ANZIAM
ANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) is a division of The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS). Our members are interested in applied mathematical research, mathematical applications in industry and business, and mathematics education at tertiary level.
Latest News
Clay–Mahler lecture tour for 2009
This year's Clay–Mahler Lecturer is Fields Medallist Terence Tao. Terry and two Clay lecturers, Mohammed Abouzaid and Danny Calegari, will be in Australia from mid-August till early October. They will travel to a selection of Australian universities to give talks, as well as attending the AustMS annual meeting in Adelaide.
Call for Nominations for 2010 ANZIAM Medal
A search is underway to identify nominees for the 2010 ANZIAM Medal. Nominations should be forwarded in confidence to the Chair of the Selection Panel, Professor Graeme Wake, by the end of October 2009 at g.c.wake@massey.ac.nz.
Gazette: Issue 2 (May) is online
Issue two of the Gazette in 2009 is now online.
ICM 2010, in Hyderabad – 1st announcement
GREETINGS from the Organisers of ICM 2010.
Attached is the first announcement of the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad, issued by the ICM 2010 Organizing Committee.
AMSI director sought
Prof. Xu-Jia Wang (ANU) elected to the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Xu-Jia Wang of the Australian National University has been elected to the Australian Academy of Science.
Dr Peter Jarvis is Fulbright Tasmania Scholar
The 2009 Australian Fulbright Scholars have recently been announced and I am delighted to inform you that Dr Peter Jarvis has been made Fulbright Tasmania Scholar (Senior Scholar).
Nominations sought for the 2009 AustMS Medal
The Medal Committee for the 2009 Australian Mathematical Society Medal is now seeking nominations and recommendations for possible candidates for the 2009 AustMS Medal.
Σ Prizes for Outstanding Contribution
sigma (Σ) to award two personal prizes to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics and statistics support.
Events
International Conference on Design Theory and Applications
International Conference on Design Theory and Applications
incorporating the 2nd International Workshop on Hadamard and Cocyclic Matrices and Applications
1–3 July, 2009; National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
The broad theme of the conference is all areas of design theory, especially Hadamard matrices and their generalizations. Talks dealing with (i) applications of design theory, and (ii) computational aspects of design theory, are particularly encouraged and welcome.
The conference will celebrate the 50th birthday of Dr Warwick de Launey, and his many achievements in design theory.
- Dr Víctor Álvarez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
- Professor K T Arasu (Wright State University, USA)
- Professor Peter Cameron (Queen Mary College, UK)
- Professor Rob Craigen (University of Manitoba, Canada)
- Dr Warwick de Launey (Center for Communications Research, USA)
- Dr John Dillon (National Security Agency, USA)
- Dr Dane Flannery (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
- Professor Kathy Horadam (RMIT University, Australia)
- Dr Máté Matolcsi (Alfréd Rényi Institute, Hungary)
- Professor Jennie Seberry (University of Wollongong, Australia)
- Dr Richard M. Stafford (National Security Agency, USA)
Refereed articles will be published post-proceedings in a special issue of Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences
Organisers
- Dr Víctor Álvarez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
- Dr Dane Flannery (National University of Ireland, Galway)
- Professor Kathy Horadam (RMIT University, Australia)
- Dr Alla Detinko (alla.detinko@nuigalway.ie)
Minisymposium on Discrete Conformal Invariance, SLE and Integrable Lattice Models
Minisymposium on Discrete Conformal Invariance, SLE and Integrable Lattice Models
Friday 3 July, 2009; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
Partial sponsorship of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) is gratefully acknowledged.
Participants:
- Murray Batchelor (ANU)
- Jan De Gier (MU)
- Peter Forrester (MU)
- Omar Foda (MU)
- Vladimir Mangazeev (ANU)
- Bernard Nienhuis (Amsterdam)
- Anita Ponsaing (MU)
- Arun Ram (MU)
- Jorgen Rasmussen (MU)
- Stas Smirnov (Geneva)
- Mark Sorrell (MU)
- Maria Tsarenko (MU)
- Craig Westerland (MU)
Registration: If you plan to participate, please register (for catering purposes) by sending an email to jdgier@unimelb.edu.au.
Organiser: Jan De Gier (jdgier@unimelb.edu.au)
1st PRIMA Congress
The Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) is an association of mathematical sciences institutes, departments and societies from around the Pacific Rim. It was established in 2005 to to promote and facilitate the development of the mathematical sciences throughout the Pacific Rim region. PRIMA aims to hold an international congress every four years.
