Student Projects
Recent Honours Thesis Projects in the Department:
The Department of Theoretical Physics takes a keen interest in Honours and PhD supervision.
Some recent Honours thesis projects supervised:
(2007) Jen-Yee Lee, The integrable 1D mixed Bose-Fermi gas, Supervisors: Murray Batchelor and Xiwen Guan
(2007) Ruth Mills (University Medal), 3D plasma equilibria, Supervisor: Matthew Hole
(2007) Nathan Deutscher (University Medal, mathematics) Schramm-Loewner evolutions, Supervisor: Murray Batchelor
(2006) Jolyon Bloomfield (University Medal), The thermodynamics and fractional statistics of the spinor Bose gas, Supervisors: Murray Batchelor and Xiwen Guan
(2006) Simon Chung, Generalised complex geometry and geometric quantisation, Supervisor: Peter Bouwknegt
(2005) Graham Denis (University Medal), Multi-fluid plasma modeling, Supervisor: Matthew Hole
Honours/PhD projects on offer for 2008-
Please contact individual members of staff for updates and other possible projects
Plasmas and Fluids Theory Group:
- Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in Plasmas.
- Supervisor Prof. Robert Dewar. Click here for more details.
- Chaos and order in 4D symplectic maps and 2 1/2 degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems.
- Supervisor Prof. Robert Dewar. Click here for more details.
- WKBJ approach to plasma instabilities.
- Supervisor Prof. Robert Dewar. Click here for more details.
- Mapping and visualization of singular surfaces in models for critical behaviour in excitable media.
- Supervisor Dr. Rowena Ball. Click here for more details.
- Turbulence, Transitions, and Transport in Flatland.
- Supervisor Dr. Rowena Ball. Click here for more details.
- Topics in Future Energy and Plasma Physics.
- Supervisor Dr. Matthew Hole. Click here for more details.
Mathematical Physics Group:
- Topics in Integrable (Exactly Solved) Models.
- Supervisor Prof. Murray Batchelor. Click here for more details.
- Bethe Ansatz Equations and Restricted Solid-on-Solid model.
- Supervisor Prof. Vladimir Bazhanov. Click here for more details.
- Quasi-Classical Expansion of Schrödinger Equation and Conformal Field Theory.
- Supervisor Prof. Vladimir Bazhanov. Click here for more details.
- String Theory and Integrable Systems.
- Supervisor Prof. Vladimir Bazhanov. Click here for more details.
- Finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras.
- Supervisor Prof. Peter Bouwknegt. Click here for more details.
- Generalized geometry, T-duality and mirror symmetry.
- Supervisor Prof. Peter Bouwknegt. Click here for more details.
- Statistics of quasiparticles.
- Supervisor Prof. Peter Bouwknegt. Click here for more details.
- Topics in String Theory.
- Supervisor Prof. Peter Bouwknegt. Click here for more details.
- Separation of Variables in Integrable Systems.
- Supervisor Dr. Vladimir Mangazeev. Click here for more details.
Condensed Matter Physics:
- Electronic, Transport and Optical Properties of Broken-Gap Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures.
- Supervisor Dr. Wen Xu. Click here for more details.
- Bose-Einstein Condensation in Presence of Confinement and Interaction.
- Supervisor Dr. Mukunda Das. Click here for more details.
- Excitonic Superfluidity in Quantum Hall Bilayers.
- Supervisor Dr.Mukunda Das. Click here for more details.
- Transport in Mesoscopic Systems.
- Supervisor Dr.Mukunda Das. Click here for more details.
