Ken Hawick's Student Projects

Possible projects: (Contact me about any of these - some are ongoing, some new...)

• Simulating and Visualising Planets - Project outline - [PDF]
• Quantum Computing - Project outline - [PDF]
• Game Theory Simulations (Prisoner Dilemma) - Project outline - [PDF]
• Traffic Models (Animat Agents) - Project outline - [PDF]
• Visual Programminmg Languages (Software Engineering) - Project outline - [PDF]
• Particle Simulation and Visualisation (Game/Movie Special Effects) - Project outline - [PDF]
• Small-World Graphs and Wormholes (Visualisation and Measurement) - Project outline - [PDF]
• Cellular Automata Classification (Simulation and Measurement) - Project outline - [PDF]

This is a list of some of the Final Year Undergraduate Projects I have supervised Past and Present. Many of these I have co-supervised with my colleagues Heath James or Paul Coddington. Some projects relate to aspects of bigger projects carried out by the Distributed and High Performance Computing Research Group - others relate to seed projects in support of the Centre for Advanced Software Technology. Most could broadly be termed to be in Computational Science with some specifically oriented to Computer Science or Computer Systems Engineering students.

All of them have been fun in one way or another.

A separate list covers PhD and MPhil student projects I have supervised.

2003-2007 at Massey

• Visualizing Diffusion Models on Graphs
• Modelling Multi-Lane Traffic Systems
• Visualising Dense Medical data sets
• Simulating a Quantum Computer on a Classical Compute Cluster
• Visualising and Flying through 3D Datasets from Growth Simulations
• Simulating Spatially-Sparse Artificial Life Systems
• Building Object-Oriented Paralelel Computing Libraries
• Algorithms and Test for 64 Bit Random Number Generators
• High Performance Algorithms for Non-Uniform Random Number Distribution generation
• Distance and Clustering Properties of Small-World Network Models

2002-2003, at Bangor

• Algorithms and Rendering Engines for Scene Visualisation
• Directions in AI
• Timewarp Algorithms in Discrete Event Simulation
• Particle Engine Visualisation Tools
• Distributed Robot Control Algorithms
• Parallel Libraries for Cluster Computers
• Peer to Peer Architectures For Resource Sharing
• 3d Rendering for Fractal Lanscape Generation
• Bulk Data Archive Management Systems
• Web Based catalog Browsers
• Image Processing Client Systems
• Distributed Algorithms for Feature Analysis
• Bandwidth reservation for Multimedia Applications
• Geographic Information Systems for Spatial marketing
• Robust network management and Monitoring
• Graphical Learning Tools for Petri Networks
• Managing Ubiquitous Devices on the Household Grid
• Algorithms for Audio Encoding
• Mining Data from Web Statistics
• Managing Data Tiles and Mappings
• Access Control and Secure Identification Systems

2001-2002, at Bangor

• Construction of a Monte Carlo Task Farming System
• Advanced Experiments in Virtual Reality
• Experiments with Tini Boardss for Building Robot Sensors
• An Investigation into the Computational Grid Economy
• Computer Vision for Robots
• Digital Life and Evolution of Species
• Experiments with Java3d and Virtual Reality
• Network Monitoring and Control
• Using Java, Jini and JavaSpaces for Controlling Robots

2000-2001, at Bangor

• Performance Benchmarking Java Virtual machines
• Using Java for Peer to Peer Distributed Collaboration
• Feature Detection Using Neural Networks
• Programming Lego Robots with Java
• Data Aquisition using Tini Boards

1999-2000, at Adelaide

• Computer Network Visualisation
• An Implemenmtation of K-Tiling Algebra
• Developing a Distributed Image Processing and Management Framework

1998-1999, at Adelaide

• Developing a Testbed System for Timewarp in Java
• Modelling the Perceptual Effects of Lens Distortion via an Immersive Virtual reality System