Professor Nigel Bean

Chair of Applied Mathematics

Office: 620 | Telephone: +61 8 8313 3797 | Personal homepage

Academic duties

Responsibility
Director of Research

Teaching duties

Title	Level	Semester
Random Processes III	3	2

Honours supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Amphibious assault planning: two-dimensional bin packing with rotation and priority	Matthew Bland	2011
Getting the most from a multi-skilled workforce	Josephine Varney	2008

Master of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Internet traffic matrices	Eric Parsonage
Analysis of school-based school performance data	Jessica Tan
Matrix-analytic methods	Casey Briggs
Stochastic modelling in phylogenetics	Adam Rohrlach
Stochastic modelling of ecological systems	Mingmei Teo

Doctor of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Methods for two-party privacy-preserving linear programming	Alice Bednarz	2012
BGP, not as easy as 1-2-3	Ashley Flavel	2009
Bandwidth allocation for quality of service provision in IEEE 802.16 systems	Tze Wei Tang	2009
Time-dependence in Markovian decision processes	Jeremy McMahon	2008
A multi-disciplinary approach to complex systems design	Alex Ryan	2007
Optimisation in geothermal energy	Josephine Varney
Matrix analytic methods in network infrastructure	Ariella Helfgott
Monitoring and analysis of wireless ad hoc networks	Jonathan Arnold
Application of compressed sensing to network measurement and routing	Rhys Bowden
Mathematical modelling of rock lobster populations	John Feenstra
Stochastic modelling of tumour growth	Kate Simms
Modelling and optimisation of group dose-response challenge experiments	David Price

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Markov chains	Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation
Matrix analytic methods	Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation
Operations research	Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation
Mathematical modelling	Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation

Research seminars

Title	Series
Probability, what can it tell us about health?	Undergraduate Seminar

Research grants

Grant title	Funding Agency
Operator-Analytic Methods for Telecommunication Systems	ARC
Ensuring the Robustness of IP Routing	ARC
The use of stochastic fluid models for the evaluation of applications driven sample path	ARC
WaterLog - A mathematical model to implement recommendations of The Wentworth Group	ARC
Delivering guaranteed quality of service over IP networks	ARC
Mathematics for Government, Industry and Community -- The Magic Network	ARC