PhD Alumni
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PhD Alumni
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2009
- Niels Bernhardt, supervised by Paul Andi Nagy & Rod Gover
- Thesis: Some classes of Spinorial Connections and their Holonomy
- Steve Mark Budden, supervised by David Gauld (with Sina Greenwood)
- Thesis: Knots and Quandles
- Elan Gin, supervised by James Sneyd
- Thesis: A mathematical model of the mechanisms underlying saliva secretion
- Allison L. Kohout, supervised by Mike Meylan
- Thesis: Water wave scattering by floating elastic plates with application to sea-ice
- Eyal Loz, supervised by Marston Conder & Josef Siran
- Thesis: Structural Graph Theory
- Greg Oates, supervised by Mike Thomas & Bill Barton
- Thesis: Integrated technology in the undergraduate mathematics Curriculum: A case study of computer algebra systems
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2008
- Judith Evelyn Patterson, supervised by Bill Barton
- Thesis: An Instrumental case study of a professional development intervention that uses unfamiliar mathematics to prompt secondary teachers' rethinking about learning and teaching
- Sepideh Stewart, supervised by Mike Thomas & Ivan Reilly
- Thesis: Understanding Linear Algebra Concepts Through the Embodied, Symbolic and Formal Worlds of Mathematical Thinking
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2007
- Gareth Hegarty, supervised by Stephen Taylor & Graeme Wake
- Thesis: Stabilisation of non linear beams
- Barbara Kensington-Miller, supervised by Bill Barton & Stuart McNaughton
- Thesis: Peer mentoring as a professional development strategy for Mathematics teachers in low socio-economic secondary schools in New Zealand
- Nicolette Rattenburry, supervised by John Butcher & Robert Chan
- Thesis: Almost Runge-Kutte Methods for Stiff and Non-stiff Problems
- Erin Rothwell Higgins, supervised by James Sneyd
- Thesis: Modelling calcium transients in cardiac myocytes
- Debashis Roy, supervised by To be announced.
- Thesis: Bayesian inversion for electrical conductance imaging
- Sasha Rubin, supervised by Eamonn O'Brien & Marston Conder & Bakhadyr Khoussainov
- Thesis: Automatic Structures
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2006
- Renu Choudhary, supervised by Bruce Calvert
- Thesis: Convergence of Lyapounov functions
- Nicoleen Cloete, supervised by Geoff Nicholls, Davis Scott & Allen Rodrigo
- Thesis: Stochastic geometry, data structures and applications of ancestral selection graphs
- Alan Gil Gutierrez delos Santos, supervised by Mike Thomas & Ivan Reilly
- Thesis: An investigation of students understanding and representation of derivative in a linear graphic calculator-mediated teaching and learning environment
- Barbara Joy Miller-Reilly, supervised by Margaret Morton & Constance Brown
- Thesis: Affective change in adult students in second chance Mathematics courses: Three different teaching approaches
- Josef Silan, supervised by Rod Gover
- Thesis: Invariant differential operations in conformal geometry
- David Welch, supervised by Geoff Nicholls, Allen Rodrigo & Wiremu Solomon
- Thesis: Stochastic models of population dynamics
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2005
- Jeffrey (Jianhua) Gong, supervised by Gaven Martin & Norm Levenberg
- Thesis: A Study of Quasiconformal Homogenity""
- Junying Huang, supervised by To be announced.
- Thesis: To be announced.
- Shin chang Huang, supervised by Jianbei An & Eamonn O'Brien
- Thesis: Dade's conjecture for the Chevalley groups G2(q) in the defining characteristic
- Shirley Huang, supervised by Robert Chan & John Butcher
- Thesis: Implementation of General Linear Methods for Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations
- William Wright, supervised by John Butcher & Robert Chan
- Thesis: General Linear Methods with Inherent Runge-Kutta Stability
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2004
- Aishath Shehenaz Adam, supervised by Bill Barton
- Thesis: Ethnomathematics in the Maldivian Curriculum: Trialling an Implementation
- Sione Na'a-Pangai Ma'u, supervised by Norm Levenberg
- Thesis: Plurisubharmonic Functions of Logarithmic Growth
- Jamie David Sneddon, supervised by Paul Bonnington & Maston Conder (with Margaret Morton)
- Thesis: Minors and planar embeddings of diagraphs
- Krasimira Todor Tsaneva-Atanasova, supervised by James Sneyd
- Thesis: A Mathematical Study of Calcium Oscillation and Waves
- Brian van Dam, supervised by David Gauld (with Mavina Vamanamurthy)
- Thesis: Construction of Topological Spaces via Resolutions
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2003
- Hyuck Chung, supervised by Colin Fox & Mike Meylan
- Thesis: Mathematical Studies of Wave Propagation in Sea-ice
- Sanka Liyanage, supervised by Mike Thoams & Kay Irwin
- Thesis: A Framework for Informal Assessment Questions Used by Secondary School Mathematics Teachers
