The University of Edinburgh
The School of Mathematics

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• Aljeirouidi, Ghussoun Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. J. Gondzio.
  Inexact Newton directions in Interior Point methods for Linear Optimization. (2009)
• Adams-Florou, Spiros Geometry and Topology.Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  Homeomorphisms, homotopy equivalences and chain complexes. (2012)
• Apple, Rosemary Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. D. Heggie
  Homologous Evolution in the Post-collapse expansion of Globular Clusters. (2010)
• Araujo, Fatima Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. D. Alekseevsky (Prof. E. Rees)
  Einstein homogeneous Riemannian fibrations. (2008)
• Archibald, Richard Applied Mathematics (joint with Astronomy).
  Supervisors: 1. Dr. M. Ruffert; 2. Dr. A. Meiksin (Astronomy)
  Numerical simulations of neutron star mergers as the central engines of short-period gamma-ray bursts.. (2009)
• Aspden, Jonathan Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Vanneste
  Inertia-gravity wave generation:a WKB approach. (2011)
• Bah, Bubacarr Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Tanner.
  Restricted Isometry Constants in Compressed Sensing. (2012)
• Bellamy, Gwyn Algebra. Supervisor: Prof. I. Gordon
  Generalized Calogero-Moser spaces and rational Cherednik algebras. (2010)
• Bez, Neal Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. J. Wright
  Nonisotropic operators arising in the method of rotations. (2006)
• Blagojevic, Dan Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Gillespie
  Spectral Families and Geometry of banach spaces. (2006)
• Bocharov, Boris Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. I. Gyongy
  Stochastic Evolution Inclusions (2010)
• Bridgeland, Tom Algebraic geometry. Supervisor: Dr. A. Maciocia
  Fourier-Mukai transforms for surfaces and moduli spaces of stable sheaves. (1998)
• Brookman, Jeremy Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  Splitting homotopy equivalences along codimension 1 submanifolds. (2004)
• Candy, Tim Analysis.Supervisor: Dr. N. Bournaveas
  Local and Global Well-posedness for Nonlinear Dirac Type Equations. (2012)
• Chatterjee, Ayona Statistics. Supervisor: Dr. C. Theobald
  Probabilistic risk assessment of dietary data. (2005)
• Chen, Xiaoli Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. I. Gyongy
  Stochastic differential inclusions. (2006)
• Collins, Julia Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki;
  On the Concordance Orders of Knots (2011)
• Colombo, Marco Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. J. Gondzio
  Advances in interior point methods for large-scale linear programming.(2007)
• Covarrubias, Enrique Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. M. Singer
  General equilibrium theory in infinite dimensions: an application of Fredholm index theory. (2009)
• Cui, Jiajia Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Dr. T. Mackay
  Nonzero depolarization volumes in electromagnetic homogenization (2008)
• D’Avanzo, Antonella Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. H. Braden
  On Charge 3 Cyclic Monopoles (2010)
• David, Liana Geometry. Supervisor: Dr. T. Bailey
  The Penrose transform and its applications. (2001)
• Dite, Alexis Algebra. Supervisor: Prof. T. Lenagan
  On multiparameter quantum SL_n and quantum skew-symmetric matrices. (2006)
• Docherty, Pamela Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. H. Braden
  Central Extensions of Current Groups and the Jacobi group. (2012)
• Duncan, Andrew Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Dr. T. Mackay
  On the Estimation of the electromagnetic, elastodynamic, and piezoelectric properties of homogonized composite materials. (2009)
• Gadhia, Sunil Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O’Farrill
  Supersymmetric Quotients of M-theory and supergravity backgrounds. (2007)
• Georgakarakos, Nikolaos Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. D. Heggie
  On the dynamical evolution of hierarchical triple systems. (2001)
  Please email georgakarakos@hotmail.com if you would like a copy of the thesis.
