The joint UNSW School of Mathematics/PricewaterhouseCoopers Workshop on
`Managing fraud, risk and churn - data mining in the real world', Aug 13, was successful in attracting a wide spectrum of industry professionals. Held at the PwC, Sydney, it gained considerable profile in the commercial world through a full-page ad in the Australian Financial Review, as well as by sponsorship by PwC, which provided the venue, SAS and the Institute of Analytics Professionals of
Australia. MASCOS and AMSI sponsorship made possible the attendance of postgraduate students.

The speakers - Dr Inna Kolyshkina and Richard Brookes of PwC, Jolie Reichel of SAS, and Westpac fraud expert Dr Peter O'Hanlon, brought a combination of practical experience and mathematical insight to their presentations on methods to detect fraud and predict churn in large and messy databases. The Workshop will be repeated late in the year.

The workshop was opened and participants welcomed by Scientia Professor Michael Cowling, Head of School, Mathematics, UNSW (picture, with Inna Kolyshkina)

For details, please contact A/Professor Jim Franklin, MASCOS, UNSW, (02)
9385 7093:j.franklin@unsw.edu.au