List of Masters Theses

#	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
Theses from 2010–Current
	2010	Monica Chen	Effects on Analysis arising from Confidentialising Data using Random Rounding	Assoc. Prof. J. Brown
Theses from 2005–2009
#	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
	2009	Ashley Lightfoot*	Embeddable spherical circle planes	Dr G. Steinke
	2009	Jason Bentley*	Exact Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Bayesian Linear Regression	Dr D. Lee
	2009	Joshua Collins	Rekernelisation algorithms in hybrid phylogenies	Assoc. Prof. C. Semple
	2009	Matthew Hendtlass*	Aspects of constructive dynamical systems	Prof. D. Bridges
	2009	Bronwyn Rideout	Pappus reborn. Pappus of Alexandria and the changing face of analysis and synthesis in late antiquity	Dr C. Montelle
	2009	Michael Snook	Evolution of tandemly repeated sequences	Assoc. Prof. C. Semple
	2008	Timothy Candy	A Study of Besov-Lipschitz and Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces Using Non-smooth Kernels	Dr Q. Bui
	2008	Andrew Richens	Detecting change points in time series using the Bayesian approach with perfect simulation	Dr D. Lee
	2006	QingLin Hu	Temporal variation and inter-relationship of movement and resource selection of red deer (Cervus Elaphus) with respect to climate: a case study	Dr I.L. Hudson
109	2006	Carla Siobhan Meurk*	Causally appropriate graphical modelling of time series with applications to Economics Ecology and Environmental Science	Dr J. Brown, Dr M. Reale
108	2005	Anton van Essen*	A study of the Calderon representation formula and its applications	Dr H.Q Bui, Assoc. Prof. R.K. Beatson
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 2000–2004
#	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
107	2004	Philip Daniel	Supertree methods: Some new approaches.	Prof. M.A. Steel, Assoc. Prof. C. Semple
106	2004	Tobias Thierer*	Generalized and directed characters in phylogenetics	Prof. M. Steel
105	2001	Katrina Daish*	An Evaluation of Distance Sampling for Plants	Dr. J.A. Brown
104	2001	Hui–Ching Chen*	Characterization of Wavelets and Construction of Wavelet Sets.	Dr H.Q. Bui
103	2000	Tim McLennan*	Improving the Performance of a Fast Multipole Method for Thin–plate Splines	Assoc. Prof. R.K. Beatson
102	2000	Ryurick Hristev*	Matrix Techniques in Artificial Neural Networks	Assoc. Prof. R.K. Beatson
101	2000	James McGowan	Effects of Particulate Air Pollution on Cardiorespiratory Admissions in Christchurch, NZ	Dr. E. Chacko
100	2000	David Byatt*	Convergent Variants of the Nelder–Mead Algorithm	Dr. C.J. Price, Dr. I.D. Coope
99	2000	Leland McInnes*	Algorithms in invariant theory and quasi–minimal bracket expressions	Dr M.S. Hickman
98	2000	Leng Leng Lim	Computer–aided Teaching and Testing	Dr. E. Chacko, Mr R.L. Broughton
97	2000	Kirsten Harrild	An investigation into the use of acoustic pingers to prevent Hector’s dolphin entanglement in gill nets	Dr. J.A. Brown
96	2000	Alan Jackson	Global Optimisation Methods For Oceanic Acoustic Modelling	Dr. C.J. Price
95	2000	Issarest Weeraprajak*	A Comparative Study of Time–Series Forecasting Applied to Stock Market Price.	Dr. E. Chacko
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1995 – 1999
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
94	1999	Kirsten Nissen	Accelerated Life Testing of Tires – Computational Posterior Estimation.	Dr. F.R. Lad
93	1999	Clemency Williams*	The Analytic Art: Fran?ois Vi?te and the Development of Mathematical Analysis.	Dr. J. Hannah, Dr. P. Catton
92	1998	Ben Allen*	Subtree Transfer Operations and their Induced Metrics on Evolutionary Trees.	Dr. M.A. Steel
91	1998	Matthew Jackson*	Dimension Theory in the Context of Fuzzy Topological Spaces.	Assoc. Prof. N.A. Watson
90	1998	Heather Jenkins	Eigenvalue Problems from Electronic Structure Theory.	Dr. J. Hannah
89	1998	Isaac Freeman	A Modular System for Constructing Dynamical Systems.	Dr. M.S. Hickman
88	1997	Andy McKenzie*	Modelling Spiral Waves in Xenopus Laevis Oocyte.	Dr. A.J. Sneyd
87	1997	Chris Cloughley*	A Partial Differential Equation Model for Predicting the Spatiotemporal Movement of a Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus Vulpecula) Population.	Dr. A.J. Sneyd
86	1997	Chris Tuffley*	Trees and Ps and Things that Sneeze: Markov Process Models of Site Substitution.	Dr. M.A. Steel
85	1997	Adrian Jarvis	Function Minimisation in the Presence of Noise using Methods that do not require Gradient Information.	Dr. I.D. Coope
