The following graph and tables set out details regarding those who completed the requirement for the award of a higher degree in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at an Australian university during the 1992 academic year. The actual conferring of the degree may have taken place later. Also listed are the names of the candidates and the titles of their theses (as supplied to me).
I am using as my definition of university `any institution accepted as such by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee': this leads to the inclusion of Ballarat University College, University of Central Queensland, University of Southern Queensland and Swinburne University of Technology.
On the graph on page 2, the numbers of research degrees are compared to the total numbers of students in higher education. Both doctorates and research masters seem to be on the increase.
The figures for higher education students were obtained in the following way. From 1980 onwards they are taken from Selected Higher Education Statistics (published by DEET); from 1969-79 from Year Book Australia as a sum of university students and students at colleges of advanced education (and at teachers' colleges when they were not included in the CAE figures); from 1959-68 as 1.5 times the numbers of university students.
Continued thanks are extended to all those who cooperate in the collection of these data. Forms carefully and accurately filled in and returned promptly enable high-quality data to be available to the mathematical community within a relatively short time.
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The total number of students in higher education in 1992 was 559,356. This has been scaled to correspond to the maximum number of higher degrees.
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In 1992, the total numbers of students enrolled for various higher degrees in Mathematics and Statistics were 86 (Masters by thesis), 166 (Masters by coursework), 228 (PhD).
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ANU CHEN, `Empirical likelihood method' FLANNERY, `Finite linear groups' KEPPERT, `Amenability in group algebras and Banach algebras' LIN, `The method of quasilikelihood' SIM, `Finite groups' Erratum: the 1991 return should include: KOCH Inge (title not supplied - in Statistics)
Bond SUGDEN Stephen, `A class of direct search methods for nonlinear integer programming'
Griffith PILLSWORTH Mark, `Pit construction and modelling in the ant lion (Gerstacher) Neuroptera Myrmeleontidae ' GUENNI Lelys, `Stochastic weather modelling'
La Trobe GODFREY Susan, `Reduction of order techniques for classical orbital problems' MUKHOPADHYAY Salilesh, `Asymptotic normality [-] a Bayesian approach'
Macquarie GRIFFITHS Deryn, `Power series expansions of algebraic functions' NOTODIPUTRO Khairil A. `A study of modified Fisher scoring algorithms for statistical image reconstruction in emission tomography'
Melbourne SKINNER Andrew W. `Topics in 3-dimensional topology'
Monash HURLEY Peter J. `Lagrangian plume modelling during the morning period' JEAVONS John S. `Semantics of a single branch in a Prolog tree' MARDLING Rosemary A. `Chaos in binary star systems' OZOLS Maris A. `The enumeration of polynomial functions over finite groups' RIDLEY Roger N. `Observation of numerical modelling of air flows over New Zealand' YEH Yow Tzong `E-varieties of E-solid semigroups and locally inverse semigroups'
Murdoch KING D. M. `From G\"odel to Derrida: undecidability, indeterminancy and infinity'
Newcastle SCIFFER Scott D. `Differentiability properties of locally Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces' BOSWELL Sharon G. `Graph theory and facilities layout planning: an investigation of the practicalities of heuristics for the adjacency problem' CHAN Yiong Huak `A mathematical analysis of gas-solid reactions'
NSW TOBING Harapan, `Multivariate repeated measures analysis'
Queensland CRANNY Timothy R `Applications of degree and bifurcation theory' FORBES Michael A `Algorithms for large scale optimization problems' SHARRY Martin J `Large and over-large sets of block designs' YOUNG Joseph A `Optimal siting of power stations' BATTLE James S `Symmetries in quantum mechanics' BRYANT Darryn E `Varieties of quasi-groups and related topics'
QUT \quad ... nil Errata: the 1991 return should include the following (and also should include SPENCER Nancy who was actually included in the 1990 figures). DAWSON Edward P `Design and cryptanalysis of symmetric ciphers' ILIC Milos `A class of moving boundary problems arising in drying processes'
Sydney PHAN `Vacuum spacetimes with a space like killing vector' JING Bing-Yi `Saddlepoint and Edgeworth approximations and their applications to resampling'
W Australia GHITANY Mohamed el-Bateh `Asymptotic analysis of likelihood estimators for exponential mixture models with long-term survivors'
Wollongong PINCOMBE Adrian `On the microwave heating of materials with temperature dependent properties' TORDESILLAS Antoinette `Mathematical approaches to cylindrical elastostatic contact problems with applications in roller coating technology'
Adelaide KOERNIAWAN Boedi `Numerical solution of Prandtl's lifting-line equation' ABDULLAH Herlina ... coursework
ANU SPENCER `Parallel multigrid solution of boundary value problems'
Deakin SCHLEICHER Andreas `A computer based approach to sample design in educational research'
Macquarie DANIELS Christopher `Heegner points and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture' CHEY Thin, CHILVERS Marilyn, FUNG Amelia, NICOPOULOS Nick, NIVISON-SMITH Ian, PETRIN Louis, SILMAN Gary ... coursework
Melbourne DOMINGO Alleli `Dynamic programming techniques for the optimization of nonseparable functions' SIER David `Zero-one integer programming' CHOWDHURY Sadeq R. ... coursework KWAN Margaret ... coursework
Monash KATOANGA Tu'lilutotu L. `Applications of similarity methods to the diffusion convection and hyperbolic diffusion equations' KOPAMU Samuel J. `On engamorphic products and M(x)-varieties of semigroups' ONG Siew Tuan `Estimation of mating system parameters in plant population' SAMPSON Joseph J. `Refraction in geodetic levelling' WILSON Jeffrey C. `Wind flow around Law Dome East Antarctica'
Newcastle BARTLETT Michael O. `Modified continuity for single-valued and set-valued mappings' SEARSTON Ian J. `A new Fenchel duality theorem with applications' FALK Gregory N. `The differentiability of locally Lipschitz functions on Euclidean spaces'
New England SEMBIRING Maximus G ... coursework
NSW BARNES Elizabeth, CHAN Pamela, FAREED Aslam, PARK Jim Sung, PAVLOV Elias, PEDISICH Elvis, PRESTIANNI Joseph, ROSARIO Penny, TOPCU Fatma, YI Kiwon ... coursework
Queensland GREENHILL Catherine S `Minimal defining sets for combinatorial designs' SILLER Steven T `Statistical mechanics, cellular automata, Hopf algebras'
QUT \quad ... nil Errata: the 1991 return should read LUNNEY Karen E `Spectral representation and ergodicity of a class of non-stationary stochastic processes'
RMIT MITCHELL Heather E `Regression analysis with data under convex order restrictions' ZHANG Jami `Regression with censored data' XIA Glen G `Mathematical analysis of software reliability growth models' COOMBS C `Studies in numerical solution of differential equations' PAPWORTH Michael, MARTIN Augustus, TAUSI Manula ... coursework
S Australia PERKINS Sonya `Dynamic rescheduling of long-haul trains'
Swinburne BARTLEY Helen ... coursework
Sydney SCOUFIS George `The classification of all Painlev\'e equations in the class {y^{\prime\prime}}^2 = F(x,y,y^\prime). 14 students (10 pure maths, 1 applied maths, 3 statistics) ... coursework
W Australia FERGUSSON Kevin J `Integer factorisation algorithms'
Wollongong
SATRAVAHA Pornchai `Diffraction of nonlinear short crested waves around a
vertical circular cylinder'
ZHANG Ying-Long `On the dual reciprocity boundary element method'
PORTER Anne ... coursework
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney