Current Honours Student Information

Students should check this website regularly for all information regarding their Honours year. The Bulletin Board and Calendar of Events will be updated as new events are planned or new information is available.

General information for honours students can also be found here.

Students should make themselves familiar with the rules for their degree by checking the guidelines available both on this website and available at the first meeting planned for Week 1.



Contact Information

Honours Coordinator for the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics in Spring 2008 is

Mark Nelson
Ph: (02) 4221 4400
Rm: 15.G26

Consultation times change with each session. It is recommended that an appointment be made directly with Dr Nelson.

Degree Coordinator for Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance (Hons)

Dr Chandra Gulati
Ph: + 61 2 4221 3836
Rm: 15.135

BULLETIN BOARD

Seminars on presentation techniques and slide preparation packages may be given during Autumn session. Information will be posted on this website when available.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Date

What

Info

Week 1 Autumn Session

to be advised

Held in Rm15.107

 Meeting with Honours Coordinator This meeting is compulsory. You should contact Mark to RSVP as soon as possible. If you cannot attend or you have a clash with a class please let him know as soon as possible.

Friday, Week 11, Autumn
for students who commenced in Spring 2008

Submission of Honours Thesis

You should download the thesis submission form below, ensure you include a copy on cd and submit to the Administrative Assistants in 15.110.

Enrolment Information

Subject Information

AMSI Summer School 08-09

The Summer School is designed for honours and postgraduate students in the mathematical and statistical sciences and runs over four weeks from 12th January 2009 to 6th February 2009 and is being held at the University of Wollongong.

Students should consult the Honours Coordinator before applying for the Summer School. Only one subject from Summer School will be counted towards your Honours degree.

More information will be added to the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics about the summer school in the near future.

 

Topics offered via the Access Grid (2009)

The nGAME (national Grid for Advanced Mathematics Education) has a helpful website with information about subjects offered via the Access Grid.



Degree Specific Enrolment Information

Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours)

Please note: students intending on enrolling in the Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) should make sure they have completed an Undergraduate Application form and submitted this to UniAdvice.

Full-time students enrolling in this degree need to enrol in MATH402 or STAT402 (24 cp) two consecutive sessions on the SOLS system and complete the following internal enrolment form and return it to Kerrie Gamble (Admin Assistant). Part-time students enrol in MATH403 or STAT403 (12 cp) for four consecutive sessions.

Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced (Honours)

Please note: students intending on enrolling in the Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced (Honours) should make sure they have completed an Undergraduate Application form and submitted this to UniAdvice.

Full-time s tudents enrolling in this degree need to enrol in MATH409 or STAT409 (24 cp) for two consecutive sessions on the SOLS system and complete the following internal enrolment form and return it to Kerrie Gamble (Admin Assistant). Part-time students enrol in MATH410 or STAT410 (12 cp) for four consecutive sessions.

Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance (Honours) and,
Bachelor of Mathematics and Economics (Honours)

Students enrolling in the above degrees should enrol in the project subject code - INFO401 OR INFO402 respectively on the SOLS system and consult the University Calendar for other subject information. Students studying the special Honours Coursework Topics under the codes MATH471, MATH472, STAT471, STAT472 etc. on the SOLS system, should complete the following internal enrolment form and return to the Administrative Assistant.

It is imperative that this information be kept up to date for both degress in order that marks be awarded for the correct subject. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that the Administrative Assistant is made aware of any change by using the following form.

Change of enrolment forms for

Project Information

Students should talk to academic staff regarding a Project for their Honours degree or strand. Following is a list of projects available.

Part of the requirement for your Honours degree is conducting two talks (one minor and one major talk). Please refer to your guidelines for specific information about these. Using Power Point is acceptable, however, following is a template for using Latex for your presentation.

Latex Presentation

Guidelines

The guidelines are available in pdf by clicking on the relevant degree below. They will be updated at the beginning of each session. The guidelines will have changes made to them from time to time. In the case of a slight change or style change, which does not affect the outcome of the guidelines, they will not be made available during the session. However, changes pertinent to marking, subjects, presentation or thesis submission will be put on the website as soon as possible. Each version will be recorded in an additional appendix found at the end of the guidelines document for that degree.

Thesis Information

Students should refer to the guidelines relevant to their degree to see what the requirement for page length should be. As a guide, students should ensure that the thesis is 1.5 or double spaced and printed on single sided A4 white paper. Although there is no standard layout, the Thesis should include the following:

  • Title
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Body of thesis
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Notation (if required)

In addition to describing the work that you have carried out in your honours year, the body of your thesis should also contain a literature survey that places your work in a wider context. For more information regarding how to write a literature survey please read the following web-page
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/postgrad/litreview/home.html

Please find below an example Latex file in the following documents. Please download these files and open the 'read me' file to find instructions. If there are any concerns, please contact Grant Cox. Latex courses are run during the session. Information about these courses are sent to students.

Latex example files

Handing in Your Thesis

You should consult the guidelines for detailed information on procedures in handing in your completed thesis. You will need a cover sheet to go with the thesis which can be found below in pdf form. Submissions are due before 5pm on the Friday Week 11 of Autumn or Spring (depending on when you started).

Information from Previous Years

Topics

Projects

Guidelines

Links

 

  
Last reviewed: 15 July, 2009