The School of Mathematics and Statistics is associated with the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia in the development of analytics (data mining). Dr Inna Kolyshkina of Westpac, the chair of IAPA, is the lecturer in the School's MStats course on Data Mining and its Business Applications ... details ... IAPA is advising the School on the development of undergraduate courses in the area.

In S2 2005, the School taught for the first time a second-year course on Data Management, sponsored by SAS ... course details ... story ... SAS awarded the School a major international prize for the venture ... story

 

SAS and the CBA are sponsoring Australia's first degree program in Quantitative Risk ... more

Ian Sloan and his computational mathematics group hold an ARC Linkage grant with Macquarie Bank's Quantitative Applications Division to research new mathematical technologies for financial valuation and risk ... News article ... more

From 2007, UNSW's new Master of Financial Mathematics degree will deliver high-level education in the area.

Also in the area of risk, the School holds two grants from the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis for work on identifying spatial and extreme risks for applications to such areas as biosecurity ... more

The Climate & Environmental Dynamics Laboratory has links with the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre on ocean and climate modelling ... story on ocean currents

CEDL works with the Environmental Protection Authority on water quality and coastal pollution ... story on atmospheric pollution.

Matthew England of CEDL has been awarded a Federation Fellowship, Australia's most prestigious academic position ... details

In conjunction with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, the School works on industrial optimization projects such as planning mine operations. Following the visit of German expert Martin Groetschel (details), there are developing projects in the scheduling of container unloading at Port Botany for Patrick Corporation. There are opportunities for PhD and honours projects; for details contact Gary Froyland. A major industry forum was held in 2005 and a workshop on mining in Chile in 2007.

Gary Froyland holds an ARC Linkage Grant for a project on mining optimization with BHP Billiton ... details

Adelle Coster, Bruce Henry and John Murray work in the area of mathematical biology. John Murray has a joint appointment with the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, holds NHMRC grants and grants with pharmaceutical companies, and provides consulting to the pharmaceutical industry on mathematical modelling. Bruce Henry works on a number of projects funded by NIH and ARC grants with the Computational Neurobiology and Imaging Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Adelle Coster has a joint appointment with the Garvan Institute for Medical Research and works on the the link between insulin receptor signalling and glucose uptake into muscle and fat cells.

There are considerable opportunities for PhD and honours projects with a number of these in collaboration with biomedical research institutes. Scholarships for PhD study may be available. For details contact Adelle, Bruce, or John.

The School also keeps in contact with industry through its adjunct appointments:

Adjunct Professor Noel Barton, of Sunoba Renewable Energy Systems

Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Johnston (jointly with Actuarial Studies), of Macquarie Bank Risk Division

Adjunct Senior Lecturer Inna Kolyshkina, of Westpac

Visiting Senior Fellow Eugene Dubossarsky, of Ernst & Young

Visiting Fellow Mark Young, of PricewaterhouseCoopers