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Past honours projects

Bachelor of Maths- some past projects

Author Title Degree Year
Quigley Solving the 2-D Black-Scholes equation with the boundary element method BMath 2006
Gaskin Oversampling subpopulations in hoursehold surveys BMath 2006
Strickland Design, analysis and implementation of choice surveys BMath 2005
Thornton Bifurcation analysis of Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion cells BMath 2005
Lau Invariant measures and the Plank problem BMath 2005
Cunynghame Using Publicly Available Data to Estimate the Advantage from Choice of Unlucky Numbers in Lotto BMath 2004
Banks The Gibbs Phenomonon in Fourier and Wavelet Series BMath 2004
McDonald The Leading Significant Digit Phonomenon BMath 2003
Wooton Taking household structure into account in the analysis of household survey data BMath 2003
Scealy Universal behaviour in one parameter nonlinear systems BMath 2003
Chad The mathematics of Lucy and Lily: a game of parallel universes BMath 2003
Collins A smooth test of goodness of fit for the zero-inflated Poisson distribution BMath 2003
Austin Granular materials and the method of characteristics
 BMath 2002
Jones The analysis of complex survey data BMath 2000
Murdaca, Interpolation of multi-dimensional functions with multiquadratics BMath 2000
Petre Cointegration-based error correction models versus neural networks BMath 1999
Williams Compaction of sand by air pressure impact BMath 1999
Raina Solute transport in unsaturated porous media BMath 1998
Antic Wavelets: ab initio BMath 1998
Lea Comparison of tests for the randomised block design BMath 1998
Valentine Experimental design and analysis of non-standard data BMath 1998
Finlayson Modelling recursion with P omega BMath 1998
Stetner-Houweling Statisticalindicators for local government areas: a case study of the Shoalhaven LGA BMath 1997
Johnson Long memory models BMath 1997
Chipperfield Unit root and cointegration analysis of ASEAN spot rates BMath 1997
McCabe Fractals and fractal dimension BMath 1997
Cox Finite elastic deformations for a particular incompressible material BMath 1997
Petre The Hanna Neumann conjecture BMath 1997
Denham Analysis of groundwater monitoring data from Wongawilli, Dapto BMath 1997

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Bachelor of Maths Finance - some past projects

