A number of scholarships will be available for IDTC (Mathematics & Statistics) doctoral research projects for study commencing at various times during 2012. Each scholarships offers $30,000 per annum living allowance plus funding for conference attendances.
On this page you will find information on the doctoral scholarships currently available in the discipline of mathematics and/or statistics through our 5 nodes of IDTC, located at each of our universities.
Further scholarships will be posted as they become available. If you see more than one scholarship that interests you, you should apply separately for each to the sponsoring ATN university.
Successful scholarship applicants will then need to apply for admission to the PhD program at the relevant university.
Terms and conditions of each below listed scholarship is subject to change. Always confirm details with the university providing the scholarship before applying.
Details to be posted shortly. In the meantime please contact the ATN or the Program Coordinator of your ATN university of interest for further details about current scholarship offerings.
The PhD student will help CA (Pacific) develop adaptive models for detecting anomalies from a user's baseline behaviour pattern. They will carry out a deep analysis of enterprise logs and develop dynamic models of insider threat detection and prediction. They may also use formal risk management methods to indicate the risk level of insider threats.
The techniques employed will include anomaly detection, network modelling, social network theory, adaptive modelling and complex event processing. They may also include the use of risk management and assessment tools to enable organisations to identify the information systems most vulnerable to an insider threat.
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A major challenge for credit risk management is modelling of potential
losses due to defaults and credit downgrades. There are many unresolved
problems associated with this. Specifically, there are opportunities to
develop novel risk models that include
• modelling defaults and recoveries dependent via latent and macroeconomic factors;
• modelling credit migration matrices;
• developing methods to discriminate between different factors determining credit spreads, e.g. probability of default, loss given default, default risk premia and liquidity premia.
Such models are critical for the banking industry. Research outcomes will
include publications and practical implementations. The impact of this work
will be substantial and will position the student extremely well for the
award of a PhD degree and a career in quantitative finance, either in
industry or academia.
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This scholarship is for the following field of research: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES - OPERATIONS RESEARCH.
This research project aims to adapt and apply techniques in quantitative
operations research, quantitative sensitivity analysis, and machine learning
to inform complex security problems.
Operations research techniques are needed to optimise risk with respect
to alternative security implementation options, constrained by hard or soft
cost criteria. The optimisation must take account of some novel model
features: a statistical determination of risk, adaptive threats and
uncertainty in the performance of security controls.
The expected stages of the project include the development of novel
techniques that are robust to uncertainties in the problem, and application
of those techniques to a real, complex security context.
The student will gain skills in control theory and decision-making under
uncertainty using quantitative techniques which are widely sought in the
public and private sectors.
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This scholarship is for the following field of research: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES - QUANTITATIVE MODELLING
This project is interdisciplinary research between mathematical sciences (quantitative modelling) and applied cancer research.... This project on the fundamental issues in cell biology is based on the integration of novel quantitative mathematical and engineering approaches with state of the art cancer and biomaterials research. Our main objective is to develop experimentally validated multiscale computational models of the human prostate and ovarian system that encompass the complexity from the macro through to the micro and nanoscale (from the stroma to the basement membrane and epithelial layer).
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This scholarship is for the following field of research: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES - PHYSICAL MODELLING
Quantification of transport in porous media is a long-standing problem complicated by the inherent complexity of the pore-space geometry. As such, up-scaling methods are often used to describe macroscopic transport which often utilizes averaging over many pore volumes. However, such averaging can neglect important pore-scale phenomena which can influence macroscopic transport.
Pore-scale fluid mechanics are described by Stokes flow. In this project we will begin by considering Stokes flow in an ideal, saturated, 3-dimensional, porous material consisting of agglomerated spherical particles. A number of numerical methodologies, including unstructured grid control volume, smooth particle hydrodynamics, lattice-Boltzmann and Stokesian dynamics, will be tested in order to accurately resolve the 3-dimensional, pore-scale, flow field.
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To be advised shortly. In the meantime please contact the Curtin IDTC Program Coordinator for more information or to express your interest.
The resolution of the pore-scale flow field in 3-dimensional porous media
Spatial Interactions between Health Outcomes, Risk Factor Exploration and Effects of Health Screening Research Information - Applications closed
Other QUT projects may be available or become available. Please contact the QUT IDTC Program Coordinator for more information or to express your interest.
Insider threat detection and prediction
Advanced analytics of networked data in the presence of uncertainty - Applications closed
Energy Storage Optimisation - Applications closed
Tropical cyclone modelling using satellite remote sensing techniques - Applications closed
Other RMIT projects may be available or become available. Please contact the RMIT IDTC Program Coordinator for more information or to express your interest.
Control Theory for Counter-Terrorism and Security Systems
Development of ontologies for plant phenotyping - Applications closed
Mathematical modelling and analysis of the Unity Park Bio-filtration System located in the City of Salisbury - Applications closed
Mathematical and Computational Modelling for the Phenotypic Analysis of Cereal Plants - Applications closed
Modelling point rainfall of South Australia for different seasons - Applications closed
Other UniSA projects may be available or become available. Please contact the UniSA IDTC Program Coordinator for more information or to express your interest.
Other UTS projects may be available or become available. Please contact the UTS IDTC Program Coordinator for more information or to express your interest.
