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 |
available |
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 | Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys | Yes | Unlikely |
Esther Wershof |
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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 |
available |
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 |
available |
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 |
available |
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 |
available |
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 |
available |
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 |
available |
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 |
available |
32 | Colm Connaughton | Mathematics | Emre Esenturk (Mathematics) | Controlling droplet evaporation from surfaces for 3-D printing applications | Erasmus Mundus M1 MathSys | Yes | Unlikely |
available |
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 |
available |
35 | Matt Keeling | Mathematics | Simon Gubbins (MathSys External Partner: Pirbright) | Persistence of Infection in Spatial Populations | MathSys | Yes | Unlikely |
available |
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 |