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  • 23rd April, 2012
    Kurt Mahler references available
    A set of articles by Kurt Mahler has been relocated to the CARMA website from SFU, containing many full-text articles.
  • 15th March, 2012
    Successful launch of Centre for Optimal Planning and Operations

    On Monday the 12th of March, 2012, the Centre for Optimal Planning and Operations (C-OPT) was officially launched in the Great Hall (Purdue Room) at the University's Callaghan Campus. The Centre is affiliated with the Priority Research Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA) and focuses on expanding industry-motivated and industry-linked research, primarily in the infrastructure, transport, and logistics sectors.

    The event included seminars by leading academic and industry experts in the area of optimisation and business analytics and was attended by representatives of many local and national companies and academics from several of the top universities in Australia.

    The programme of the launch can be found here.

  • 12th March, 2012
    AustMS conference registration open
    Registrations for the Australian Mathematical Society's annual conference, to be held at the University of Ballarat from 24th to 27th September 2012, are now open at www.ballarat.edu.au/austms2012.
  • 16th February, 2012
    Jon Borwein in Microsoft's Top 100 Authors in Mathematics
    Congratulations to Jon Borwein (very much alive), who appears in the top 100 cited mathematicians (dead or alive). Full list here.
  • 14th February, 2012
    Interview with Prof Celia Hoyles tomorrow (15 Feb 2012)

    Margaret Throsby from ABC Classic FM will be interviewing Professor Celia Hoyles live on air on Wednesday 15th February, 12:00-1:00pm AEDT. Margaret is one of Australia's most popular and admired broadcasters, with a career encompassing both radio and television.

    Professor Hoyles is the former mathematics advisor to the UK Government. She recently spoke at the AMSI national forum, Maths for the future: Keep Australia competitive, about measures employed in the UK that have improved standards, reversed teacher shortages and increased enrolments in the mathematical sciences.

    For information on how to listen in your area, visit http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/midday/.

