Fourth Year MSci Projects

2004-2005
Edmund Henley & George Schusteritsch
E-mails:edmund.henley@imperial.ac.uk & georg.schusteritsch@imperial.ac.uk
The Oslo Ricepile Model

Mansurul Karim & Harvinder Paik
E-mails: mansurul.karim@imperial.ac.uk & harvinder.paik@imperial.ac.uk
The Oslo Ricepile Model

2002-2003
Alex Nasrallah & Daniel Potter
E-mails: alex.nasrallah@imperial.ac.uk & daniel.potter@imperial.ac.uk
Turbulence data analysis

Karen Chalmers & James Kirkpatrick
E-mails: karen.chalmers@imperial.ac.uk & james.kirkpatrick@imperial.ac.uk
The game of GO and its relation to the model of percolation

Martin Dingler & Matthew Stapleton
E-mails: martin.dingler@imperial.ac.uk & matthew.stapleton@imperial.ac.uk
Predictability in self-organised critical systems

M. Stapleton, M. Dingler and K. Christensen
Sensitivity to initial conditions in self-organised critical systems
J. Stat. Phys. 117, 891-900 (2004).

2001-2002
Julian Hartley
E-mail: julian.hartley1@imperial.ac.uk
Stable Marriage Problem

Michael G. Niblock & Peter W. Stacey
E-mails: michael.niblock@imperial.ac.uk & peter.stacey@imperial.ac.uk
Rain data analysis

2000-2001
Leon Danon & Tim Scanlon
E-mails: tim.scanlon@imperial.ac.uk & ldanon@ffn.ub.es
Earthquake data analysis

P. Bak, K. Christensen, L. Danon, and T. Scanlon
Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 178501, 1-4 (2002).

K. Christensen, L. Danon, T. Scanlon, and P. Bak
Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 2509-2513 (2002).

Work featured in Scientific American news article Scaling the Quakes, June 2002.

1999-2000
Peter L. Dorn & David S. Hughes
E-mail: d.hughes1@imperial.ac.uk
Self-Organised Criticality in Cellular Automata

Preprint (2000)
Peter L. Dorn, David S. Hughes, and Kim Christensen
On the avalanche size distribution in the BTW model


Third Year Projects

2002-2003
Oliver Hamiltom
E-mail: oliver.hamilton@imperial.ac.uk
Self-organised criticality as an absorbing state phase transition.

Abida Mian
E-mail: abida.mian@imperial.ac.uk
Complex Networks

2000-2001
David Kao
E-mail: david.kao@imperial.ac.uk
Economics

Iqbal Abedin & Timothy Parkin
Population dynamics based on differential euqations

Johann Hertlein & Ole B. Peters
E-mails: croffer@croffer.de & ole.peters@imperial.ac.uk
Rain data analysis

O. Peters, C. Hertlein, and K. Christensen
A Complexity View of Rainfall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018701, 1-4 (2002).

Work featured in New Scientist news article "Rain is `earthquake in the sky'", May 2002.

Eleanor C. Bucks & Nadia Farid
E-mails: eleanor.bucks@imperial.ac.uk & nadia.farid@imperial.ac.uk
Population dynamics based on celluar automaton

1999-2000
Alvin Chua
E-mail: alvin.chua@imperial.ac.uk
Self-Organized Criticality

A. Chua and K. Christensen
Exact Enumeration of the Critical States in the Oslo Model
Paper submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002).