Edward R. Vrscay

Graduate Students and
Undergraduate Research Assistants

In Progress

PhD

  • M. Ebrahimi, The mathematical problem of image enhancement and super resolution.
  • G. Mayer, Methods of super resolution for nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.
  • N. Portman, Modelling biological growth using the ``GRID'' model of random iteration of diffeomorphisms.

MMath

  • K. Timko, Bohmian mechanics of simple quantum mechanical systems.
  • Y. Li, Determining NMR relaxation times for porous media: Theory, measurement and the inverse problem.


Recent Graduate and Their Theses

PhD

  • S. Alexander, Thesis title: Multiscale methods for image analysis and synthesis (co-supervision with P. Fieguth, Department of Systems Design Engineering, UW) (2005).
  • M. Ghazel, Image Enhancement Using Fractal Methods (Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-supervision with G. Freeman, E&CE).
  • C. Colijn, The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to Some Simple Systems (2003).
  • D. Piche, Complex bases, number systems and their application to fractal-wavelet image coding (2002).
  • I. Ncube, Stochastic Approximation of Artificial Neural-Network Learning Algorithms: A Dynamical Systems Approach (2001) (co-supervision with S. A. Campbell, Dept. of Applied Mathematics).
  • M.G.A. Crawford, Generalized Coherent States and the Classical Limit in Quantum Mechanics (2000) (co-supervision with J. Paldus, Dept. of Applied Mathematics).

MMath

  • K.P. Wilkie, Mutual Information-Based Methods to Localize Image Registration (2005).
  • S. K. Alexander, Two- and Three-Dimensional Coding Schemes for Wavelet and Fractal-Wavelet Image Compression (2001).
  • T. J. Holly, Approximation of Functions and Images using Fractals and Wavelets (1998).
  • J. Silver, A Chaos-Game for Wavelet Analysis and Synthesis (1998).
  • D. W. Harder, Theory and Applications of Iterated Function Systems with Grey Level Maps (1997).
  • D. Piche (Pure Math - co-supervision with W. Gilbert), IFSM, Wavelets and Fractal-Wavelets: Three Methods of Approximation (1997).


Recent Undergraduate Research Assistants

  • J. Hackett, Bohmian mechanics and relaxation for a system of two particles in an infinite two-dimensional well (2003)
  • K. Wilkie, Mathematical methods for image and data fusion (2002)
  • J. Hicken, Inverse problems for ODEs using contraction maps (2001)


Last Modified:  Friday 29 June 2007