Completed Honours Students:
Student
Name |
Thesis Title |
Conferred
Date |
Grant
Moule**++ |
Numerical Solution of Short-Crested Waves Around a
Vertical Circular Cylinder (won a university medal). |
1992 |
Clara
Murdaca |
On
the interpolation of multi-dimensional functions with multiquadrics |
2000 |
Ryan
Omrod+ |
Quantifying
the effect of correlation between forward and hazard rates on pricing credit
default swaps and credit swap options |
2004 |
Drew
Shaw+ |
Incorporating
Dividends into Option Valuation |
2005 |
Joshua
Quigley+ |
Valuing
Multi-Asset Options with the Boundary Element Method |
2006 |
Michael O'Sullivan |
A
study of Monte Carlo Method used for pricing American Options |
2007 |
Steve Stone+ |
On
the Method of Fundamental Solutions For Pricing Financial Derivatives |
2007 |
Lewis Mitchell**++ |
Wave
Diffraction and Radiation around an OWC device |
2007 |
Rene Ogunbona+ |
Optimal
Compliance Strategy for Energy Firms under the Australian Carbon Pollution
Reduction Scheme |
2009 |
Alex Badran**++ |
Exploring
analytical solutions to regime-switching models |
2010 |
Monica Ly+ |
Extracting Local Volatility Using the Dupire Formula |
2012 |
Ashlee Davis |
Pricing American options under regime regime-switching models |
2015 |
Bradley Bennett |
Comparing the pricing performance of the Heston model under different martingale measures. |
2016 |
James Brodnik |
To finish by the end of Nov., 2017 |
2017 |
Undergraduate Advanced Students:
Student
Name |
Advanced Project Title |
Conferred
Date |
William
J. Francis* |
A Comparative Study of Two Analytical Approxi- mation Formulae and The Binomial Method for the Optimal Exercise Boundary of
American Put Options |
2004 |
* indicates those undergraduate students I
have managed to publish a conference paper with.
** indicates those undergraduate students I
have managed to publish a journal paper with.
+ indicates
those undergraduate students who were awarded a first-class honor.
++ indicates those undergraduate students who
were awarded a first-class honor and a university medal.