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An Honours year is an exciting and rewarding experience which encourages independent learning and research. It is the main pathway to a career in research, and can also open up many possibilities in industry not available to graduates with a pass degree. It provides the opportunity to pursue your studies at a more advanced level, some students report that they learn as much in the Honours year as in the three previous years combined. A research project forms the basis of the year, and for many people it is a much richer learning experience.

The Honours degrees offered within the school are:

Recent Honours Projects:

  • Locality based partitioning algorithms in distributed virtual environments
  • Approaches for limiting the bypassing of proxy rewalls
  • XML database update
  • Wireless security in home networks
  • Implementaton of a formal language of authorization for the delegation of XML documents
  • Wviews: a world view solver for epistemic logics
  • Ramsey theory

Choosing a supervisor for your Honours course

Your supervisor is the main person you will interact with during the course. To be accepted into the Honours course you need to have a supervisor and a project. Your choice of supervisor will be closely related to your Honours project, in that your project would need to be related to their own area of research.

Supervisors for recent Honours projects:

  • Rehez Ahlip works in Mathematical Finance. He has recently supervised several theses related to option pricing.
  • Andrew Francis works in Algebra and in Epidemiology. He has recently supervised a thesis on knot theory.
  • Miroslav Filipovic works in Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing. In 2010 he supervised three Honours theses, and in 2011 he is supervising four Honours students.
  • Yi-Chen Lan works in the area of Virtual Spaces and Visualisation. He has recently supervised a thesis on distributed virtual enrironments.
  • Yan Zhang works in Intelligent Systems. He has supervised several recent theses in the area of formal languages and databases.

For any questions about Honours, contact the School Honours Coordinator Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic via email m.filipovic@uws.edu.au or phone 02 4620 3824.

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