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15 April 2008 - Mathematics Schools Program
The International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics (ICE-EM) has prepared a full set of mathematics textbooks, teacher resource materials and professional development for Upper Primary.....


14 April 2008 - Success in undergraduate modelling contest
A team from the School has achieved a 'Meritorious' result in the 2008 COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling


29 February 2008 - Lecturer B Position Available in the UNSW Department of Statistics
A position is availible in the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics for a Level B Lecturer in Statistics.


25 February 2008 - MyCareer lead article on jobs in mathematics
Three UNSW maths grads were featured in an SMH article on careers in mathematics, Feb 23


12 February 2008 - Seminar on Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications
Professor Michael Roeckner is one of the most accomplished specialists in the theory of stochastic ordinary and partial differential equations and their applications in Physics. He will be conducting .....


07 February 2008 - LIMIT THEOREM FOR MULTIVALUED STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Jiagang Ren of Zhongshan University will be delivering a seminar on stochastic differential equations and applications.


21 January 2008 - Mathematical Physicist Professor Sir Michael Berry Conducts Seminar at UNSW
Professor Sir Michael Berry is one of the most accomplished mathematical physicists of our times. He will be conducting a seminar on "Hamilton's Diabolical Singularity" on 31st January, 2008.


18 January 2008 - New BSc (Advanced Mathematics) degree
From 2008 the School offers a new degree for highflying specialists in mathematics and statistics


07 January 2008 - Postgrad at UNSW
Looking for outstanding industry-related PG courses in maths and stats?


03 December 2007 - School teachers actively involved in short course
54 mathematics teachers attended the School's Professional Development Short Course


20 November 2007 - ARC and NHMRC grants success
The School has again been successful in major grants


16 November 2007 - UNSW student at Canadian Maths Modelling Camp
UNSW student Ognjen Stancevic visited Edmonton for the Graduate Industrial Maths Modelling Camp


14 November 2007 - Visit of Romesh Silva
Alumnus Romesh Silva, human rights statistician, spoke to the MATH1000 class on his work


14 November 2007 - The School on Video
There are several videos on the School's work


09 November 2007 - UNSW Mathematics Among the Best in the World - Updated!
Science Watch in 2002 published rankings of Mathematics Departments from all over the world, based on quantity (total number of citations) and quality (impact made by papers). UNSW School of Mathemati.....


07 November 2007 - Research Associate positions in statistics
There are RA positions in Bayesian methods & climate extremes, flow cytometric data, electronic prescribing systems


05 November 2007 - Maths, the passport to full employment
The SMH, Nov 5, reported on the range of careers in maths, with comments from four UNSW mathematicians


30 October 2007 - Proper Actions in Complex Geometry
A/Prof. Alexander Isaev, ANU, specialising in Bioinformatics and Complex Manifolds, will speak on "Proper Actions in Complex Geometry". A/Prof. Alexander Isaev is an internationally recognise.....


29 October 2007 - Former tutor appointed principal
Tom Batty, former tutor in the School, has been appointed principal of Scotch College, Hawthorn


16 October 2007 - Teaching Fellow Position
Experienced school teachers are invited to apply for a visiting teaching fellowship for 2008


16 October 2007 - Vacation Scholarships in Mathematics and Statistics
The School is pleased to invite third year prospective Honours students to apply for a UNSW Vacation Scholarship in Mathematics and Statistics.


27 September 2007 - The School in Wikipedia
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia features several members of the School


26 September 2007 - GRADUATE POSITIONS ADVERTISED IN OPTIVER
Graduate positions are currently being advertised by Optiver and an information session will be held on 2nd October, 2007 at 5pm in RC 4082.


26 September 2007 - Industry Seeking UNSW Graduates and Interns
There will be two information sessions held at UNSW for students seeking graduate jobs or internships.


26 September 2007 - Summer Internships at NAB
National Australia Bank is looking for students to take on a summer internship within their organisation.


21 September 2007 - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Position in Statistics
The School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified person to the position of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Statistics.


19 September 2007 - Mathematics and imagination
In a letter in the Australian's Higher Ed Supplement, James Franklin discusses imagination and mathematical proof


18 September 2007 - Duality, Vector Advection and Navier-Stokes Equations
Discussion of some properties of vector advection equations.


13 September 2007 - APA topups
The School tops up all Australian Postgraduate Awards by $5000


04 September 2007 - Cayley Transform and Stability of Approximations
The Department of Pure Mathematics has invited Prof. Sergey Piskarev to discuss Cayley Transform and Stability of Approximations.