- David Simpson, supervised by Vivien Kirk & James Sneyd
- Thesis: A Bifurcation Analysis of a Mathematical Model of Intracellular Calcium Waves
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2002
- Sanja Todorovic-Vasiljevic, supervised by Marson Conder & Eamonn O'Brien
- Thesis: Bounds on the number of automorphisms of a compact non-orientable surface of given genus
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2001
- Alona Ben-Tal, supervised by Vivien Kirk & Geoff Nicholls
- Thesis: A Study of Symmetric Forced Oscillators
- Grant Emms, supervised by Colin Fox
- Thesis: Active Sound Power Absorbers: Their Effect on Sound Transmission through Wall Openings
- Andrei Korobeinikov, supervised by Wayne Walker & Alex McNabb
- Thesis: Stability and Bifurcation of Deterministic Infectious Disease Models
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2000
- Mark Harmer, supervised by Boris Pavlov & Colin Fox
- Thesis: The Matrix Schrodinger Operator and Schrodinger Operator on Graphs
- Saraswathi Kota, supervised by Mike Thomas & Ivan Reilly
- Thesis: Affect and Problem Solving Performance: Modelling Relationships
- Tamsin Meaney, supervised by Bill Barton & Kay Irwin
- Thesis: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Community-negotiated Mathematics Curriculum Development Project
- Kerry Richardson, supervised by David Gauld & David McIntyre
- Thesis: Topological Languages and the Normal Moore Space Conjecture
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1999
- Jiling Cao, supervised by Ivan Reilly & Mavina Vamanamurthy
- Thesis: Asymmetric Topology and Topological Spaces Defined by Games
- Peter Dobcsanyi, supervised by Marston Conder & Peter Gibbons
- Thesis: Adaptations, Parallelisation and Applications of the Low-Index Subgroups Algorithm
- Sina Greenwood, supervised by David Gauld & David McIntyre
- Thesis: Non-metrisable Manifolds
- Ye Yoon Hong, supervised by Mike Thomas & Ivan Reilly
- Thesis: Promoting versatile understanding in integration using a computer
- Abdul Mohamad, supervised by David Gauld & David McIntyre
- Thesis: Metrization and Manifolds
- Maxine Pfannkuch, supervised by Chris Wild
- Thesis: Characteristics of Statistical Thinking in Empirical Enquiry
- Anjana Singh, supervised by John Butcher, Robert Chan & Philip Sharp
- Thesis: Parallel Diagonally Implicit Multistage Integration Methods for Stiff Ordinary Differential Equation
- Tsukasa Yashiro, supervised by Gaven J. Martin & John McKenzie
- Thesis: Constructing Immersions from Three-manifolds to Four-dimensional Space
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1998
- Tina Ming-Hua Chan, supervised by John Butcher
- Thesis: Algebraic Structures for the Analysis of Numerical Methods
- David Jen Lung Chen, supervised by John Butcher & Robert Chan
- Thesis: The Effective Order of Singly-Implicit Methods for Stiff Differential Equations
- Cameron Walker, supervised by Marston Conder
- Thesis: Symmetric Graphs with large vertex-stablelizers
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1997
- John Pearson, supervised by Paul Bonnington, Marston Conder & Peter Lorimer
- Thesis: Computational Results in Topological Graph Theory
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1996
- Bill Barton, supervised by Jim Marshall
- Thesis: Ethnomathematics:Exploring Cultural Diversity in Mathematics
- Ying Mai, supervised by John Butcher & Philip Sharp
- Thesis: Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear Evolutionary Problems: Generalized Finite Difference Methods
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1994
- Brent Everitt, supervised by Marston Conder
- Thesis: Images of Hyperbolic Reflection Groups
- Timothy Marshall, supervised by Gaven Martin
- Thesis: Hyperbolic Geometry and Reflection Groups
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1993
- Keching Liao, supervised by Bruce Calvert
- Thesis: The A.P. Integral
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1989
- Robert Chan, supervised by John Butcher & Kevin Burrage
- Thesis: Extrapolation of Runge-Kutta Methods for Stiff Initial-value Problems
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1987
- Mubin Ahmed Aziz, supervised by John Butcher
- Thesis: Runge-Kutta Methods for Oscillatory Problems
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1978
- Kevin Burrage, supervised by John butcher
- Thesis: Stability and Efficiency Properties of Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods
- William Hawkings, supervised by G.Tee, H.Mongomery, W.Richardson & K.Pledger
- Thesis: Napier's Mathematical Works
- Allison Heard, supervised by John Butcher
- Thesis: The Solution of the Order Conditions for General Linear Methods
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1966
- Donald Arthur Nield, supervised by Cecil M. Segedin
- Thesis: Extended Theory of the Bernard Convection Problem
