Applied Mathematics
About
The Applied Mathematics Group has broad interests across the fields of colloid science, medicine, chemical engineering and materials processing. We often work on problems regarding the transport of materials, cells or molecules. Many of these problems arise from interaction with experimentalists, engineers, and industry partners, such as found in the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, a Special Research Centre funded by the Australian Research Council, 2001-2005, or Royal Childrens Hospital. We develop discrete and continuum models to help understand these systems and generate and test new hypotheses. Particular strengths are in the mechanics of granular media , contact mechanics of deformable interfaces such as drops, the modelling of moving fronts of cells, random walks in random environments, and the mechanics of the atomic force microscope.
Seminar series
Academic Staff
Dr Douglas BRUMLEY (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Jesse COLLIS (Lecturer)
Professor Jennifer FLEGG (Professor)
Dr Hailong GUO (Senior Lecturer)
Research interests: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Dr Stuart JOHNSTON (Senior Lecturer)
Prof James MCCAW (Professor)
A/Prof James OSBORNE (Associate Professor)
Prof Kate SMITH-MILES (Associate Dean (Industry & Enterprise) / Professor)
Research interests: Combinatorial optimisation, Continuous optimisation , Dimensional reduction, Generation of hard test instances , Machine Learning, Mathematical modelling, Multi-objective optimisation, Numerical linear algebra, Operations Research, Parameter estimation, Performance evaluation
Prof Antoinette TORDESILLAS (Professor)
Research interests: Homogenization Theory, Interfacial Continuum Mechanics, Mechanics of Complex Systems, Mechanics of Granular Media
Dr Alexander ZAREBSKI (Lecturer)
Research Fellows
Dr Edward HINTON (Research Fellow)
Research interests: Applied Mathematical Methods, Continuum Modelling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Dr Nicholas JAMES (Research Fellow)
Research interests: Applied Mathematical Methods, Data Science, Mathematical Biology, Statistics
Dr Haibo LI (Research Fellow / Research Fellow)
Research interests: Inverse and ill-posed problems, Machine Learning, Numerical linear algebra
Dr Ryan MURPHY (Research Fellow)
Honorary Staff
Professor Derek CHAN
Emeritus Professor (Associate)
Prof Barry HUGHES
Emeritus Professor (Associate)
Emeritus Professor Kerry LANDMAN
Emeritus Professor (Associate)