University of East Anglia, School of Mathematics PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr V Miemietz

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This PhD project will investigate questions surrounding categorification in representation theory. Categorification has led to many breakthroughs in representation theory in the last 15 years.

Mathematical modelling of impacts by breaking ocean waves (COOKERMU20SF)

Dr M Cooker, Prof A Korobkin

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

When an ocean wave travels from deep water into shallower coastal water, it steepens and overturns as a breaking wave. While a wave is breaking, it can exert damaging forces on a structure in its path.

Mathematical modelling of wounding response in plants (BLYTHMU20SF)

Dr M Blyth

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

When a plant is wounded, for example by cutting, a signal is sent out from the wound site to other parts of the plant. However, the mechanism by which this signal is transported is not well understood.

Model theory and quasiminimality for analytic functions (KIRBYJ1U20SF)

Dr J Kirby

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This PhD project is based on the recent exciting developments in the application of model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, to analytic functions such as exponentiation.

Model theory: definable sets as accessible functors (KIRBYJ2U20SF)

Dr J Kirby

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic which considers the category of all models of a given theory, for example all groups, or all algebraically-closed fields.

Representations of p-adic groups and arithmetic (STEVENSSU20SF)

Prof S Stevens

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The Local Langlands Correspondence has motivated a great deal of Number Theory and Representation Theory over the last fifty years.

Vortex Dynamics in Superfluids (SALMANHU20SF)

Dr H Salman

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The study of superfluidity is currently one of the most fascinating fields of research in fluid dynamics involving some of the most unusual phenomena seen in fluids.

Vortex dynamics, turbulence and quantum phenomena in superfluids (PROMENTDU20SF)

Dr D Proment

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This PhD project aims to study the fluid mechanical properties of superfluids in the presence of topological defects (vortices) and/or immersed objects (external confining potentials, impurities).

Wave attenuation in the marginal ice zone (PARAUEU20SF)

Dr E Parau

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Interactions between ocean waves and sea-ice are extremely complex. The interactions are essential to understanding sea-ice morphology, especially in the context of global warming [3].