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EAE3321Soils and land management

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

Soils are critical for food and water security, effective nutrient cycling for terrestrial ecosystems and sustaining human life. Sustainable land management of the soil resource is one of the important contemporary challenges facing...

Semester 2Clayton

EAE2322Soil, water and vegetation

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Science

In this unit, you will learn to analyse the intricate relationship between soils, water, and vegetation in natural and human-modified environments. These components play a critical role in the development, maintenance, and functioning of...

Semester 2Clayton

EAE5068Spatial data analysis

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

This unit aims to teach the knowledge and skills for exploring the spatial patterns that result from social and physical processes on or near the Earth's surface. It examines the theories and methods of quantitative geography, including...

Semester 1Clayton

EAE5051Spatial databases

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

Spatial data are associated with geographical locations. A spatial database is a database system that provides spatial data types in its data model and query language and supports spatial data types in its implementation. This unit focuses...

Semester 2Clayton

EAE5052Spatial data interoperability and integration

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

Spatial data interoperability is the ability to access, share, exchange and manipulate spatial data stored in heterogeneous distributed repositories. It is a cornerstone tenet of a spatial data infrastructure and enables the sharing and...

Semester 2Clayton

MTH5010Special topics in advanced mathematics 1

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

This unit enables you to work on specifically-designed mathematical content, not otherwise covered in the other units offered in the masters of the School of Mathematics. This work can be individual or in small groups, and could, for...

Semester 1Semester 2Summer BClayton

MTH5020Special topics in advanced mathematics 2

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

This unit enables you to work on specifically-designed mathematical content, not otherwise covered in the other units offered in the masters of the School of Mathematics. This work can be individual or in small groups, and could, for...

Semester 1Semester 2Summer BClayton

MTH3401Special topics in mathematics 1

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

Advanced studies by lectures or reading project in an area of mathematics, statistics or related discipline, or a comparable project under the supervision of a member of academic staff in the School of Mathematics.

Semester 1Clayton

MTH3402Special topics in mathematics 2

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

Advanced studies by lectures or reading project in an area of mathematics, statistics or related discipline, or a comparable project under the supervision of a member of academic staff in the School of Mathematics.

Semester 2Clayton

CHM2922Spectroscopy and analytical chemistry

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Science

This unit covers the theory and instrumentation behind common physical and analytical instrumental techniques such as infrared, Raman, UV/Vis absorption, fluorescence, atomic spectroscopies, mass spectrometry, chromatography and...

Semester 2ClaytonMalaysia

ASP3012Stars and galaxies

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

Stars and Galaxies are the most fundamental objects in astronomy. This unit will introduce you to the modern study of stars and galaxies, how we collect data and how computational tools work hand in hand with telescopes to advance our...

Semester 2Clayton

PHS3102Statistical and condensed matter physics

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

This unit explores topics of foundational many-body physics. The unit consists of two theory-only sub-units, and the key areas for each sub-unit are: Statistical physics: Classical statistical ensembles and distributions Boltzmann factors,...

Semester 2Clayton

MTH5540Statistical learning in finance

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

Bayesian inference. Linear Gaussian models. Kalman filter. Maximum likelihood. Fischer information. Cramer-Rao bound. Supervised classification. Tree based methods. Support vector machines. Introduction to R.

Semester 1Clayton

STA1010Statistical methods for science

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Science

Descriptive statistics, scatter plots, correlation, line of best fit. Elementary probability theory. Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests using normal, t and binomial distributions. Use of computer software. Formal treatment of...

Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

MTH3260Statistics of stochastic processes

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

Many practical experiments involve repeated measurements made over a period of time, where the individuals or systems being observed are evolving during the study period. Examples of this kind of data arise in signal processing, financial...

Semester 2Clayton

MTH4260Statistics of stochastic processes

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Science

Many practical experiments involve repeated measurements made over a period of time, where the individuals or systems being observed are evolving during the study period. Examples of this kind of data arise in signal processing, financial...

Semester 2Clayton

DEV3032Stem cells in development, disease and regeneration

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Science

This unit is structured into four overarching themes. It begins with an introduction to pluripotency, reprogramming and the microenvironment, followed by a focus on stem cell biology in reproductive development and fertility. The...

Semester 2Clayton

MTH5210Stochastic calculus and mathematical finance

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

Variations and quadratic variation of functions. Review of integration and probability. Brownian motion. Ito integrals and Ito's formula. Stochastic differential equations and diffusions. Calculation of expectations and PDE's, Feynman-Kac...

Semester 1Clayton

BCH2011Structure and function of cellular biomolecules

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Science

This is the first of two units in the Biochemistry second year curriculum. These are two 6-credit point units introducing you to the fundamental concepts and knowledge required to understand cellular function at a molecular level and...

Semester 1Clayton

MSI5221Sustainability challenges in Indonesia and the region

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Science

This unit builds on the broad understanding of sustainability challenges established in MSI5220 to critically evaluate evidence associated with local and regional issues. You will learn to identify different kinds of evidence, including...

Indonesia