Completed PhDs
Australian National University
• Dr Roger (Charles) Baker, The mean curvature flow of submanifolds of
high codimension, supervisor: Ben Andrews.
• Dr Greg Stevenson, Tensor actions and locally complete intersections, su-
pervisor: Amnon Neeman.
• Dr Hak Soo Kim, Evaluation of the impact of climate and variability on
modelling hydrological response, supervisor: Barry Croke.
University of Melbourne
• Dr Wendy Baratta, Special function aspects of Macdonald polynomial the-
ory, supervisor: Peter Forrester.
University of Western Australia
• Dr Michael Pauley, Cubics, curvature and asymptotics, supervisor: Lyle
Noakes.
Awards and other achievements
La Trobe University
• Dr Katherine Seaton, Dr Narwin Perkal, Dr Marcel Jackson, Professor
Brian Davey and Associate Professor Grant Cairns have been awarded the
Award for Teaching Excellence by the Dean of Science, Technology and
Engineering, as well as the La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor’s Award
for Excellence in Teaching for 2011. The selection committee for the Vice-
Chancellor’s Award was unanimous in its praise for their contributions to
teaching and learning in mathematics at La Trobe University.
• Thi Dinh Tran has been awarded the inaugural Professor Edgar Smith
Scholarship. The scholarship, in the form of a travel grant, is awarded
annually to a full-time PhD student of outstanding merit from the De-
partment of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University.
University of Adelaide
• Associate Professor Zudi Lu has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.
Associate Professor Lu will use the support provided by his Future Fellow-
ship to further improve the theory and practice of econometric modelling
of nonlinear spatial time series.
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University of Wollongong
• The ‘first-year maths team’ comprising Caz Sandison, Maureen Edwards,
Grant Cox, Aidan Sims and James McCoy, received the Faculty of In-
formatics Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning award for
their redesign of core first-year mathematics subjects.
Appointments, departures and promotions
Charles Sturt University
• Kylie Thomas has resigned from the University.
La Trobe University
• In April, Dr Sarah Lobb joined the Dynamical Systems Group in the de-
partment as a research fellow.
University of Adelaide
•
• Dr Jessica Kasza, currently with the Department of Mathematical Sci-
ences, University of Copenhagen, will be joining the School as an ARC
Research Associate in July. She will be working with Professor Patty
Solomon in the area of health services research.
University of Ballarat
• Dr Jason Giri has been appointed Deputy Dean, Science and Mathemat-
ics, at the School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering,
effective 18 July 2011.
University of Melbourne
• Dr Federico Frascoli (Research Fellow) has left.
• Dr Tim Garoni has been appointed as a Future Fellow.
University of Newcastle
• Francisco J. Arag´on Artacho has been appointed as a research associate
working with Laureate Professor Jon Borwein and CARMA.
University of South Australia
• Professor Jerzy Filar (FAustMS) has resigned from the University after 19
years of outstanding service as Foundation Professor of Mathematics and
Statistics.
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• Associate Professor Michael Small of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
has been appointed as Professor of Mathematical Modelling and Director
of the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre.
• Professor Lee White of the University’s School of Mathematics and Statis-
tics has been seconded to the role of Foundation Director of the ATN
Industry Doctoral Training Centre in Mathematics for a 12-month period.
University of Western Australia
• Simon Guest commences as a research associate on 1 September 2011.
• Pablo Spiga finishes his appointment as a research associate on 17 June
2011.
• Bill Longstaff, Grant Keady, Bob Sullivan and Valeri Stefanov have left
the School.
University of Wollongong
• Dr Michael Whittaker’s fellowship has been extended for a further two
years based on the successful transfer of an ARC Discovery Grant from
Professor Iain Raeburn to Professor Jacqui Ramagge.
• Professor Tim Marchant’s position as Dean of Research has been extended
for a further four years.