01 September 2007 - Postgrad Expo, 11 Oct 2007
Looking for outstanding industry-related PG courses?


30 August 2007 - Robust Small Sample Accurate Inference in Moment Condition Models
Seringe Lo will be discussing a new alternative procedure which combines both robustness properties and accuracy in small samples.


23 August 2007 - Master of Financial Mathematics
The School introduced a new Masters program in Financial Mathematics in 2007


23 August 2007 - Lunch for UNSW Women in Mathematics
There will be a lunch for women in Mathematics on Tuesday, August 28 (week 6), from 12 - 2pm.


17 August 2007 - The Alma Douglas Scholarship
The Alma Douglas Scholarship was established to encourage students to undertake full-time study of Bachelor of Science with a major in Statistics.


13 August 2007 - Mathematics answers important AIDS questions
UNSW mathematician Dr John Murray and PhD student Greg Londish presented research at the international AIDS Conference


13 August 2007 - Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Climate Researcher
Federation Fellow Matthew England has been awarded the medal for outstanding research in Earth Sciences


03 August 2007 - Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Biostatistics
There is a position available with the Injury Risk Management Centre, closing date 17 Aug


30 July 2007 - MASCOS postdocs
There are several postdoc positions available with the MASCOS Centre of Excellence


30 July 2007 - Statistics and the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome
UNSW statisticians have co-authored a major paper on genetics


13 July 2007 - Australian and UK Math Olympiad teams train at UNSW
The School welcomes the Australian and UK IMO teams, who are training at UNSW July 16-21


06 July 2007 - Chairs of Pure and Applied Mathematics
The School invites applications for Professors of Pure and of Applied Mathematics, closing date Sept 7


03 July 2007 - Goodness of Fit Testing for Errors in Non-Parametric Regression
Professor Estate Khmaladze (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) will be conducting a Statistics Seminar.


22 June 2007 - Two Risk Analysis grants to UNSW Mathematics
The new Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis has awarded two of its initial grants to UNSW


21 June 2007 - Happiness and Restraint
The Australian Higher Education Supplement printed James Franklin's contribution to the Happiness and Its Causes conference


07 June 2007 - Research Associate Position, Macquarie Bank Linkage Project
Applications are invited for a research associate position on mathematical and computational techniques for high-dimensional numerical integration with financial applications


24 May 2007 - Science of Climate Change - Debunking the Myths
Professor Matthew England gave a talk on Wednesday 23rd May, 2007.


23 May 2007 - Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Statistics
A post-doctoral fellow position is available for a water quality research project.


18 May 2007 - Extrapolation of Functional Calculus of Dirac Operators and Applications
Doctor Sergey Ajiev will give a lecture on Wedneday 23rd May, 2007.


16 May 2007 - Vacancy: Professor of Statistics
The School is advertising for a Professor of Statistics, closing date May 25


11 May 2007 - On Some Characteristics of Uniformity of Distribution and Their Applications
Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University, will speak on May 16, 2007.


04 May 2007 - Hardy Spaces of Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds
Professor Alan McIntosh is the major contributor to the evolution and solution of the Kato problem.


03 May 2007 - Hardy Spaces of Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds
read the full story ->Professor. Alan McIntosh, FAA (CMA, ANU) will give an Analysis Seminar talk on the 9th of May. He is a winner of 2002 Moyal Medal. (not mentioning the Kato problem)


24 April 2007 - Public Lectures by Professors Roger Penrose and Kip Thorne
UNSW Faculty of Science is sponsoring a public lecture by eminent British physicist and philosopher Sir Roger Penrose on the 13th of July 2007 at Darling Harbour.


17 April 2007 - Mathematical theory comes to market
Macquarie Bank and UNSW have joined in a Linkage Grant to apply quasimontecarlo methods to value complex financial products


12 April 2007 - Max Kelly obituary
The SMH has run an obituary of Max Kelly, Professor of Pure Mathematics at UNSW 1967-72


28 March 2007 - UNSW Maths alumnus named Flinders VC
Michael Barber, a UNSW applied mathematics graduate, has been named Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University


23 March 2007 - Ian Sloan on Australian mathematics crisis
UNSW Scientia Professor Ian Sloan was reported in The Age on the critical condition of Australian mathematics


21 March 2007 - Leading climate expert joins CEDL
The Australian reported that Andy Pitman will join the Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory


01 March 2007 - Complex Systems Beyond the Metaphor
A one-week course on the mathematics of Complex Systems was held at UNSW, Feb 5-9 2007


28 February 2007 - Dunsmuir on statistics crisis
Writing in The Australian of 28 Feb, UNSW Professor of Statistics William Dunsmuir described the worsening crisis in mathematics and statistics


21 February 2007 - Research Associate position (P/T) in philosophy of mathematics
The position will work on realist philosophy of mathematics


13 February 2007 - Water resources management grant with Sydney Catchment Authority
A group of researchers from the UNSW School of Safety Science and the Department of Statistics were awarded the first stage of a collaborative research grant, by the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA).