84	1996	Wendy Stratton	Weighted Young’s Inequalities.	Dr. H.Q. Bui
83	1995	William Joyce*	A One–Dimensional Generalised Autonomous Homogeneous Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equation.	Dr. D.J. Wall
82	1995	Julian Visch*	Fuel Consumption Models for Traffic Modelling by the Canterbury Regional Council.	Dr. E. Chacko
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1990 – 1994
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
81	1994	Susan Lindsay*	Prediction of the Diameter Distribution of Forest Stands.	Dr. G.R. Wood
80	1994	Andrew Devlin	Quality Improvement in Polystryrene Block Production.	Dr. G.R. Wood
79	1993	Steve McDowall*	Constructing Infinite–Dimensional Polytopes.	Dr. G.R. Wood
78	1993	Philip Schlüter*	A Hierarchical Bayesian Interpretation of Motor Vehicle Accidents.	Prof. J.J. Deely
77	1992	Easwaran Balakrishnan	An Analysis of Computational Methods for the Calculation of Quadratic Function Approximations.	Dr. A.W. McInnes
76	1992	Jesse Kokaua	Scored Sequential Forecasting of the New Zealand Foreign Exchange Rate Using Mixture Structural Distributions.	Dr. F.R. Lad
75	1992	Grace Johnson	Scored Sequential Forecasting of the New Zealand Foreign Exchange Rate Using Mixture ARMA Distributions.	Dr. F.R. Lad
74	1990	Sathiyandra Gurusingham	Bayesian Forecasting for the General Linear Model.	Prof. J.J. Deely
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1985 – 1989
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
73	1988	Leon Beale	Chaos, Strange Attractors and Bifurcations in Dissipative Dynamical Systems.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
72	1988	John Schwartfeger		Dr. R.K. Beatson
71	1988	Chris Price*	Bidiagonal Quadratic Programming	Dr. I.D.Coope
70	1987	Richard Brookes*	Uniform Approximation from Tchebycheff Systems	Dr. A.W. McInnes
69	1987	J. Schwartzfeger	Parametric curve fitting: a survey	Dr. R.K. Beatson
68	1987	Leonard Horwood*	Aspects of the Theory and Methodology of Covariance Structure Modelling with Applications to Social Science Data.	Dr. M.H. Smith
67	1987	Tim Marshall	Constructive Ordinals and Related Topics.	Dr. R.A. Bull
66	1986	Paul Rhodes	Unsteady Low Reynolds Number Flow to a Sink on an Infinite Plane.	Prof. B.A. Woods
65	1985	John Connolly*	Inverse Problems for an Elliptic Equation.	Dr. D.J. Wall
64	1985	Sarath Peiris	A New Preference Function to Analyse Repeated Measurements Data.	Prof J.J. Deely
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1980 – 1984
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
63	1983	Michael Steel*	Classifying Spaces and their Algebraic Topology.	Dr. W.P. Baritompa
62	1983	Gerald Jeevaratnam	A Survey of the Recent Applications of Lifting Line Theory to Subsonic and Transonic Slender Wings of Large Aspect Ratio.	Prof. B.A. Woods
61	1982	Alan Thompson*	Decomposable 2–(11, 5, 4) and 3–(12, 6, 4) Designs.	Dr. D.R. Breach
60	1982	Alistair Storm	Computational Techniques for Polynomial and Linear Regression.	Dr. I.D. Coope
59	1982	Paul Matthews*	Lp Solution of Overdetermined Systems of Linear Equations.	Dr. I.D. Coope
58	1981	Inessa Levi*	Transformation Semigroups and the Inner Automorphism Property.	Dr. G.R. Wood
57	1981	Gregg Kelly*	Three Optimisation Problems in Mathematical Statisics.	Dr. G.R. Wood
56	1981	Timothy Dalby	Regularly Ordered Banach Spaces.	Dr. P.F. Renaud
55	1981	Eva Chan	Chess Placement Problems: A Survey.	Dr. D.R. Breach
54	1981	Kooi Kee Hock	Dynamics of a Bubbly Mixture.	Prof. B.A. Woods
53	1981	Antony Whittington	Solution Generation by Symmetry Transformations of the Stationary Axisymmetric Field Equations.	Dr. W.B. Wilson
52	1980	Yang Chin Ping	A Treatise on Quasi–Newton Methods and Algorithms with Self– Scaling.	Dr. I.D. Coope
51	1980	John Liley	Topology of Certain Stationary Space–Times.	Prof. R.P. Kerr
50	1980	Stanley Freeman	A Study of Minimum Sample Size for Central Limit Thoerem Estimation.	Prof. J.J. Deely
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1975 – 1979
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
49	1978	Prapasri Asawakun	Waves in Stratified Fluids.	Prof. B.A. Woods, Dr. P.J. Bryant
48	1978	Hasmukh Lal Morarji	NATEP: an interactive computer aid to teaching numerical analysis	Mr Bob Broughton
47	1978	Garry Newsam*	A Study of Fractional Calculi.	Dr. A.W. McInnes
46	1978	Patrick Van Berkel	Two–Dimensional Interpolation.	Dr. A.W. McInnes
