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Professor J. Hyam RUBINSTEIN
	Position:	Professor
	Email:	H.Rubinstein@ms.unimelb.edu.au
	Room:	175
	Ext. Number:	45548
	Webpage:	www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~rubin
Research Group:	- Geometry & Topology
Interests:	- Differential Geometry - Geometric Topology of 3- and 4-manifolds - Minimal Surfaces - Shortest Network Design
Recent Publications: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed Decline design in underground mines using constrained path optimisation(2008) more Constrained path optimisation for underground mine layout(2007) more Approximations and lower bounds for the length of minimal Euclidean Steiner Trees(2006) more One-sided Heegaard splittings of RP^3(2006) more Minimal Surfaces in Geometric 3-Manifolds(2005) more
I have supervised 15 honours students, 8 masters and 8 PhD students and currently have 3 PhD and 3 Honours students. Research topics in all my areas of interest are possible and my web site has more information.

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Loretta BARTOLINI	"One-sided Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds"
Christopher GODDARD	"Riemannian submersions in the context of fibre bundle theory"
Shanil (Don Buweneka) RAMANAYAKE	" Triangulations and geometric structures"
Joshua HOWIE	"Invariants in low-dimensional topology derived from mathematical physics"
Anita DOW
Jose Manuel AYALA-HOFFMANN	"On Spaces of Constrained Paths"
Alan CHANG

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Julie CAIN	"Random graph processes and optimisation"
James COFFEY	"3-manifolds built from injective handlebodies"
Bell FOOZWELL	"Haken n-Manifolds"
Kevin PRENDERGAST	"Steiner ratio for gradient constrained networks"

Current Honours Students:

Recent Honours Students:

Recent Grant History:

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2007 - 2011	ARC	Discovery	Statistical Topology and its Application to Deriving New Geometric Invariants
2008 - 2010	ARC	Linkage	Rapid optimisation in underground mining network design
2007 - 2009	AMIRA	Contract	Planning and Rapid Integrated Mine Optimisation (PRIMO)
2006 - 2008	ARC	Discovery	Minimal surfaces
2002 - 2006	ARC	Discovery	Topics on 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds
2004 - 2006	ARC	Linkage	Decision tools for underground mine development

Awards:

Year	Name	Organisation
2004	Hannan Medal	Australian Academy of Sciences
2003	Fellow of the Australian Academic of Sciences	Australian Academy of Sciences
1987	Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society	Australian Mathematical Society

Responsibilities:

Academic Board member

Committees:

Management Committee

RGS Committee (Linkage Shepherd)

Strategic Planning Committee

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