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The IAM graduate theses are listed below sorted by student's name. Click here
for a list of theses sorted reverse-chronologically by date.
The alphabetical list of IAM alumni can be found
here.
| Adams, Steven |
M.Sc. thesis Jun 1988 |
Semiconductor Device Modelling Using the Multigrid Method
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| Aguirre-Hernández, Rosalía |
Ph.D. thesis April 2007 |
Computational RNA Secondary Structure Design: Empirical Complexity and Improved Methods
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| Ainslie, Bruce |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1991 |
Analytical and Experimental Study of Flow from a Slot into Free Stream
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| Alqallaf, Fatemah |
Ph.D. thesis Apr 2003 |
A New Contamination Model for Robust Estimation with Large High-Dimensional Data Sets
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Allard, Jun |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 2010 |
Mathematics and Biophysics of Cortical Microtubules in Plants
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| Anderies, J. Marty |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 1998 |
Culture, Economic Structure, and the Dynamics of Ecological Economic Systems
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| Anderies, J. Marty |
M.Sc. thesis 1996 |
An Adaptive Model for Predicting !Kung Reproductive Performance:
A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach
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| Aruliah, Dhavide |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 2001 |
Fast Solvers for Time-Harmonic Maxwell's Equations in 3D
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| Ayaz, Ulaş |
M.Sc. thesis Oct 2009 |
Sigma-Delta Quantization and Sturmian Words
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| Bailey, James |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 2008 |
Phenomenological Modeling of the Nucleated Polymerization of
Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide: A Combined Experimental and
Theoretical Approach
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| Ball, Colleen |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 2006 |
Understanding Pathogen Selection Pressures at the Within- and Between-Host Levels
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| Bandic, Ivan |
M.Sc. essay Apr 2004 |
Pricing Mortgage-Backed Securities and Collateralized
Mortgage Obligations
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Bell, Peter |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 2011 |
Portfolio Management with Index Insurance
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| Bermejo, Rodolfo |
Ph.D. thesis Jan 1990 |
Analysis of a Galerkin-Characteristic Algorithm for the Potential Vorticity-Stream Function Equations
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| Beukema, Sarah J. |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 1992 |
Models for Tent Caterpillar-Virus Interactions
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| Blackett, Andrew W. |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1993 |
Wind Induced Entrainment in the Strait of Georgia and the Possible Consequences for Fish Survival
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| Bolton, Matthew Robert |
M.Sc. thesis May 2002 |
A 2D Conduction-Convection Model of a Jet Impinging on a Flat Plate
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| Boulton, Alan |
M.Sc. thesis 1993 |
New Symmetries from Old: Exploiting Lie Algebra Structure
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| Boxerman, Eddy |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 2003 |
Speeding Up Cloth Simulation
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| Bridge, Lloyd |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 2001 |
Condensation in a Porous Medium
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| Bridge, Lloyd |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 2006 |
Computational Interface Capturing Methods for Phase Change in Porous Media
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| Brzustowski, John |
M.Sc. thesis Mar 1992 |
Can You Win at Tetris?
