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Honours lecture topics offered in 2005

The lecture topics fall into four main groups - mathematics, statistics, astrophysics and atmospheric science. You can select lecture topics from any group, as long as the requirements of your enrolled honours units are met. It is your own responsibility to ensure that a sufficient number of lecture topics is taken.

Honours topics from other Schools or outside Monash may also be available in other areas, and you can take these with the permission of the Honours Coordinator.

Important Note: Not all of the lecture topics listed here will necessarily be offered, for example if they attract insufficient students, topics may be cancelled. Thus it is important for you to notify us, at the time of enrolment, which lecture topics you wish to take. A topic not offered as a lecture course can often be used as the basis of an essay.

Mathematics lecture topics

  • M4021 Partial Differential Equations (sem 1)
  • M4031 General Relativity (sem 1)
  • M4051 Topology (sem TBA)
  • M4071 Galois Theory (sem 2)
  • M4261 Finite Groups (sem 1)
  • M4042 Differential Geometry (sem TBA)
  • M4062 Banach Algebras (sem 2)
  • M4312 Communication in Mathematics (sem 2)
  • M4322 Parallel Methods for Partial Differential Equations (sem 2)

Statistics lecture topics

  • M4231Statistical Inference
  • M4251Design and Analysis of Experiments
  • M4192 Mathematics of Finance: Option pricing

Additional lecture topics from the Key Centre for Statistical Sciences are also available to Monash honours students. Details of the individual units are available from Dr Malcolm Clark.

Astrophysics lecture topics

Atmospheric Science lecture topics

  • M4561 Clouds and Aerosols
  • M4151 Waves in fluids
  • M4571 Mesoscale and convective dynamics
  • M4581 Large-scale circulation of the atmosphere and ocean
  • M4591 Climate and climate modelling
  • M4500 Synoptic Meteorology laboratory
  
Further info
Details are provided in the course regulations under Faculty of Science in the University Undergraduate Guide to Courses.
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