Some past Honours project titles

Bachelor of Mathematic (Honours)
Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced (Honours)
Bachelor of Mathematics and Economics
Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance
Other degrees

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

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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

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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

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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

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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