  • 13th February, 2012
    AMSI's Maths for the future: Keep Australia competitive
    "The impact of the event was successful beyond expectation and we are looking to building upon this momentum, addressing issues that affect the education pipeline of Australia's mathematically-skilled workforce.
    Professor Geoff Prince
    Director, AMSI"
  • 10th February, 2012
    AMSI Honours Courses for 2012
    This year, AMSI is again co-ordinating a set of honours courses in mathematics. These are offered via the Access Grid by a variety of universities around Australia. For details, see their 2012 subject offerings page.
  • 1st February, 2012
    Lecturer in Mathematics vacancy
    The School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences has a vacancy for a lecturer in mathematics. Details here.
  • 30th January, 2012
    ANZIAM 2013 website
    With ANZIAM 2012 underway, the website for ANZIAM 2013, hosted by CARMA, is now live.
  • 27th January, 2012
    Convex Functions Honours Reading Course
    Starting in early March, Jon Borwein will give a reading course out of his 2010 Cambridge University Press book Convex Functions, co-authored with Jon Vanderwerff. Please let him know if you are interested in participating. Details of the book are at Contents.
  • 25th January, 2012
    A song about Alan Turing
    This year (2012) is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. Here is a song about him, written by Steve Pride, a mathematician in Glasgow.
  • 18th January, 2012
    SOPA Blackout Day
    For visitors from the US, CARMA will be (gently) participating in the SOPA Blackout Day (Jan 18th). See the effect here. Read more here, here and here (for example).
  • 5th January, 2012
    Server Issues Resolved
    Normality appears to have been restored. Any lingering issues will be dealt with over the next few days. Nice quick work, IT Services: thanks!
  • 5th January, 2012
    SERVER ISSUES
    3 Jan 2012: CARMA is currently experiencing some technical problems with its servers. Most of our web sites (eg. the ISC, DocServer and events pages) are off-line. Due to the Univerity's Christmas close-down, most of these issues will remain with us until some time next week.
  • 19th December, 2011
    CARMA Advancement and Outreach Committee
    The CARMA Advancement and Outreach Committee has been formed. Read more here. Also visit our Outreach page.
  • 17th December, 2011
    Congratulations to CARMA member Dr. Jeff Hogan
    Jeff was a winner of a 2011 Faculty of Science and IT Teaching and Learning Award.
  • 30th November, 2011
    Murray Elder Promoted to Lecturer
    Congratulations are due to Murray Elder (again!), on his promotion to lecturer. An outstanding achievement in the short time he has been with us.
  • 23rd November, 2011
    Two Billion-Step Walk on the Digits of Pi
    Fran Aragon has created a 1.55 gigapixel image (45469 by 34128 pixels) of a walk on the base-4 digits of $\pi$. You can browse it at the Gigapan website.
  • 18th November, 2011
    More ARC Outcomes
    Congratulations to Dr Murray Elder and Dr Faram Engineer. Dr Elder has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship, and Dr Engineer has been awarded an ARC Early Career Reseacher Award (DECRA). These are highly competitive schemes, with only 4 Future Fellowships and 3 DECRAs awarded University-wide. Well done to both Murray and Faram.
  • 18th November, 2011
    Millenium Prize articles in the Conversation
    AMSI is pleased to announce that the first of a series of articles on the Clay Millenium Problems has been published today in The Conversation: http://theconversation.edu.au/millenium-prize-the-navier-stokes-existence-and-uniqueness-problem-4244. The remainder will be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays (seven articles in all). AMSI was commissioned by The Conversation to produce these articles and I would like to thank Jim Denier (Navier Stokes) Hyam Rubinstein (Poincare conjecture), Arun Ram (Hodge conjecture), Daniel Delbourgo (Birch & Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture), Marcel Jackson (P vs NP), Wadim Zudilin and Ole Warnaar (Riemann hypothesis) and Michael Murray, Alan Carey and Peter Bouwknegt (Yang-Mills) and AMSI's Emma Bland for delivering these wonderful and accessible pieces.
  • 8th November, 2011
    Join the Conversation
    Borwein and Bailey are now regular contributors to The Conversation on Mathematics, Science and Society. Suggestions for topics are welcome.
  • 2nd November, 2011
    Outstanding Postgraduate (Research) Student Awards
    Congratulations to Pejman Rowshan Farzad and James Wan on being awarded a Faculty Award for Outstanding Postgraduate (Research) Student Achievement for 2011.
  • 2nd November, 2011
    Applications for Summer Scholarships in Maths Open Now
    Applications for Research in Mathematics Summer Vacation Scholarships are open until Tuesday, 15 November 2011. Details here. There are also University scholarships, which close on 17th November. Details here.
  • 2nd November, 2011
    AMSI Vacation Research Scholarships
    Congratulations to Mitchell Metcalfe and Matt Tam on being awarded AMSI Vacation Research Scholarships.
  • 2nd November, 2011
    Masters Student Book Published
    Matt Skerritt and Jon Borwein's book "An Introduction to Modern Mathematical Computing: With Maple" has been published. Read the university's press release here.
  • 2nd November, 2011
    Sebastian Ruther Wins Best Talk Award at AGIFORS
    Congratulations to Sebastian Ruther, who has just returned from the recent 51st AGIFORS symposium http://www.agifors.aero/symposium/2011/ where he won the premier award of the symposium, for "Best Contribution". This award is for the best talk overall, and the one which reflects work most likely to make a contribution to the airline industry. This is a really fantastic achievement, as he was up against some very experienced and senior speakers. His talk was entitled "Integrating aircraft routing with crew pairing and tail number assignment".
  • 1st November, 2011
    UoN Alumni Magazine Article on Laurate Prof Jon Borwein
    From the UofN's Alumni Magazine: download PDF.
  • 1st November, 2011
    2011 BH Neumann Prize: James Wan
    James Wan has been awarded the 2011 BH Neumann Prize for his talk Legendre Polynomials and Ramanujan-like series for $1/\pi$, joint research with H H Chan and Wadim Zudilin. See http://www.austms.org.au/The+Bernhard+Neumann+Prize.
  • 1st November, 2011
    Distinguished Student Author Award: Armin Straub
    The 2011 ISSAC ACM-SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award has been given to Armin Straub for his paper Special Values of Generalized Log-sine Integrals (with Jonathan Borwein). See http://www.sigsam.org/awards/index.phtml.
  • 1st November, 2011
    ANZIAM 2012: Registration and Abstract Submission Open
    The ANZIAM 2012 Conference will be held in Warrnambool, Victoria, from 29th Jan--2nd Feb, 2012. Details at ANZIAM 2012.
  • CARMA Retreat for 2011
  • The first CARMA retreat was held on 19th July, 2011. Links to presentations and posters have been added to the final agenda; you can access the PDF with embedded links here: [PDF]
  • Approbation for Applied Maths
  • Numbers add up for Newcastle research: Newcastle applied maths best in Australia. [Article]
  • School Maths Resources
  • Online math resources for students [link]
  • 1 February, 2011
  • Numbers add up for Newcastle research [Article]
  • "More than 70 per cent of the University of Newcastle's research has been rated at or above the world standard according to an independent Australian Government assessment... 'The strongest research area for the University of Newcastle relative to the Australian average is applied mathematics. This reflects our considerable recent efforts in this area with the appointment of world leading researchers and the establishment of a priority research centre,' Professor Calford said."
  • 1 January, 2011
  • Summer Vacation Scholarships 2010/2011
  • Placements in the Faculty of Science and IT Undergraduate Summer Scholarships Program in Maths for 2010/11 are as follows:

