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Complexity Miniproject proposal list 2008

ID Supervisor(s) Principal Department Project title Availability Prospective PhD
53 Chris Dowson
David Roper
Biological Sciences Comparative flux control through the cytoplasmic stages of cell wall biosynthesis and perturbation by inhibitors: focus upon the essentiality of MurB period 1 or period 2 Yes
62 Graham Medley Biological Sciences Endemic disease of cattle: dynamic drivers of persistence period 1 or period 2 Yes
12 Thomas House Biological Sciences Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Epidemiology period 1 or period 2 Yes
54 Andrew Marsh
Mark Rodger
Alessandro Troisi
Chemistry Approaches to simulation and modelling of H-bond mediated self-assembly period 1 or period 2 Yes
79 Peter Sadler
Paul Brown
Chemistry Genetic codes for the elements of life period 1 or period 2 Yes
24 Stephen Wells
Rudolf Roemer
DCS Rigidity-dilution behaviour of proteins period 1 or period 2 Yes
45 Yulia Timofeeva DCS Filtering properties of resonant dendrites period 1 or period 2 Yes
72 Rahul Savani DCS Heterogeneous agents, multiple time horizons, and emergent market behaviour period 1 or period 2 Yes
31 Jianfeng Feng DCS Group Causality period 1 or period 2 Yes
47 Sayantan Ghosal Economics Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in markets and games period 1 or period 2 Yes
59 Petr Denissenko
Sergey Nazarenko
Engineering Mitigating harbor storms by enhancing nonlinear wave interactions period 1 or period 2 Yes
78 Nigel Stocks Engineering Characterising the dynamics of globally coupled stochastic recurrent networks period 1 or period 2 Yes
35 Mark Leeson Engineering Advanced Protocols via Emergence for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (APE-MANET) period 1 or period 2 Yes
36 Christian Franzke
Nick Watkins
Ellak Somfai
External Fluctuations and Long-Term Memory in Climate period 1 or period 2 Yes
40 Mervyn Freeman
Ellak Somfai
External AURORAL BUMPS - Understanding non-monotonic truncation of scale-free fluctuations in Earth's aurora and other systems period 1 or period 2 Yes
4 Keith Briggs External Generation and sampling of set partitions period 1 or period 2 No
18 Dave Skirvin
Andrew Mead
HRI Modelling predator searching in plant canopies period 1 or period 2 Yes
73 Stefan Grosskinsky Maths Synchronization in complex networks period 1 or period 2 Yes
74 Stefan Grosskinsky Maths Nonequilibrium phase transitions in perturbed particle systems period 1 or period 2 Yes
5 Mauro Mobilia
Robert MacKay
Maths Collective dynamics and evolutionary game theory period 1 or period 2
No
2 Robert MacKay Maths Citation Analysis period 1 or period 2 Yes
3 Robert MacKay Maths Convergence of Monte Carlo methods for multivariate probabilities period 1 or period 2 Yes
75 Markus Kirkilionis Maths Analysis of the flux control through the cytoplasmic stages of cell wall biosynthesis and perturbation by inhibitors: focus upon the essentiality of MurB period 1 or period 2 Yes
16 Colm Connaughton Maths Measuring and Modelling the PDF of Energy Flux in Two-dimensional Turbulence period 1 or period 2 Yes
41 Oleg Zaboronski Maths Arithmetic coding for constrained noiseless communication channels period 1 or period 2 Yes
30 Matthew Turner Physics The vitroskeleton (hard-copy only) period 1 or period 2 Yes
26 Matthew Turner Physics Animal behaviour in quasi one dimensional systems period 1 or period 2 Yes
63 Ellak Somfai Physics Granular segregation period 1 or period 2 Yes
55 Boris Gaensicke
Thomas Marsh
Daniel Steeghs
Physics Automated classification of astronomical spectra using artificial neural networks period 1 or period 2 Yes
46 Robin Ball Physics Optimisation & Data Refinement under Uncertainty period 1 or period 2 Yes
11 Mario Nicodemi Physics Statistical Mechanics of Biological Systems-the mystery of homologous pairing period 1 or period 2 Yes
44 Robin Ball Physics Unravelling Combinatoric Chemistry period 1 or period 2 Yes
61 Paolo Martini
Koen lamberts
Psychology Sequential dependencies in human decision making: A systems analysis approach period 1 or period 2 Yes
33 Sach Mukherjee Statistics Sparse Bayesian Learning for Targeted Cancer Therapy period 1 or period 2 Yes
22 Vassili Kolokoltsov Statistics Game theoretic modelling in economics period 1 or period 2 Yes
32 Sach Mukherjee Statistics Structure, Search and Sampling: Computational Learning of Biological Networks period 1 or period 2 Yes
13 Dr. Stephen Whitelam
Nigel Burroughs
Systems Biology Centre What can DNA-protein binding experiments tell us about the nature of overstretched DNA? A statistical mechanical approach period 1 or period 2
No
37 Till Bretschneider
Nigel Burroughs
Systems Biology Centre A model for cell motion based on active contours period 1 or period 2 Yes
65 Magnus Richardson Systems Biology Centre Computational properties of neurones: the role of dendrites period 1 only Yes
51 Jay Bal WMG Behaviour analysis on an electronic marketplace period 1 or period 2 Yes
56 Jane Marshal WMG Data mining of Production Acceptance Test data for an aircraft electronic engine controller period 1 or period 2 Yes
23 Frances Griffiths WMS Understanding delay in starting insulin for type 2 diabetes period 2 only
Yes
48 Jeremy Dale WMS Exploring the complexity associated with out of hours calls to UK general practice period 1 or period 2 Yes
48 Junlong Zhang WMS Are miRNA(s) expression profiles related to the loss of モcomplexityヤ with human ageing? period 2 only Yes