Research
Students find a warm welcome amongst the top rated internationally focused Mathematics research team at Heriot-Watt. The main areas of research at the moment are Applied Analysis; Computational Applied Mathematics and Modelling; Mathematical Biology and Medicine; Algebra and Topology; Mathematical Physics; Solitons and Nonlinear Waves.
The research topics pursued by students and the academic team are many and varied, including:
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Bifurcations and nonlinear boundary value problems
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Council house allocation
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Disease dynamics in ecology
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Knot surgery in algebra
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Nonlinear waves propagation
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String theory and K-theory
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Wound healing in mathematical medicine