Mathematics and statistics research

Our research themes

• Applied mathematics

  The Applied Mathematics Group has interests across the fields of colloid science, medicine, chemical engineering and materials processing.

• Data science

  Data science combines aspects of statistics, computer science, and mathematics in order to organise, analyse, and extract knowledge from data sets.

• Discrete mathematics

  Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are by nature discrete rather than continuous. It includes combinatorics and graph theory.

• Learning and teaching innovation

  This group fosters innovations in learning and teaching for tertiary mathematics and statistics.

• Mathematical biology

  Mathematical, statistical and computational methods are crucial in many areas of modern biological research. Conversely technological advances in biology allow more data, often of a novel type or at a finer resolution, to be collected resulting in new challenges that are motivating research in mathematics, statistics and computational methods.

• Mathematical physics

  Mathematical Physics is the study of the mathematics associated with models of the physical world.

• Operations research

  Operations Research (OR) provides a scientific approach to decision making. It involves formulating mathematical models of these problems, and developing mathematical tools to obtain solutions.

• Pure mathematics

  Pure math is the study of the intrinsic concepts and structural properties underlying modern mathematics. Its purpose is to search for a deeper understanding and an expanded knowledge of mathematics itself.

• Statistics

  Statistics is the science of collecting, organising and interpreting data. Mathematical descriptions of the data collection processes and the statistical analysis are used to determine accurate statistical methods.

• Stochastic processes

  This group studies a variety of areas, from the theory of branching processes to applications such as stochastic models of the stock market.