| Supervisor Name |
Research Areas |
Telephone |
Email address |
| Dr. Vyacheslav Abramov |
Theory of queuing systems; application of qyeuing systems |
+61 3 990 54474 |
Vyacheslav.Abramov@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Jesse Andries |
Solar physics, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), MHD waves and spectroscopy, spectral analysis, coronal seismology. |
+61 3 9905 4420 |
Jesse.Andries@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Maria Athanassenas |
Partial differential equations; differential geometry; geometric diffusion problems; calculus of variations; geometric measure theory; capillarity. |
+61 3 9905 4462 |
maria.athanassenas@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Robert Bartnik |
Einstein equations; black hole geometry; spacetime energy; differential geometry; analysis of partial differential equations; numerical methods for Einstein equations. |
+61 3 9905 4484 |
robert.bartnik@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Gareth Berry |
Focussed on synoptic-dynamic meteorology, primarily in the tropics; interested in elucidating the pertinent dynamics that govern atmospheric processes on the synoptic and mesoscales, especially their interactions; uses a blend of in-situ and remote sensing observations to compliment results from reanalysis products and numerical models in order to address research questions. |
+61 3 9905 4466 |
Gareth.Berry@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Leo Brewin |
Numerical solution of Einstein's equations; numerical algorithms. |
+61 3 9905 4456 |
leo.brewin@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Boris Buchmann |
Statistics and fluctuation theory of stochastic processes and time series |
+61 3 990 59760 |
Boris.Buchmann@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Paul Cally |
Solar physics; magnetohydrodynamics; helioseismology; MHD waves. |
+61 3 9905 4471 |
paul.cally@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Eric Chu |
Numerical analysis; especially numerical linear algebra, and applications in vibration analysis; engineering design and control system design. |
+61 3 9905 4480 |
eric.chu@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Simon Clarke |
Evolution of nonlinear waves in geophysical fluid dynamics. This includes analytic and numerical techniques for the investigation of such problems, and an understanding of the flows in which such waves occur. |
+61 3 9905 4421 |
simon.clarke@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Laura Davies |
The physical processes of convection and how the representation of convection in numerical models can be improved: idealised modelling experiments, coupling theoretical studies with analysis of observational data and the use of large-scale numerical models and differing characteristics of convection occurring over land from that occurring over the oceans. |
+61 3 9902 0110 |
Laura.Davies@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Daniel Delbourgo |
Elliptic curves and modular forms; automorphic representations; Iwasawa theory of motives; deformations of Galois representations; Euler systems attached to varieties |
+61 3 990 54771 |
Daniel.Delbourgo@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Alina-Catalina Donea |
Solar flares and solar quakes; helioseismic holography; high energy astrophysics of black holes and relativistic jets; ultra high energy cosmic rays. |
+61 3 9905 4488 |
Alina.Donea@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Duncan Galloway |
Fundamental physics from neutron stars, via satellite X-ray observations including pulsar timing; analysis of thermonuclear bursts; and high-resolution spectroscopy. |
+61 3 9902 0393 |
Duncan.Galloway@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Morwenna Griffiths |
Mesoscale meteorology, frontal dynamics and bushfire behaviour. |
+61 3 9905 4411 |
Morwenna.Griffiths@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Tom Hall |
Electronic watermarks for digital images, video and audio files, for copyright protection. Collusion resistant electronic finger prints for security and theft protection. |
+61 3 9905 4412 |
Tom.Hall@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Kais Hamza |
General theory of stochastic processes; representation properties for martingales; markov jump processes; applications of stochastic processes to modelling of financial markets. |
+61 3 9905 4453 |
Kais.Hamza@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. John M. Haynes |
Characterisation of the structure of tropical and middle latitude cloud systems and their associated precipitation features; observing clouds and precipitation with millimeter wavelength radar/lidar systems, including the spaceborne CloudSat and CALIPSO platforms; radar multiple scattering. Improving our understanding of global precipitation processes and distribution, particularly light rainfall; development of the CloudSat precipitation retrieval. Using observations of clouds and precipitation to evaluate and improve numerical weather prediction models, and development of radar forward models for this purpose. |
+61 3 9905 4495 |
John.Haynes@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Margarete Jadamec |
Plate boundary zones: Subduction zone dynamics, Continental deformation.