22 January 2007 - Research Associate Position in Global Optimization
The position will work on problems in global non-convex continuous optimization


06 December 2006 - Postdoctoral Fellow Position in "Numerical Ergodic Theory with Applications in Ocean Dynamics"
A fixed term research position is available in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, initially for two years.


05 December 2006 - "Minus times minus equals plus/The reason for this we need not discuss"
So where to start to understand what mathematics is really about? Try symmetry


30 November 2006 - UNSW statistics postgrad wins J.B. Douglas award
John Ormerod, PhD student in statistics, is a joint winner of the 2006 award


13 November 2006 - Girls Do The Maths Scholarship
New scholarship is available to female high school students who are currently undertaking the HSC (or equivalent) and proposing to undertake a full-time study at UNSW, with a major or study plan in Ma.....


10 November 2006 - Vacation Scholarships Summer 2006 - 2007
Applications are invited from undergraduates wishing to take part in research activities in the School during the summer vacation.


02 November 2006 - Ramanujan: The Film
Mike Hirschhorn was interviewed on ABC Radio National on the new film on Ramanujan


30 October 2006 - ARC Discovery Grants success
The School has again been successful in the new round of ARC Discovery Grants




26 October 2006 - Mascos Top-up Scholarships
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) offers generous top-up scholarships for PhD students in the areas of the Centre's interests.


25 October 2006 - Join undergraduate team for modelling contest?
Undergraduates are sought for the School's team in the international COMAP mathematical modeling contest, Feb 2007


19 October 2006 - Master of Biostatistics
The new Masters program in Biostatistics will begin in 2007


13 October 2006 - Terry Tao awarded Fields Medal
A Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent of a Nobel Prize, has been awarded to Terry Tao, former Visiting Professor at UNSW


28 September 2006 - New $1000 Prize for Third Year Statistics Course
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has donated a student prize for MATH3831


12 September 2006 - Undergraduate Scholarships offered in 2007
Undergraduate scholarships offered by the School of Mathematics and Statistics for the academic year 2007


23 August 2006 - Eureka Prize to Matthew England and colleagues
Matthew England and Alex Sen Gupta of CEDL, with Michael Dawson, have won the 2006 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research


09 August 2006 - Analysis seminar
The UNSW analysis seminar series has restarted and will be held on Wednesdays at 12 noon in RC 4082.


09 August 2006 - POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position (up to 3 years)


01 August 2006 - Risk Breakfast, Sydney July 25
MASCOS and AMSI sponsored a breakfast seminar for industry on risk


28 July 2006 - Linkage Grant with Macquarie Bank
Ian Sloan and associates have won an ARC Linkage grant to apply mathematical methods to valuing innovative financial products


20 June 2006 - SAS Academic Intelligence award to UNSW Mathematics
SAS has presented its leading annual international award for academic collaboration to UNSW


20 June 2006 - Analysis Seminar - A counter example to the finite extension conjecture
Analysis Seminar has re-started from Wednesday 12.00 noon in RC-4082


12 May 2006 - Best paper award to postdoctoral fellow
The Journal of Complexity has named a paper by Josef Dick best paper of 2005


04 May 2006 - First SAS Data Management course completed
High enrolments, work placements and certification exams have made the new Data Management course a remarkable success


04 May 2006 - Computerworld article on SAS-sponsored Data Management course
Computerworld, 3 May, carried an article with student comment on the School's new Data Management course


10 March 2006 - UNSW Maths Students Have 'Big Day In'
Vacation scholars visited CSIRO's Big Day In event


03 March 2006 - Huge, wet and mysterious: new climate study probes the world's largest ocean current
Matthew England will study the influence on world climate of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current


06 February 2006 - Join undergraduate team for modelling contest?
The School's team, Helen Macdonald and Wen Hui Wu, are competing in the COMAP mathematical modeling contest, Feb 2-6 2006


