CARMA supports the formation of the National Research Centre by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. CARMA will be a foundation partner in the Centre when it is launched in 2016.

# RESEARCH

CARMA renewed until 2020: read our presentation here

# EVENTS

TODAY

#### CARMA Colloquium

"Totally disconnected, locally compact groups"
Dr Colin Reid

4:00 pm, Tue, 28th Mar 2017
V205, Mathematics Building

WORKSHOP

#### Newcastle Mathematics Educators Conference 3

9:00 am, Fri, 31st Mar 2017
The Great Hall, The University of Newcastle

For details please download the NMEC III flyer. It contains registration details as well as the draft programme.

These are the events in the next 7 days. For more, see the events page.

# NEWS

#### Bishnu Lamichhane now Chair of the Computational Mathematics Group Aus

Bishnu has been elected as the new chair of ANZIAM's Computational Mathematics Group.

#### Visit by Canadian Maths Society president

Current CARMA visitor Professor Michael Bennett is one of Canada's top mathematicians and an expert in number theory, specifically in the area of Diophantine approximation. In addition ... [READ MORE]

Gavin Brown Best Paper Prize winner Professor George Willis from the University of Newcastle was recognised for his outstanding joint original research paper with Yehuda Shalom, Commens... [READ MORE]

# HIGHLIGHTS

Selected paper from DocServer
James A. MacDougall

ABSTRACT

Let $U$ be an $n$-dimensional vector space over a finite field of $q$ elements. The number of elements of $A^2 U$ of each irreduaile length is found using the isomorphism of $A^2 U$ with $H_n$ the space of $n \times n$ skew-symmetric matrices, and results due to Carlitz and MacWilliams on the number of skew-symmetric matrices of any given rank.

# MEMBERSHIP

Membership to CARMA offers many benefits and is available by invitation to all University of Newcastle academic staff. Associate membership, also by invitation, is available to external researchers and practitioners for three-year renewable terms. Associate members are expected to visit CARMA with some frequency, typically for a total of three to four weeks in a year, and to be involved in one or more ongoing research projects with CARMA members. CARMA is able to assist with the travel and living costs of such visits.