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Microbial Diseases

Within the Microbial Disease Research Group there is a strong focus on investigating the involvement and management of biofilms in clinical infection. 

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Combinatorics

This project will develop knowledge and skills in several general areas of algebraic, geometric and enumerative combinatorics, including polytope theory, poset theory and symmetric function theory.

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Spectroscopy and dynamics

We have an extensive list of projects that are available within spectroscopy and dynamics.

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Combinatorial optimisation

This project will focus combinatorial optimisation.

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Materials and energy

We have an extensive list of projects that are available within materials and energy.

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Biomedical Engineering

Opportunities available in the Biomedical Engineering Research Group.

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Biological chemistry

We have an extensive list of projects that are available within biological chemistry.

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Machine learning and data mining

On this project, you'll learn several areas of IT and mathematics, including data mining, machine learning and analysis on graphs.

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Game Theory

This project will aim to build on research by exploring novel reinforcement learning algorithms and/or other techniques from machine learning.

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Nonlinear acoustic-gravity wave theory

This project focuses on the recent finding that acoustic and gravity wave motion could exchange energy via resonant triad nonlinear interactions.

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Modelling of sporting events using artificial intelligence and statistical methods for big data

This project aims at systematizing and comparing different models and applying them for predicting outcomes of different sporting events

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PhD in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Discovery of novel cancer immunotherapeutic agents

This PhD project will pursue the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of small synthetic molecules that manipulate the immune system to eliminate cancer cells.

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Holomorphic Representations of the Braid Group

This project will deal with certain ‘holomorphic’ representations of braid groups and study the dependence on an underlying ‘R-matrix’.

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Spectral element mimetic least squares PGD method

The project will develop new numerical discretisations for solving PDEs that can subsequently be applied to problems in fluid mechanics and will build on current expertise in the School.

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Radiation of acoustic-gravity waves by an impacting object

This PhD project will focus on developing the computational mathematical model into a three-dimensional space.

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Tunable THz laser source

This project will involve the design, fabrication and characterisation of such a source, based on the non-linear optical process of difference frequency generation in an integrated semiconductor laser structure.

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Automated Searches for Ultra-Diffuse Emission from Stars

We are particularly interested in the fraction of stars that lie outside of easily recognised galactic structures as a means of tracing the assembly history of dark matter haloes of various masses.

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Natural Flood Processes for Flood Risk Management

This project aims to develop a novel methodology to assess the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions at catchment reach levels.

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Spectral approximation on metric graphs, on manifolds, and for systems of differential equations

This project will focus on the spectral approximation on metric graphs, on manifolds, and for systems of differential equations.

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On multi-dimensional continued fractions

This project will establish analytic bounds for the accuracy of the convergents for the multi-dimensional continued fraction algorithm.

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Low rank approximations of matrices with a focus on statistical applications

This project will investigate the structured low-rank approximation (SLRA) problem.

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Interface evolution in random environment

The main goal of this project is to develop mathematical methods for the mathematically rigorous analysis of the properties of interfaces evolving in a heterogeneous, random environment, described on a small scale by nonlinear PDEs with random coefficients.

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Combinatorial optimisation, operational research, graph theory, algorithms

In this project you will learn about different methods for tackling combinatorial optimisation problems using both exact and approximate (heuristic) algorithms.

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Design of experiments in regression models with correlated observations

This project is interdisciplinary in nature and will include elements of theoretical probability and applied statistics.

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Catalysis and interfacial science

We have an extensive list of projects that are available within catalysis and interfacial science.

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Cytoplasmic RNA regulation in cell motility

This project will investigate how cytoplasmic RNA regulation impacts on cell motility and immune function, by studying conserved RNA-binding proteins and their interactions with candidate mRNAs.

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Hawkes processes and financial applications

This project aims to answer novel but cutting edge questions, such as convergence of multivariate Hawkes processes, forecasting ability of incorporating Hawkes processes into various risk modelling and calibration of them.

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Mechanisms underlying preferential ‘scarless’ wound healing in the oral mucosa

This project aims to identify the key genes and signalling pathways underlying preferential scarless wound healing responses in oral mucosal fibroblasts.

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Advanced Materials and Computational Mechanics

Opportunities available within the field of Materials, and Advanced and Computational Mechanics.

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Remote control of gas-liquid flow in horizontal pipelines

This project will further develop existing mathematical models for the co-current gas/liquid flow in horizontal pipes.

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