07 December 2005 - Workshop on Fractional Brownian Motion
will be held on 20-21 of February at UNSW


02 December 2005 - Workshop on Fractional Brownian Motion
Mathematical Theory and Applications in Finance


29 November 2005 - MATHEMATICS/MASCOS SEMINAR 25 November, 2005
Mathematics/MASCOS Seminar 25 November, 2005


28 November 2005 - ARC Discovery Grants success
The School has again been successful in ARC Discovery grants


25 November 2005 - Matthew England wins CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Fellowship
Matt England will study the influence of the Antarctic Oscillation on extreme rainfall patterns


07 November 2005 - George Szekeres (1911-2005)
The School has been saddened to learn of the death of Professor George Szekeres and his wife Esther


25 October 2005 - Positions vacant in Physical Oceanography / Climate Science
Three Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, a fixed-term Lecturer and an Administrative Assistant position are currently being advertised in the School's physical oceanography/climate science group


24 October 2005 - PhD Top-Up Scholarships and Honours Cadetship in Dynamical Systems and Mine Optimisation, $26-27000
Scholarships are available for study in the areas of Dynamical Systems, Transfer Operators and Ergodic Theory and Mine Optimisation and Valuation


17 October 2005 - 26th October Mahler Lecturer
Prof. Bruce Berndt, the 2005 Mahler Lecturer, will give a seminar in the School on Wednesday 26 October 2005.


17 October 2005 -
Girls
Do the Maths

Full Day Workshop - 26th October
Attention Young Women doing Extension 2:
Do you enjoy Maths?
Did you know that you can do maths for a living?




06 October 2005 - PhD topup scholarships in Ocean and Climate Sceinces
Up to five APA Top-Up Scholarships of $8000 p.a. (plus $2000 travel allowance) are available in ocean and climate sciences.


05 October 2005 - UNSW OCEAN AND CLIMATE SCIENCES APA TOP-UP SCHOLARSHIPS
The oceanography/meteorology and climate group at UNSW will offer up to five $8,000 top-up scholarships for successful Australian Postgraduate Award recipients starting 2006.


30 September 2005 - Scholarship in Dynamic Equations and their Applications $24 000
This scholarship will be awarded to:holders of an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or University Postgraduate Award (UPA). other students who enrol in the PhD degree in mathematics at UNSW and who .....


29 September 2005 - UNSW Statistics Seminar Series, session 2 2005
Estimators for the Shape Parameter of the Negative Binomial Distribution


29 September 2005 - Regular topups for APA scholarship holders
The School and MASCOS offer generous topups to APA scholarships


14 September 2005 - PhD Top-Up Scholarship in Mine Optimisation and Valuation
A PhD APA Top-Up Scholarship of $7000 p.a. (plus $2000 travel allowance p.a.) is available for 3 years in the area of Mine Optimisation and Valuation. Total value with APA of around $28000 p.a. tax f.....


12 September 2005 - ICE - EM/AMSI Vacation Scholarships Summer 2005/06
ICE - EM/AMSI Vacation Scholarships Summer 2005/06




07 September 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar September 8th 2005
Mathematical and CFD modelling of a motor powered by latent heat of condensation




01 September 2005 - Gravity Currents Seminar
Professor Marius Ungarish holds The George Farkas Chair in Computer Science at The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


25 August 2005 - James Franklin wins Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics
The 2005 Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics ($10,000) has been awarded to James Franklin


16 August 2005 - Three International Linkage Grants
ARC International Linkage Grants have been awarded to three of the School's applied mathematicians


09 August 2005 - WWII Japanese code secrets
Peter Donovan has investigated the role of mathematics in WWII codebreaking


02 August 2005 - Visiting Teaching Fellow
Schoolteachers may apply for Visiting Teaching Fellow for 2006


02 August 2005 - Statistics Seminar 3rd August 2005
Proteomics and statistics: will the twain ever meet?




13 July 2005 - The "Sydney School" in the philosophy of mathematics
The Australian reported on the launch of the Sydney School in the philosophy of mathematics


27 June 2005 - special statistics seminar, 1st July 1pm RC-3084
Dr. Nial Friel from University of Glasgow will talk about "Marginal likelihoods via power posteriors"


24 June 2005 - Mine optimization Linkage Grant
Gary Froyland heads a team awarded an ARC Linkage Grant for improving open pit mine operations


23 June 2005 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR ON FRIDAY THE 24 OF JUNE 2005
Venta Terauds will talk about "Functional Calculus Extended"


22 June 2005 - Ian Sloan wins 2005 Information-Based Complexity Prize
Scientia Professor Ian Sloan has won the 2005 Information-Based Complexity Prize


16 June 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
Abrupt climatic change: are the Pentagon and Hollywood right?