New Books
University of Queensland
• Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T. and Botev, Z.I. (2011). Handbook of Monte Carlo
Methods. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley, New York.
Conferences and Courses
Conferences and courses are listed in order of the first day.
Integer Programming Down Under workshop
Date: 6–8 July 2011
Venue: University of Newcastle
Web:
carma.newcastle.edu.au/nuor/ipdu/
The Integer Programming Down Under (IDPU) workshop is designed to bring
together researchers with an interest in the theory, algorithms and applications
of integer programming so as to facilitate an exchange on the latest ideas and
developments in the area, and to provide a venue and environment for informal in-
teraction and collaborative engagements. The workshop program is composed of a
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limited number of invited talks which are organised in a single track and scheduled
so as to leave ample time for discussion and interaction among the participants.
Further details including the list of invited speakers are available at the website.
Geometry & Topology Down Under:
A Conference in Honour of Hyam Rubinstein
Date: 11–22 July 2011
Venue: University of Melbourne
Web:
www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/
∼
hyamfest/
Contact:
hyamfest@ms.unimelb.edu.au
7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(ICIAM 2011)
Date: 18–22 July 2011
Venue: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Web:
www.iciam2011.com
Email:
info@iciam2011.com
Mesoscopic Modelling of Traffic Networks
Date: 18 July 2011
Venue: University of Melbourne
Web:
https://sites.google.com/site/mesotraffic/
12th International Pure Mathematics Conference 2011
Date: 29–31 July 2011
Venue: Islamabad, Pakistan
Web:
www.pmc.org.pk
Algebraic Cycles and the Geometry of Group Orbits
Date: 2–4 September 2011
Venue: Australian National University
Web:
maths.anu.edu.au/events/Osullivan60/
Registration is now open for this conference, in honor of Peter O’Sullivan’s 60th
birthday. The conference will centre around the topics of motives and the geom-
etry of orbit spaces, the two areas Peter has contributed to. The tentative list of
speakers is Yves Andr´e, Spencer Bloch , Helene Esnault, Thomas Geisser, Vladimir
Guletskii, Anthony Henderson, Bruno Kahn, Shun-ichi Kimura, Amalendu Krish-
na, Gus Lehrer, Arun Ram, Vasudevan Srinivas, Sinan Unver, Chuck Weibel and
Geordie Williamson.
Background: Peter O’Sullivan is a truly remarkable Australian mathematician. He
dropped out of a PhD program at Sydney University in 1976, and for the next 25
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years he disappeared from the mathematical world. During these 25 years he man-
aged to teach himself an enormous amount of modern mathematics just by using
the UNSW library. He reappeared in 2002, when he sent a letter to Yves Andre
and Bruno Kahn, informing them that he had independently obtained some results
of theirs by different methods, and that his methods could be used to improve on
their work.
The Geometry of Differential Equations
Date: 19–23 September 2011
Venue: Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, ANU
Web:
wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/
∼
eastwood/GDEworkshop.html
Sponsors: ANU and AMSI
Organisers: Michael Eastwood, Rod Gover and Katharina Neusser.
Please see the website for details, including how to register for this meeting.
2011 AustMS Early Career Workshop
Date: 24–25 September 2011
Venue: Sebel Harbourside, Kiama, NSW
Web:
www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/austms/earlycareer/index.html
Organisers: Bronwyn Hajek (University of South Australia), Stephan Tillmann
(University of Queensland), Natalie Thamwattana (University of Wollongong)
The third Australian Mathematical Society Early Career Workshop will be held at
the Sebel Harbourside, Kiama on 24–25 September 2011, from Saturday afternoon
to lunch on Sunday. This is the weekend before the Society’s Annual Meeting, to
be held at the University of Wollongong.
The Early Career Workshop will consist of short research presentations by lead-
ing young researchers, and advice on topics such as developing collaborations and
building research networks in the mathematical sciences.
