angus Alexander | Associate Professor Adam Rennie, Professor Alan Carey | Dirac operators on manifolds and applications to physics | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-angus-alexander/ |
| University of Wollongong | Quinn Patterson | Associate Professor Adam Rennie, Professor Alan Carey | Differential operators on manifolds and positive scalar curvature | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-quinn-patterson/ |
| University of Wollongong | Lachlann O'Donnell | Dr Glen Wheeler | Fully nonlinear curvature flow | vrs.amsi.org.au/student-profile-lachlann-odonnell/ |