MSc Projects 2003/4

This year's allocation can be found HERE! Do not forget to reload this link as the list gets updated.

This list contains the projects offered this year for M.Sc students on the Advanced Computer Science, Advanced Computer Science with ICT Management, Computer Science, Computational Science and Engineering and Computational Methods and Imaging in Medicine programmes. It is largely complete, although projects are still awaited from some members of staff. As these come in, the list will be updated. Every so often reload this page and check here for the ...

Having perused the list, you should:

collect the Project Subscription form from the PG Office.
go and see the supervisors of the projects you are interested in to discuss the projects in detail.
get them to sign the Project Subscription form if both of you feel that the project could be a success. Note that you will not be assigned a project without this. Copies of the form are available from the Postgraduate Office.
when you have completed your enquiries, return the form to Janet Boyd in the PG office (I suggest that you keep a copy). You should indicate at least three preferred choices on the form in order of preference. Note that I will feel at liberty to give you any of these (although I will make some attempt to respect your preferences), so do not select a project unless you are really prepared to do it!

Please perform this exercise as quickly as possible and hand in your form by the February 18^th 2004. I will then collate the data and attempt, in discussion with course directors, to give as many people as possible one of their preferred choices. Please note that, in general, only one person will get to do one project. Also, there is a limit to the total number of projects that a staff member is capable of supervising. For these reasons, there is a strong likelihood of disappointment if you plump for popular projects/supervisors. Unfortunately there is no way of knowing the pattern of demand in advance (you might like to ask staff members about the level of interest in projects when you see them). If you are unsuccessful, there will be a further round of the process in March.

A final point. It is possible that you wish to do a project of your own devising, or follow up an idea that has arisen in conversation with a staff member. If you wish to do a project that is not in the book, then you should first get the agreement of a staff member to supervise you, and then hand in a description of the project to Janet, again by February 18^th 2004 (and signed by the supervisor).

The list follows. The projects are classified as being suitable for ACS (Advanced Computer Science), ACSwICT (Advanced Computer Science with ICT Management, CS (Computer Science) CaS (Computational Science) CMIM (Computational Methods and Imaging in Medicine); the classification on the main list is the definitive one. (Note that the list is not in any particular order though collections of related projects from recognised research groups in the department often appear together). Also, staff members who can supervise students but have not proposed any projects yet appear first.

Andy Brass

Mike Cunningham

Doug Edwards

John Latham

Andrei Voronkov

Alan Williams

Alan Rector

Barry Middleton

Carole Goble

Chris Kirkham

Fumie Costen

Fumie Costen and John Brooke

Howard Barringer

Hilary Kahn

Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Projects from IPG Group

Suzanne Embury

Brian Warboys

Brian Warboys and Steve Pettifer

JAMAICA Group Projects

Ian Watson

John Brooke

Projects in Computer-assisted assessment

John Sargeant

Kung-Kiu Lau

Linda Brackenbury

Magnus Rattray

Norman Paton

Ning Zhang

Peter Capon

Pete Jinks

Paul Nutter

Rob Richardson

Robert Stevens

Robert Stevens and Simon Harper

Renate Schmidt

Richard Banach

Roger Hubbold

Steve Furber

Steve Pettifer

Toby Howard

Uli Sattler

Projects from the CNC Group

Ian Horrocks and Graham Gough

Graham Gough

Milan Mihajlovic

Stephen Barton and Nick Filer

Peter Aczel

Jon Shapiro

Rizos Sakellariou

Jim Miles

Alvaro Fernandes

Jim Garside

David Rydeheard

Mary McGee Wood

Barry Cheetham