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List of submitted MSc projects 2015

Project ID Supervisor Department Co-supervisor Project title Availability Prospective MathSys PhD Co-funding Reserved
1 Professor Paul Moss MathSys External Partner: Birmingham Cancer Sciences
Dr Daniel Ray (MathSys External Partner: Q Elizabeth Hospital)

Correlation of laboratory biochemical measurements with survival using hospital metadata

Study of infection rates after cancer therapy and its correlation with long term survival

Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available
2 Dr Joanna Collingwood Engineering Dr Michael Chappell (Engineering) Developing a systems model of brain iron accumulation Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
3 Ben Graham Statistics Thomas Popham (Ext Partner: JLR) Anomaly detection and fault prevention/The Self-Learning Intelligent Car Of The Future MathSys Yes Likely
available
4 Jean-Baptiste Cazier MathSys External Partner: B Cancer
Sabine Haeurt (Other: Bristol) Modeling competitive tumour progression with virtual swarms of robots. Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
5 j.cazier@bham.ac.uk MathSys External Partner: B Cancer
Cyrus Vaziri (Other: N.Carolina) Rad18: A Mutagenic Driver in Cancer ? Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
6 Michael Tildesley Other: Nottingham Ed Hill (Complexity Science)
Modelling of avian influenza A(H5N1) in Thailand Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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7 Dr. Ligang He Computer Science None Optimizing Job Scheduling on Multicore Computers Erasmus Mundus M1 Erasmus Mundus students only Not applicable
Natalya Bondarenko
8 Dr Yulia Timofeeva Computer Science None Role of calmodulin in controlling vesicular release probability Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys No Unlikely
available
9 Prof Alfonso Jaramillo School of Life Sciences None Game theory with viruses and the spontaneous evolution of cooperation Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
10 Markus Kirkilionis Mathematics None

Future of Medicine

The Chemostat and Microbial Communities

Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
Esther Wershof
11 Petr Denissenko Engineering Colm Connaughton (Mathematics) MHD-induced free surface waves in a rectangular vessel Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
Gerasimos Politis
12 Juergen Branke Warwick Business School None Evolving Control Rules for Complex Systems Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available
13 Jean-Baptiste Cazier MathSys External Partner: B Cancer
Ulrich Günther (MathSys External Partner: B Cancer) Development of an Analytical Framework for the Integration of Genomic and Metabolomic Profiles to Characterise Mixed Systems. Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
14 Sascha Ott Systems Biology Constanze Bonifer (Ext Partner: B Cancer) Analysis of differential transcription factor occupancy in leukaemic cells Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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15 Javier Cuervo MathSys External Partner: Polymaths
Ivan Gomez (MathSys External Partner: Polymaths) Understanding Medellin's Education System through Data Analysis and Modelling MathSys Yes Possibly
available
16 Thomas E. Nichols Statistics Andreas Bartsch (Other: Heidelberg) Atrial Fibrillation found after Stroke: Cause or consequence? Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available
17 Juergen Branke Warwick Business School None Efficient Global Optimization for Finding Robust Solutions Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available
18 Paul Chleboun Mathematics Stefan Grosskinsky (Mathematics) Large scale dynamics in interacting particle systems Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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19 Prof Juergen Branke Warwick Business School Dr Till Bretschneider (Systems Biology) Using symbolic regression to infer physical laws of cellular biomechanics Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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20 Dr Deepak Parashar Systems Biology None Biomarker-stratified Design of Cancer Clinical Trials MathSys Yes Possibly
available
21 Sascha Ott Systems Biology Andrew Beggs (Ext Partner: B Cancer) Understanding the molecular complexity of human retroperitoneal liposarcoma Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available
22 Professor Bo Chen Warwick Business School None Trade-Off between Efficiency and Fairness Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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23 Prof Alfonso Jaramillo School of Life Sciences None Analysis of the gene expression dynamics by periodic forcing of transcriptional regulators Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
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24 Prof Alfonso Jaramillo School of Life Sciences None Computational design of RNA-based oscillatory circuits in living cells using Monte Carlo methods Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
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25 Dr Lukasz Figiel Warwick Manufacturing Group Dr David Quigley (Physics) Molecular modelling for optimum design of polymer-graphene nanocomposites MathSys Yes Likely
available
26 R.S.MacKay Mathematics Nicholas Beale (MathSys External Partner: Sciteb) Systemic risk in the financial system Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
27 James Kermode Engineering Christoph Ortner (Mathematics) Predictive Modelling of Crack Growth: Stochastic Coarse Graining from Atomic to Continuum Scale MathSys Yes Possibly
available
28 Colm Connaughton Mathematics None Predicting power output for off-shore wind farms: can a simple machine learning algorithm out-perform numerical weather prediction over short time horizons? Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys No Unlikely
available
29 Colm Connaughton Mathematics Nicholas Moloney (Other: London Math Lab) The Elo rating system Erasmus Mundus M1 This project is offered to Erasmus Mundus MSc students only Not applicable
available
30 Colm Connaughton Mathematics None An inverse problem in the kinetics of fragmentation Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
available
31 Colm Connaughton Mathematics Anja Slim (Other: Monash) Carbon capture and storage: towards predictive modelling of reservoirs and solutal convective turbulence in porous media MathSys Yes Unlikely
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32 Colm Connaughton Mathematics Emre Esenturk (Mathematics) Controlling droplet evaporation from surfaces for 3-D printing applications Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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33 Colm Connaughton Mathematics Neil Cade (Other: Selex) Optimal orientation tracking for inertial navigation systems MathSys Yes Likely
available
34 R.S.MacKay Mathematics None Hierarchical computation of traffic flows Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
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35 Matt Keeling Mathematics Simon Gubbins (MathSys External Partner: Pirbright) Persistence of Infection in Spatial Populations MathSys Yes Unlikely
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36 Matt Keeling Mathematics Mark Temple (MathSys External Partner: PHW) Measles Epidemics in Vaccinated Populations MathSys Yes Likely
available
37 Matt Keeling Mathematics Ian Hall (MathSys External Partner: PHE) Weakly Transmissible Diseases MathSys Yes Unlikely
Joe Hilton
38 Matthew Turner Physics None Modelling the pricing behavior of retail firms MathSys No Unlikely
Gian Lorenzo Spisso
39 Matthew Turner Physics None Short Term Memory in Flocks: an Agent Based Model MathSys Yes Unlikely
Katherine Broadfoot
40 Matthew Turner Physics None Extracting the individual from the crowd MathSys Yes Unlikely
available
41 Robert MacKay Mathematics Ben Marshall (MathSys External Partner: NatGrid) Inter-area oscillations in the GB electricity network Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Likely
available
42 Keith Briggs Ext Partner: BT
None Railway delay statistics and modelling Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
Lusine Shirvanyan
43 Sascha Ott Systems Biology Jean-Baptiste Cazier (Ext Partner: B Cancer) Rational Development of a Bladder Cancer Gene Panel Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Unlikely
available
44 Thomas Hills Psychology None The Network Structure of Language and Early Language Acquisition Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys Yes Possibly
available