Visualization in science: 3D visualization of complex geologic and geophysical systems.
Primary methods: Numerical modeling, analytic modeling, and field mapping. |
+61 3 9905 6818 |
Margarete.Jadamec@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Christian Jakob |
Models of the atmosphere as they are used for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); seasonal prediction and climate simulation, in particular design and validation of cloud and convection parameterization schemes; and the use of probabilistic forecasts at all time-scales for decision making. |
+61 3 990 54461 |
Christian.Jakob@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Fima Klebaner |
Stochastic processes; probability; stochastic models; populations models; financial mathematics; volatility; market models; martingales; random perturbations; applied probability. |
+61 3 9905 4409 |
fima.klebaner@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. John Lattanzio |
Stellar astrophysics; nuclear astrophysics; computational astrophysics. |
+61 3 9905 4428 |
john.lattanzio@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Ho Bun (Herbert) Lau |
Stellar evolution, in particular modelling the advanced stages of low-mass stars and super-AGB stars, their nucleosynthesis and electron-capture supernova; mass transfer in binary system and various mixing mechanism such as thermohaline mixing; nucleosynthesis of zero and extremely metal poor stars, which is important to study the chemical enrichment in the early Universe and stellar rotation, star formation and planetary nebula. |
+61 3 9905 4485 |
Herbert.Lau@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Leo Lopes |
Applied optimisation under uncertainty, most recent work are fair pricing for hydroelectric generators team assignments to maximise the probability of successful projects, matching trade-ins with demand on a nation-wide retail network for expensive capital equipment, and most likely path and flow analysis for prediction of illicit traffic; and in applied computational optimisation, especially decision support systems. In the area of decision support systems, his current work involves automatically determining the best algorithm to apply to any given timetabling problem, depending on the needs of an application and on the characteristics of a problem. Other work in modeling systems include the first XML-based vocabulary for optimization as a service, modeling languages for optimization under uncertainty, and scripting-based modeling languages for optimization. |
+61 3 9905 4478 |
Leonardo.Lopes@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Maria Lugaro |
Study on heavy elements from carbon to lead are produced by nuclear reactions inside stars, in particular, stars which have evolved to the red giant phase and eject most of their material into their surroundings via strong winds, thus affecting the chemical make up of galaxies. Using theoretical stellar models, coupled with large networks of nuclear reactions, calculations are made on the abundances of nuclei produced in giant stars and compare them to spectroscopic observations of stellar abundances and laboratory analysis of exotic meteoritic materials. |
+61 3 9905 1640 |
Maria.Lugaro@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Tony Lun |
Gravitational collapse; gravitational radiations; structure of space-times; perturbation analysis of and analytical techniques in solving the Einstein field equations. |
+61 3 9905 4447 |
Tony.Lun@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. John Mansour |
Applied mathematics, with particular interest in computational techniques for fluid dynamics and research on highly viscous flows found within geological contexts. |
+61 3 9905 4478 |
John.Mansour@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Michael Manton |
Air quality observations and analysis; climate observations and analysis; simple climate models and their application to global problems; cloud physics. |
+61 3 9905 4495 |
Michael.Manton@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Rosemary Mardling |
Stellar and planetary dynamics; the three-body problem; chaos theory; planet formation; extrasolar planets. |
+61 3 9905 4506 |
Rosemary.Mardling@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Pengzi Miao |
Geometric analysis; partial differential equations; mathematical relativity. |
+61 3 990 54432 |
Pengzi.Miao@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Boris Miller |
Theory of stochastic and deterministic discrete–continuous systems. |
+61 3 990 55870 |
Boris.Miller@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Joe Monaghan |
Design of numerical algorithms for complex fluid dynamics in astrophysics; geophysics and industry. |
+61 3 9905 4463 |
