The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Assoc Prof Brailey Sims
School: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 01-JAN-1990
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   5400000  
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2007 3 NSW Department of State and Regional Development Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   323084  
Dr Terrence Burns;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2003 1 Department of Education, Science and Training Project - National Science Week Grant The Great Australian Science Show Off!   8660  
Professor Richard Middleton;Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Iain Raeburn;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr William Heath;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Richard Gerlach;Dr Maria Seron;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2003 5 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control.   6929432  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2002 1 University of Newcastle Conference - Conference Establishment Grant Special Interest Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society from 27 September 2002 to 29 September 2002   3000  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2002 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit of Prof Piotr Mankiewicz, from 21 March 2002 to 28 April 2002   3486  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2001 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit of Prof Mariusz Wodzicki from 2 December 2001 to 21 January 2002   5011  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Fifth International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, Israel 13-19 June 2001   2500  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2000 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts (WCNA-2000), Catania, Italy.   2500  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2000 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visitor grant Prof Kazimierz Goebel, 5 August to 30 September 2000.   3786  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Professor Peter Eades 2000 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visitor - Prof Chris Rodger August to December 2000   6605  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1999 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visitor grant for Professor Genaro Lopez   3395  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1999 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant International Conference on Differential Equations and Related Topics, Pusan, Korea.   1374  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1998 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis, Niigata, Japan   1646  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Assoc. Prof H Xu 1997 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Sims - Hong-Kun Xu 2/7/97-22/8/97   3190  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1997 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Investigations related to metric fixed point theory.   4000  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1997 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Workshop on Fixed Point Theory, Poland, 23-28 June 1997   1243  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1996 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Common fixed points for commuting non-expansive maps   2400  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1995 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Fixed point theory for nonexpansive maps   3400  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1995 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit by Professor W A Kirk, Professor of Mathematics, University of Iowa. 17 May to 15 July 1995.   3497  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1994 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Nonexpansive maps and fixed points in Banach spaces   3500  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1993 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit by Prof Kazimierz Boegel, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland 1/11/93 to 23/12/93.   3865  
Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 1993 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 'International Conference in Abstract Analysis' - South Africa - 14 - 23 April 1993   1612  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Mathematics) Principal Supervisor Metric Fixed Point Theory
PhD (Mathematics) Principal Supervisor Metric Fixed Point THeory and Related Banach Space Geometry
PhD (Mathematics) Principal Supervisor Optimisation of International Bulk Shipping and Integrated Production/Distribution Operations
PhD (Mathematics) Principal Supervisor Metric Fixed Point Theory
PhD (Mathematics) Co-Supervisor Optimizing the Design of Minigrid Electricity Networks
PhD (Mathematics) Co-Supervisor On Automorphism Groups of Trees

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.450
PhD 1.650

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Mathematics) 2005 A New Structure for Generalized Metric Spaces - with Applications to Fixed Point Theory

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Mustafa Zead Yousef, Sims Brailey, ’A new approach to generalized metric spaces’, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, 7 289-297 (2006) [C1]

Dhompongsa S, Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, ’Fixed points of uniformly lipschitzian mappings’, Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications, 65 762-772 (2006) [C1]

Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, ’An ultrafilter approach to locally almost nonexpansive maps’, Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications, 63 e1241-e1251 (2005) [C1]

Dominguez Tomas, Lopez Genaro, Hudzik Henryk, Mastylo M, Sims Brailey, ’Complete characterization of Kadec-Klee properties in Orlicz spaces’, Houston Journal of Mathematics, 29 1027-1044 (2003) [C1]

Li Gang, Sims Brailey, ’Fixed point theorems for mappings of asymptotically nonexpansive type’, Nonlinear Analysis, 50 1085-1091 (2002) [C1]

Sims Brailey, Xu H-K, ’Locally almost nonexpansive mappings’, Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, 8 81-88 (2001) [C1]

Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, ’Uniform normal structure and related notions’, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, 2 129-138 (2001) [C1]

Park S, Sims Brailey, ’Remarks on fixed point theorems in hyperconvex spaces’, Nonlinear Funct. Anal. & Appl., 5 51-64 (2000) [C1]

Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, Yuan G X-Z, ’The Knaster-Kuratowski and Mazurkiewicz theory in hyperconvex metric spaces and some of its applications’, Nonlinear Analysis, 39 611-627 (2000) [C1]

Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, ’Convergence of Picard Iterates of Nonexpansive Mappings’, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Mathematics, 47 147-155 (1999) [C1]

Sims Brailey, Yu H-K, Yuan G X-Z, ’The homotopic invariance for fixed points of set-valued nonexpansive mappings’, Josai Mathematical Monograph, 1 55-65 (1999) [C1]

Garcia-Falset J, Llorens-Fuster E, Sims Brailey, ’Fixed point theory for almost convex functions’, Nonlinear Analysis. Theory Methods and Applications, 32 601-698 (1998) [C1]

Llorens-Fuster E, Sims Brailey, ’The Fixed Point property in $c_0$’, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, 41 413-422 (1998) [C1]

Book

Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht/Boston/London, 702 (2001) [A3]

Chapter in Book

Sims Aidan Dominic, Sims Brailey, ’Assessing the minimality of change in belief revision: capacities’, Frontiers in Belief Revision, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht/Boston/London, 163-177 (2001) [B1]

Sims Brailey, ’Examples of fixed point free mappings’, Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht/Boston/London, 35-48 (2001) [B1]

Chen S, Cui Y, Hudzik H, Sims Brailey, ’Geometric properties related to fixed point theory in some Banach function lattices’, Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht/Boston/London, 339-389 (2001) [B1]

Khamsi M A, Sims Brailey, ’Ultra-methods in fixed point theory’, Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht/Boston/London, 177-199 (2001) [B1]

Conference Publication

Dalby Tim, Sims Brailey, ’Banach lattices and the weak fixed point property’, Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, Guanajuato, Mexico (2006) [E1]

Nathansky Helga Fetter, De Buen Berta Gamboa, Goebel Kazimierz, Kirk William A, Sims Brailey, ’Fixed Point Theory and its Applications’, Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, Guanajuato, Mexico (2006) [E4]

Jesus Garcia Falset, Enrique Llorens Fuster, Sims Brailey, ’Proceedings of the International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Applications’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Valencia, Spain (2004) [E4]

Mustafa Zead Yousef, Sims Brailey, ’Some remarks concerning D - metric spaces’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Valencia, Spain (2004) [E1]

Sims Brailey, ’Perspectives on metric fixed point theory’, Proceedings to be published, Poland (2003) [E5]

Sims Brailey, ’Some thoughts on generalized metrics’, Proceedings to be published, Valencia Spain (2003) [E5]

Goebel K, Sims Brailey, ’More on minimal invariant sets for nonexpansive mappings’, Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications, Catania, Sicily (2001) [E1]

Sims Brailey, ’Maps which have fixed points for any Banach Space’, Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, The University of Newcastle (1999) [E1]

Ireland Michael James, Kirk W A, Sims Brailey, ’The Leray-Schauder Alternative for Nonexpansive Maps from the Ball Characterize Hilbert Space’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonlinear analysis and Convex Analysis, Japan (1999) [E1]

Sims Brailey, Yu H-K, Yuan G X-Z, ’The homotopic invariance for fixed points of set-valued nonexpansive mappings’, The Third Symposium on Nonlinear Analysis, Josai University (1999) [E1]

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