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Some past Honours project titles

Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours)

Title

Degree

Year

Oversampling subpopulations in hoursehold surveys

BMath

2006

Solving the 2-D Black-Scholes equation with the boundary element method

BMath

2006

Invariant measures and the Plank problem

BMath

2005

Design, analysis and implementation of choice surveys

BMath

2005

Bifurcation analysis of Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion cells

BMath

2005

The Gibbs Phenomonon in Fourier and Wavelet Series

BMath

2004

Using Publicly Available Data to Estimate the Advantage from Choice of Unlucky Numbers in Lotto

BMath

2004

The Leading Significant Digit Phonomenon

BMath

2003

The analysis of complex survey data

BMath

2000

Interpolation of multi-dimensional functions with multiquadratics

BMath

2000

Cointegration-based error correction models versus neural networks

BMath

1999

Compaction of sand by air pressure impact

BMath

1999

Wavelets: ab initio

BMath

1998

Modelling recursion with P omega

BMath

1998

Comparison of tests for the randomised block design

BMath

1998

Solute transport in unsaturated porous media

BMath

1998

Unit root and cointegration analysis of ASEAN spot rates

BMath

1997

Finite elastic deformations for a particular incompressible material

BMath

1997

Analysis of groundwater monitoring data from Wongawilli, Dapto

BMath

1997

Long memory models

BMath

1997

Fractals and fractal dimension

BMath

1997

The Hanna Neumann conjecture

BMath

1997

Statisticalindicators for local government areas: a case study of the Shoalhaven LGA

BMath

1997

Universal behaviour in one parameter nonlinear systems

BMath

2003

Granular materials and the method of characteristics

BMath

2002

The mathematics of Lucy and Lily: a game of parallel universes

BMath

2003

A smooth test of goodness of fit for the zero-inflated Poisson distribution

BMath

2003

Taking household structure into account in the analysis of household survey data

BMath

2003

Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced (Honours)

Title

Degree

Year

Using Monte Carlo simulation methods to price European options under non-arbitrage conditions

BMath(Adv)

2006

Projections of fractal

BMath(Adv)

2006

Projection and lifting of cubature rules

Bmath(Adv)

2006

Wedge Hopper Flow for Highly Frictional Granular Materials

BMath(Adv)

2004

Algorithmic protection of confidentiality in data exploration using scatterplots

BMathAdv

2005

Bachelor of Mathematics and Economics

Title

Degree

Year

The sustainability of Australian's foreign debt

BMathEcon

2006

The new economy: concept, measurement and theory

BMathEcon

2003

Option pricing under alternative models of asset price movements

BMathEcon

2003

the theory of normal numbers

BMathEcon

2002

Analysing the Australian financial sector using a game theoretic approach

BMathEcon

2000

Asymmetry response by import prices to changes in the exchange rate

BMathEcon

1998

The effect of currency exchange rate changes on Australia's out-bound leisure tourism demand: and econometric analysis

BMathEcon

1998

Analysing the Australian financial sector using a game theoretic approach

BMathEcon

2001

measuring a firm’s performance

BMathEcon

2000

Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance

Title

Degree

Year

The evolving market for credit derivatives

BMathFin

2006

Assessing the returns to the inside trader's stock recommendations

BMathFin

2006

An empirical study of high dividend yield investment strategies in the Australian stock market

BMathFin

2006

Incorporating dividends into option valuation

BMathFin

2005

Value at Risk, Crash Modelling and CrashMetrics

BMathFin

2004

Tracking a Market Index Using Reduced Share Portfolios: Case Study of the S&P/ASX200 Price Index

BMathFin

2004

The Soccer Pools. Maximising your winnings, or minimising your losses, if you're lucky!

BMathFin

2004

The Contribution of Inflation Indexed Treasury Bonds to the Risk-Return Opportunity Set of Portfolios: An analysis of the Autralian market

BMathFin

2004

Quantifying the effect of correlation between forward and hazard rates on pricing credit default swaps and credit default swap options

BMathFin

2004

Modelling Credit Risk and Credit Spread Value at Risk

BMathFin

2004

Hedge Fund Stock Selection An Application of Neural Networks

BMathFin

2004

Simulation and application of a new pairs trading strategy involving cointegration

BMathFin

2003

Predicting currency crises in emerging markets

BMathFin

2003

Market efficiency in New South Wales parimutuel greyhound racing markets

BMathFin

2003

Effect of discrete hedging in risk management

BMathFin

2003

Applying rescaled range methods to identify long-range dependent in Australian stock market

BMathFin

2003

An empirical analysis of external debt and economic growth

BMathFin

2003

Pairs trading: applying cointegration to a pairs trading strategy

BMathFin

2002

A genetic programming approach to pairs trading

BMathFin

2002

Hedging and volatility skew modelling in the Sydney futures exchange market

BMathFin

2002

Genetic programming: futures trading on the Sydney futures exchange

BMathFin

2002

Forecasting with artificial neural networks and differential evolution

BMathFin

2002

Forecasting the foreign exchange market: a genetic programming approach

BMathFin

2002

The inadequacy of current Australian superannuation policy: gender issues

BMathFin

2001

The application of support vector machines for the prediction of stock index directional movements

BMathFin

2001

Property and the asset allocation strategy for a retiree

BMathFin

2001

Optimising superannuation returns

BMathFin

2001

Genetic programming: the evolution of forecast equations for the all ordinaries index

BMathFin

2001

Forecasting foreign currency exchange rates with artificial neural networks

BMathFin

2001

Forecasting daily returns for equities and equity indices using neural networks

BMathFin

2001

An evaluation of the recent performance of metacapitalism

BMathFin

2001

The impact of sunk costs in decision making

BMathFin

2000

Pricing foreign exchange and interest rate options using partial differential equations

BMathFin

2000

Analysing equilibrium processes between spot and forward markets

BMathFin

2000

Analysing equilibrium processes between spot and forward markets

BMathFin

2000

Active versus passive superannuation fund performance

BMathFin

2000

Performance comparison of Australian superannuation funds: an empirical study

BMathFin

1999

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

Medium term prediction of international index returns using neural networks

BMathFin

1999

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

The effects of financial incentives on claiming patterns

BMathFin

1997

Scoring rules and forecast evaluation

BMathFin

1997

Neural networks: arbitrage opportunities in the all ordinaries index

BMathFin

1997

Optimising superannuation returns

BMathFin

2001

Other Degrees

Title

Degree

Year

Complex survey analysis using the jackknife method

BMathSci

2003

pattern formations in vertically vibrated thin granular layers

BMathSci

2002

Burgers' equation with an exponential sink term

MMath

1997

A Multilevel modelling approach to examining the effects of area of residence and school attended on adolescent health behaviours

MMath

1997

Grooving of a bicrystal by surface diffusion

MMath

1997

Average distances in subsets of Euclidean spaces

MMath

2003

E-Coli promoter prediction review and analysis of the distance from promoters to gene coding regions for improving prediction specificity

MStat

2003

Some statistical aspects of data mining

MStat

1999

Experimental design and analysis of non-standard data

 

1998

 
   

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