The project and dissertation is a pivotal element of the Honours year.

Your first task should be to find a supervisor and project you think will suit you.

Most staff work on a first-come-first-served basis, so we recommend you get in early.

Role of the supervisor

While your Honours supervisor is your first contact when you have any issues, your project is ultimately your own responsibility and a degree of independence on your part is expected.

You should clarify early in the year the pattern of contact that you and your supervisor are going to have.

Support from your project supervisor includes:

• Supervision meetings - student and supervisor usually meet weekly or fortnightly. Frequency of meetings increases as the project submission date approaches.
• Preparation of research proposal - your supervisor will assist you in the preparation of a research proposal which is required as part of the Scientific Communication course.
• Reading of drafts - your supervisor will read a couple of drafts of your final dissertation providing you provide sufficient time for them - they may need three days to a week to read your draft and make comments.
• Honours Seminar advice - your supervisor will provide advice for your Honours Seminar presentation in the Scientific Communication course.

Supervisors and project topics

1. Applied mathematics and operations research
2. Pure mathematics and discrete mathematics
3. Mathematical statistics and applied statistics
4. Group theory and combinatorics
   

Applied mathematics and operations research 

• Neville Fowkes: Modelling industrial and scientific problems
• Des Hill: Dynamical systems
• Jenny Hopwood: Atmospheric modelling
• Les Jennings: Numerical analysis, optimal control theory and applications
• Kevin Judd: Dynamical systems theory and non-linear time series analysis
• Grant Keady: Applied computer algebra - Projects available
  
• Song Wang: Computational mathematics and computational optimisation

Pure mathematics and discrete mathematics 

• Mike Alder: Pattern Recognition and modelling of cognitive processes
• John Bamberg: Computing the intersection of two groups, generalised quadrangles and their groups, intriguing sets of strongly regular graphs, semipartial geometries; is Sqrt(3) a free point?, spreads of symplectic spaces, weighted m-ovoids, the Barlotti-Cofman correspondence, maximal partial ovoids, vertex-primitive strongly regular graphs, S_3-involution graphs
  
• Michael Giudici: Permutation groups
• Cai Heng Li: Algebraic combinatorics and Group theory
• Bill Longstaff: Operator theory and functional analysis
• Alice Niemeyer(On leave): Computational Group Theory
• Lyle Noakes: Applications of differential geometry
• Cheryl Praeger: Group Theory, geometry and combinatorics
• Phil Schultz: Algebra, history of mathematics
• Luchezar Stoyanov: Fractal geometry, topological dynamics, differential dynamics and inverse spectral problems
• Bob Sullivan: Semi-group and ring theory, history of mathematics 

Mathematical statistics and applied statistics 

• Adrian Baddeley: Spacial statistics, image processing, stereology, statistical software, bioinformatics
• Nazim Khan: Probability and stochastic processes
• Robin Milne: Stochastic processes, statistical inference, industrial statistics, history of probability and statistics
• Kevin Murray: Applied statistics, biometrics, medical statistics
• Gopal Nair: Stochastic Modelling, Queuing theory, Spatial point processes, Probability Theory
  
• Tony Pakes: Probability and stochastic processes
• Valery Stefanov: Statistical inference, stochastic processes and applications
• Berwin Turlach: Computational statistics, smoothing techniques, model selection