• Gray, James Logic. Supervisor: Prof. A. Macintyre
  Coding complete theories in Galois groups. (2003)
• Griffiths, Hugh Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. M. Singer
  Self-dual metrics on toric 4-manifolds: Extending the Joyce construction. (2009)
• Hamilton, Danny Operational Research and Optimization.Supervisor: Prof. K. McKinnon
  Decomposition and Diet problems. (2010)
• Hepworth, Richard Topology. Supervisor: Prof. E. Rees
  Generalized Kreck-Stolz invariants and the topology of certain 3-Sasakian 7-manifolds. (2005)
• Hilmar, Jan Number Theory. Supervisor: Prof. C. Smyth
  Intersection of algebraic plane curves/ Some results on the (monic) integer transfinite diameter. (2008)
• Hogg, Jonathan Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Dr. J. Hall
  High performance Cholesky and symmetric indefinite factorizations with applications. (2010)
• Issaeva, Natalia Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. K. McKinnon
  Quantifying the system balancing cost when wind energy is incorporated into electricity generation system. (2009)
• Karzehmanov, Ilya Algebraic Geometry. Supervisor: Prof. I. Cheltsov
  Fano threefolds and algebraic families of surfaces of Kodaira dimension zero. (2010)
• Khondoker, Mizanur Statistics. Supervisor: Dr. B. Worton
  Statistical methods for preprocessing microarray gene expression data. (2006)
• Kirsch, Josef Analysis. Supervisor: 1. Dr. M. Dindos
  Boundary value problems for elliptic operators with singular drif terms. (2012)
• Köppe, Thomas Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Dr. E. Gasparim
  Moduli of bundles on local surfaces and threefolds. (2010)
• Korzeniewski, Andrew Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  On the signature of fibre bundles, and absolute Whitehead torsion. (2005)
• Kosta, Dimitra Algebraic Geometry. Supervisor: Prof. I. Cheltsov
  Del Pezzo Surfaces with Du Val Singularities. (2009)
• Kowalski, Michal Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. J. Wright
  A comparative study of Oscillatory Integral, and Sub-level Set, Operator Norm Estimates. (2010)
• Li, Qiming Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Davie
  Numerical Approximation for SDE. (2007)
• Lioudaki, Vasiliki Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Gillespie
  Operator theory on C_p spaces. (2004)
• Mangete, Otonyo Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Dr. M. Ruffert
  Hydrodynamical evolution of the intra-cluster medium in clusters of Galaxies. (2009)
• Mavrikis, Manolis Mathematical Education (joint with Informatics). Supervisor: Dr. A. Maciocia
  Modelling students behaviour and affect in ILE through educational data mining. (2008)
• Mazzi, Giacomo Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. B. Leimkuhler
  Numerical Treatment of the Liouville-von Neumann Equation for Quantum Spin Dynamics. (2010)
• McWilliams, Nairn Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Dr. S. Sabanis
  Option Pricing Techniques Under Stochastic Delay Models. (2011)
• Meachan, Ciaran Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Dr. A. Maciocia
  Moduli of Bridgeland-Stable Objects. (2012)
• Méndez Escobar, Elena
  Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O'Farrill
  Metric 3-Leibniz algebras and M2-branes. (2010)
• Miah, Aminur Algebra. Supervisor: Dr. J. Meldrum
  Some commutator properties of generalised wreath product. (2007)
• Moutsopoulos, George Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O’Farrill
  Geometric and non-geometric backgrounds of string theory (2008).
