Axelsson (McIntosh) commenced work on Clifford analys is and Maxwell's equations.
Bacskai (Kovacs) submitted his PhD thesis entitled Finite Irreducible Monomial Groups of Small Prime Degree.
Bakin (Osborne) submitted his PhD thesis entitled Data Mining.
Basile (Kovacs) continued work on finite groups.
Boero Rodriguez (Welsh) commenced work on applying the Kalman filter to longitudinal data.
Clutterbuck (Andrews) continued work on partial differential equations in geometry.
Copetti (Newman) continued work on Lie algebras.
Davies (Hall) graduated. His PhD thesis was entitled Stochastic analy sis of surface roughness: a fractal-based approach.
Dobbie (Welsh) continued work on longitudinal data with extra zeros.
Dungey (Robinson) submitted his thesis entitled Heat kernels on Lie g roups of polynomial growth. Dungey's work throughout the year resulted in a journal article with Robinson and ter Elst (Eindhoven), Asymptotics of sums of subcoercive operators being published (see publication list) and two CMA Research Reports Asymptotics of sums of subcoercive operators and Sharp constants in higher-order heat kernel bounds being produced (see official publication list).
Fischer (Heyde) continued work on filtering methods in finance.
Gilliard (Hall) commenced work on problems in the analysis of transportation data.
Hirst (Hall) continued work on bump hunting.
Labutin (Trudinger) continued work on nonlinear elliptic equations.\break Labutin's work throughout the year resulted in four CMA Research Reports Isolated Singularities of Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations; Pluripolarity of Sets with Small Hausdorff Measure; Removable Singularities for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Potential Estimates for a Class of Nonlinear Elliptic being produced (see official publication list).
Li (Osborne) continued work on the development of sequential quadratic programming algorithms for optimization problems in data analysis.
Lou (McIntosh) changed topics to work on coercivity c onditions for elliptic systems and BMO.
Melville (Welsh) submitted his thesis entitled Sampling Ecological Populations.
Ooi (Hall) commenced work on multivariate density estimation.
Rau (Hall) commenced work on problems of curve estimation from spatial data.
Rieck (Hall) changed topics to work on methods for prediction.
Schneider (Newman) submitted his PhD thesis entitled Some results on the derived series of finite p-groups. Schneider's work throughout the year resulted in a journal article with Evans-Riley (Sydney) and Newman On the soluble length of groups with prime-power order being published (see publication list) and a CMA Research Report with Newman and Shalev (Jerusalem) The entropy of graded algebras being produced (see official publication list).
Wicks (Wilson) continued work on association studies in genetics. Wicks' work throughout the year resulted in a journal article with Wilson Modelling linkage and association, with evaluation of common sampling being published (see publication list).
York (Hall) submitted his PhD thesis entitled Curve estimation in statistics.
Young (Newman) continued work on Lie algebras.