Department of Mathematics

Undergraduate summer projects

Listen to MMath Mathematics student Hayley Wragg talking about her JRA scheme summer research project

Below are some examples of summer projects our mathematics students have been involved in:

Algebra and Number Theory

Stuart Bond - Complete arcs in the projective plane PG(2,37) [PDF 123.79KB]
George Morrison - Algebraic and Analytic Number Theory [PDF 587.56KB]

Mathematical Logic

Amy Capel - Mathematical Logic: From Classical to Quantum [PDF 1.07MB]

Mathematical Analysis

George Simpson - Spectral Measure and Selberg's Trace Formula [PDF 264.14KB]
Hayley Wragg - Embeddings & Immersions of Manifolds: Whitney-Stiefel classes & Smale’s Theorem [PDF 1.04MB]

Partial Differential Equations

Charles Kind - Strichartz estimates for the wave equation and restriction theorems [PDF 559.58KB]

Numerical Analysis

James Van Yperen - Numerical Approximations and Mean Curvature Flow [PDF 139.23KB]

Mathematical Biology

Laurie Crossley - From the Cell Membrane to the Nucleus: Unearthing Transport Mechanisms for Dynein [PDF 1.94MB]
Martin Richie - The Impact of Social Cliques on Epidemics [PDF 235.72KB]
Charles Morris - Conquering Major Bottlenecks in Fluorescence Imaging Microscopy [PDF 656.54KB]
Adam Nixon - From experiments to mathematics: Unearthing mathematical models for cell adhesion [PFD 520.19KB]