The Applied Mathematics research group specialises in solving problems from:

  • applied mathematics
  • mathematical inequalities
  • networked control systems
  • approximation and bounds in economics and across the engineering and science disciplines.

Research areas

Our main focus is on interdisciplinary research and application of mathematics, statistics, control theory and operational research for solving problems.

This includes:

  •  complex dynamical systems modelling and analysis
  •  reliable control systems design, robustness analysis, signal processing
  •  mathematical inequalities and their applications in numerical analysis
  •  information theory and coding
  •  population dynamics
  •  special functions theory
  •  probability and statistics.

Our expertise covers a broad range of fields such as:

  • networked control systems with large time-delay intervals
  • accurate numerical approximations and bounds in economics, statistics and general applications across the Engineering and Science disciplines
  • state filtering and parameter identification for nonlinear polynomial systems
  • approximation and bounds in a variety of areas including risk/ruin problems, actuarial science and populations
  • approximation of special functions, divergence measures and risk measures, approximation of Riemann-Stieltjes Integral and Hilbert transform.

Research projects

  • Networked control systems with large time-delay interval.
  • Accurate numerical approximations and bounds in economics, statistics and general applications across the Engineering and Science disciplines.
  • State filtering and parameter identification for nonlinear polynomial systems.
  • Approximation and bounds in a variety of areas including risk/ruin problems, actuarial science and populations.

Staff & students

Read about out team, and access our researchers' biographies via links.

Research undertaken by our current postgraduate students.

Student Thesis title
Zaki Mrzog H Alaofi Numerical Treatment of Some Types of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation
Mehwish Rani Exact Solitary Wave Solutions of Some Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations Arising in Wave Propagation and Optical Fibres.

Partners, funders & collaborators

  • DST-NRF Centre of Excellence  in the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management Industries
  • National ICT Australia on Margin Statistics of High Throughput Sequencing

External researchers in partnership:

  • Professor Pietro Cerone, Honorary Professor. La Trobe University
  • Dr Eder Kikianty, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Professor C. Buse, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania

Contact us

Professor Silvestru Sever Dragomir
Email: sever.dragomir@vu.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9919 4437