Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Research Interests

Jeffrey Newman

Telephone	+61 8 8313 6139
Position	Postgraduate Student
Email	jnewman@civeng.adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4359
Building	Engineering North
Floor/Room	2 23
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Civil Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of

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Biography/ Background

My Research Project

My project focusses on the decisions a planner makes when considering a greenfield development, with particular focus on optimising these decisions. Pressures on developers have changed in the last few decades: environmental, economic and supply problems persist in the urban water context and is driving a new paradigm called integrated urban water management (IUWM). But the question remains: is IUWM the best society can do? The following research areas are planned in my doctoral research:

development of optimisation procedures for problems suited to a dynamic graph based structure. This procedure has application in many fields;
development of data mining procedures for multiobjective optimisation outcomes; and
development of guidelines and/or design tools for cluster scale urban water planning facilitating IUWM.

Supervisors

Prof Graeme Dandy - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Professor Holger Maier - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Qualifications

2001-2004 Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Environmental Biology at the University of Adelaide

Research Interests

Optimisation using evolutionary algorithms and other heuristics derived from nature:
- Genetic algorithms
- Ant colony algorithms
Sensitivity, risk and uncertainty analysis:
- Monte Carlo simulation
Sustainability assessment and decision-making:
- Multi-criteria decision analysis
Environmental design and management utilising process based models
- Environmental differential equation modelling
- Lake Eutrophication and Algal Blooms
- Lake Sediment Nutrient Dynamics

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009

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