A Blanco Cedeno, PhD (Loy): "Amenability in Banach algebras". Investigation of the weak amenability of the algebra of approximable operators on a Banach space in terms of geometric properties of the space, especially the role of the approximation property.
M Burgess, PhD (Wickramsinghe): Investigations of the non linear problem of feedback mass transfer in close interacting binaries.
M Buxton, PhD (Ferrario, Vennes and Wickramasinghe): The observational properties of black holes in binaries.
W El-Khoury, PhD (Wickramasinghe): Numerical simulations of the vertical structure of X-ray heated accretion discs, and applications to black hole X-ray transients.
V Fridkin, PhD (Batchelor): Exactly solved lattice models and boundary integrability (thesis submitted on 11 March). This project involved (I) the investigation of solvable lattice models in statistical mechanics with a boundary, both in the vertex and face formulations, and (II) the calculation of their physical properties of relevance to surface critical behaviour.
M Maslen, PhD (Batchelor): Exactly solved quantum spin ladders and planar random tilings (from 29 March). This project involves the search for new exactly solvable models of quantum spin ladders and the investigation of their physical properties. Known solvable models of planar random tilings are also to be investigated.
H Van Pham, PhD (Cossey): Codes defined by ideals in group algebras.
C Wetherell, PhD (Cossey): Project is to elucidate the connection between the Wielandt subgroup and the strong Wielandt subgroup introduced by Casolo.