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Carrasco-Teja, Mariana |
Ph.D. thesis Jan 2010 |
Primary Cementing of a Highly Deviated Oil Well
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| Carter, Paul M. |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 1993 |
The Shape-From-Shading Problem in Computational Vision
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| Carter, Paul M. |
M.Sc. thesis Jun 1988 |
A Multigrid Method for Determining the Deflection of Lithospheric Plate
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| Chan, Daniel |
M.Sc. essay May 2001 |
Value at Risk |
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Chan, Ian |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2010 |
Parametric Subharmonic Instability and the β-Effect
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| Chang, Bo Young |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 2002 |
Introduction to Credit Derivatives |
| Charles, Anthony Trevor |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1982 |
Optimal Fisheries Investment
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| Chen, Heli |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1998 |
The Quadrature Discretization Method and Its Applications
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Chen, Wan |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 2009 |
Localized Patterns in the Gray-Scott Model: An Asymptotic and Numerical Study of Dynamics and Stability
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Chen, Yifei |
M.Sc. thesis Feb 2011 |
CVaR Optimization and Multivariate Joint Density Modeling
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Cheng, Tao |
M.Sc. essay Apr 2011 |
Hedging Long-Term Commodity Risk with Dynamic Hedging Strategy
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| Chin, Hong Sheng |
Ph.D. thesis May 1995 |
Stabilization Methods for Simulations of Constrained Multibody Dynamics
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| Chou, Che-Ming Steve |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2005 |
Modeling the Return Rates of Stock via EM Algorithm
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| Civelekoglu, Gul |
Ph.D. thesis 1995 |
Modelling the Dynamics of Actin in Cells |
| Clegg, Gillian |
M.Sc. essay 2003 |
Repayment Models for Mortgage-Based Securities
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| Coman, Florica |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2005 |
An Iterative Method for Pricing the American Put Options with Dividend
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| Dai, Longxiang |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 1997 |
Lattice Boltzmann Equation Models for Migration of Ions in the Brain
and Their Applications
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| Dawes, Adriana Tiamae |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 1999 |
A Study of Synchrony and Phaselocking Through Excitatory/Inhibitory Coupling
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| Dawes, Adriana Tiamae |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 2006 |
Phosphoinositides and Rho Proteins Conspire to
Spatially Regulate Actin Polymerization in Motile Cells
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| De Vries, Gerda |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 1995 |
Analysis of Models of Bursting Electrical Activity in Pancreatic Beta Cells
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DeGiuli, Eric
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M.Sc. thesis Sep 2009 |
Turbulent Flow in Geophysical Channels
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| Dery, Francis |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 1997 |
Linear Stability Analysis of an Oceanic Frontal System over a Submarine Ridge
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| Ding, Huakun |
M.Sc. essay Mar 2009 |
Earnings Announcements in Option Expiration Weeks
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| Dion, Valerie |
M.Sc. essay May 2001 |
Introduction to Mortgage-Backed Securities
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| Donaldson, Jason |
M.Sc. thesis April 2007 |
Selfduality in Geometry: Yang-Mills Connections and Selfdual Lagrangians
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| Donaldson, Roger |
M.Sc. thesis Jan 2004 |
Generalised Stefan Problems: Linear Analysis and Computation
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| Doran-Wu, Patrick |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1996 |
Extension of Lie's Algorithm: A Potential Symmetries Classification of PDEs
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| Dubash, Neville |
M.A.Sc. thesis Aug 2003 |
Bubble Propagation Through Viscoplastic Fluids
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| Dupuis, Catherine |
M.Sc. thesis Jul 2005 |
Seismic Singularity Characterization with Redundant Dictionaries
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| Dushek, Omer |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 2008 |
Mathematical Modeling in Cellular Immunology: T Cell Activation and Parameter Estimation
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| Haber, Eldad |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1997 |
Numerical Strategies for the Solution of Inverse Problems
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| Haigh, Susan Patricia |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1995 |
Non-Symmetric Holmboe Waves
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Halasan, Florina |
M.Sc. essay Dec 2003 |
Interest Rate Theory and Consistency Problems
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Halasan, Florina |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 2009 |
Absolutely Continuous Spectrum for the Anderson Model on Trees
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| Han, Bing |
M.Sc. thesis Jun 1996 |
