Students, Thesis Topics & Scholarships


    PhD students supervised:
    Other postgraduate students supervised:
    Current postgraduate students:

    Active

    1. Mr Joshua Celeste (PhD student at Adelaide, principal cosupervisor, co-supervisor)
      PhD Scholarship (2023--)

    2. Mr Joshua Tomlin (PhD student at Adelaide, cosupervisor, principal supervisor David Baraglia)
      PhD Scholarship (2022--)


    Inactive

  • Mr Ahnaf Tajwar Tahabub (MPhil student at Adelaide, cosupervisor David Baraglia) Passed major review, October 2018
    University of Adelaide Masters Scholarship (2018-2019). Fulbright Future Scholarship 2020

  • If you are interested in pursuing a PhD or MPhil (research) under my supervision, kindly include:

    * your CV (including the schools you attended)
    * your transcripts (at least a copy or a listing of your grades, if not the official one)
    * at least 2 recommendation letters
    * evidence of English language competency if not from an English speaking country.
    * ability to get a PhD scholarship

    Scholarships for prospective postgraduate students:

    Postgraduate Research Scholarships - International students
    Postgraduate Research Scholarships - Domestic students
    China Scholarship Council for applicants from China.
    Endeavour International Scholarships
    Other Postgraduate Research Scholarships
    Master of Philosophy program


    Thesis topics for prospective postgraduate students:

    Aspects of Geometric Group Theory, braids and knots
    Chiral de Rham complex and vertex operator algebras,
    Geometry and topology of loop spaces of manifolds,
    Symplectic geometry and geometric quantization,
    K-theory and twisted analogues,
    Atiyah-Singer index theory of elliptic operators and generalizations,
    Spectral theory of elliptic operators, magnetic gap-labelling conjectures,
    Noncommutative geometry, and applications,
    Mathematics of condensed matter physics: the fractional quantum Hall effect, topological insulators, topological semimetals, superconductors,
    Mathematics of String Theory and T-duality.
    Positive scalar curvature and topological obstructions, 4D gauge theory.


    Job opportunities for graduates:

    Academic (AustMS)
    Academic (AMS)
    Academic (EMS)
    Academic (LMS)
    DSTO
    CSIRO


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