First in Australia for Educational Partnership with Google

School members are the only Australian educators to win the honour of being YouTube Partners in Education.

Two members of the School, Dr Chris Tisdell and A/Prof Norman Wildberger, have formed educational partnerships with internet giant Google, invited to become “YouTube Partners in Education”. Such a partnership enables innovative and wide-ranging advancements in the creation and sharing of online learning videos.

Degrees and Courses

Since 2005, the School has taught a second-year course on Data Management for Statistical Analysis, sponsored by SAS. SAS awarded the School a major international prize for the venture.

SAS and the CBA are sponsors of Australia's first degree program in Quantitative Risk. SAS announced an industry-linked scholarship for the QR program, which began in 2009. CBA and SAS also sponsor the School's second-year course on Quantitative Risk and the summer internship program associated with the course.

From 2007, UNSW's Master of Financial Mathematics degree has been delivering top quality education to provide students with a path to high-level careers in the financial industry.

Prizes

The following industry sponsored prizes are awarded to students within the School:

• The SAS Institute Australia Prize - For the student with the best performance in MATH2871 Data Management for Statistical Analysis.
• The Westpac Prize - For the student with the best performance in MATH2831 Linear Models or MATH2931 Higher Linear Models.
• The Weatherzone Prize (two prizes) - For the second year student with the best performance in MATH2241 Introduction to Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, and the third year student with the best performance in MATH3261 Fluids, Oceans and Climate. 

Scholarships

• Boronia Managed Funds and QRSLab:

In collaboration with members of the research team at Boronia Managed Funds Pty Ltd., a series of different algorithmic trading, state-space modelling and time series modelling is undertaken in the context of applied finance and econometrics. A QRSLab and Boronia Managed Funds PhD scholarship has been awarded to PhD candidate and member of the laboratory, Kylie-Anne Richards, under the supervision of Prof William Dunsmuir and Dr Gareth Peters.

• CSIRO and QRSLab:

Financial Risk: Joint PhD top-up scholarships are available for suitable Australian Postgraduate Award recipients to work with the supervision of members of the QRSLab and the Quantitative Risk Management in CSIRO group, supervised by Dr Gareth Peters and Dr Pavel Shevchenko.

Ecological Modelling and Monitoring: Joint PhD top-up scholarships are available for suitable Australian Postgraduate Award recipients to work with the supervision of members of the QRSLab and the Quantitative Risk Management in CSIRO group, supervised by Dr Gareth Peters and Dr Keith Hayes, Dr Geoff Hosack and Dr Jeffrey Danbacher.