Numerical Solution of a Control in Economics
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| He, Pingfan |
Ph.D. thesis 1995 |
Numerical Predication of Film Cooling of Turbine Blades |
| Heuff, Darlene |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1996 |
Modification of Boundary Layer Roll Dynamics by Induced
Tropospheric Gravity Waves |
| Hnidei, Stephen D. |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1990 |
Selective Withdrawal of a Linearly Stratified Fluid in a Triangular Reservoir
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| Ho, Andy |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 2000 |
Willow Tree |
| Huang, Huaxiong |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 1991 |
Incompressible Viscous Flow in Tubes with Occlusions
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| Huang, Hui |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 2008 |
Efficient Reconstruction of 2D Images and 3D Surfaces
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| Lai, Henry Kwok-Hei |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1993 |
Application of the Extended Kalman Filter to Enzyme Reactions
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| Landry, Maria P. |
M.Sc. thesis Jan 2004 |
Taylor-Couette Instability of a Bingham Fluid
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| Lebed, Evgeniy |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2008 |
Sparse Signal Recovery in a Transform Domain
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| L'Espérance, Bruno |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2007 |
A Study of Financial Agents with Heterogeneous Agents: A Numerical Approach
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| Lewis, Greg |
Ph.D. thesis 2000 |
Double Hopf Bifurcations in Two Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Models |
| Liang, Margaret Hongxia |
M.Sc. thesis Jan 2003 |
Rivulet Flow and Stability
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| Lin, Ping |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 1995 |
Regularization Methods for Differential Equations and Their Numerical Solution
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| Lin, Yihan |
Ph.D. thesis Jun 1987 |
A Mathematical Theory of Elastic Orthotropic Plates in Plane Strain and Axi-Symmetric Deformations
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Lindsay, Alan |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 2010 |
Topics in the Asymptotic Analysis of Linear and Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems
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Lindstrom, Michael |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2010 |
Asymptotic and Numerical Modeling of Magnetic Field Profiles in Superconductors with Rough Boundaries and Multi-Component Gas Transport in PEM Fuel Cells
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| Liu, Yidong |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 1994 |
Joint Inversion for Correlated Models in Linear Inverse Problems
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| Lo, Joseph Quin Wai |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 2008 |
Pseudospectral Methods in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics
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| Lu, Zeliang |
M.Sc. essay Jul 2008 |
Default Contagion in Intensity-Based Models
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| Luca, Magdalena |
Ph.D. thesis Jan 2002 |
Application of Chemotactic Models to Alzheimer's Disease
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Lukeman, Ryan |
Ph.D. thesis Jun 2009 |
Modeling Collective Motion in Animal Groups: From Mathematical Analysis to Field Data
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| Ma, Alex Yim-Cheong |
M.Sc. thesis Mar 1990 |
Extended Group Analysis of the Wave Equation
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| MacKinnon-Cormier, Sarah |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 2006 |
A Block Preconditioning Cost Analysis for Solving
Saddle-Point Linear Systems
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| Madden, Joshua |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 1999 |
Going Critical: An Investigation of Diameter-Critical Graphs
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| Mah, Christopher |
Ph.D. thesis 1989 |
Mathematical Topics in the Theory of Excitable Media
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| Mandre, Shreyas |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 2006 |
Two Studies in Hydrodynamic Stability:
Interfacial Instabilities and Applications of Bounding Theory
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| Mangel, Marc |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 1977 |
Small Fluctuations at the Unstable Steady State
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| Maxwell, David |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 1997 |
On the Regularity of a Model of a Non-Newtonian Fluid |
| McFadzean-Ferguson, Simon |
M.Sc. thesis 1995 |
Spatial Estimation: The Geostatistical Point of View
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Merchant, Sandra |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 2003 |
Analysis of an Integrodifference Model for Biological
Invasions with a Quasi-Local Interaction
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Merchant, Sandra |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 2009 |
Spatiotemporal Patterns in Mathematical Models for Predator Invasions
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Mi, Yue |
M.Sc. essay Apr 2012 |
An Exploration of International Stock Return Comovement and Portfolio Diversification
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| Mititica, Gabriel |
M.Sc. essay Mar 2003 |
Introduction to Collateralized Debt Obligations
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| Mogilner, Alexander |