Author Title Degree Year
Gardner Assessing the returns to the inside trader's stock recommendations BMathFin 2006
Martinello The evolving market for credit derivatives BMathFin 2006
Moreton An empirical study of high dividend yield investment strategies in the Australian stock market BMathFin 2006
Shaw Incorporating dividends into option valuation BMathFin 2005
Falk The Soccer Pools. Maximising your winnings, or minimising your losses, if you're lucky! BMathFin 2004
Goard Value at Risk, Crash Modelling and CrashMetrics BMathFin 2004
Hazelgrove The Contribution of Inflation Indexed Treasury Bonds to the Risk-Return Opportunity Set of Portfolios: An analysis of the Autralian market BMathFin 2004
Kottathra Hedge Fund Stock Selection An Application of Neural Networks BMathFin 2004
Maxworthy Modelling Credit Risk and Credit Spread Value at Risk BMathFin 2004
Omrod Quantifying the effect of correlation between forward and hazard rates on pricing credit default swaps and credit default swap options BMathFin 2004
Whalan Tracking a Market Index Using Reduced Share Portfolios: Case Study of the S&P/ASX200 Price Index BMathFin 2004
Bronneberg Effect of discrete hedging in risk management BMathFin 2003
Grant Simulation and application of a new pairs trading strategy involving cointegration BMathFin 2003
Henricks Predicting currency crises in emerging markets BMathFin 2003
Oliver An empirical analysis of external debt and economic growth BMathFin 2003
Sim Applying rescaled range methods to identify long-range dependent in Australian stock market BMathFin 2003
Thompson Market efficiency in New South Wales parimutuel greyhound racing markets BMathFin 2003
Atkinson hedging and volatility skew modelling in the Sydney futures exchange market BMathFin 2002
Broad forecasting with artificial neural networks and differential evolution BMathFin 2002
Brogan genetic programming: futures trading on the Sydney futures exchange BMathFin 2002
Habak pairs trading: applying cointegration to a pairs trading strategy BMathFin 2002
Hoang forecasting the foreign exchange market: a genetic programming approach BMathFin 2002
Lemme a genetic programming approach to pairs trading BMathFin 2002
Ang Genetic programming: the evolution of forecast equations for the all ordinaries index BMathFin 2001
Lawrence Forecasting daily returns for equities and equity indices using neural networks BMathFin 2001
Lepone The inadequacy of current Australian superannuation policy: gender issues BMathFin 2001
Liddell Optimising superannuation returns BMathFin 2001
Longhurst Property and the asset allocation strategy for a retiree BMathFin 2001
Pirrello An evaluation of the recent performance of metacapitalism BMathFin 2001
Reid The application of support vector machines for the prediction of stock index directional movements BMathFin 2001
Shakin Forecasting foreign currency exchange rates with artificial neural networks BMathFin 2001
Daum Analysing equilibrium processes between spot and forward markets BMathFin 2000
Griffin the impact of sunk costs in decision making BMathFin 2000
Taylor active versus passive superannuation fund performance BMathFin 2000
Ziogas Pricing foreign exchange and interest rate options using partial differential equations BMathFin 2000
Baxter Neural networks: comparing the ability of forward deeding neural networks and recurrent neural networks to predict the future changes in the AOI values BMathFin 1999
Gartzke Performance comparison of Australian superannuation funds: an empirical study BMathFin 1999
Walmsley Medium term prediction of international index returns using neural networks BMathFin 1999
Pavlik An empirical comparison of the forecasting accuracy of the Box-Jenkins method to the error-correction method as applied to selected Asian exchange rates BMathFin 1998
Lloyd Scoring rules and forecast evaluation BMathFin 1997
Vernum The effects of financial incentives on claiming patterns BMathFin 1997
Wong Neural networks: arbitrage opportunities in the all ordinaries index BMathFin 1997

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Bachelor of Mathematics (Advanced) - some past projects

Author Title Degree Year
Coleman Using Monte Carlo simulation methods to price European options under non-arbitrage conditions BMath(Adv) 2006
Wheeler Projections of fractal BMath(Adv) 2006
White Projection and lifting of cubature rules BMath(Adv) 2006
Nunan Algorithmic protection of confidentiality in data exploration using scatterplots BMath(Adv) 2005
Morrison Wedge Hopper Flow for Highly Frictional Granular Materials BMath(Adv) 2004

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Bachelor of Mathematics & Economics - some past projects

Author Title Degree Year
Wilson The sustainability of Australian's foreign debt BMathEcon 2006
Davis The new economy: concept, measurement and theory BMathEcon 2003
Hansen Option pricing under alternative models of asset price movements BMathEcon 2003
Koeller the theory of normal numbers BMathEcon 2002
Yousiph Analysing the Australian financial sector using a game theoretic approach BMathEcon 2000
Khoo measuring a firm’s performance BMathEcon 2000
Siminski The effect of currency exchange rate changes on Australia's out-bound leisure tourism demand: and econometric analysis BMathEcon 1998
Hinh Asymmetry response by import prices to changes in the exchange rate BMathEcon 1998

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Other Degrees - some past projects

Author Title Degree Year
Hickson   BMath-BCompSc 2005
Weston pattern formations in vertically vibrated thin granular layers BMathSci 2002
Blomfield Complex survey analysis using the jackknife method BMathSci 2003
Wright Grooving of a bicrystal by surface diffusion MMath 1997
Broers A Multilevel modelling approach to examining the effects of area of residence and school attended on adolescent health behaviours MMath 1997
Binz Burgers' equation with an exponential sink term MMath 1997
Al Sakaji Average distances in subsets of Euclidean spaces MMath 2003
Findley Some statistical aspects of data mining MStat 1999
Burden E-Coli promoter prediction review and analysis of the distance from promoters to gene coding regions for improving prediction specificity MStat 2003

 

 

 

 

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