Mathematical sciences
Overview
Research in the Mathematical Sciences crosses disciplines to provide innovative solutions for our community. Computational modelling has delivered solutions for environmental, energy and health management, while statistics work has focused on financial issues and global security. Mathematical Science staff work in a broad range of areas, but are organised under three major programs:
- Applied & Computational Mathematics
- Statistics
- Operations Research
Our courses are designed to give talented students research skills for use in the real world. Studying with QUT may be the first step in your research career, or place you in a competitive position for entering the workforce.
Thinking of studying a PhD?
Our Industry Doctoral Training Centre aims to address the skills shortage in mathematical sciences by providing a PhD program in collaboration with major business and industry organisations.
Grants and projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
Student topics
We're looking for students to study these topics.
- Projects in mathematical biology
- Operating Theatre Scheduling
- Projects in mathematical sociology
- Rostering Ambulance Services
- Series solutions of differential equations
- Haptotaxis in multicell spheroids
- Computation of free surface flows
- Construction of cellular automata rules
- Boarding processes for passenger aircraft
- Approximate Bayesian Computation
- Modelling data on the circle
- Bayesian Computation for intractable distributions
- Bayesian methods for statistical design
- Alcohol consumption among university students
- Areas of potential research in numerical techniques
- Free surface flow due to a point source
- Topics in Bayesian Statistics
- Anomalous diffusion with applications
- Multi-scale modelling of cell motility
- Topics in Optimum Design of Experiments
- Lattice-free modelling of cell motility
- Modelling and Assessment of Insect Pest Resistance
- Measuring upper motor neuron loss
- Graphical modelling and analysis of survey data
- Modelling electric vehicle batteries
- Algorithms for constructing optimal designs
- Time delayed ODE models of cellular interactions
- Dynamics of opinion formation in human populations
- Development of an Ambulance Crew Rostering System
- Advection-diffusion-reaction in a porous catalyst
- Mathematical modelling of ultra thin film flows
- Exploring instabilities in thin-film flows
- Statistical analysis of multiscaling systems
- Modelling growth factors applied to wounds
- Modelling interactions of spray droplets with plants.
- Understanding neuron (nerve) death and growth
- Time-dependent withdrawal from a reservoir
- Numerical solution of fractional differential equations
- Level set methods for solving Stefan problems
- Singularity formation in two-phase Stefan problems.
- Statistical design in pioneering areas of research
- Scheduling Elective Patients in Intensive Care Units
- Religion, fertility and genes - a mathematical investigation
- Accurate modelling of variably-saturated groundwater flow
- Bayesian statistical methods for medical imaging
- Turing pattern mechanisms in tissue repair processes
- Melting crystals in microgravity
- The use of Shape Analysis in Determining Pubic Bone Age
- The Modelling of Large-Scale Bagasse Stockpiles
- Mathematical modelling of dye-sensitised solar cells
- Optimal Design of Experiments
- Advanced Scheduling Methodologies for Ore Mining Industry
- High performance linear algebra on CPU/GPU machines
- How does the complex plane affect real behaviour?
- Withdrawal in groundwater flows and Hele-Shaw cells
- Online Scheduling in the Operating Theatre
- An Integrated Optimisation System for Multimodal Container Terminals
- Exponential Euler methods for differential/algebraic systems
- E-Intermodal: Real Time Decision Support for Container Terminals
- The use of shape analysis in determining pubic bone age
- Informative priors in Bayesian multivariate mixture models
- Bayesian Decision Theory and Risk Analysis in Biosecurity Applications
- Statistical Inference for Network Models
- Assessing the Efficiency of Public Schools using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
- Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Australian Government Secondary Schools
- Approximate Bayesian Computation
- Modelling biological tissue deformation with continuum mechanics
- Designing Robust Reactive Scheduling System for Emergency Medical Services
- Generating Robust Train Timetables using a Proactive Scheduling Approach
- Optimal control and differential equations in tumour treatment: Providing insight into the design of treatment strategies for cancer
- Modelling ascension and persistence of Chlamydial infection in the genital tract
- Nineteen dubious ways to compute the exponential of a matrix
- Mathematical modelling of stored grain pest resistance
- Cell sorting and differential adhesion
- Numerical and stochastic modelling of diffusion and transport in heterogeneous porous media
- Modelling the role of normal repair processes and autoimmune responses in psoriasis
- Travelling wave phenomena in advection-diffusion-reaction models
- Statistical methods for Genome-wide association studies
- Investigating different processes for transmissible disease spread
- Assessing the efficiency of public schools using stochastic frontier analysis
- Adaptive Intrusion Detection in distributed networks based on the human immune response
- Accurate and efficient calculation of three-dimensional ship waves
- Comparing different control of spread of infectious diseases in populations
- Wound healing assays: characterizing and elucidating key processes involved in epidermal and corneal wounds using mathematical and computational models
- Modelling the ossification front and its implications in bone fracture repair
- Travelling waves in advection-diffusion-reaction models and the role of Catastrophe theory
- Exploring new treatments for bone metastatic lesions
- How do experts think about probabilities? Lessons for designing elicitation of quantitative information from experts
- Improvements and applications of zero knowledge protocols
- Determining Age at Death using Shape Analysis of the Pubic Symphysis
- Optimisation techniques for Internet network design and routing
- The Evaporation of Liquid Films on the Surface of Bagasse Elements
- Mathematical and computational modelling of large-scale biomass stockpiles
- Population and individual-based modelling of infectious diseases
- Multicomponent Charge Transport and the Resolution of Double Layer Structure at Ideally Polarizable Electrodes
- Measuring and Evaluating Resilience in Complex, ICT-rich Infrastructure Systems
- Statistical techniques for monitoring drug susceptibility in Plasmodium vivax parasites
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