• Nonyane, Aletta Statistics. Supervisor: Dr. C. Theobald
  Design and analysis for subjective assessment of visual and taste stimuli. (2004)
• Noorizadeh, Emad Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. B. Leimkuhler
  Highly Degenerate Diffusions for Sampling Molecular Systems. (2010)
• Northover, Timothy Mathematical Physics.Supervisor: Prof. H. Braden
  Reimann surfaces with symmetry: algorithms and applications. (2011)
• Nsubuga, Saul Topology. Supervisor: Prof. E. Rees
  The geometry of immobilizing sets of objects. (2003)
• Ovcharov, Evgeni Analysis. Supervisor: Dr. N. Bournaveas
  Global Regularity of nonlinear dispersive equations and Strichartz estimates" (2010)
• Papadimitropoulos, Christos Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. J. Wright
  The Fourier restriction phenomenon in thin sets. (2010)
• Philip, Simon Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O’Farrill
  Plane-wave limits and homogeneous M-theory backgrounds. (2005)
• Pokorny, Florian Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. M. Singer
  The Bergman Kernel on Toric Kähler Manifolds. (2011)
  
• Powell, Mark Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  A Second Order Algebraic Knot Concordance Group (2011)
• Rajaniemi, Hannu Mathematical Physics. Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O’Farrill
  Conformal Killing spinors in supergravity and related aspects of spin geometry. (2006)
• Reynolds, Paul Geometry and Topology.Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O'Farrill
  On Conformal Submersions and Manifolds with Exceptional Structure Groups. (2011)
• Roy, Alan Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. D. Heggie
  Models of three body scattering and escape. (2001)
• Ritter, Patricia Mathematical Physics.Supervisor: Prof. J. Figueroa-O'Farrill
  A Threelogy in Two Parts: 3-Algebras in BLG Models and a Study of TMG solutions. (2011)
• Russell, Ewan Algebra. Supervisor: Prof. T. Lenagan
  Prime Ideals in Quantum Algebras. (2008)
• Sepe, Daniele Geometry and Topology. Matriculation. Supervisor: Dr. L. Butler
  The integral affine geometry of Lagrangian bundles (2011)
• Sheiham, Des Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  Invariants of boundary link cobordism. (2001)
• Siska, David Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. I. Gyongy
  Numerical approximations of stochastic optimal stopping and control problems (2008)
• Sixt, Joerg Topology. Supervisor: Prof. A. Ranicki
  The algebraic theory of Kreck surgery. (2003)
• Skuse, Ben Applied Mathematics.Supervisor: Prof. N. Smyth
  The Interaction and Steering of Nematicons. (2010)
• Spencer, Christopher Algebra.Supervisor: 1. Prof I. Gordon
  On Harish-Chandra binodules of rational Cherednik algebras at regular parameter values. (2012)
• Stothers, Andrew Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Davie
  On the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication. (2010)
• Taylor, Graeme Number theory. Supervisor: Prof. C. Smyth
  Cyclotomic Matrices and Graphs. (2010)
• Urminsky, David Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Prof. D. Heggie
  Stability and numerical errors in the N-body problem. (2009)
• Weinert, Andreas Algebra and number theory. Supervisor: Dr. N. Scheithauer
  Lie algebras, vertex algebras and automorphic forms (2008)
• White, Stuart Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Sinclair
  Tauer masas in the hyperfinite II₁ factor. (2005)
• Wilheim, Daniel Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Carbery
  Restriction and Kakeya problems of Fourier analysis in vector spaces over finite fields. (2009)
• Wilson, Andrew Geometry and Topology. Supervisor: Prof. I. Cheltsov
  Smooth Exceptional del Pezzo Surfaces. (2010)
• Wisewell, Laura Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Carbery
  Oscillatory integrals and curved Kakeya sets (2003)
• Woodsend, Kristian Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. J. Gondzio
  Using Interior Point Methods for Large-scale Support Vector Machine Training (2010)
• Wronka, Agata Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Supervisor: Prof. A. Davie
  Separatrix splitting for the extended family of maps (2011)
• Yang, Xi Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. J. Gondzio
  Applying Stochastic programming Models in Financial Risk Management (2010)
• Yang, Xinan Optimization and Operational Research. Supervisor: Dr. A. Grothey
  The Top-percentile Traffic Routing Problem. (2011)
• Yu, Yu Operational Research and Optimization. Supervisor: Prof. K. McKinnon
  Stochastic ship fleet routing with inventory limits. (2010)
• Ziembowski, Michal Algebra. Supervisor: Prof. A.Smoktunowicz
  Right Gaussian rings and relatedtopics. (2010)