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Ideas for topics for Masters' and Bachelor projects

Resources for students writing projects

Courses

2024, Autumn
Introduction to geometry and topology
2024, Spring
Numerical linear algebra
2023, Autumn
Introduction to geometry and topology
2023, Spring
Numerical linear algebra
2022, Autumn
Introduction to geometry and topology
2022, Spring
Numerical linear algebra
2021, Autumn
Differential and Riemannian geometry
Introduction to geometry and topology
2021, Spring
Numerical linear algebra
2020, Autumn
Algebraic Topology
Riemannian geometry
2020, Spring
Numerical linear algebra
2019, Autumn
Riemannian geometry
2019, Spring
Geometry on groups
2018, Spring
Geometry
2017, Autumn
Geometry on groups
2017, Spring
Geometry
2016, Autumn
Curvature flows for curves and surfaces
Introduction to topology
2016, Spring
Geometry
Riemannian geometry
2015, Autumn
Geometry on groups
2015, Spring
Geometry
Introduction to gauge theory
2014, Autumn
Curvature flows for curves and surfaces
2014, Spring
Geometry
Cohomology and homotopy theory
2013, Autumn
Riemannian geometry
2013, Spring
Geometry
Knot theory
2012, Autumn
Riemannian holonomy
2012, Spring
Geometry
Riemannian geometry
2011, Autumn
Introduction to topology

Recent student projects

Bachelor Projects

  • Classification of compact, connected surfaces (2024)
  • The knot equivalence problem (2024)
  • The classification of compact surfaces (2024)
  • The separation axioms (2023)
  • From regular surfaces to Einstein manifolds (2022)
  • Projective geometry and its applications (2022)
  • De Rham cohomology (2020 & 2021)
  • Morse theory and Reeb's sphere theorem (2020)
  • Isometric immersions of the flat torus in three-dimensional Euclidean space (2019)
  • Introducing hyperbolic geometry (2019)
  • Parallel transport and holonomy (2017)
  • Hopf-Rinow theorem (2017)
  • Genus of knots (2016)
  • Hyperbolic tesselation and Poincaré's polygon theorem (2016)
  • Geodesics and the Hopf-Rinow theorem (2015)
  • Gauss' linking number and Calugareanus' theorem (2015)
  • The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for compact surfaces (2015)
  • Surfaces of constant mean curvature (2015)
  • Smooth manifolds and the Poincaré-Hopf theorem (2015)
  • Minimal surfaces in space and the strong halfspace theorem (2014)
  • Frobenius' theorem (2014)
  • Classification of topological manifolds and the \( 3 \)-dimensional Poincaré homology sphere (2014)
  • Hilbert's theorem for surfaces in space (2014)
  • Knot theory: the Conway polynomial in two variables (2013)
  • Symplectic geometry, moment maps and the Marsden-Weinstein quotient (2012)
  • Minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\): Weierstrass representations and Costa's surface (2012)

Masters Projects

  • Hyperkähler metrics and cotangent bundles (2023)
  • Geometry of flying saucers (2022)
  • Exceptional holonomy and group actions (2021)
  • Almost Abelian Lie algebras and balanced Hermitian structures (2021)
  • Complex symplectic reduction and oxidation (2020)
  • Special Kähler structures on surfaces (2019)
  • Evolution of smooth, strictly convex curves undergoing homogeneous expansion curvature flows (2018)
  • Classification of non-compact toric symplectic manifolds via manifolds with corners (2018)
  • Strominger's system on complex Lie groups (2017)
  • Projective special real geometries (2016)
  • Hermitian structures and cohomogeneity one spaces of dimension \(4\) and \(6\) (2016)
  • Lie algebra with a stably Ricci diagonal basis (2015)
  • Seifert surfaces and alternating links (2015)
  • Invariants for Legendre links in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) (2014)

Ph.D.

See my research page.

Author: Andrew Swann

Date: 2024-08-12 Mon 17:22