Theses Archive

Year of completion: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

Theses completed in 2012

Theses completed in 2011

  • Mountain pass algorithms and applications
    PhD thesis by Jeremy Chamard
    Supervisors: Dr David Lloyd and Prof Tom Bridges
  • Robustness criteria for vulnerability of block designs in the event of observation loss
    PhD thesis by Hellen Thornewell
    Supervisors: Dr Janet Godolphin and Prof Ian Roulstone
  • Self-rotating life forms, mechanical connections and simulation of deformable bodies in inviscid flow
    PhD thesis by Natalie Douglas
    Supervisors: Prof Tom Bridges and Prof Ian Roulstone
  • Relative motion of free and tethered satellites
    PhD thesis by Kristian Kristiansen
    Supervisors: Prof Mark Roberts and Dr Philip Palmer
  • Mode interactions and transitions associated to period doublings in maps with two parameters
    PhD thesis by Neil Bristow
    Supervisors: Dr Philip Aston and Dr Anne Skeldon
  • Singular structure of CMG systems
    PhD thesis by Alice Giffen
    Supervisors: Dr Philip Palmer and Prof Mark Roberts

Theses completed in 2010

Theses completed in 2009

  • The effect of nonlinearity on the variational assimilation of satellite observations using a simple column model
    PhD thesis by Alison Rudd
    Supervisors: Prof Ian Roulstone and Dr Stephen Gourley
  • Control of pests and diseases
    PhD thesis by Alan Terry
    Supervisors: Dr Stephen Gourley
    Sources: Abstract | PDF
  • Dynamics in the Hopf bundle, the geometric phase and implications for dynamic systems
    PhD thesis by Rupert Way
    Supervisors: Prof Tom Bridges and Dr Gianne Derks
    Sources: Abstract | PDF
  • Complex and contact geometry in geophysical fluid dynamics
    PhD thesis by Sylvain Delahaies
    Supervisors: Prof Ian Roulstone and Prof Peter Hydon
  • 2D heliocentric planar sail motion and the solar butterfly
    PhD thesis by Stephen Wokes
    Supervisors: Prof Mark Roberts and Dr Philip Palmer

Theses completed in 2008

  • Application of Wavelet Transforms to many body particle interaction
    PhD thesis by Naowarut Meejun
    Supervisors: Prof Ugur Tuzun and Dr Anne Skeldon
  • Patterns in a predator-prey reaction-diffusion system with non-local effects
    PhD thesis by Nicholas Robertson
    Supervisors: Dr Anne Skeldon and Dr Stephen Gourley
  • Stratified fibre bundles and symplectic reduction on coadjoint orbits of SU(n)
    PhD thesis by Michael Plummer
    Supervisors: Prof Mark Roberts and Prof Ian Roulstone
  • Steering laws for control movement gyro systems
    PhD thesis by Sajjad Asghar
    Supervisors: Prof Mark Roberts and Dr Philip Palmer
  • Epidemiological modelling of bovine tuberculosis in badgers and cattle
    PhD thesis by John Rayman
    Supervisors: Dr Stephen Gourley and Dr Anne Skeldon
  • Computation of planar patterns and their stability
    PhD thesis by Daniele Avitabile
    Supervisors: Dr Bjorn Sandstede and Dr Michele Bartuccelli
  • Conservation laws and symmetries of difference equations
    PhD thesis by Olexandr Rasin
    Supervisors: Prof Peter Hydon and Prof Ian Roulstone

Theses completed in 2007

  • Cascading mode interactions in discrete dynamical systems
    PhD thesis by Himat Mir
    Supervisors: Dr Philip Aston and Prof Tom Bridges
  • Hopf bifurcations from relative equilibria
    PhD thesis by David Chan
    Supervisors: Prof Ian Melbourne and Dr Rebecca Hoyle
  • Criticality theory and conformal mapping techniques for single and two layer flows
    PhD thesis by Neil Donaldson
    Supervisors: Prof Tom Bridges and Dr Michele Bartuccelli
  • Variational methods and periodic solutions of N-body and N-centre problems
    PhD thesis by John Southall
    Supervisors: Prof Mark Roberts and Dr Gianne Derks
  • Bayesian methods for time series analysis and their applications
    PhD thesis by Alexander Glaser
    Supervisors: Dr Karen Young and Dr Steve Brooks

Theses completed in 2006

Theses completed in 2005

Theses completed in 2004

  • Chaotic behaviour and transverse instability in multi-symplectic systems
    PhD thesis by Kostyantyn Blyuss
    Supervisors: Dr Gianne Derks and Dr Sebastian Reich
  • Livsic theorems and the stable ergodicity of compact group extensions for systems with some hyperbolicity
    PhD thesis by Andrew Scott
    Supervisors: Dr Matthew Nicol and Prof Ian Melbourne

Theses completed in 2003