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.