16 June 2005 - STATISTICS SEMINAR - 24TH JUNE
Locally efficient semiparametric estimators for functional measurement error models


16 June 2005 - PURE SEMINAR
The "Sydney School" in the philosophy of mathematics


15 June 2005 - Matthew England awarded Federation Fellowship
Climate researcher Matthew England has been awarded a Federation Fellowship, Australia's most prestigious academic position








08 June 2005 - Maths Research Students to attend MSRI Summer School in July
Maths Research Students to attend MSRI Summer School in July


03 June 2005 - A Day in Our Life ...
Science Communication students tracked the day of four UNSW mathematicians


31 May 2005 - School of Mathematics 2004 Prize Winners
Attached are the photo's and list of the 2004 Mathematics Prize Winners.


31 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY THE 7TH OF JUNE 2005
Prof Rajesh Kulkarni from Michigan State University will talk about "Down-Up algebras are maximal orders at roots of unity"


25 May 2005 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR ON THURSDAY THE 26TH OF MAY
Rupert McCallum will talk about "A generalization of the fundamental theorem of projective geometry"


24 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY THE 31ST OF MAY 2005
Dr. Teresa Bates will talk about "C*-algebras of labelled graphs"


20 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS JOINT COLLOQUIUM ON FRIDAY THE 27 MAY 2005
Prof. Vladimir Pestov from University of Ottawa will talk about "Geometry, dynamics, and combinatorics of infinite-dimensional groups of transformations"


17 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY THE 17TH MAY 2005
In this lecture, I give combinatorial proofs of all of your favorite theorems from number theory, including Fermat's little theorem Wilson's theorem Lucas' Theorem for finding {n choose k} (mod p) Fi.....


17 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY THE 24 TH MAY 2005
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Kress (UNSW) Title: Superintegrable systems Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2005 Time: 2:00 pm Venue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSW


16 May 2005 - Statistics Seminar on Monday the 16th May 2005
Professor Brajendra Sutradhar will talk about "Penalized versus Generalized Quasi-likelihood Inference in GLMM"


16 May 2005 - UNSW stories in Australian Math Soc Gazette
Stories from UNSW dominate the May 2005 issue of the Australian Mathematical Society Gazette


13 May 2005 - Pure Mathematics Joint Colloquium on Friday the 20th of May 2005
Dr. Raimundas Vidunas from Kyushu University will talk about "Algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric series "


09 May 2005 - DEPARTMENT OF PURE MATHEMATICS
Classifying noncommutative algebraic surfaces


09 May 2005 - Art Benjamin's Mathemagics show
Visitor Art Benjamin wowed a large crowd at his Mathemagics lightning calculation show


03 May 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar on Thursday 12 May 2005
A/Professor Stephen Joe will talk about "Constructing lattice rules with good bounds on the weighted star discrepancy"


03 May 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY 10 MAY 2005
Prof. Colin Ingalls will talk about "Classifying noncommutative algebraic surfaces"


02 May 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
Professor George Veronis will talk about "Thermohaline circulation in a two-layer model with sloping boundaries"


02 May 2005 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR
A PROBLEM IN THE STABILITY OF PERIODIC SYSTEMS


28 April 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Astrid an Huef will talk about "Strength of convergence in the orbit space of a transformation group"


28 April 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS JOINT COLLOQUIUM
A/Prof. Finnur Larusson will talk about "Abstract homotopy theory in complex analysis and geometry"


28 April 2005 - SAS-sponsored Data Management course
Enrolments are invited in the new 2nd year course MATH2871 Data Management, sponsored by SAS


27 April 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar - May 5th 2005
Nonlinear waves, integrability and boomerons


27 April 2005 - Detection of local features using Fourier information
Detection of local features using Fourier information


22 April 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar
Professor Liqun Qi will talk about "Eigenvalues of Tensors and Their Applications"


21 April 2005 - Statistics Seminar
Dr David Leslie will talk about "Semi-parametric regression with Dirichlet process mixture models"


19 April 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Nicholas Cavenagh will talk about "Latin squares and critical sets"


19 April 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
A/Prof. Steve Kaliszewski will talk about "Covariant representations of Hecke algebras "


13 April 2005 - Applied Mathematics/MASCOS Seminar
Polygon enumeration and singularity analysis of high order ODEs


06 April 2005 - Optimization: how industry can learn from the German and Australian experience
German optimization expert Martin Groetschel led a seminar on industrially applied optimization, Feb 8.


