Call for participation and posters

The series of winter schools is designed to introduce mathematical, computational biology and bioinformatics to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and others working in the fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, complex systems analysis, and biological, chemical and medical sciences and engineering.

The talks will be given by lectures, many of whom are national and international authorities, selected for their ability to make their topic accessible to non-specialists, but at the same time exciting to those who already have some previous knowledge.

A session of posters will be held during the Winter School, as an opportunity for the students to show research results and ongoing projects. All proposals will be reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality and relevance. Prizes will be awarded for the best posters.

Important dates:
Poster proposal due: 30 May 2008
Early bird registration due: 20 June 2008

This 3-day long event will consist of invited lectures and contributed talks on mathematical and theoretical aspects of classical general relativity. The topics covered will reflect interests of the Australian GR community. This is likely to cover a broad range of exciting topics such as: computational (numerical and symbolic) relativity, singularity theorems, mass and energy definitions/theorems, classification of solutions, perturbation theory, gravitational collapse and applications of Ricci Flow and other geometric ideas to relativity.

Goals of the workshop are to:

Present recent mathematical and theoretical developments
Facilitate knowledge transfer and inspire the GR community
Promote the discipline

Computational Techniques and Applications Conference 2008

As a special event CTAC08 will also be honouring Professor Ian Sloan on his 70th birthday.

The current list of invited speakers includes:

• Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara)
• David Keyes (Columbia)
• Wolfgang Wendland (Stuttgart)
• Susanne Brenner (Louisiana State)
• Larry Forbes (Tasmania)

Dates

early-bird regⁿ: opens 13 Feb. 2008

abstracts due: 1 March 2008

The GLADE 2008 meeting on Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, and related problems.

Conference:

14–18 July, 2008

Workshop:

21–25 July, 2008

Location:

University of Auckland, NZ

AMSI invites all professionals with an interest in Water Trading & Pricing Models, Networks Modelling & Management, Demand Forecasting, Risk Management, Water Quality Monitoring, Network Optimisation and Water Economics to join colleagues in this three days event co-sponsored by AMSI, MASCOS and ICE WaRM.

XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

The Congress, ICTAM 2008, was invited by the Australian Academy of Science upon the recommendation of the Australian and New Zealand Theoretical and Applied Mechanics communities. A consortium of universities in South Australia will host the meeting, at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

9th Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport

Location:

Twin Towns Resort, Tweed Heads, NSW

Director:

Dr. John Hammond (jhammond@scu.edu.au)

Accommodation bookings:

Twin Towns Resort www.twintowns.com.au

International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks 2008

The workshop aims to foster exchange and collaboration among researchers who work in the fields of complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, networks and coupled systems, and related applications. Invited lecturers will present reviews, tutorials as well as forecasts of future research trends in related fields. A poster area will be available for attendees to discuss their works. Abstracts and presentations will be made available to all attendees at the close of the workshop.

Pre-Workshop Course
On Wednesday 1st October a course on complex networks will be run as part of this workshop. The course will include 3 international experts in the field of complex networks and will include excellent coverage of current and future research trends in this area. Places for this course are limited so participants are encouraged to register early to avoid disappointment.

Invited Speakers

• Prof Guanrong Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
• Prof Jürgen Kurths (Universität Potsdam)
• Prof Phil Pollett (University of Queensland)
• Prof Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser University)
• Prof Michael Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• Prof Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Dr Chai Wah Wu (IBM Research)

Organisers

• Professor David Hill
• Dr Jin Fan
• Mr Lachlan Blackhall

Deadlines
Deadlines for registration for the complex networks course and the workshop will close on 17th September, 2008.

7th Australia – New Zealand Mathematics Convention University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. This is a joint Australia–New Zealand meeting, incorporating the 2008 Australian Mathematics Colloquium and the 2008 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium.

Director: Rick Beatson (R.Beatson@math.canterbury.ac.nz)

Travel Grant: The Australian Mathematical Society will provide up to AUD$250 to student members of the AustMS attending the 7th Australia - New Zealand Mathematics Convention, providing they present a paper and travel from Australia. The travel grant will be paid by the AustMS upon application to the Treasurer of the AustMS.

The 4th International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The ICC is held every 10 years. This year it incorporates the annual ACCMCC meeting of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia as well as the New Zealand leg of the map conferences held annually in Slovenia/Slovakia/Arizona-Portugal/New Zealand.

Tentative list of invited speakers:

• Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
• Peter Cameron, Queen Mary College London
• Jan de Gier, University of Melbourne
• Jesus de Loera, University of California–Davis
• Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
• Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia
• Chris Rodger, Auburn University
• Paul Seymour, Princeton University
• Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
• Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
• Nick Wormald, University of Waterloo
• Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University

Contact Mark Wilson, mcw@cs.auckland.ac.nz with queries or to be placed on a mailing list of potential attendees.

Further details will appear in due course on the conference website: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/groups/theory/4ICC/

Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium

The 15th "Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium" (CATS) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, during 20–23 January 2009.

Wellington is on the southern tip of the North Island of NZ. CATS is one of the two premier annual conferences in theoretical computer science in the Asia–Pacific.

Authors are invited to submit papers that present original and unpublished research on topics including (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Complexity Theory
• Graph Theory
• Graph Algorithms and Combinatorics
• Semantics of Programming Languages
• Algorithms on Strings
• Optimisation
• Formal Program Specification and Transformation
• Computational Algebra and Geometry
• Computational Biology
• Logic and Type systems
• New Paradigms of Computation

Programme Committee Co-Chairs:

• Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
  Rod.Downey@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
• Prabhu Manyem, University of Ballarat, Australia
  manyem@ballarat.edu.au

MISG2009

The Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group, held at UOW.

ANZIAM 2009 will be held at Rydges Oasis Resort, Caloundra, Queensland. For further information see the conference website.

Program, March 1 – April 18, 2009.

• March 2–13: Instructional workshop
• March 15–20: Number theory and physics conference
• March 23 – Apr 6: Research in teams
• April 7–10: Workshop
• April 11–18: Research in teams

Recent research in mathematical physics has revealed profound connections between many subjects previously thought unrelated on the surface. The most mysterious connection at this time is perhaps to number theory. In recent years, we have witnessed, for instance, the appearances of automorphic forms (modular forms, quasimodular forms, bimodular forms, etc), motives, multi-\zeta functions and L-series, Galois representations, and the geometric Langlands program in string theory and perturbative quantum field theory.

The connections between all of these areas are still not well understood and this has led to a realization that the time is ripe to assess the implications for both number theory and physics of these apparent connections. There is a consensus from researchers working at the crossroads of number theory and physics that a longer program devoted to this topic is overdue. One of the principal aims of this ESI program is to bring together researchers from both sides, to make a serious attempt to overcome some conceptual barriers between experts and to expose the area to younger researchers. A synthesis of ideas from number theory and physics should prove to be extremely powerful. This program is aimed at enhancing the understanding of the interaction of these subjects amongst researchers from both sides.

Early career researchers are encouraged to apply for support.

Organizers

• Alan Carey
• Harald Grosse
• Dirk Kreimer
• Sylvie Paycha
• Steven Rosenberg
• Noriko Yui