Polynomial representations of the Hecke algebra. This project will offer a great opportunity for talented students to engage in internationally competitive research in mathematics. In addition, through international collaboration, this project will be able to deliver an online database with software libraries which will be a world benchmark for computation with multivariate polynomials.
Statistical Topology and its Application to Deriving New Geometric Invariants. This project will offer a great opportunity for talented students to engage in internationally competitive research. Statistical topology, which combines ideas in topology, geometry and statistical mechanics is becoming a rapidly increasing branch of mathematics, with many emerging applications in bio-informatics, computer science and theoretical physics.
Permanents, permutations and polynomials. The benefits to Australia of fundamental research in core disciplines such as mathematics are well documented. Discrete mathematics and combinatorics are boom disciplines of the computer age and this project seeks new knowledge concerning basic building blocks of combinatorial mathematics. The outcomes will be of interest to theoreticians around the world, enhancing Australia's already high research profile in this crucial area. Importantly, the project ....Permanents, permutations and polynomials. The benefits to Australia of fundamental research in core disciplines such as mathematics are well documented. Discrete mathematics and combinatorics are boom disciplines of the computer age and this project seeks new knowledge concerning basic building blocks of combinatorial mathematics. The outcomes will be of interest to theoreticians around the world, enhancing Australia's already high research profile in this crucial area. Importantly, the project also offers substantial postgraduate training in mathematics, an area in which Australia has an identified skill shortage.Read moreRead less
Geometry of manifolds of non-negative scalar curvature. This proposal will benefit Australia in several ways: Its outcomes will make Australia a world leader in research on scalar curvature, and consequently help Australia secure its position among world leaders in research on differential geometry and differential equations; Overseas world-class experts will be attracted to Australia by the impact of this research to develop further collaboration; More and more talented Australian students will ....Geometry of manifolds of non-negative scalar curvature. This proposal will benefit Australia in several ways: Its outcomes will make Australia a world leader in research on scalar curvature, and consequently help Australia secure its position among world leaders in research on differential geometry and differential equations; Overseas world-class experts will be attracted to Australia by the impact of this research to develop further collaboration; More and more talented Australian students will be motivated to pursue science-based and mathematics based studies, thereby improving the mathematical skills of the Australian workforce.Read moreRead less
The Structure and Geometry of Graphs. Graphs are ubiquitous mathematical structures that model relational information such as information flows, transportation networks, and biochemical pathways. It is often desirable to have a geometric representation of a graph. For example, a programmer will better understand a computer program if the flow of information within the program is represented by a visually appealing drawing. The focus of the project will be the interplay between graph structure th ....The Structure and Geometry of Graphs. Graphs are ubiquitous mathematical structures that model relational information such as information flows, transportation networks, and biochemical pathways. It is often desirable to have a geometric representation of a graph. For example, a programmer will better understand a computer program if the flow of information within the program is represented by a visually appealing drawing. The focus of the project will be the interplay between graph structure theory and geometric properties of graphs. Moreover, the project will have significant applications to other area of mathematics and computer science, including computational complexity, analysis of data structures, and three-dimensional information visualisation.Read moreRead less
Analysis of the structure of latin squares. The benefits to Australia of fundamental research in core disciplines such as mathematics are well documented. Discrete mathematics and combinatorics are boom disciplines of the computer age and this project seeks new knowledge concerning basic building blocks of combinatorial mathematics. The outcomes will be of interest to theoretical discrete mathematicians around the world, enhancing Australia's already high research profile in this important area ....Analysis of the structure of latin squares. The benefits to Australia of fundamental research in core disciplines such as mathematics are well documented. Discrete mathematics and combinatorics are boom disciplines of the computer age and this project seeks new knowledge concerning basic building blocks of combinatorial mathematics. The outcomes will be of interest to theoretical discrete mathematicians around the world, enhancing Australia's already high research profile in this important area of pure mathematical research. Importantly, the problems under investigation offer substantial opportunity for excellent postgraduate training, critical for the future of Australian research. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100088
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$378,628.00
Summary
Computing with matrix groups and Lie algebras: new concepts and applications. Computational algebra combines symbolic computation and pure research in algebra, and is concerned with the design of algorithms for solving mathematical problems endowed with algebraic structure. Matrix groups and Lie algebras are prominent algebraic objects describing the natural concept of symmetry. Despite being very common and important in science, there is a paucity of algorithms to study their structure. This pr ....Computing with matrix groups and Lie algebras: new concepts and applications. Computational algebra combines symbolic computation and pure research in algebra, and is concerned with the design of algorithms for solving mathematical problems endowed with algebraic structure. Matrix groups and Lie algebras are prominent algebraic objects describing the natural concept of symmetry. Despite being very common and important in science, there is a paucity of algorithms to study their structure. This project will develop deep new mathematical theories for computing with these objects, leading to ground-breaking advances in computational algebra, and providing powerful tools facilitating new research, including in other sciences. The new functionality will be used to solve two classification problems in group and Lie theory.Read moreRead less
Moduli spaces. This project will offer a great opportunity for Australian researchers and students to engage in internationally competitive research in mathematics. Moduli spaces are fundamental to our understanding of mathematics and modern mathematical physics. It is crucial that Australian scientists and students take active part in these developments. The training of Honours and PhD students in various aspects of moduli spaces, and in the mathematics and mathematical physics that it address ....Moduli spaces. This project will offer a great opportunity for Australian researchers and students to engage in internationally competitive research in mathematics. Moduli spaces are fundamental to our understanding of mathematics and modern mathematical physics. It is crucial that Australian scientists and students take active part in these developments. The training of Honours and PhD students in various aspects of moduli spaces, and in the mathematics and mathematical physics that it addresses, is an integral part of this application.Read moreRead less
Topics on 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds. - to develop practical algorithms for recognising surfaces, knots and 3-dimensional spaces. These will be very useful for experimentation
and to understand the computational complexity of such questions.
- to understand the properties of minimal surfaces in 3-dimensional spaces of constant negative curvature, with applications to the complexity of knots and the structure of these spaces.
- to develop a theory of 4-dimensional spaces which are covered ....Topics on 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds. - to develop practical algorithms for recognising surfaces, knots and 3-dimensional spaces. These will be very useful for experimentation
and to understand the computational complexity of such questions.
- to understand the properties of minimal surfaces in 3-dimensional spaces of constant negative curvature, with applications to the complexity of knots and the structure of these spaces.
- to develop a theory of 4-dimensional spaces which are covered by
Euclidean 4-space. New techniques will be utilised, since the powerful methods of Freedman-Quinn do not apply to most such spaces. Read moreRead less
Random Structures and Asymptotics. Discrete random structures have many uses in algorithms in computer science (for instance, random networks modelling computer link-ups), biology (for instance, random sequences modelling DNA) and engineering. New techniques for studying these structures will lead to powerful new results on their properties. The emphasis will be on the behaviour of the random structures when their size becomes large. With the advent of
more powerful computing techniques, it is ....Random Structures and Asymptotics. Discrete random structures have many uses in algorithms in computer science (for instance, random networks modelling computer link-ups), biology (for instance, random sequences modelling DNA) and engineering. New techniques for studying these structures will lead to powerful new results on their properties. The emphasis will be on the behaviour of the random structures when their size becomes large. With the advent of
more powerful computing techniques, it is often the large-scale behaviour which has relevance to the more diffucult computations being undertaken. The results are also of potential application to other areas of mathematics.Read moreRead less