Ph.D. thesis Sep 1995 |
Modelling Spatio-Angular Patterns in Cell Biology
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Molina-Escobar, Alberto |
Ph.D. thesis Dec 2009 |
Filtering and Parameter Estimation for Electricity Markets
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Morrison, Jennifer |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2010 |
Deciphering Multi-State Mobility Within Single Particle Trajectories of Proteins on the Plasma Membrane
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| Moulton, David |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 1996 |
Nodal Methods: Performance, Analysis and Fast Iterative Solvers
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| Moyers-Gonzalez, Miguel |
Ph.D. thesis Jan 2006 |
Transient Effects in Oilfield Cementing Flows
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Moyles, Iain |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2011 |
Thermo-Viscous Fingering in Porous Media and In-Situ Soil Remediation
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| Moyers-Gonzales, Miguel |
M.Sc. thesis Jan 2003 |
Nonlinearly Stable Multilayer Viscoplastic Flows
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| Pachmann, Sydney |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2008 |
Swimming in Slime
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| Pan, Zhenguo |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 2008 |
Simulation and Analysis of Coupled Surface and Grain Boundary Motion
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Paton, Kelly |
M.Sc. thesis Dec 2011 |
A Study of Wave Propagation in the FitzHugh-Nagumo System
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| Patrick, Jonathan |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 1999 |
Convergence of Behavior Rules in Iterated Matrix Games
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| Pelipenko, Sviatoslav |
M.Sc. thesis 2002 |
Displacement Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in an Eccentric Annulus
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| Pidgeon, Robert W. |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1991 |
Dynamics and Control of a Flexible Tethered System with Offset
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Pillay, Samara |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2008 |
The Narrow Escape Problem: A Matched Asymptotic Expansion Approach
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| Pinder, Shelly |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 2000 |
Stability Properties of the Direct Boundary Element Method
Applied to the Elastodynamic Equations
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| Podhorsky, Andrea |
M.A. essay Jun 1999 |
Towards a Bounded Rationality: Epistemic Models in Economics
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| Prat, Alain |
M.Sc. thesis 2005 |
Oscillatory Waves in an Inhomogeneous Excitable Medium
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Prosk, Erin |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2009 |
The Cofilin Activity Pathway in Metastasizing Mammary Tumour Cells
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| Quinn, Declan |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 2000 |
Atmospheric Wave-Mean Flow Interactions |
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| Ran, Israeli |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 2005 |
Pre- and Postsynaptic Actions of Pentobarbital on Corticothalamic Transmission
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Raghoonundun, Avishka
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M.Sc. essay May 2010 |
Models for Electricity Prices
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Reason, Christopher James Charles |
Ph.D. thesis May 1989 |
Coastally Trapped Disturbances in the Lower Atmosphere
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| Reich, Ulrike |
M.Sc. essay May 2002 |
Hedging in an International Environment
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| Reinker, Stefan |
Ph.D. thesis Jan 2004 |
Stochastic Resonance in Thalamic Neurons and Resonant Neuron Models
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| Rivas-Cortes, Rodrigo |
M.Sc. essay 2004 |
Pricing an American Barrier Option
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| Ritchie, Robert James |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1995 |
International Tax Competition: The Effects of Transportation Costs
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| Rodriguez-Mancilla, Jose Ramon |
M.Sc. essay May 2001 |
Mathematical Finance, Value at Risk
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| Ross, Sally A. |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 1988 |
The Numerical Treatment of Ill-posed Problems using the Method of Conjugate Gradients
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| Royer, Sophie |
M.Sc. thesis Dec 1993 |
Studies of the Immune Network Based on Shape-Space and Distance Coefficient
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| Rucker, Magdelena |
M.Sc. thesis Jan 1995 |
A Convective Boundary Layer Model with Time-Adaptive Grids
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| Ruuth, Steven |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1996 |
Efficient Algorithms for Diffusion-Generated Motion by Mean Curvature
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| Ruuth, Steven |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 1993 |
Implicit-Explicit Methods for Time-Dependent PDEs
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| Ryan, Daniel P. |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 2003 |
Slow Flow of a Bingham Fluid in a Gap of Slowly Varying Width
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Saab, Rayan |
Ph.D. thesis May 2010 |
Compressed Sensing: Decoding and Quantization