Research speakers: Vigleik Angeltveit (University of Chicago); Aidan Sims (Uni-
versity of Wollongong); Frances Kuo (University of NSW).
Advice speakers: Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney); Mark Nelson (University of
Wollongong); Virginia Wheway (Boeing Australia).
Accommodation for Saturday night and meals during the Workshop will be pro-
vided free of charge to all registered participants. Transport to the opening recep-
tion of the Annual Meeting on Sunday will be easiest via train. Participants can
also attend a special Early Career lunch during the Annual Meeting, attended by
the plenary speakers.
Registration is free for any registered participant in the Society’s 2011 Annual
Meeting who is either a current postgraduate student in the mathematical sciences
at an Australian university or research organisation, or is in the early stages of
a career in the mathematical sciences in Australian academia or industry. ‘Early
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stages’ means up to approximately five years (full-time equivalent) since award of
postgraduate degree.
Numbers for the Workshop are strictly limited, so those who wish to attend are
advised to indicate their interest as soon as possible, by ticking the Early Ca-
reer Workshop box when registering for the Annual Meeting at
www.uow.edu.
au/informatics/maths/austms/index.html
. Those who are successful will receive a
confirmation email with more details.
The Workshop is sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
and the Australian Mathematical Society.
55th Annual AustMS Meeting
Date: 26–29 September 2011
Venue: University of Wollongong, NSW
Web:
www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/austms/index.html
Please note that the date for early-bird registration has been extended to 17 July.
International Workshop on Hadamard Matrices and their Applications
Date: 27–30 November 2011
Venue: RMIT University, Melbourne
Web:
www.rmit.edu.au/mathsgeo/iwhma
Volcanic Delta 2011
Date: 27 November – 2 December 2011
Venue: Rotorua, NZ
Web:
www.delta2011.co.nz
Important dates:
• Submission of papers for the Communications Proceedings, and abstracts
for Short Presentations remain open until 21 and 31 August respectively.
See
www.delta2011.co.nz/delta2011/index.cfm?p=submissions
for guide-
lines
• Teachers’ Day has been moved to Monday 28 November
• Early Bird registrations will close on Wednesday 31 August.
NZIMA Postgraduate Student Conference Scholarships. Student scholarships will
be available for PhD students attending the conference and presenting papers
and/or
workshops.
Please
see
www.delta2011.co.nz/delta2011/index.cfm?
p=registration
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Volcanic Delta news:
• Wednesday excursion. You can now book for one of two exciting excur-
sion choices (each with half-and full-day options), the ‘Thermal Explorer’
or the ‘Rotorua Experience’. Please see
www.delta2011.co.nz/delta2011/
index.cfm?p=excursions
• Draft program is now available on the web at
www.delta2011.co.nz/
delta2011/images/img programme 01.pdf
• Submissions for iJMEST are now being reviewed. We hope to inform au-
thors before the 31 July.
The Victorian Algebra Conference
Date: 1–2 December 2011
Venue: La Trobe University, Melbourne
Web:
vicalg.ltumathstats.com/home
10th Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference
(EMAC2011): Invitation and call for abstracts
Date: 4–7 December 2011
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
Web:
www.emac2011.com.au
Contact: Chair of the EMAC Organising Committee,
Mary.Coupland@uts.edu.au
The venue is within walking distance of Darling Harbour, Chinatown, and Paddy’s
Markets, and a short bus trip, or scenic ferry ride, from many of Sydney’s other
icons such as the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, The Rocks, and Circular Quay.
A highlight will be the conference dinner to be held during a cruise on beautiful
Sydney Harbour. There is also a Welcome Reception on the Sunday evening, and
an Informal Restaurant Evening.
EMAC is organised by the Engineering Mathematics Group, a special interest
group with the Australian and New Zealand Industrial & Applied Mathematics
Division of the Australian Mathematical Society. The meeting is held biennially.
Postgraduate students are especially encouraged to participate, and there is a prize
for the best research paper presented by a student.