  • Theo Bendit - Prof George Willis
  • Alex Desmond - Assoc Prof Wadim Zudilin
  • Mitchell Metcalfe - Dr David Allingham
  • Alexander Muir - Prof Brian Alspach
  • Matthew Tam - Prof Jon Borwein
  • Ned Haughton - Dr Jeff Hogan
  • Henry Shearman - Assoc Prof Brailey Sims
  • Martin Jackson - Dr Hamish Waterer
  • 1 November, 2010
  • Newcastle ranks on international top cities list
  • Newcastle ranks on Lonely Planet's Top 10 Cities list in its Best in Travel 2011 guide [Link]
  • 21 October, 2010
  • Celebration of Minds!
  • On Thursday 21st Oct, "Martin Gardner's Celebration of Mind" gatherings will be taking place in over 50 cities worldwide. These independent Celebrations of Mind are in honour of what would have been the 96th birthday of Martin Gardner.

  • Things to explore at your Celebrations of Mind:
  • CoM: Ten More Explorations [Word Doc]
  • CoM: Ten Off The Shelf [Word Doc]
  • The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had [Word Doc]
  • 23 Sept, 2010
  • Faculty of Science and IT Undergraduate Summer Scholarships Program for 2010/11
  • The Faculty of Science and IT Undergraduate Summer Scholarships Program for 2010/11 is now open. '2010/11 Summer Research Topics' and brochures are downloadable from the Faculty Scholarships website. Students can apply for up-to three (3) research topics of interest in preference order online via the University scholarships website.
  • The closing date for online applications is by midnight on Friday 29th October 2010.
  • 22 Sept, 2010
  • AMSI Summer School 2011
  • The 2011 AMSI Summer School will be held from Monday 10 January to Friday 4 February 2011 in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Registration closes on 3 December.
  • For further information please check the AMSI 2011 webpages.
  • 22 Sept, 2010
  • ANZIAM 2011 Conference
  • The 2011 annual Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference will be held Sunday 30 January to Thursday 3 February 2011 at the Stamford Grand, Glenelg, South Australia.
  • For further information please check the ANZIAM 2011 webpages.
  • 23 Sept, 2010
  • MISG 2011
  • The 2011 Mathematics & Statistics in Industry Study Group (MISG2011) is to be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in early February 2011.
  • For further information please check the MISG 2011 webpages.
  • 16 August, 2010
  • New journal: International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education
  • The Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Sydney has announced a new journal, aimed at "encourag[ing] and support[ing] early career researchers and academics who are new to the education research field." Further details can be found on the journals's website.
  • 11 August, 2010
  • AMSI Scholarships Announcement
  • AMSI is offering some "Vacation Research Scholarships" for 2010/11. Details are at www.amsi.org.au/vs11.php.
  • 1 August, 2010
  • New Appointments
  • CARMA is pleased to announce two research appointments, Judy-anne Osborne (from ANU) and Francisco Aragon Artacho (from the University of Alicante). They will be starting in 2011.
  • 28 April, 2010
  • Tulane University Research Day Poster ties for first
  • A poster advertising Random Walk Integrals by Armin Straub, Jon Borwein, Dirk Nuyens and James Wan has been awarded equal-first place at Tulane University's School of Science and Engineering Research Day. Congratulations to all.
  • [DOWNLOAD THE POSTER]
  • 9 April, 2010
  • Election to the Australian Academy of Science
  • CARMA's Director, Laureate Professor Jonathan Borwein, of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Newcastle, has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
  • [ANNOUNCEMENT]
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