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Professor Nigel Bean

Chair of Applied Mathematics

Office: 348 | Telephone: +61 8 8303 3797 | Personal homepage [1]

Academic duties

Responsibility
Head of Discipline of Applied Mathematics
Member of the Curriculum Board
Member of the Research Committee

Teaching duties

Title Level Semester
Scientific Computing I [2] 1 [3] 1
Financial Computing II [4] 2 [5] 1
Advanced Stochastic Modelling [6] 4 [7] 2

Honours supervision

Thesis title Student Graduation
Getting the most from a multi-skilled workforce Josephine Varney [8] 2008

Postgraduate supervision

Thesis title Student Graduation
BGP, not as easy as 1-2-3 [9] Ashley Flavel [10] 2009
Time-dependence in Markovian decision processes [11] Jeremy McMahon [12] 2008
A multi-disciplinary approach to complex systems design [13] Alex Ryan [14] 2007
Optimisation in Geothermal Energy [15] Josephine Varney [16]
Matrix analytic methods in network infrastructure [17] Ariella Helfgott [18]
Secure multiparty computation in the context of network management and optimisation [19] Alice Bednarz [20]
Monitoring and analysis of wireless ad hoc networks [21] Jonathan Arnold [22]
Application of compressed sensing to network measurement and routing [23] Rhys Bowden [24]
Mathematical modelling of rock lobster populations [25] John Feenstra [26]
Stochastic modelling of tumour growth [27] Kate Simms [28]

Research interests

Research interest Group
Markov chains [29] Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation [30]
Matrix analytic methods [31] Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation [32]
Operations research [33] Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation [34]
Mathematical modelling [35] Stochastic Modelling and Optimisation [36]

Research grants

Grant title Funding Agency
Operator-Analytic Methods for Telecommunication Systems ARC
Ensuring the Robustness of IP Routing ARC
The use of stochastic fluid models for the evaluation of applications driven sample path ARC
WaterLog - A mathematical model to implement recommendations of The Wentworth Group ARC
Delivering guaranteed quality of service over IP networks ARC
Mathematics for Government, Industry and Community -- The Magic Network ARC

Selected publications

Publications
Markovian trees: properties and algorithms
Bean, Nigel; Kontoleon, Nectarios; Taylor, Peter, Annals of Operations Research 160 (31–50) 2008
Hitting probabilities and hitting times for stochastic fluid flows the bounded model
Bean, Nigel; O'Reilly, Malgorzata; Taylor, P, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 23 (121–147) 2009
Algorithms for the Laplace-Stieltjes transforms of first return times for stochastic fluid flows
Bean, Nigel; O'Reilly, Malgorzata; Taylor, Peter, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 10 (381–408) 2008
Where's Waldo? Practical searches for stability in iBGP
Flavel, Ashley; Roughan, Matthew; Bean, Nigel; Shaikh, A, IEEE 16th ICNP 2008, Orlando, Florida 19/10/08
Hitting probabilities and hitting times for stochastic fluid flows
Bean, Nigel; O'Reilly, Malgorzata; Taylor, Peter, Stochastic Processes and their Applications 115 (1530–1556) 2005

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