The first PRIMA Congress will be held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, 6–10 July 2009. As well as plenary addresses by leading international speakers there will be a range of special sessions on topics reflecting the breadth and diversity of research in the mathematical sciences across the region.
In addition, there will be a contributed session consisting of talks by participants not involved in special sessions. We invite you to submit an abstract to the contributed session.
Important Dates
- relaxed Early bird registration deadline: 6 April 2009
- Submission of abstracts to Contributed Session: 9 April 2009
There is a limit on the number of contributed talks which we can accept.
A poster session may be offered if required.
For further information about contributed talks, see the PRIMA 2009 website.
Support available
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) and Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (http://www.anziam.org.au/ANZIAM), funds are available for:
- Australian students and early career researchers, and
- New Zealand students
wishing to attend PRIMA 2009.
We aim to waive the registration fee and provide accommodation for a limited number of applicants. Please contact the Local Arrangements Committee (prima2009@maths.unsw.edu.au) for further details before registering or booking accommodation if you wish to request this assistance.
The deadline for applying for financial support is 30 March 2009; applicants will be notified by 3 April.
In addition, financial support is available for the following groups:
- Delegates from institutions in the USA (NSF travel fund)
- Delegates from MSRI Academic Sponsor Institutions
For more information, see the PRIMA 2009 website.
Accommodation
A range of accommodation options are available through the PRIMA 2009 website. A budget college accommodation option will be added very shortly.
Plenary Speakers
- Myles Allen (University of Oxford, UK)
- Federico Ardila (SFSU, USA & U. de Los Andes, Colombia)
- Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo University, Japan)
- Shige Peng (Shandong University, China)
- Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
- Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia, Australia)
- Gang Tian (Princeton University, USA & Peking University, China)
- Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington, USA)
Special Sessions
- Algebraic Geometry
- Commutative Algebra
- Computational Algebra
- Dynamical Systems
- Geometric Analysis
- Industrial Applications of Mathematics
- Inverse Problems
- Mathematics of Climate Change
- Mathematical Finance
- Mathematical Physics
- Partial Differential Equations
- Scientific Computing
- Stringy Topology
- Symplectic Geometry
Local Arrangements Committee
(contact via prima2009@maths.unsw.edu.au)
- Josef Dick (University of New South Wales)
- Tony Dooley (University of New South Wales)
- Gary Froyland (Chair, University of New South Wales)
- Catherine Greenhill (University of New South Wales)
- Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne)
- Jonathan Kress (University of New South Wales)
- Doug Lind (University of Washington)
- Chi Mak (University of New South Wales)
- Ian Sloan (University of New South Wales)
AMSI–ANU Workshop on Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis
The AMSI–ANU Workshop on Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis
13–17 July 2009; The Australian National University, Canberra
The workshop will bring together leading international researchers together with top Australian mathematicians in two rapidly developing, and increasingly intertwined, fields of analysis: spectral theory and harmonic analysis.
The workshop will include:
- research seminars presented by leading researchers;
- six expository lectures, presented by Jan van Neerven and Hart Smith, designed for graduate students;
- a poster session, providing an opportunity for non-speaking participants (including graduate students) to promote their work.
Registration: will open on Wednesday April 15 and close on Monday June 29. There is no registration fee.
Contact: For general enquiries please email to SpectralTheory09@anu.edu.au.
Organisers:
18th World IMACS and MODSIM09
Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences
MSSANZ and IMACS bring together a broad spectrum of scientists who apply various mathematical modelling, simulation, statistical, engineering, spatial and computer science methodologies and skills in solving practical problems coming from a wide range of endeavours including environmental and global change modelling, water resources management, health care, biological simulation and engineering.
This Congress is the first time MSSANZ and IMACS have combined their meetings and it is sure to provide a rich forum for the exchange of knowledge about modelling and simulation.
AMSI is a Gold Sponsor of this event. AMSI sponsorship will be used by the conference organisers to offer a number of free registrations, we will be unable to also offer use of the AMSI Travel Allowance for this event.
Latest update: the abstract submission deadline is now 31 January 2009.
To submit, please go to http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/WCMT/.
Fq9
9th International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications 
13–17 July, 2009; Claude Shannon Institute, Dublin, Ireland
The conference will honour the 65th birthdays of Harald Niederreiter and Steve Cohen.
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from all aspects of finite fields: theory, computation and applications.
Invited Speakers:
- Mei-Chu Chang (University of California, Riverside)
- Steve Cohen (University of Glasgow)
- John Dillon (National Security Agency)
- Winnie Li (Pennsylvania State University)
- Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
- Harald Niederreiter (National University of Singapore)
Contact: Prof. Gary McGuire (University College Dublin)
AMSI / MASCOS / UNESCO Industry workshop
Future Models for Energy and Water Management under a Regulated Environment
20–22 July 2009; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
This three-day event will consist of three 3-hour short courses and three 3-hour workshops on Future Models for Energy and Water Supply under a Regulated Environment with contributed talks in the afternoon.
