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Academic Research InterestsAssociate Professor Allan Barton
Biomass and resource utilisation. Production, properties and applications of 1,8-cineole and similar natural solvents. Properties of liquids and polymers on the basis of cohesion parameters. Product innovation and technology transfer. Conceptual models in undergraduate learning. Use of the internet in teaching and learning applied science and technology. The application of chemistry to forensic science.
Investigation of random Fourier series for general commutative hypergroups and in particular the disc hypergroup, as an interesting contrast with the examples in Fournier/Ross (J Austral Math Soc 37(1984), 45-81) of the countable hypergroups of Dunkl/Ramirez and the hypergroup of conjugacy classes of SU(2)
Teaching methodologies for mathematics courses which sit at the high school/university interface.
Identification of outliers with weighted data, adaptive methods of estimation and identification of outliers in regression and multivariate estimation. Robust estimation of parameters in mixtures of exponentials with possible application to ion channel modelling. Work on regular statistical functionals and Fréchet differentiability, to describe robust methods of estimation
Development of algorithms for a number of contexts including free surface flows and tracer advection in ocean GCMs. Study of fluid flows with at least one unknown boundary, such as water waves and jets, oil flow from a reservoir with an oil-water interface and withdrawal from density stratified water storage reservoirs, using numerical and integral equation techniques.
Organic chemical synthesis and structure determination. Synthesis of compounds containing aromatic, quinonoid and heterocyclic ring systems. The stereoselective and enantioselective synthesis of compounds of potential medicinal or biological importance.
Combinatorics on Words, a relatively new area of research within Discrete Mathematics which has flourished during the last few decades. Associate Professor Kenneth Harrison
Finding performance measures for algorithms, which have been developed for finding approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems which are known to be intrinsically hard. Search for further applications of problems in linear algebra which have nice graph-theoretical solutions.
Solution Chemistry, particularly thermodynamics of ion solvation, chemical speciation in complex systems of industrial and environmental interest, calorimetry, dielectric relexation spectroscopy. Associate Professor Graeme Hocking
Modelling of blood flow and hydrogen clearance in the retina to enable better interpretation of experimental data (in collaboration with Dr Val Alder and Dr Stephen Cringle at the Lions Eye Institute, WA). Study of fluid flows with at least one unknown boundary, such as water waves and jets, oil flow from a reservoir with an oil-water interface and withdrawal from density stratified water storage reservoirs, using numerical and integral equation techniques. Groundwater flow modelling.
Statistical issues in the use of Doppler ultrasound for prediction of perinatal complications. Analysis of the impact of treatments in HIV/AIDS. Analysis of multivariate failure time data. Application of data imputation methods and theory to complex censored data problems.
Analysis of regularization, in particular the investigation of probabilistic techniques for choosing the regularization parameter. Study of an important integral equation arising in rheology (the study of visco-elastic fluids). Investigation of general regularisation methods involving the L1-norm (with Dr Mingren Shi). Mathematical modelling and data analysis in biochemistry
Chemistry of aluminate solutions (with Associate Professor Glenn Hefter). Cyanide in the environment. Chelation in biological fluids. Applied chemical speciation studies. Solution equilibria and transport.
Investigation of change point problems using a Bayesian approach.
Application of physico-chemical principles to the understanding of existing hydrometallurgical processes and the development of novel approaches to the solution of processing and environmental problems associated with the extractive metallurgical industry.
Interactions between micro-organisms and minerals. Mine tailings treatment. Bio-oxidation of sulphides. SX colonies at soil - water interfaces in solvent extractions.
Solid/solution reactions. Leaching reactions, cementation reactions (and other chemical reduction reactions) and adsorption processes. Application of electrochemistry to hydrometallurgical reactions.
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) ; Problem Structuring Methods; Decision Analysis
The application of ionic activity data and speciation analysis to hydrometallurgical processes and the rationalisation of the thermodynamics and kinetics of the leaching of minerals.
Hydrometallurgy, general electrochemistry, corrosion, electrometallurgy, zinc-bromine battery, lead-acid and lithium batteries. Removal and stabilisation of arsenic from aqueous process effluents. Removal of arsenic from drinking water. Effect of additives on metal electrowinning. Corrosion of lead-alloys in lead-acid battery electrolytes. Zinc-bromine Battery. |