05 April 2005 - Pure Department Seminar on 12 April 2005
Robinson-Schensted Algorithm and Vogan Equivalence




04 April 2005 - Statistics Seminar
NONPARAMETRIC RISK MANAGEMENT WITH GENERALIZED HYPERBOLIC DISTRIBUTIONS


31 March 2005 - Statistics Seminar
Statistical analysis of hedonice price model: a non-identifiable inverse problem


30 March 2005 - Applied Mathematics
Galerkin Methods in Machine Learning


30 March 2005 - Radiative Forcing of Climate Change by Aerosols:
Radiative Forcing of Climate Change by Aerosols


29 March 2005 - Deformation quantisation in algebra
Speaker Graeme Segal (University of Oxford)


22 March 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
Stirring in the East Australia Current and Tasman Sea






22 March 2005 - Pure Mathematics
Boundedness of solutions to nonlinear dynamic systems


21 March 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar
Compound solitons and compactons in systems with large-scale dispersion




17 March 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS
A discrete homotopy theory for graphs and its relation to subspace arrangements


15 March 2005 - WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE FOR FORENSIC DNA PROFILES
Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles


15 March 2005 - STATISTICS sEMINAR
GARCH Modelling of Term Structure of Interest Rates


10 March 2005 - Applied Mathematics/MASCOS Seminar
Optimal Recovery of Multivariate Functions: From Theory Applications






09 March 2005 - DEPARTMENT OF PURE MATHEMATICS
Large girth regular graphs versus random regular graphs








07 March 2005 - MASCOS SEMINAR - Solving Transportation Problems by Integer Programming
Transportation problems occuring in practice (such as: public mass transport by bus, train, or plane (including driver assignment and vehicle circulation), dial-a-ride, track routing, scheduling of se.....


04 March 2005 - Largest known prime: local comment
UNSW mathematicians comment on the discovery of the latest Mersenne prime


04 March 2005 - MASCOS SEMINAR
workshop on Markov chains


03 March 2005 - Wavelets for hearing and an uncertainty relation for the affine group
Wavelets for hearing and an uncertainty relation for the affine group




03 March 2005 - DEPARTMENT OF PURE MATHEMATICS
Large girth regular graphs versus random regular graphs


03 March 2005 - Statistics Seminar
Machine Learning with Indefinite Kernels




22 February 2005 - Applied Mathematics Seminar
Good interpolation schemes, Fekete and Leja points




17 February 2005 - Short Course in Statistics
The Statistical Methods for Research Workers will run again commencing Tuesday April 12th, 2005. This 7 week course to reintroduce research workers to the joys of statistics has run on demand for the .....


16 February 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS
Some recent contributions to the theory of partitions


15 February 2005 - Five ARC research associate positions available
The School has five research associate positions open.


11 February 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
Abrupt climatic change: are the Pentagon and Hollywood right?


11 February 2005 - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Generalised notions of amenability for Banach algebras


09 February 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Abrupt climatic change: are the Pentagon and Hollywood right


07 February 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005


28 January 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
Professor Oleg Saenko "The effect of the topography-enhanced mixing on the ocean circulation and climate" Tuesday 8th February, 11 a.m. - 12 noon


28 January 2005 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES 2005
"Southern Ocean: control of the global ocean circulation and projected changes"


27 January 2005 - Lease Square Kernel Machines for Semiparametric Regression in Microarray Pathway Analysis and Their
Lease Square Kernel Machines for Semiparametric Regression in Microarray Pathway Analysis and Their Connections with Linear Mixed Models


20 January 2005 - Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics
Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Markov Chain Monte Carlo. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 7 - 8 July 2005


23 December 2004 - NEW FOR 2005 - an Advanced Mathematics Plan in Advanced Science
NEW FOR 2005 - an Advanced Mathematics Plan in Advanced Science


16 December 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
So what's new in boundary-layer theory?


16 December 2004 - Statistical Soc award to Shuling Chen
The Statistical Society of Australia has given PhD student Shuling Chen an award for research excellence


06 December 2004 - Reflections on 2004 and a Snap Shot of the New Mathematics
Reflections on 2004 and a Snap Shot of the New Mathematics Syllabuses in NSW


03 December 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Inviscid 2D fluids, statistical equilibria, sinh-Poisson equation and 'vortex solitons'


01 December 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Inviscid 2D fluids, statistical equilibria, sinh-Poisson equation and 'vortex solitons'




24 November 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Professor Robert Conte will be talking on "Completeness of the time-independent Hénon-Heiles Hamilto


