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Research projects for study commencing in 2024

Listed below are the research projects available for October 2024. 

Informal enquiries are encouraged and should be directed to the Postgraduate Research Tutor. Please ensure you read the Guide for applicants to check whether your question has already been answered.

* Indicates that the project has been listed as suitable for part-time PhD study.

Pure Mathematics

*The Relational Complexity of a Finite Permutation Group, supervisors: Dr Nick Gill and  Dr Bridget Webb

*Inner functions and complex dynamics, supervisors: Dr Vasiliki Evdoridou and  Prof Gwyneth Stallard

*Limit sets of semigroups of hyperbolic isometries, supervisors: Prof Ian Short and Dr Vasiliki Evdoridou 

Applied Mathematics

*Lacunarity, Anisotropy and Shape Statistics of Dynamical Fractals, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and  Dr Marc Pradas or Dr Katrine Rogers

*Accumulation of Diverging Trajectories, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and  Dr Marc Pradas

*Analysing Clouds, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and  Dr Marc Pradas

*Mathematical models of phytoplankton dynamics living under rapid Arctic sea ice melting, supervisors: Dr Ivan Sudakow and  Prof Pavel Berloff (Imperial College London)

*Complex systems with feedback: critical transitions and application for data-driven modelling, supervisors: Dr Ivan Sudakow and Dr Luke Mander (School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences)

*Theory and Simulation of Passive and Active/Living Liquid Crystals, supervisors: Dr Elsen Tjhung and Dr Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider

*Phoretic transport near finite interfaces, supervisors: Dr Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider and Dr Elsen Tjhung

Statistics

*A comprehensive approach to test for missing not at random, supervisors: Prof Stefanie Biedermann and Dr Karen Vines

*AI and Machine Learning in Human Genetics, supervisor: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari

*Resampling Methods for Supervised Learning from Extremely Class-imbalanced Data, supervisor: Dr Daniel Berrar

Reproducible and Accessible Statistical Genetics Workflows tested in Evolutionary Psychiatry, supervisors: Dr Colette Christiansen, Dr Wendi Bacon (School of Life, Health and Chemical Science) and Prof Stefanie Biedermann

Studying the Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity of South Asia, supervisor: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari

History of Mathematics

*Finding community: Women and mathematics 1700-1950, supervisors: Dr Brigitte Stenhouse and Prof June Barrow-Green

Mathematics Education

*Quantitative literacies outside school mathematics, supervisors: Prof Cathy Smith and Dr Vinay Kathotia