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Dr Owen JONES
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: O.Jones@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room: 221
Ext. Number: 46412
Webpage: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~odj/
Research Group:- Operations Research
- Statistics
- Stochastic Processes
Interests: - Branching processes
- Fractals and self-similar processes
- Mathematical Finance
- Stochastic modelling and simulation
Recent Publications:
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  • Exploring decision-makers' use of price information in a speculative market(2008) more
  • Simulation of Brownian motion at first passage times(2008) more
  • Modelling electricity power cuts in the UK(2007) more
  • Convergence Properties of the Cross-Entropy Method for Discrete Optimization(2007) more
  • Estimation for time-changed self-similar stochastic processes(2006) more

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Sen TAN "On modelling of the timing of defaults in CDO rating"
Roger TING
Nikki SONENBERG "Building Stochastic Models for Mobile ad hoc Networks"

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Geoffrey DECROUEZ "Generation of multifractal signals with underlying branching structure"

Current Honours Students:

Mani Teksen SULEIMAN
Duc Huu Minh TRUONG

Recent Honours Students:

Amy RATNAKARAN "Bayesian Networks"
Oliver SISSON "Sequential Reliability Testing: Binary Search with Limited Failures"
Adam KOWALEWSKI
Jonathan KASTELAN

Subject(s) Currently Teaching:

620-374 Sampling & Forecasting (Semester 2, 2009)
620-168 Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Semester 2, 2009)

Recent Grant History:

Year(s) Source Type Title
2006 - 2008 ARC Discovery Multifractal models in finance via crossing tree

Responsibilities:

Applied Statistics Seminar Coordinator
Faculty of Science Board member
First Aid Officer
Lecture & 2nd Examiner Schedules

Committees:

Course Advice (Academic Representative)
MAGPA
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