School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research
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New VUW Statistical Consultant Appointed
08 Jan 2010 - 15:02 in Staff
Dr. Dalice Sim has accepted the post of statistical consultant and will begin work on 1 March 2010. Her office will be Cotton 533.
She will be available to staff and graduate students of the university for statistical consultation on research topics.
See also the Statistical Consulting Webpage.
Research Excellence Awards
17 Dec 2009 - 18:03 in Achievement
Adam Day has been awarded a Postgraduate Research Excellence Award. Adam is undertaking a PhD and is supervised by Professor Rod Downey and already has several publications to his credit.
Professor Geoff Whittle and Dr. Noam Greenberg have been awarded Victoria University Research Excellence Awards. Congratulations to them both.
Honour for Prof Matt Visser
18 Nov 2009 - 18:32 in Achievement
Professor Matt Visser has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Membership is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership and is recognition by his peers of his outstanding contributions to physics.
The citation, which will appear on his Fellowship Certificate, will read as follows:
“For contributions to gravity theory, especially the effects of energy condition violations and the development of analog models of black hole and cosmological spacetimes.”
“For contributions to gravity theory, especially the effects of energy condition violations and the development of analog models of black hole and cosmological spacetimes.”
Dr Hung le Pham awarded London Mathematical Society grant
14 Oct 2009 - 13:06 in Achievement
Congratulation to Dr Hung le Pham who has been awarded a London Mathematical Society grant for his project “Multi- norms and multi-Banach algebras”. The project involves a collaboration between Dr Garth Dales from the University of Leeds and Dr. Pham. Dr. Pham will be visiting the Universities of Leeds, Glasgow, Lancaster and Nottingham over the summer. This visit was arranged by Dr Matthew Daws of the University of Leeds who is one of the academics Dr. Pham will be working with during his visit.
Prospective graduate students
For information on graduate study in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research please click here. The University has information on how to apply for postgraduate programmes for Domestic Students and for International Students, and all prospective International students also should contact the University's International Office to avoid delays. The University offers a limited number of scholarships at both Masters and PhD level. There are scholarships for both Domestic Students and International Students. Please note -- some of the research topics listed below may have scholarships specifically attached. Contact the researcher concerned for more information.Thesis topics and supervisors
The following members of staff are offering postgraduate supervision:(this list is only partial at this stage, please see individual staff pages for research interests)
Mathematics
Dr Christopher Atkin - Infinite-dimensional geometry and its applications to analysis; groups of autohomeomorphisms of manifolds.
Dr Peter Donelan - Topics in singularities and invariants of robot manipulators, including applications of singularity theory, Riemannian geometry and computational invariant theory (Masters and PhD level)
Dr Noam Greenberg - Classical and higher computability theory (Masters, PhD) and Set theory (Masters level)
Dr Byoung Du Kim - Number theory with focus on arithmetic geometry (Masters)
Dr Hung Le Pham - Banach algebra theory (Masters)
Dr Dillon Mayhew - Matroid Theory (Masters and PhD level)
A/Prof Mark McGuinness - 1. The growth of sea ice - mathematical modelling of the growth of first year sea ice, with particular attention paid to the ice/ocean boundary, where turbulent flow and billows of frazil ice crystals complicate the picture. (A background in differential equations and numerical methods would be useful.) 2.Annealing steel coils - the radial transport of heat through layers of steel and hot gas is a limiting factor in factory furnaces, and a better mathematical understanding is needed. (A background in differential equations and numerical methods would be useful.)
Prof Geoff Whittle - Combinatorics, matroid theory (Masters or PhD level)
Statistics
Dr Richard Arnold - Capture Recapure analysis (with Dr Shirley Pledger); Bayesian statistics with applications to medicine and physics
Dr Yuichi Hirose - Missing data in semi-parametric models, Counting Process approach to time-to-event data (Masters and PhD level)
Prof Estate Khmaladze - A PhD Scholarship is available for work on newly discovered connections between set-valued analysis and statistics. See the description on http://www.fis.org.nz/BreakOut/vuw/schols.phtml?detail+500387
Prof Estate Khmaladze - 1. Statistical analysis of diversity. Theory of large number of rare events; 2. Application of geometry in statistical problems. Set-valued functions and statistics; 3. Goodness of fit theory. Testing statistical models; 4. Statistical analysis of tails of distributions. Extreme value theory and large deviations; 5. Stochastic processes in application to demography, finance and insurance; 6. Asymptotic statistical methods. Martingale methods in statistics; 7. Selected applications in biology, linguistics, finance.
Dr Ivy Liu - Ordinal Response Data Analysis
Dr Dong Wang - Multivariate analysis; Influence analysis for multivariate statistics; Diagnostic measures of censored regression; Operations research and applications in statistics.
Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda - Statistical genetics, Bayesian statistics (with applications in medicine and genetics), Statistical Process Control (with applications in healthcare and industry)
Operations Research
Dr Mark Johnston - Insight from visualization in combinatorial optimization (MSc); Integrating rewards with combinatorial optimization problems (MSc); Sports tournament scheduling and the travelling tournament problem (MSc); Sensitivity of numerical simplification in genetic programming (MSc); Addressing class imbalance in genetic programming for classification (MSc)
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