Research interests and projects
Major research interests and projects in the Department of Mathematical Sciences involve close links and collaborations with other research organisations and industry, so that it is relevant and applicable.
The Department’s research interests include:
Design of experiments and applied statistics
- Design and analysis of randomised response questionnaires
- Statistical learning techniques for non-mathematicians
- Construction of optimal designs for a variety of application areas
- Industrial experimentation
- Stated choice experiments
- Bio-statistics
- Bayesian methods
- Generalised linear models
- Statistical applications in insurance and finance
Mathematical Physics and Computational Science
- Electromagnetic optics, photonics and plasmonics
- Semi-analytic and computational methods for photonic and plasmonic modelling
- Computational electromagnetic and high performance computing
- Disordered media, scattering and localisation
- Metamaterials
- Radiation dynamics
- High-dimensional integration
Quantitative Finance and Stochastic Analysis
- Stochastic modelling
- Mathematical finance and reliability
- Statistics of random processes
- Financial mathematics
- Quantitative finance
- Numerical methods for stochastic differential equations
- Partial differential equations and harmonic analysis
Quantitative Management Science
- Optimisation and optimal control
- Theory of the firm
- Capital structure and dividend policy
- Stochastic modelling
- Scheduling theory
- Discrete optimisation
- Production planning and scheduling
- Personnel scheduling
Mathematical and Statistical Education
- Computer algebra systems
- Mathematics education
- Activity theory and phenomenography
- Applied statistics, statistical education
- Tertiary maths learning/teaching
- Language, statistics and technology
- Conceptions of statistics and mathematics
Health Technologies
- Detection and analysis of detail in medical images
- Application of methods for rapid image analysis
More information on research opportunities in the Department, please contact:
Dr Tim Langtry
Head of Department of Mathematical Sciences
Telephone: + 61 2 9590 2236
Email: Tim.Langtry@uts.edu.au
