Research in the physics of complex physical systems spans physics, engineering,
applied mathematics and computational science. Research in this multidisciplinary
field gives a good generalist training applicable to many careers. Much
of the research of the group has been in aspects of fusion research, which is
presently of great international interest as we approach the peak in oil production
and seek long-term, non-CO2-producing alternatives. Universities and institutes
in the USA, Europe and Japan are either hiring or are associated with attractive
postdoctoral fellowships; but graduates also move into many other areas of employment
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| Name |
Thesis title |
Year |
Present position |
| Meelis Zidikheri |
Dynamical Subgrid-scale Parameterizations for
Quasigeostrophic Flows using Direct Numerical
Simulations | 2008 |
Staff member, Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Competitive Thermokinetics and Non-linear Bushfire Behaviour |
2008 |
Team Leader, Bushfire Dynamics and Applications Group, CSIRO Sustainable
Ecosystems |
| Ben McMillan |
Global Wavemodes of Dissipative Fluid Models in Strongly Three Dimensional Plasmas:
Calculation and Interpretation. |
2005 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, CRPP, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Sally Lloyd |
Simulating Magnetic Islands of the H-1NF Heliac using the MHD Equilibrium
Code HINT |
2003 |
Tutor, Townsville |
| Alexei Khorev |
The Concept of Approximate Action-Angle Variables for Nonintegrable
Hamiltonian Dynamics |
2002 |
Tutor, Canberra |
| Paul Cuthbert |
Ballooning Instabilities in Three-Dimensional Toroidal Plasmas |
2000 |
IT-Security Contractor, Canberra |
| Sean Dettrick |
Drift Orbits and Neoclassical Transport in the H-1NF Heliac |
1998 |
Research Staff, TriAlpha Energy Corporation, USA |
| Jerome Lewandowski |
Drift Wave Models for Three-Dimensional Plasmas |
1997 |
Research staff, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA |
| Stuart Hudson |
Generalized Magnetic Coordinates for Toroidal Magnetic Fields |
1997 |
Research staff, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA |
| Gustav Meglicki |
Analysis and Application of Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics |
1996 |
Senior Technical Adviser, Office of the Vice President for IT, Indiana
University, USA |
| Ken Wessen |
Application of the Invariant Manifold Reduction to Plasma Instabilities |
1993 |
Researcher, Grinham Managed Funds, Pty Ltd;
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA |
| Alex Pletzer |
Two-dimensional Computations of the Outer Matching Data in Resistive Stability |
1992 |
Scientific Programmer, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory,
USA |
| Gary Cooper |
Stability of Helical Plasmas |
1989 |
Telstra? |
| Ritchie Parker |
Nonlinear Behaviour of the Resistive Tearing Instability in Plasmas |
1988 |
Physicist, Nestlé, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Henry Gardner |
The Free-Boundary Equilibrium Problem for Helically Symmetric Plasmas |
1986 |
Senior Fellow, Department of Computer Science, FEIT, ANU |
