The Sakai scheme-Askey table correspondence, analogues of isomonodromy and determinantal point processes. The Australian mathematical sciences enjoys two research groups with active interests on Painleve equations in applied mathematics which are able to address difficult problems. Such a problem is to give a formulation of Sakai's 2001 classification of the Painleve equations in a form most suitable for applications. For this links will be made with a seemingly distinct area of mathematics - t ....The Sakai scheme-Askey table correspondence, analogues of isomonodromy and determinantal point processes. The Australian mathematical sciences enjoys two research groups with active interests on Painleve equations in applied mathematics which are able to address difficult problems. Such a problem is to give a formulation of Sakai's 2001 classification of the Painleve equations in a form most suitable for applications. For this links will be made with a seemingly distinct area of mathematics - the Askey table from the theory of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials. A number of tractable PhD projects are suggested by this proposal.Read moreRead less
Innovations in spherical approximation - construction, analysis and applications. The motivating problems for this project come from geophysics, including climate, weather forecasting, planetary gravitation and magnetism, and from coding theory and molecular chemistry. National benefit is expected to arise both from an improved ability to handle problems of key economic importance, and from an enhanced position in the international scientific world, through public presentation in leading journa ....Innovations in spherical approximation - construction, analysis and applications. The motivating problems for this project come from geophysics, including climate, weather forecasting, planetary gravitation and magnetism, and from coding theory and molecular chemistry. National benefit is expected to arise both from an improved ability to handle problems of key economic importance, and from an enhanced position in the international scientific world, through public presentation in leading journals and international conferences, and from direct collaboration with internationally leading scientists from USA, UK and Germany. The project will also increase the pool of trained mathematicians with expertise in areas important for applications.
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New Directions in Non-linear Mathematical Asymptotics. Major challenges such as predicting epidemics or modelling cancer rely on our understanding of simple mathematical models with extremely complicated solutions. The first and only model in the literature to reproduce the three-phase cycle of immune response in HIV/AIDS was based on cellular automata. Its results are extremely sensitive to infinitesimally small changes in parameters. Yet, no technique exists to study such variation in cellular ....New Directions in Non-linear Mathematical Asymptotics. Major challenges such as predicting epidemics or modelling cancer rely on our understanding of simple mathematical models with extremely complicated solutions. The first and only model in the literature to reproduce the three-phase cycle of immune response in HIV/AIDS was based on cellular automata. Its results are extremely sensitive to infinitesimally small changes in parameters. Yet, no technique exists to study such variation in cellular automata. This research will provide new methods for prediction and analysis of such models. Read moreRead less