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| Sakai, Shuichi |
M.Sc. thesis Jun 1997 |
Pioneer-Climax Tree Competition Models
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| Sakellaris, Constantinos |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 2000 |
An Examination of a Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Kennedy's Model
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| Samaradasa, Weerahandi |
Ph.D. thesis 1977 |
Bargaining Solutions to the Problem of Exchange of Uncertain Ventures
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| Sawaki, Katsushige |
Ph.D. thesis Jul 1977 |
Piecewise-Linear Markov Decision Processes with an Application to Partially Observable Markov Models
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| Schleicher, Christoph |
Ph.D. thesis Aug 2003 |
Essays on the Decomposition of Economic Variables
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| Scott, Karen |
M.Sc. thesis Jul 1988 |
A Supra-Convergent Scheme for the Solution of Differential Equations on an Arbitrary Mesh
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| Shi, Ping |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 1996 |
The Interior Point Method and Its Application to the Fractional (g,f)-Factor problem
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| Shim, Eunha (Alicia) |
M.Sc. thesis Apr 2004 |
An Epidemic Model with Immigration of Infectives and Vaccination
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| Shore, Jennifer |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1996 |
Tidal Residual Circulation over an Axisymmetric Seamount: Seamount Geometry Effects
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| Spiros, Athan |
Ph.D. thesis Sep 1998 |
Investigating Models for Cross-Linker Mediated Actin Filament Dynamics
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| Spiteri, Ray |
Ph.D. thesis Sep 1997 |
Solution Methods for Differential Systems Subject to
Algebraic Inequality Constraints
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| Stafford, Douglas |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 1997 |
Asymptotic and Numerical Analysis of the Allen-Cahn Equation with a Mass
Constraint
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| Steiner, Stefan |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 1989 |
Grace Hospital Computer Simulation Model
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| Steininger, Gavin Arthur Mervyn Wyverstone |
M.A.Sc. thesis Aug 2009 |
Determination of the Acoustical Diffusion and Impedance Characteristics of Surfaces by
Bayesian Inversion of a Modified Helmholtz Equation
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| Stockie, John Michael |
Ph.D. thesis Sep 1997 |
Analysis and Computation of Immersed Boundaries, with Application to Pulp Fibres
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| Storm, Andrew |
Ph.D. thesis Jun 1992 |
Constrained Stochastic Differential Equations
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| Su, Yuhong |
M.Sc. thesis Nov 1998 |
Collocation Spectral Methods in the Solution of Poisson Equation
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| Sun, Xiaodi |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1998 |
Metastable Dynamics of Convection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations
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| Suo, Wulin |
Ph.D. thesis Feb 1994 |
Existence of Singular Optimal Controls |
| Swaters, Gordon Edwin |
Ph.D. thesis 1985 |
On the Stability and Propagation of Barotropic Modons in Slowly Varying Media
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| Wacher, Abigail |
M.Sc. thesis Feb 2001 |
A Radiation Model of a Rapid Thermal Processing System
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| Walsh, Owen |
Ph.D. thesis 1994 |
On Approximate Inertial Manifolds for the Navier-Stokes Equations Using Finite Elements
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Wan, Andy Tak Shik |
M.Sc. thesis Aug 2010 |
Finding Conservation Laws for Partial Differential Equations
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| Wang, Jieren (Cecilia) |
M.Sc. essay May 2009 |
Pairs Trading with Robust Correlation
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Wang, Li
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M.Sc. essay May 2010 |
Term Structures of Defaultable Bonds
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| Wang, Mei |
Ph.D. thesis Nov 2007 |
Combustion Modeling Using Conditional Source-Term Estimation
with Flamelet Decomposition and Low-Dimensional Manifolds
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| Wang, Zhe |
M.Sc. essay 2005 |
Portfolio Optimization Using the Hidden Markov Model
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| Wang, Zhiqing |
M.Sc. essay Aug 2008 |
Valuation of Lease Contract and Credit Risk
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| Watmough, James |
M.Sc. thesis 1992 |
Modeling the Swarming Behavior of Army Ants
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| Watmough, James |
Ph.D. thesis Sep 1996 |
The Dynamics and Structure of Groups: Two Case Studies of the Common Honey Bee
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| Weaver, Andrew |
Ph.D. thesis Oct 1987 |
Numerical and Analytical Modelling of Oceanic/Atmospheric Processes
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| Weaver, Anthony T. |
M.Sc. thesis Sep 1990 |
On Assimilating Sea Surface Temperature Data into an Ocean General Circulation Model
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Wei, Xiaoxi |
Ph.D. thesis May 2011 |
Mixed Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics
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Willoughby, Mark |
M.Sc. thesis December 2011 |
High-Order Time-Adaptive Numerical Methods for the Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard Equations
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