45	1977	Roderick Ball*	Morse Theory with Applications and Extensions.	Dr. W.P. Baritompa
44	1977	Alan Townley	Harmonic Analysis on Locally Compact Abelian Groups.	Dr. P.F. Renaud
43	1977	Alistair Gray	Topological Models in Second Order Arithmetic.	Dr. R.A. Bull
42	1977	Adrian Abraham*	The Semantics of Classical Relevant Logics.	Dr. R.A. Bull
41	1977	Jeremy Harding	Obtaining Character Tables from Permutation Characters of the Symmetric Group.	Dr. K.C. O’Meara
40	1976	Alex Laks	Spacetime Theory.	Prof. R.P. Kerr
39	1976	Dennis Barry	The Mathematical Aspects of Visit Planning.	Dr. D.F. Robinson
38	1976	Michael Revell	General Considerations of Wave Motion in Stratified Fluids.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
37	1976	John Pryor	Two Layer Flow in a Channel.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
36	1975	Lo Ming Hua	Minimal Path–Finding Problem under Incomplete Information.	Dr. W.P. Baritompa
35	1975	Robert Garnett	A Study of Mathematical Models Describing the Physics of the Solar Wind.	Prof. B.A. Woods
34	1975	Elaine Cooper	Embeddings, Graphs, Sufaces.	Dr. D.F. Robinson
33	1975	Kelly Mara*	Rates of Convergence in Empirical Bayes Decision Problems.	Prof. J.J. Deely
32	1975	Richard Beatson*	Number Theoretic Numerical Integration.	Dr. A.W. McInnes
31	1975	Michael Mobley	A Selection Procedure for Samples with Missing Data from Multivariate Populations.	Prof. J.J. Deely
30	1975	Howard Edwards*	Multiple Decision Procedures for Selecting the Best of K Normal Populations.	Prof. J.J. Deely
29	1975	Andrew Laing*	The Flow of Stratified Fluids Past Obstacles.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
28	1975	William Osmers	Some covering Problems in Graph Theory	Dr. D.F. Robinson
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1970 – 1974
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
27	1974	Thain–Sim Low	Some Algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem.	Dr. D.F. Robinson
26	1974	John Cleary*	Automatic Theorem Proving in Non–Classical Logics.	Dr. R.A. Bull
25	1974	Edward Dawes	Variable Reduction Techniques in Multiple Linear Regression.	Prof. J.J. Deely
24	1974	Nguyen Kinh*	A Study of Sequential Design Problems.	Prof. J.J. Deely
23	1974	Vere Smyth	A Survey of Attempts at the Approximation of Quantum Theory.	Dr. P.F. Renaud
22	1973	Graham Weir	The Equations of Motion in General Relativity.	Prof. R.P. Kerr
21	1973	Glenn Colman*	Modal Polyadic Algebras.	Dr. R.A. Bull
20	1973	Chua Cheng Laik	Shock Wave Structure and some of its Dynamical Effects.	Prof. B.A. Woods
19	1972	Malcolm McConnell	Non–Linear Dispersive Waves in Shallow Water.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
18	1972	Philip Henry	Bayesian Confidence Intervals in the Exponential Case.	Prof. J.J. Deely
17	1972	Peter Heffernan*	Trees.	Dr. D.F. Robinson
16	1972	Hong–Kee Yin	The General Theory of Best Approximation in Real Normed Linear Spaces.	Dr. T.O. To
15	1971	George Booker	On Vector Lattices.	Dr. P.F. Renaud
14	1970	Alan Causer	A Core Resident Fortran Compiling System for an IBM360 Computer.	Dr. R.L. Kruse
13	1970	David Jack	A Study of Translational Gravity Wave Theory.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
* With Distinction or Honours Theses from 1965 – 1969
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
12	1969	Colin Sutherland	Measure Theory and Von Neumann Algebras.	Prof. G.M. Petersen
11	1969	Robert McKibbin	Finite Amplitude Waves in Stratified Fluids.	Dr. P.J. Bryant
10	1966	Natalia Zotov	Waveguides.	Mr. R.S. Long, Mr. R.H.T. Bates
Theses from 1960 – 1965
N°	Date	Name	Title	Supervisor
9	1964	William Gibson	Pertubation Methods in the Quantum Mechanics of Many–Particle Systems.	Prof. D.F. Lawden
8	1964	David Clements	On Some Methods for the Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations.	Dr. J.C. Butcher
7	1963	Graeme Crothall	A Survey of Linear Programming.	Assoc. Prof. W.R. Andress
6	1963	Evan Bydder	Non–Linear Programming.	Assoc. Prof. W.R. Andress
5	1962	William Tuck	Quantum Theory.	Prof. D.F. Lawden
4	1962	Richard Lane	Some Discontinuity Properties of Regular Stationary Markov Processes.	Assoc. Prof. W.R. Andress
3	1962	Wahidullah Khan	Algebra of Classes.	Assoc. Prof. W.R. Andress
2	1962	Gillian Brown	Finsler Spaces.	Assoc. Prof. W.R. Andress
1	1962	Dean Halford	On the Cosmological Problem.	Prof. D.F. Lawden

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