Conference topics range broadly over engineering mathematics, statistics and OR
and applications, including engineering mathematics education. Full papers are
submitted after the conference for full peer review and publication in a special
part of the Electronic Supplement of the ANZIAM Journal.
The 35th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and
Combinatorial Computing (ACCMCC)
Date: 5–9 December 2011
Venue: Monash University, Melbourne
Web:
users.monash.edu.au/
∼
accmcc/
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12th Asian Logic Conference
Date: 15–20 December 2011
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington
Web:
msor.victoria.ac.nz/Events/ALC2011
MISG 2012
Date: 5–10 February 2012
Venue: RMIT University
Web:
www.rmit.edu.au/maths/misg
The 2012 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group will be hosted
by RMIT University, Melbourne, from Sunday 5 February to Friday 10 February
2012.
You are invited to participate in this Workshop.
Registration (free) will be available later in the year.
Conference and MAGMA Workshop on
‘Symmetries of Discrete Objects’
Date: 13–17 February 2012
Venue: Rydges Lakeland Resort Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand
Web:
www.math.auckland.ac.nz/
∼
conder/SODO-2012/
Contact: Marston Conder (
m.conder@auckland.ac.nz
)
This event will be a combination of a research conference on symmetries of dis-
crete objects (such as graphs, maps/dessins, polytopes, Riemann surfaces and
other complexes), and a Magma workshop, including some instructional courses
(well suited for graduate students) on the Magma package and its capabilities
(especially for handling discrete structures and their automorphisms).
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working in various inter-
related fields, introduce their approaches and discoveries to one another, and to
promote joint research in and between these fields. To achieve this we will have a
small number of keynote talks, several contributed talks, at least one open problem
session, and ample time for discussions and problem solving. Anyone with interest
in automorphisms of discrete structures is welcome to consider attending.
MCQMC 2012: Tenth International Conference on Monte Carlo and
Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing
Date: 13–17 February 2012
Venue: Sydney
Web:
www.mcqmc2012.unsw.edu.au
Contact: Ian H. Sloan, Frances Y. Kuo, Josef Dick, Gareth Peters
(
mcqmc2012@unsw.edu.au
)
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MTNS 2012: 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory
of Networks and Systems
Date: 9–13 July 2012
Venue: University of Melbourne
Web:
www.mtns2012.com.au
At MTNS our prime objective is to see the beautiful mathematical structures that
underpin our understanding of networks, systems and networked systems. The
peer-reviewed conference is interdisciplinary in nature, and we welcome colleagues
from all fields to contribute to the rich discussions that are the real draw-card of
any MTNS.
Visiting mathematicians
Visitors are listed in alphabetical order and details of each visitor are presented
in the following format: name of visitor; home institution; dates of visit; principal
field of interest; principal host institution; contact for enquiries.
