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The School of Mathematics and Statistics has more than 60 academic staff, including many research and postdoctoral fellows. The School consists of three departments: Applied Mathematics (including the Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory), Pure Mathematics and Statistics. Our research presence includes many seminars and visiting academics, and we teach approximately 2,500 students annually.

News and Events

1st PRIMA Congress
The first Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress will be held at UNSW, 6-10 July 2009

The Statistics Behind the Lottery
Dr David Warton, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of NSW analyses the stats behind Australia's biggest lottery draw.

Did maths cause the financial crisis?
James Franklin spoke on ABC Radio National on the role of mathematics in the global financial crisis

The Statistics of Climate Change
In a new study, UNSW researchers, including Dr Scott Sisson of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, increases in Australia's temperature extremes due to global climate change will not be quite as large as some have previously feared.

Statistics - Dream Job of the Next Decade
From a Keynote Presentation by Hal Varian - Chief Economist, Google, to the 2008 Almaden Institute - "Innovating with Information".

Ian Sloan AO
Scientia Professor Ian Sloan has been honoured with the award of Officer of the Order of Australia

Quantitative Risk major
The School offers a major in Quantitative Risk, for intending specialists in risk for banking and finance