Speakers:
- Shahbaz Khan (UNESCO, Paris)
- Graham Weir (IRL NZ)
- Elliot Tonkes (Energy Edge P/L)
Keynote Speakers:
- Ian Rose (ROAM Consulting)
- David Swift (ESPIC South Australia)
- Mukand S. Babel (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
- Michael O'Sullivan (University of Auckland)
Topics likely to be addressed will be:
- Energy and water economy in a regulated environment
- Renewable energy sources
- Network modeling and management
- Risk management
- Risk-return and efficient frontiers
- Power system stability
- Network optomisation
- Demand forecasting
- Carbon cost of food
- Demand side management
Contact: Parvin Ahadi, ews@amsi.org.au
tel: 03 8344 1786.
Mini Winter School on Geometry and Physics
Mini Winter School on Geometry and Physics
20–22 July 2009; Institute for Geometry and its Applications, University of Adelaide.
Three days of expository lectures aimed at 3rd year and honours students interested in postgraduate studies in pure mathematics or mathematical physics.
Financial support for travel and accommodation is available.
The closing date for applications is 10 June, but we would like to hear from interstate participants as soon as possible so we can book accommodation in time.
Lecturers:
- Peter Bouwknegt (Australian National University, Canberra)
- Nicholas Buchdahl (University of Adelaide)
- Finnur Larusson (University of Adelaide)
- Michael Murray (University of Adelaide)
- Mathai Varghese (University of Adelaide)
Contact: Mathai Varghese, mathai.varghese@adelaide.edu.au
Institute for Geometry and its Applications
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
Phone: (08) 8303-4173
Fax: (08) 8303-3696.
Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath
1–15 August, 2009; University of Bath, Bath, U.K.
The conference is sponsored by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society and is being organised by the University of Bath and the University of St Andrews.
Aim:
This conference, the eighth in the series of Groups St Andrews Conferences, will be organised along similar lines to previous events in this series. For 2009 the conference returns to its usual two-week format.
Topics:
The conference aims to cover all aspects of group theory. The short lecture courses are intended to be accessible to postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in all areas of group theory.
Main speakers:
- Gerhard Hiss (RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
- Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M, USA)
- Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA)
- Dan Segal (All Souls College, Oxford)
Programme:
The speakers above have kindly agreed to give short courses of lectures in the first week of the conference. In the second week of the conference there will be three theme days:
- an ‘Engel groups day’;
- a day to celebrate the birthdays of John Cannon and Derek Holt;
- a ‘B.H. Neumann day’.
In addition there will be a programme of one-hour invited lectures and contributed talks.
The organisers are pleased to announce that full registration is now open. Please visit the conference website at http://www.groupsstandrews.org/2009/ for further details and registration instructions.
Please book early! Prices for both registration and accommodation are discounted for bookings made before April 30th.
Organising committee:
- Colin Campbell (St Andrews)
- Edmund Robertson (St Andrews)
- Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews)
- Martyn Quick (St Andrews)
- Geoff Smith (Bath)
- Gunnar Traustason (Bath)
ICMP09
9th International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications
3–8 August, 2009; Clarion Congress Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
Following the tradition formed over several decades, the triennial congresses are the largest mathematical-physics conventions.
The ICMP09 will be a major event: new results in the field and future challenges will be discussed, illustrating the richness and vitality of this branch of the science.
Invited Speakers:
- Vladimir Bazhanov (Australian National University, Canberra)
- Demetrios Christodoulou (ETH Zürich)
- Bertrand Duplantier (CEA Saclay)
- László Erdös (Ludwig-Maxmilian Universität München)
- Alice Guionnet (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
- Philip Holmes (Princeton University)
- David Kosower (CEA Saclay)
- Roberto Longo (Universitá di Roma "Tor Vergata")
- Jens Marklof (University of Bristol)
- Vieri Mastropietro (Universitá di Roma "Tor Vergata")
- Alessandro Pizzo (UC Davis)
- Petr Šeba (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Robert Seiringer (Princeton University)
- Sylvia Serfaty (Courant Institute)
- Samson Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin)
- Steven Weinberg (University of Texas, Austin)
Local Organising Committee: Prof. Pavel Exner (exner@ujf.cas.cz)
Congress Secretariat: Congress Business Travel Ltd. (icmp09@cbttravel.cz)
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