Topics for Honours Projects 2025

Supervisor

Topic

Dr Chimere Anabanti

  • All groups of size less than 60 are soluble
  • Group partitions yielding lower bounds for Ramsey numbers
  • Investigating the influence of the number of Sylow subgroups
  • On the maximum number of subgroups of nite groups

Prof Roumen Anguelov

  • Mathematical modelling and analysis of inhibition of signaling pathways in cancer cells

Prof Jacek Banasiak

  • Lyapunov stability theorems, their generalizations and inverses
  • Monotone dynamical systems and applications

Dr Taboka Chalebgwa

  • The polynomial method in additive number theory

Dr Daniel Fresen

  • High dimensional geometry

Dr Manjunath Gandhi

  • Data-driven Molecular Dynamics Modeling
  • Discovering equations from data
  • Rate-induced tipping in dynamical systems
  • Study of Chaotic Dynamics

Dr Alta Jooste

  • Orthogonal Polynomials and Computer-Algebra
  • Orthogonal Polynomials and Finances
  • Stochastic processes and their connection with orthogonal polynomials
  • The Hermite polynomials and their applications
  • The use of orthogonal polynomials in Approximation theory
  • Zeilberger’s Algorithm

Dr Ruaan Kellerman

  • Alternative proofs of the compactness theorem in first-order logic
  • A Zero-One Law For Graphs
  • Does the Collatz-Algorithm show chaotic behaviour?
  • The Polya Enumeration Theorem

Dr Rodwell Kufakunesu

  • Energy Options
  • Optimal Investment

Dr Madelein Labuschagne

  • Modeling a Piano

Dr Tung Lê

and

Dr Yash Madanha

  • Representation theory

Dr Lesedi Mabitsela

  • Exploring the Brownian motion

Dr Mokhwetha Mabula

  • Relationship between topology and order
  • Widely supersouble groups

Dr Gaza Maluleke

  • The RSA modulus
  • Wiener’s Attack on the RSA

Dr Mathibele Nchabeleng

  • Similarity solution for a pre-existing fluid-driven fracture in a permeable medium
  • Numerical techniques and solutions for Cauchy-type singular integral equations of the first kind

Dr Valisoa Rakotonarivo

  • Nordhaus-Gaddum type inequalities​
  • The Wiener index and its variants for the class of trees​

Dr Chris Schwanke

  • Extensions of Positive Operators
  • The Riesz-Kantorovich Formulas

Dr Maya Thackeray

  • Applications of generating functions
  • L-series and primes in arithmetic progressions

Prof John van den Berg

  • The Artin-Wedderburn Theorem

Prof Jan Harm van der Walt

  • Prof Baire's Marvelous Category Theorem
  • The Riesz Representation Theorem
  • Weak solutions of parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations

Prof Jan Harm van der Walt

and

Dr Marten Wortel

  • The Homeomorphic Measures Theorem

Prof Gusti van Zyl

  • Duality and Arbitrage

Dr Jamie Wannenburg

  • Projective Geometry and Relevance Logic

Dr Marten Wortel

  • Quaternion linear algebra​
- Author Carusta van der Merwe

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