Research
The
research activities of the School of Mathematics and Statistics are
coordinated by its Centre for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM), which is spearheaded by a
group of internationally renowned researchers, who are experts in
different areas of applied mathematics and statistics:
John Boland, Associate Professor
Regina Burachik, Associate Professor
Vladimir Ejov, Associate Professor
Jerzy Filar, Professor
Vladimir Gaitsgory, Professor
Phil Howlett, Professor
Irene Hudson, Associate Professor
Desmond Lun, Associate Professor
Stanley J. Miklavcic, Professor
Anatoli Torokhti, Associate Professor
John van der Hoek, Associate Professor
Lee White, Professor
The School pursues both fundamental and applied research in a number of diverse areas of mathematics and statistics including
- Applied and Industrial Mathematics
- Applied Statistics
- Environmental Mathematics
- Financial Mathematics and Econometrics
- Mathematical Analysis, Dynamical Systems and Optimisation
- Phenomics and Bioinformatics
- Scheduling and Control
Opportunities exist for supervised research studies in these areas, leading to postgraduate (MSc or PhD) degrees.
The School is a key research partner in the national Rail CRC (Cooperative Research Centre), founded in 2001. This CRC was renewed for a second term of 6 years in 2007. The School is also actively engaged in consultancy work in areas including environmental modelling, scheduling and statistics.
The school also incorporates the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre (PBRC), which aims to conduct fundamental and applied research resulting in the development and application of computational techniques for the storage, manipulation, study, quantitative analysis, interpretation and visualisation of large biological, medical, behavioural and health data sets.