24 November 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON 25 NOVEMBER 2004
Professor Robert Conte will be talking on "Completeness of the time-independent Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonians"


24 November 2004 - ARC Discovery Grants success
The School has again been very successful in the new round of ARC Discovery Grants


23 November 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON 25 NOVEMBER 2004
Professor Robert Conte will be talking on "Completeness of the time-independent Hénon-Heiles Hamilto






08 November 2004 - Satellite Conference on Continuous Optimization
Satellite Conference on Continuous Optimization


05 November 2004 - Satellite Conference on Continuous Optimization
Satellite Conference on Continuous Optimization








29 October 2004 - UNSW Mathematical Biology Project Workshop
Date: Week of 15-19 of November, 2004 A workshop for mathematical biology projects at UNSW will be held over the week of 15-19 November, 2004. University staff and graduate students are invited to par.....




















15 October 2004 - Statistics Seminar, Wednesday 20th October
Dr Boris Choy will be talking on "SCALE MIXTURES DISTRIBUTIONS, BAYESIAN ROBUSTNESS AND MCMC "


14 October 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS/MASCOS SEMINAR
Complexity and Modeling the Dynamics and Evolution of Business




08 October 2004 - PURE HONOURS SEMINAR
Mean Curvature Flow in the Heisenberg Group


07 October 2004 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR
Periodic Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales


07 October 2004 - JOINT COLLOQUIUM
The Joint Colloquium on Friday 24/09/2004 will be given by Professor Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria, Canada).


06 October 2004 - Continued success for Clio Cresswell's Mathematics and Sex
Clio's book Mathematics and Sex was featured in the Toronto Sun and nominated for a Queensland Premier's Award.


30 September 2004 - JOINT COLLOQUIUM
Nonparametric methods for deconvolving multiperiodic functions


29 September 2004 - Matt Wand's Faculty Seminar: The Data Explosion
Professor Matt Wand gave a Faculty seminar on semiparametric regression and its use in coping with the flood of data in business, medicine and elsewhere.


24 September 2004 - Statistics Seminar on Wednesday 6th October 2004
This seminar consists of two short talks Title 1: IDENTIFYING SENSITIVITY CHANGES BETWEEN EXPLOSIVE BATCHES Title 2: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR SYSTEMS RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATIN AND .....


23 September 2004 - Chris Barnes' "Mathematical Odyssey" in complex systems
Dr Chris Barnes of Complex Systems Solutions gave a Pure Maths/MASCOS seminar on his approach to modelling complex systems, illustrated with problems in hydrology and the scheduling of telco repair jo.....


23 September 2004 - Analysis Seminar on Wednesday 29 September 2004
Professor Ruyun Ma (Northwest Normal University, China) will be talking on "Multi-Point Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary Differential"


20 September 2004 - Pure Seminar
Group actions on non-locally finite graphs


20 September 2004 - ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Some geometric properties of function spaces and their applications


17 September 2004 - Statistics Seminar
DUAL-RATE SAMPLING IN WAVELET ESTIMATION


16 September 2004 - Industrial Fellow uses mathematics to improve paper manufacturing
David Shteinman, MASCOS industrial fellow, is collaborating with the School in the design of experiments to improve his paper manufacturing process.


16 September 2004 - UNSW/PricewaterhouseCoopers Data Mining Workshop
The School of Mathematics and PwC held a successful workshop on `Managing fraud, risk and churn - data mining in the real world', Aug 13.


14 September 2004 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR
A partition of the unit sphere S^d with equal measure and small diameter




10 September 2004 - Statistics Seminar on Wednesday 15th September 2004
Professor Kanta Naito will be talking on Semiparametric Smoothing, Data Shappening, and Least Square Boosting


09 September 2004 - Vacation Scholarships in Mathematics
The School of Mathematics at The University of New South Wales invites applications from undergraduate students wishing to take part in research activites in the School during the summer vacation 2004.....


08 September 2004 - OCEANOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES
Atmospheric Chemistry and the Biosphere - A Walk-through to Tropospheric Chemical Composition


08 September 2004 - COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARA
Partial differential equations on spheres have many applications in weather forecasting, geography and meteorology. In this talk, I will outline methods of approximation and error estimates in the L^2.....


07 September 2004 - Applied Mathematics Seminar on Thursday the 9th September 2004
Professor Maurice Kleman will be talking on Liquid crystals defects: geometric aspects


07 September 2004 - Pure Math Department Seminar on Tuesday the 27th of July 2004
Prof Steve Kaliszewski from Arizona State University will be talking on `(A) Symmetric Imprimitivity and "Hash-Product" graphs' on the 27th of July at UNSW.


