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PhD Roll of Honour

Since the Department of Mathematics was established in 1995 we have been fortunate to have had a number of MPhil and PhD graduates. Below is a list of all graduates, along with their supervisor, thesis title and date of award.


Dr Julian Merschen

Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Thesis title: Nash Equilibria, Gale Strings and Signed Perfect Matchings

Date of award: March 2012


Dr Polly Lon

Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos

Thesis title: Two explicitly solvable problems with discretionary stopping

Date of award: March 2012


Dr Hessah Al-Motairi

Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos 

Thesis title: Models for Investment Capacity 

Date of award: March 2012


 

Dr Raju Chinthalapati

Supervisor: Prof Martin Anthony

Thesis title: Probalistic learning and optimization applied to quantitive finance

Date of award: September 2011

 

Dr Ovidiu Precup

Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos

Thesis title: New methods for measuring correlation and modelling asset price dynamics

Date of award: August 2011

 

Dr Dimitris Melas

Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos

Thesis title: Optimal investment decisions in static and dynamic environments

Date of award: July 2011

 

Dr Marianne Fairthorne

Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell

Thesis title: The supermarket model with system-size dependent parameters

Date of award: June 2011

 

Dr Benjamin Veal

Supervisor: Prof Martin Anthony

Thesis title: Binary similarity measures and their applications in machine learning

Date of award: May 2011

 

Dr Fares Al-Azemi

Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos

Thesis title: A Pair of Explicitly Solvable Impulse Control Problems

Date of award: March 2011

 

Dr Wan Huang

Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Thesis title: Equilibrium Computation for Extensive Games

Date of award: January 2011

 

Pre-2011

Dr Xibo Zu

Supervisors: Dr Robert Simon and Dr Adam Ostaszewski

Thesis title: A Stochastic Ramsey Theorem

Date of award: December 2010

 

 

Anne BalthasarDr Anne Balthasar

Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Thesis title: Geometry and Equilibra in Bimatrix Games

Date of award: January 2010

 

Viresh Patel  Dr Viresh Patel   

Joint Supervisors: Prof Graham Brightwell & Prof Jan van den Heuvel

Thesis title: Partitions of Combinatorial Structures

Date of award: May 2009

 

Ioanna Katrantzi  Dr Ioanna Katrantzi

Supervisor: Prof Steve Alpern

Thesis title: Equilibria of Decentralized Matching Games

Date of award: November 2008

 

Peter Allen  Dr Peter Allen   

Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell

Thesis title: Finding Combinatorial Structures

Date of award: August 2008

 

Luis Cereceda  Dr Luis Cereceda     

Supervisor: Prof Jan van den Heuvel

Thesis title: Mixing Graph Colourings

Date of award: June 2008

 

Snezana Pejic

Dr Snezana Pejic

Supervisor: Prof Jan van den Heuvel

Thesis title: Algebraic Graph Theory in the Analysis of Frequency Assignment Problems

Date of award: April 2008

 

Rahul Savani

Dr Rahul Savani

Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Thesis title: Finding Nash equilibria of Bimatrix games

Date of award: June 2006

 

Nicholas Georgiou

Dr Nicholas Georgiou

Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell

Thesis title: Random structures for partially ordered sets

Date of award: May 2006

 

Arndt von Schemde

Dr Arndt von Schemde

Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Thesis title: A geometric-combinatorial approach to index and stability in bimatrix games

Date of award: December 2004

 

Philipp Reinfeld

Dr Philipp Reinfeld

Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs

Thesis title: Algebraic Methods for Chromatic Polynomials

Date of award: February 2003

 

 

George

George Croft (MPhil)

Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs

Thesis title:  Dynamic Models of Exchange Rates

Date of award: December 2001

 

 

  Dr Wei Shi Lim

  Supervisor: Prof Steve Alpern

  Thesis Title: Problems in Rendezvous Search

  Date of award: July 1996

 

  Dr George Russell

  Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs

  Thesis title: Spectral properties of graphs derived from groups.

  Date of award: 1995

 

  Dr Sarah Goodall

  Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell

  Thesis title: Problems in combinatorics : Paths in graphs, partial orders of fixed width.

  Date of award: 1995