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List of projects 2009/2010

1.  The rate of convergence in the Central Limit Theorem or Renewal Processes
Supervisor: Professor Reinert      

2.  Ageing in the Wild
Supervisor: Dr Steinsaltz       

3.  Models for Predicting the Outcomes of Australian Rules Football Matches
Supervisor: Dr Tomas            

4.  Coalescent trees, Genetrees and the Ancestral recombination graph
Supervisor: Professor Griffiths                                     

5.   Molecular Phylogeny analysis with the Ape package in R                                
Supervisor: Professor Griffiths

6.   Coalescent processes in Mathematical Genetics             
Supervisor: Professor Griffiths              

7. Actuarial Science
Supervisors: Mr Clarke & Dr Laws
      
8. Undergraduate Performance in an Oxford college
Supervisor: Professor Lauritzen                

9.  Monte Carlo testing for independence using sampling without replacement
Supervisor: Professor Lauritzen

10.   Shrinkage estimation and boosting
Supervisor: Dr Meinshausen 

11.  Parallel Monte Carlo
Supervisor:  Dr Nicholls

12.   Outliers in Radiocarbon dating
Supervisor: Dr Nicholls 

13. Who's who in 12th Century England: witness list ranking
Supervisor: Dr Nicholls
 
14. Estimating local genealogies from DNA sequence data  
Supervisor: Professor McVean 

15. Resource allocation in pharmaceutical research using the OPRRA software
Supervisor: Professor Gittins         

16. Estimating population size from link-tracing samples  on networks
Supervisor: Dr Gile          

17.  Fitting network models to partially-observed network data
Supervisor: Dr Gile 

18.  Graphs with few disjoint cycles 
Supervisor: Professor McDiarmid                                     

19.  Investigating genealogical signals of natural selection in human data
Supervisor: Dr Myers

20.  Genome Analysis and Bioinformatics
Supervisor: Professor Hein