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| Name: |
Dr. John A. Belward |
| Position: |
Adjunct Professor |
| Qualifications: |
B.Sc. (hons.), Ph.D., F. Aust. Math.Soc. |
| Organisational Area: |
School of Mathematical Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Mathematics |
| Research Program: |
Computational Mathematics |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 6194 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 1329 |
| Email: |
j.belward@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
Faculty of Science, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
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Areas of Expertise
- Surface Fitting
- Optimisation Algorithms
- Integral Equations
- Operations Research
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Professional Associations
- Australian Mathematical Society
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Queensland Association of Mathematics
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Selected Research Projects
- Surface fitting applied to the surfaces of leaves of plants
- Movements of liquids on the surfaces of leaves
- Estimation of gradients from scattered data by least squares extrapolation
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Selected Publications
- Joint with I.W.Turner and M.Ilic On derivative estimation and the solution of least squares problems. To appear in J Computational and Applied Mathematics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2007.11.022
- Joint with I. W. Turner and M. N. Oqielat A Hybrid Clough-Tocher Radial Basis Function Method for Modelling Leaf Surfaces. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 400-406. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7. http://mssanz.org.au/MODSIM07/papers/7_s50/.
- Joint with C. A. Baloi and M. Bulmer Multi - Area Unit Commitment In The National Electricity Market Proceedings of MODSIM 2003 International Conference on Modelling and Simulation Editor D.A.Post Townsville Australia, July 2003 pp1685 - 1690.ISBN 1 74052 096 X.
- Joint with D.G. Mayer, H.Widell, and K. Burrage Survival of the fittest - genetic algorithms versus evolution strategies in the optimization of systems models. Agricultural Systems, 60, no. , pp113-122, 1999.
- Further studies of the application of constrained minimisation methods to Fredholm integral equations of the first kind. I.M.A.J. Num. Anal.5 (1985), pp. 125-139.
For a curriculum vitae, please download John Belward's CV [PDF]
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| Moa’ath Oqielat |
Droplets on leaf surfaces |
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