Summer Scholarships 2008

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Mathematics Summer Scholarships - Updated list of proposed subjects

2008 Summer Scholarships were awarded to

1. Maryam Alavi Shooshtari – Numerical methods for Hamiltonian problems, with Robert Chan (FoS scholarship) - now PhD UoA
2. Pieta Brown – Simple games and threshold complexes, with Arkadii Slinko (FoS scholarship) - now BSc Maths/BLaw(Honours)
3. Lu Han – Non–linear ODEs and bifurcation theory, with Vivien Kirk - still BSc/BCom
4. William Kim – Ordinary differential equations, with Vivien Kirk/Mike Meylan - BSc(Hons) Maths
5. Jason Ko – Tight frames and their symmetries, with Shayne Waldron (FoS scholarship) - BSc(Hons0 Maths
6. Jamie Kydd – Physiological Modelling, with James Sneyd - PGDipSci
7. Peijie Lin - with Tom ter Elst - now PhD Australia
8. Shelley Ma – Oscillating chemical reactions, with James Sneyd/ David Williams (Chemistry) (FoS scholarship) - MSc
9. Chuang Men – Financial Mathematics, with Wiremu Solomon (FoS scholarship) - now BSc(Hons) Maths
10. David Miller – Mathematical Biology, with James Sneyd - Honours
11. Peter Mullins – with Sina Greenwood (FoS scholarship) - now Honours CompSci
12. Samuel Moore – Algebraic numbers in Nash equilibria for games, with Arkadii Slinko (FoS scholarship) - still BSc/BLaw
13. Geon Oh – Spinors and geometric stabilisers in dimension 8, with Paul-Andi Nagy - now MSc
14. Monique Otte – Mathematics Education, with Bill Barton - GDTSEC
15. Fei Pan – Mathematics Education, with Bill Barton - BSc
16. Matthew Randall – Geometry of partial differential equations, with Rod Gover (FoS scholarship) - now MSc
17. Keith Rudell - Mathematics Education, with Bill Barton (FoS scholarship)
18. Dominic Searles – Comparative probability and triangulations of polyhedra, with Marston Conder/ Arkadii Slinko (Grant of Marston and Paul Bonnington) - MSc, to pursue towards PhD overseas
19. Samira Shamailov – Non–linear ODEs and bifurcation theory, with Vivien Kirk (FoS scholarship) - Honours physics
20. Katie Sharp, with David Bryant / James Sneyd - now MSc
21. Martin Spencer – Tight Frames and their symmetries, with Shayne Waldron -BEng
22. Shaun White – Voting Theory, with Arkadii Slinko -BSc(Hons) Stats
23. Rachel Zhang – Valuing American Options by simulation, with Wiremu Solomon -
24. Wenjun Zhang - Bifurcation analysis of the Fitz Hugh Nagumo equation, with Vivien Kirk - now PhD UoA

Congratulations to all!!