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 methods for statistical design
- Bayesian Computation for intractable distributions
- Multi-scale modelling of cell motility
- Alcohol consumption among university students
- Areas of potential research in numerical techniques
- Topics in Optimum Design of Experiments
- Free surface flow due to a point source
- Topics in Bayesian Statistics
- Anomalous diffusion with applications
- Measuring upper motor neuron loss
- Lattice-free modelling of cell motility
- Modelling and Assessment of Insect Pest Resistance
- 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
- Open source C++ linear algebra library
- 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
- Online Scheduling in the Operating Theatre
- 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
- Bayesian statistical methods for medical imaging
- Scheduling Elective Patients in Intensive Care Units
- Religion, fertility and genes - a mathematical investigation
- Accurate modelling of variably-saturated groundwater flow
- Turing pattern mechanisms in tissue repair processes
- Modelling growth factors applied to wounds
- The Modelling of Large-Scale Bagasse Stockpiles
- Optimal Design of Experiments
- The use of Shape Analysis in Determining Pubic Bone Age
- Mathematical modelling of dye-sensitised solar cells
- High performance linear algebra on CPU/GPU machines
- Advanced Scheduling Methodologies for Ore Mining Industry
- How does the complex plane affect real behaviour?
- Withdrawal in groundwater flows and Hele-Shaw cells
- Melting crystals in microgravity
- An Integrated Optimisation System for Multimodal Container Terminals
- E-Intermodal: Real Time Decision Support for Container Terminals
- The use of shape analysis in determining pubic bone age
- Exponential Euler methods for differential/algebraic systems
- Informative priors in Bayesian multivariate mixture models
- Statistical Inference for Network Models
- Bayesian Decision Theory and Risk Analysis in Biosecurity Applications
- 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
- Experimental design for intractable likelihoods
- 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
- Nineteen dubious ways to compute the exponential of a matrix
- Modelling ascension and persistence of Chlamydial infection in the genital tract
- Modelling of electrochemical interfaces
- Cell sorting and differential adhesion
- Numerical and stochastic modelling of diffusion and transport in heterogeneous porous media
- Mathematical modelling of stored grain pest resistance
- 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
- Wound healing assays: characterizing and elucidating key processes involved in epidermal and corneal wounds using mathematical and computational models
- Comparing different control of spread of infectious diseases in populations
- Modelling the ossification front and its implications in bone fracture repair
- Travelling waves in advection-diffusion-reaction models and the role of Catastrophe theory
- Numerical solution of standard and anomalous diffusion equations
- Exploring new treatments for bone metastatic lesions
- How do experts think about probabilities? Lessons for designing elicitation of quantitative information from experts
- Modelling burnout in socio-emotional and task intensive roles
- 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
- Population and individual-based modelling of infectious diseases
- Mathematical and computational modelling of large-scale biomass stockpiles
- 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
Research degree enquiries
Science and Engineering research office
- Phone: 3138 4783
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 4783
- Email: sef.research@qut.edu.au
Commercial research enquiries
Science and Engineering Faculty - Commercial Research and Corporate Education
- Phone: 3138 9948
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 9948
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
Partnership enquiries
Science and Engineering - Partnerships
- Phone: 3138 7693
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 7693
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
