Christine Currie

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Christine S.M. Currie
School of Mathematics
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

+44 (0)23 8059 3647
christine.currie(AT)soton.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research interests include

Responsibilities

Current PhD Students

Paul Davie - individual modelling of diseases, in particular, freshers' flu (joint with Sally Brailsford)

Completed PhD Students

Lanting Lu - modelling breakdown times of machines on an assembly line, with Ford motor company. (2009)
Georgie Mellor - simulation modelling of tuberculosis in areas with high HIV prevalence. (2007)

Brief CV

I completed a PhD in operational research at the University of Southampton in 2004 and started work as a lecturer in the operational research group.  In 2006 I extended much of the work that I did during my PhD and have started some new projects, most notably one with Liz Corbett (LSHTM) using modelling to determine the impact of a reduced duration of infectiousness for TB among HIV-positives.  This work was extended further as part of Georgie Mellor's PhD project to build a stochastic model of TB in a high HIV prevalence setting, focused on Harare, Zimbabwe.

My interest in revenue management started with a project where I was working with the airline bmi. We extended the working during the latter part of 2005 to consider the effect of competition on pricing of airline tickets. Since then I have worked on revenue management projects with a private healthcare company and another major UK airline and optimal pricing has become one of my major areas of interest. Current projects involve work with a cross-channel ferry operator further investigating the effects of competition.

I began my academic life as a physicist, obtaining first class honours from Jesus College, University of Oxford in 2000.  Wanting to see more real-world action, I then proceeded to the School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton to study for an MSc in Operational Research.  I spent the summer of 2001 in Geneva, working on a project for the Stop-TB department of the World Health Organization.  The project won the OR Society's prize for the best MSc project in the UK and helped me to gain a distinction in the MSc. Continuing this project, my PhD was then partly sponsored by the Stop-TB department of the World Health Organization.

Publications

An up-to-date list of publications is included on my official university home page. Below are a few working papers. Please get in touch if you would like a copy of any of them.

Working papers:

Lu, L. and C. S. M. Currie (2009). "Classification Analysis for Simulation of the Duration of Machine Breakdowns". Submitted to the Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Mellor, G.R., C.S.M. Currie and Corbett, E.L. "Incorporating Household Structure into a Discrete Event Simulation Model of Tuberculosis and HIV". Submitted to Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
Lu, L. and C. S. M. Currie (2009). "Evaluation of the Arrows Method for Classification of Data." Submitted to Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research.

Arrows Classification Program

This is the program, written in Visual Basic for Applications, with an Excel front end, developed by Lanting Lu, which can be used to classify data sets into groups, such that no group contains two sets of data that are significantly different from each other.
Download here