02 September 2004 - ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Partial differential equations on spheres have many applications in weather forecasting, geography and meteorology. In this talk, I will outline methods of approximation and error estimates in the L^2.....


31 August 2004 - COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Least Squares Methods for Transmission Problems with FEM and BEM


31 August 2004 - ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Partial differential equations on spheres have many applications in weather forecasting, geography and meteorology. In this talk, I will outline methods of approximation and error estimates in the L^2.....


30 August 2004 - POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR
Abstract:Darboux proved that any bijective map of the plane to the plane which respects collinearity is affine (i.e. is a translation composed with a linear map). A similar theorem holds for maps def.....


26 August 2004 - One Day Workshop in Data Mining
PricewaterhouseCoopers and UNSW Mathematics held a successful one day data mining fraud, risk and churn - data mining in the real world'. [[bold||A repeat of the workshop is planned for Novemeber]]


25 August 2004 - School of Mathematics Launches New Web Site
The School of Mathematics now has an exciting new website that takes advantage of the latest in content management technology.


25 August 2004 - ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Critical dimension: an approach to non-singular entropy


25 August 2004 - COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Least Squares Methods for Transmission Problems with FEM and BEM


20 August 2004 - Data Mining Workshop
PricewaterhouseCoopers and UNSW Mathematics held a successful one day data mining fraud, risk and churn - data mining in the real world'. A repeat of the workshop is planned for Novemeber 2004.


20 August 2004 - JOINT COLLOQUIUM
Analysis of group structures induced by uniform homeomorphisms


20 August 2004 - A Mathematical Mind is a Beautiful Mind
Mathematics combines the beautiful and the useful in a way no other discipline does, according to James Franklin's ABC Radio National talk.


20 August 2004 - Pure Mathematics Seminar
Foundations of Universal Geometry


12 August 2004 - APPLIED MATHEMATICS/MASCOS SEMINAR
David Shteinman is a UNSW Industrial Engineering graduate. He is Managing Director of Stamen Paper Pty Ltd which makes industrial and consumer packaging. He is now spending one or two days per week.....


02 August 2004 - Statistics Seminar Wednesday 4th August 2004
I shall start by briefly discussing some statistical problems related to mapping the brain, both the cerebrum (the brain) and the cerebral cortex, (the brain surface). The next step will be to convin.....


02 August 2004 - Pure Mathemetics 3/08/04
Speaker: Prof Luca Capogna (University of Arkansas) Title: Mean Curvature Flow in the Heisenberg Group Date: Tuesday 3rd August 2004 Time: 2:00 pm Venue: RC-3084, The Red Centre, UNSW Ab.....


29 July 2004 - UNSW says Goodbye to George
On Monday 5 July 2004, the Vice-Chancellor joined the School of Mathematics at an afternoon tea to say farewell to George Szekeres. George and Esther are going to live in Adelaide to be closer to the.....


27 July 2004 - Statistics Department Seminar
Dr Paul Yip from the University of Hong Kong will talk about "Estimating the time varying fatality rate of an emerging epidemic: An application to SARS outbreak in Hong Kong "


27 July 2004 - Statistics Department Seminar
Dr Frances Kuo will talk about the high dimensional integrals occur in a variety of areas such as quantum mechanics, statistics and mathematical finance.


19 July 2004 - Mathematics Student Gets Perfect Score on Algorithms
Maths PhD student Alexandre Mah is the first person in the world to have achieved a perfect score in the first round of Microsoft's Imagine Cup algorithm competition.


19 July 2004 - ARC Discovery Grants
The School was awarded five ARC Discovery grants for 2004-6.


19 July 2004 - ASA Fellowship honours for William Dunsmuir
Professor William Dunsmuir in the Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics has been honoured in his selection as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. This high honour, awarded to l.....


19 July 2004 - Mathematics Working to Prevent Heart Attacks
Local Mathematician Adelle Coster is looking at the mathematics associated with heart attacks.


19 July 2004 - Nelson announces Centre of Excellence in Maths Education
Speaking at the first day of the AMSI Summer School at UNSW on 27 Jan, Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson announced $7.8M funding for a new Centre of Excellence in Mathematics Education. The Ce.....


19 July 2004 - Maths Key to Emotions in Music
A collaboration between Dr Emery Schubert of the School of Music and time series expert Prof William Dunsmuir of Mathematics aims to understand the mathematical structure of music that underpins our e.....