Since the Department of Mathematics was established in 1995 we have been fortunate to have had a number of MPhil and PhD graduates. Below is a list of all graduates, along with their supervisor(s), thesis title, and date of award.
Dr Ahmad Abu-Khazneh
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Matchings and covers of multipartite hypergraphs
Date of award: July 2016
Dr Steffen Issleib
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Equity and Power in a Cooperative Trial-and-Error Game
Date of award: July 2016
Marta Casetti (MPhil)
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Complexity of the Gale String Problem for Equilibrium Computation in Games
Date of award: January 2016
Dr Mathieu Dubois
Supervisor: Dr Luitgard Veraart
Thesis title: Topics in Portfolio Optimisation and Systemic Risk
Date of award: December 2015
Dr Chlump Chatkupt
Supervisors: Professor Bernhard von Stengel and Professor Luc Bovens (Department of Philosophy)
Thesis title: Least-Squares Regret and Partially Strategic Players
Date of award: December 2015
Dr Yavor Stoev
Supervisors: Dr. Pavel Gapeev and Dr. Albina Danilova
Thesis title: Stochastic Modelling and Equilibrium in Mathematical Finance and Statistical Sequential Analysis
Date of award: July 2015
Dr Pucheng Shi
Supervisors: Dr. Albina Danilova and Prof. Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Study of New Models for Insider Trading and Impulse Control
Date of award: June 2015
Dr Alexey Pokrovskiy
Supervisors: Prof Jan van den Heuvel and Dr Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Graph Powers, Partitioning and Other Extremal Problems
Date of award: November 2013
Dr David Ferguson
Supervisors: Prof Jan van den Heuvel and Dr Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Topics in Graph Colouring and Graph Structures
Date of award: September 2013
Dr Neofytos Rodosthenous
Supervisors: Prof Mihail Zervos and Dr Pavel Gapeev
Thesis title: Optimal Stopping Problems in Mathematical Finance
Date of award: July 2013
Dr Tom Lidbetter
Supervisors: Prof Bernhard von Stengel and Prof Steve Alpern
Thesis title: Hide-and-Seek and Other Search Games
Date of award: June 2013
Dr Somkiat Trakultraipruk
Supervisor: Prof Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Connectivity Problems of Some Transformation Graphs
Date of award: May 2013
Dr Derek Wan
Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Supermarket Model with Memory
Date of award: March 2013
Dr Julian Merschen
Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Nash Equilibria, Gale Strings, and Signed Perfect Matchings
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Polly Lon
Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Two Explicitly Solvable Problems with Discretionary Stopping
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Hessah Al-Motairi
Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Models for Investment Capacity
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Raju Chinthalapati
Supervisor: Prof Martin Anthony
Thesis title: Probabilistic Learning and Optimization Applied to Quantitative Finance
Date of award: September 2011
Dr Ovidiu Precup
Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: New Methods for Measuring Correlation and Modelling Asset Price Dynamics
Date of award: August 2011
Dr Dimitris Melas
Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Optimal Investment Decisions in Static and Dynamic Environments
Date of award: July 2011
Dr Marianne Fairthorne
Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: The Supermarket Model with System-Size Dependent Parameters
Date of award: June 2011
Dr Benjamin Veal
Supervisor: Prof Martin Anthony
Thesis title: Binary Similarity Measures and Their Applications in Machine Learning
Date of award: May 2011
Dr Fares Al-Azemi
Supervisor: Prof Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: A Pair of Explicitly Solvable Impulse Control Problems
Date of award: March 2011
Dr Wan Huang
Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Equilibrium Computation for Extensive Games
Date of award: January 2011
Dr Xibo Zu
Supervisors: Dr Robert Simon and Dr Adam Ostaszewski
Thesis title: A Stochastic Ramsey Theorem
Date of award: December 2010
Dr Anne Balthasar
Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Geometry and Equilibria in Bimatrix Games
Date of award: January 2010
Dr Viresh Patel
Supervisors: Prof Graham Brightwell and Prof Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Partitions of Combinatorial Structures
Date of award: May 2009
Dr Ioanna Katrantzi
Supervisor: Prof Steve Alpern
Thesis title: Equilibria of Decentralized Matching Games
Date of award: November 2008
Dr Peter Allen
Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Finding Combinatorial Structures
Date of award: August 2008
Dr Luis Cereceda
Supervisor: Prof Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Mixing Graph Colourings
Date of award: June 2008
Dr Snezana Pejic
Supervisor: Prof Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Algebraic Graph Theory in the Analysis of Frequency Assignment Problems
Date of award: April 2008
Dr Rahul Savani
Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Finding Nash equilibria of Bimatrix games
Date of award: June 2006
Dr Nicholas Georgiou
Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Random structures for Partially Ordered Sets
Date of award: May 2006
Dr Arndt von Schemde
Supervisor: Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach to Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games
Date of award: December 2004
Dr Philipp Reinfeld
Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Algebraic Methods for Chromatic Polynomials
Date of award: February 2003
George Croft (MPhil)
Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Dynamic Models of Exchange Rates
Date of award: December 2001
Dr Wei Shi Lim
Supervisor: Prof Steve Alpern
Thesis Title: Problems in Rendezvous Search
Date of award: July 1996
Dr George Russell
Supervisor: Prof Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Spectral Properties Of Graphs Derived From Groups
Date of award: 1995
Dr Sarah Goodall
Supervisor: Prof Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Problems In Combinatorics: Paths in Graphs, Partial Orders of Fixed Width
Date of award: 1995