Successful 2003 Discovery Projects Grants by Institution - Australian ...

2003 : $32,000
2004 : $26,000
2005 : $28,000
Category: 3402 - APPLIED ECONOMICS
Administering Institution: The University of New South Wales
Summary:
The project seeks to explain the interaction between policies that affect human capital investment and the
consequences of that investment for economic growth. Specifically it aims to incorporate recent
developments in the theory of economic growth, and in particular a schooling sector that produces human
capital, into a multi-country and multi sector model. This will overcome limitations of the current state of
growth theory, associated with the high level of aggregation used in growth models - such as the effects
of sector specific research subsidies research, and the effects of education subsidies on the growth of
human capital specific sectors.
DP0345597 Dr TC Ross
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Title: Aesthetic Strategies in Neo-Conceptual Art, 1980s-1990s
2003 : $33,511
2004 : $30,102
Category: 4199 - OTHER ARTS
Administering Institution: The University of New South Wales
Summary:
The decline of formalist aesthetics figured prominently in Neo-Conceptual art and post-modern theory of
the 1980s. In the 1990s, this trend began to reverse, and revisionist aesthetic theory re-emerged as a
salient force in contemporary art scholarship. Using the perspective of revisionist aesthetic theory, this
study will show evidence of aesthetic strategies in Neo-Conceptual art that have been neglected in post
modern, anti-aesthetic interpretations. As the first systematic analysis of how aesthetic and conceptual
operations interact in Neo-Conceptual art, the study will change how conceptualist art is understood
within both post modern art discourse and revisionist aesthetic theory.
DP0345758 Prof AV Savkin
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Title: Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems
2003 : $70,000
2004 : $66,000
2005 : $50,000
2006 : $70,000
2007 : $100,000
Category: 2903 - MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING
Administering Institution: The University of New South Wales
Summary:
Rapid advances in communications technology have opened up the possibility of large scale control
systems in which the control task is distributed among several processors and the communication
between the processors, sensors and actuators is via communication channels. This enables control
systems to be distributed over large distances and to use large numbers of actuators and sensors. This
project will be directed towards the development of a theory of networked control systems in which
control and communication issues are combined together, and all the limitations of the communication
channels are taken into account.
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DP0345581 Dr R Sheikholeslami Prof M Behnia
Title: Combined Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and CFD modelling to study particle
deposition in conduits
2003 : $55,000
2004 : $45,000
2005 : $45,000