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This database contains BSc, MSci and MSc projects offered by different supervisors. It can be searched/filtered in various ways to help find the best options for you.

The basic default search is based on titles; simply enter a word or topic which interests you in the "Search" box and click "Save Settings" to view the results.
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Click on the title of a project to find details of prerequisites and reading material as well as a brief description. [You may need to look up some unfamiliar terms to get more of a sense of what is involved.] Note that if the project has "No" in the "Current Availability:" field, it is already taken or not being offered this academic year but may be available again in future years.
Each supervisor name links to a contact details webpage so you can arrange to discuss any projects you are interested in or even propose a related topic of your own.

Level:	BSc, MSci, MSc
Title:	Rigid frameworks
Supervisor:	Prof. Bill Jackson
Research Area:	Combinatorics
Description:	A bar-and-joint framework is a straight line realization of a graph in d-dimensional Euclidean space. We think of the framework as a collection of bars and joints where vertices correspond to joints and each edge to a bar joining its end-vertices. The framework is rigid if it has no non-trivial continuous deformations. Thus a triangle in the plane is rigid but a square is not since it can be continuously deformed into a parallelogram. The project is to give a survey of results on the rigidity of frameworks.
Further Reading:	J. E. Graver, Counting on Frameworks: Mathematics to Aid the Design of Rigid Structures, Dolciani Mathematical Expositions number 25. Mathematical Association of America, 2001 (ISBN: 0-88385-331-0).
Key Modules:
Other Information:	Knowledge of Graph Theory and Linear Algebra is a prerequisite.
Current Availability:	Yes