Joe.Monaghan@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Louis Moresi |
Plate tectonics; rheology of the lithosphere; thick-skin continental deformation; extensional basin models; computational solid & fluid mechanics. |
+61 3 9905 4468 |
Louis.Moresi@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Todd Oliynyk |
Partial differential equations; singular limits of symmetric hyperbolic systems, geometric PDE’s; general relativity; Newtonian limit, post-Newtonian expansions, Einstein-Yang-Mills, gravitating perfect fluids amd elastic bodies; geometric flows; Ricci flow, renormalization group flow. |
+61 3 990 54433 |
Todd.Oliynyk@sci.monash.edu.au |
| A/Prof. Michael Page |
Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; rotating fluid flows; high-Reynolds-number flows; computational partial differential equations in biological applications. |
+61 3 990 54486 |
Michael.Page@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Burkard Polster |
Finite and topological geometry; combinatorial designs; group theory; history of mathematics; classical interpolation theory; computer visualisation; mathematics education and outreach. |
+61 3 990 54493 |
Burkard.Polster@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Andrew Prentice |
Investigation into the formation of the solar system, with special interest in the satellite systems of the gas giant planets. |
+61 3 9905 4499 |
andrew.prentice@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Daniel Price |
Computational astrophysics, generally involving Magnetohydrodynamics, star formation and the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method and focused in particular on understanding the role of magnetic fields in the star formation process. |
+61 3 9905 1760 |
Daniel.Price@sci.monash.edu.au |
| A/Prof. Alan Pryde |
Theory of functions of almost periodic type; asymptotic behaviour of solutions of evolution equations on semigroups; multivariable spectral theory. |
+61 3 9905 4417 |
alan.pryde@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Michael Reeder |
A broad area of meteorology, including: fronts and extra-tropical cyclones, hurricanes, stratospheric gravity waves, solitary waves, boundary layers, orographic effects, tropical convection, and bushfires. |
+61 3 9905 4464 |
michael.reeder@sci.monash.edu.au |
| A/Prof. Steve Siems |
Cloud seeding/weather modification; cloud microphysics; cloud - aerosol interaction; boundary layer meteorology; tropical convection. |
+61 3 9905 4406 |
steve.siems@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Prof. Kate Smith-Miles (Head of School) |
Operations Research, particularly combinatorial optimisation solved using meta-heuristic approaches such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc.; Data mining, and statistical approaches to pattern recognition; Meta-learning; Automated algorithm selection by understanding the relationships between problem characteristics and algorithm performance in domains such as optimisation, forecasting, and classification. |
+61 3 9905 3170 |
Kate.Smith-Miles@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Richard Stancliffe |
Stellar evolution, binary evolution and stellar nucleosynthesis. |
+61 3 9902 0168 |
Richard.Stancliffe@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Aidan Sudbury |
Interacting particle systems |
+61 3 990 54405 |
Aidan.Sudbury@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Tianhai Tian |
Stochastic and multiscale modelling of biological systems including genetic regulatory networks and cell signalling transduction pathways, stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction systems, computation in financial mathematics, numerical methods for stochastic differential equations, inference methods for estimating model parameters, parallel computing. |
+61 3 9902 0890 |
Tianhai.Tian@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Richard Wardle |
Recent and past changes to Australian climate. |
+61 3 9905 4411 |
richard.wardle@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Ian Wanless |
Latin squares and other combinatorial matrices; quasigroups; matrix permanents; graph theory (matchings; factorisations; random graphs); enumeration algorithms for combinatorial objects. |
+61 3 9905 4442 |
ian.wanless@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dr. Sergio Zlotnik |
Computational geodynamics, and include plate tectonics, self-consistent lithospheric and mantle dynamics, rock deformation and rheology; numerical approach to previous problems, including application and development of state-of-the-art numerical methods to handle strongly non-linear rheology, multi-phase models, thermo-mechanical coupling. |
+61 3 9905 4404 |
Sergio.Zlotnik@sci.monash.edu.au |
