News and events
Maths & Science Combinations NSW HSC 2001–2011 by Gender
As an analysis of mathematics/science subject combination choices made by NSW HSC students 2001-2011, this study by John Mack and Barry Walsh examines the proportions of the corresponding Year 8 cohort sizes electing to study maths/science subject combinations for the HSC. See www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SMS/MWW2013.pdf.
Australian Research Council Grants for School members
The following projects have been awarded funding from 2013 under the ARC "Discovery Projects" Scheme:
- Prof JJ Cannon and Prof DF Holt: Constructive Representation Theory.
- A/Prof S Yan, Prof EN Dancer and Prof Y Du: Singularity, degeneracy and related problems in nonlinear partial differential equations.
- Prof N Joshi: Critical solutions of nonlinear systems.
- Prof JH Rubinstein, A/Prof CD Hodgson and Dr S Tillmann: Triangulations in dimensions 3 and 4: discrete and geometric structures.
- Prof A Ward, A/Prof MR Myerscough, Prof J Kruse and Dr J Buhl: Leadership matters: the emergence of informed leaders and their influence on group movement.
- A/Prof Q Wang, Prof W Liu and Prof C Tudor: Asymptotics in non-linear cointegrating regression: theory and applications.
- A/Prof J Yang, Dr S Müller and Prof GJ Mann: Vertically integrated statistical modelling in multi-layered omics studies.
Additionally, two School members have been granted Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards.
- Dr Sheehan Olver: A new class of fast and reliable spectral methods for partial differential equations,
- Dr John Ormerod: Scalable Bayesian model selection for massive data sets.
Giles Gardam programming competition success
Pure mathematics honours student Giles Gardam, with fellow "Brogrammers" George Karpenkov and Bin Zhou, will compete in the next year's world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, having won the South Pacific Regional Contest.
For more information see the University of Sydney News.
Anthony Henderson wins Australian Mathematical Society Medal
Assoc Prof Anthony Henderson has been awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal for 2012. In part, the citation reads as follows:
| Anthony Henderson is known for his deep and highly original work in representation theory. He has successfully combined methods at the crossroads of algebraic geometry, combinatorics and representation theory to solve a number of important problems in the field. Of particular significance is his joint work with Pramod Achar, in which they introduced the enhanced nil cone. This has led to a purely geometric interpretation of Shoji's generalised Kostka polynomials for the hyperoctahedral group. |
For more information see the University of Sydney News.
Georgina Sweet Fellowship awarded to Nalini Joshi
Prof Nalini Joshi has been awarded the 2012 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship. Her project is entitled "Geometric construction of critical solutions of nonlinear systems".
Further information is available from the Australian Research Council website.
Future Fellowship awarded to Martin Wechselberger
Assoc Prof Martin Wechselberger has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for a project on geometric methods in mathematical physiology.
The project will develop new geometric methods for the analysis of multiple-scales models of physiological rhythms and patterns, and will design diagnostic tools to identify key parameters that cause and control these signals.
E. J. G. Pitman Prize awarded to Garth Tarr
Garth Tarr was awarded the E. J. G. Pitman Prize at the Australian Statistical Society Conference held in Adelaide on 9–12 July.
Office for Learning and Teaching Grant
First year Mathematics Director A/Prof David Easdown will work with colleagues from the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide and Curtin University on a $220,000 Office of Teaching and Learning funded project entitled "Building leadership capacity in university first year learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences".
Sheehan Olver awarded Adams Prize
The Adams Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious prizes of the University of Cambridge. It is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John's College to a young (normally under 40 years of age), UK-based researcher doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. This year it has been awarded jointly to Sheehan Olver, formerly of Oxford University, who has recently joined us, and Dr Françoise Tisseur (University of Manchester).
See University of Cambridge News for more details.
Web page memorial to Marc Raimondo
Friends and colleagues of the late Marc Raimondo, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, have created a Marc Raimondo memory website.