Research projects for October 2019
Listed below are the research projects available for study commencing 1st October 2019.
Informal enquiries are encouraged and should be directed to the Director of Research. 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 (self-funded) PhD study.
Pure Mathematics
- Infinite antichains in small permutation classes, supervisor: Dr Robert Brignall;
- Minimal classes of unbounded clique-width, supervisor: Dr Robert Brignall;
- Renormalization for asymmetric dynamical systems, supervisor: Dr Ben Mestel;
- Renormalization for area-preserving maps, supervisor: Dr Ben Mestel.
- Transcendental dynamics: Hausdorff dimension and itineraries, supervisors: Prof Phil Rippon and Prof Gwyneth Stallard.
- Transcendental dynamics: wandering domains of meromorphic functions, supervisors: Prof Phil Rippon and Prof Gwyneth Stallard.
Applied Mathematics
- Computer-assisted proofs in dynamical systems, supervisor: Dr Ben Mestel;
- Energy disaggregation problem for small and medium size enterprises, supervisor: Dr Ben Mestel;
- *Optimising superoscillatory functions for advances in super-resolution imaging and quantum simulations, supervisor: Dr Katrine Rogers;
- *Lacunarity, Anisotropy and Shape Statistics of Dynamical Fractals, supervisor: Prof Michael Wilkinson;
- *Accumulation of Diverging Trajectories, supervisor: Prof Michael Wilkinson;
- *Analysing Clouds, supervisor: Prof Michael Wilkinson.