Ms Natalie Aisbett; The University of Melbourne; 1 February to 29 July 2011; co-
homology of real and complex varieties associated with hyperplane arrange-
ments; USN; A. Henderson
Pierre-Olivier Amblard; CNRS, France; 1 August 2010 to 28 February 2013; –;
UMB; Owen Jones
A/Prof Henrik Andersson; Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Nor-
way; 23 June to 24 July 2011; –; UMB; Heng-Soon Gan
Ms Suci Astutik; Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia; 3 October to
30 December 2011; –; UWA; Gopal Nair
Dr Ben Ayliffe; University of Exeter, UK; September 2010 to July 2011; problems
related to the formation of planets; UMN; Guillaume Liabe
Prof David Bailey; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California; 17–24 July
2011; –; UNC; Jon Borwein
Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches; –; 5 July to 5 August 2011; –; ANU; John Cossey
Prof Matthew Bate; University of Exeter, UK; September 2010 to July 2011; prob-
lems relating to the role of magnetic fields and radiation in star formation;
UMB; Daniel Price
Valery Beloshapka; Moscow State University; 25 July to 5 September 2011; –;
ANU; Alexander Isaev
Prof John Bland; University of Toronto; 16 July 2010 to 31 August 2011; analysis
and geometry; ANU; Michael Eastwood
Dr Peter Blennerhassett; University of New South Wales; 20 June to 13 July 2011;
–; UWA; –
Prof Tim Burness; University of Southampton, UK; 4–18 September 2011; groups
and combinatorics; UWA; Michael Giudici
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Toke Carlsen; University of Trondheim, Norway; 1 October to December 2011; –;
UWG; A. Sims
Paulo Carrillo Rouse; University of Toulouse; 24 July to 10 September 2011; –;
ANU; Bryan Wang
Dr Ebrima Ceesay; Booz Allen Hamilton, USA; during 2011; –; UBR; Paul Wat-
ters
Prof Stephen Chapman; Oxford University; 1 August 2010 to 1 August 2011;
mathematical modelling, methods of asymptotics; USN; N. Joshi
Jing Chen; Central South University, China; January 2011 to January 2012; –;
UWA; Cai Heng Li
Dr Florica Cirstea; University of Sydney; 14 July 2008 to 14 July 2011; applied
and nonlinear analysis; ANU; Neil Trudinger
Valentin Deaconu; University of Nevada, USA; 25 September to 23 October 2011;
–; UWG; D. Pask and A. Sims
Eugene Feinberg; Stony Brook University, New York; 17–20 July 2011; –; USA;
Vladimir Ejov
Prof Albert Ferrer; Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain; mid-2011; –; UBR;
Adil Bagirov
Piotr Hajac; Warsaw University; 19 July to 29 August 2011; –; ANU; Adam Ren-
nie
Feida Jiang; –; 1 April to 30 September 2011; –; ANU; Neil Trudinger
Alex Kumjian; University of Nevada, USA; July to December 2011; –; UWG;
D. Pask and A. Sims
Prof Juan Enrique Martinez Legaz; University of Barcelona, Spain; mid-2011; –;
UBR; Adil Bagirov
Dongsheng Li; –; 1 July to 16 September 2011; –; ANU; Xu-Jia Wang
Prof Marco Antonio Lopez; University of Alicante, Spain; mid-2011; –; UBR; Adil
Bagirov
Joel Moitsheki; University of the Witwatersrand; early October 2011; –; USA;
Bronwyn Hajek
Prof Boris Mordukhovich; Wayne State University; 21–28 July 2011; –; UNC; Jon
Borwein
Benjamin Moyon; University of Bordeaux, France; 1 March to 1 September 2011;
–; UWA; Andrew Bassom
Mark Nelson; University of Wollongong; second half 2011; –; USA; Bronwyn Hajek
Max Neunhoeffer; University of St Andrews, UK; 18 August to 16 September
2011; –; UWA; Cheryl Praeger
Dr Burak Ordin; Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; March to October 2011; –; UBR;
Adil Bagirov
Katja Sagershnig; University of Vienna; 1 May 2011 to 31 December 2012; –;
ANU; Michael Eastwood
Prof Leonidas Sakalauskas; Lithuania; mid-2011; –; UBR; Adil Bagirov
Marie Snipes; Kenyon College, Ohio; 15 June to 27 July 2011; complex analysis;
USA; Lesley Ward
Prof Oliver Stein; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; mid-2011; –; UBR; Adil
Bagirov
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Mr Hakan Tor; Turkey; May to November 2011; –; UBR; Adil Bagirov
Prof Wei Wang; Nanjing Normal University, China; during 2011; –; UBR; Paul
Watters
Dr Jinghao Xue; University College London, UK; 14 June to 6 September 2011;
–; UMB; Peter Hall
Dr Sukru Yalcinkaya; –; 1 May to 1 August 2011; –; UWA; Cheryl Praeger
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