Department of Mathematics & Statistics

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Professor Jennifer Key

Professor Key's research interests lie in finite geometries and designs, and the use of algebraic
coding theory in their classification. This work includes permutation decoding methods for linear
codes from these structures, and also from graphs.
Current Projects

Codes from adjacency matrices related to classes of uniform subset graphs.

Hulls of codes from incidence matrices of some strongly regular graphs.

Minimum words in codes from non-desarguesian finite affine planes.

Codes from a class of quasi-symmetric 2-designs.

Professor Peter Witbooi

Professor Witbooi's interestes straddle pure mathematics and mathematical modeling. In pure
mathematics he engages in research in Algebraic Topology; Quasifibration theory and applications;
and Localization of homotopy types and groups. His activities in mathematical modeling are in
stochastic or deterministic differential equations, mainly focusing on biological and financial
problems.
Current Projects

Prevalence of malaria under climate change.

MTB-human protein-protein interactions.

Homotopy of finite topological spaces.

Professor Kailash Patidar

Prof Patidar's research is focused on Numerical Methods and Scientific Computing for the applied
problems that arise from interactions between natural and life sciences as well as engineering. His
research is a well balanced combination of the analytical investigations and numerical experiments
using finite difference, finite element and spline approximation methods. The overall idea behind all
these approaches is to design robust solvers for the parameter sensitive differential models
described by means of ordinary and/or partial differential equations that arise in various fields in
sciences and engineering.
Current Projects

The development of reliable numerical methods for the mathematical models arising in
population biology.

The development of efficient numerical methods for option pricing problems in computational
finance.

Construction, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for singular perturbation

problems.

High order numerical methods for singular perturbation problems.

Professor David Holgate

Professor Holgate's principal research interest is in category theory and topology, pursuing a deeper
categorical analysis of methods and constructions in topology and set theory. He also has an interest
in education research, in particular the use of technology in undergraduate mathematics teaching
and in academic staff development.
Current Projects

Compactness and sequential compactness in frames (locales).

Neighbourhood and interior operators in categories.

Canonical relations and factorisation systems on categories

Professor Francis Benyah

Professor Benyah conducts research in the areas of Optimal Control Theory and Applications,
Mathematical Biology, Optimization and Numerical Analysis.