News and events
Vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dynamical Systems
The position is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant "Extracting macroscopic variables and their dynamics in multiscale systems with metastable states" held by Georg Gottwald (georg.gottwald@usyd.edu.au) and Gary Froyland (g.froyland@unsw.edu.au). Applications close on 6th February.
See the Positions Vacant page for more details.
J B Douglas success for Emi Tanaka
The NSW Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia held the annual J B Douglas Postgraduate Awards Ceremony at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management on November 23rd. Emi Tanaka was awarded second prize for a talk entitled "Improved similarity scores of comparing motifs".
Australian Research Council Grants for School members
Anthony Henderson has been awarded a Future Fellowship for a project entitled "Springer fibres, nilpotent cones and representation theory"
Peter Kim has received a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for a project entitled "Mathematical modelling of breast cancer immunity: guiding the development of preventative breast cancer vaccines".
The following projects have been awarded funding from 2012 under the ARC "Discovery Projects" Scheme:
- Florica Cirstea: "Analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations describing singular phenomena".
- Georg Gottwald and Gary Froyland: "Extracting macroscopic variables and their dynamics in multiscale systems with metastable states".
- Gus Lehrer and Ruibin Zhang: "Quantised algebras, supersymmetry and invariant theory".
- Marek Rutkowski "Multi-person stochastic games with idiosyncratic information flows".
- Maria Byrne, Jean Yang and Gregory Wray: "Heads or tails – which did echinoderms lose in the evolution of radial symmetry?"
New Senior Lecturer in Statistics
Dr Reiichiro (Ray) Kawai, who is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute of Finance at the University of Leicester, has accepted appointment as a Senior Lecturer in Statistics.
Ray’s research interests are Levy processes and infinitely divisible distributions and their applications in financial mathematics and mathematical biology. He will be joining our staff in July 2012.
Leon Poladian receives teaching award
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council has awarded Leon Poladian a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
New Lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Dr Leo Tzou, whose research interests lie in the connection between geometry and inverse problems in partial differential equations, has accepted a lectureship in Pure Mathematics. Leo obtained his PhD at the University of Washington in 2007.
New lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Dr Alexander Fish, whose main research interests are in ergodic theory and its applications to additive number theory, has accepted an offer of a Lectureship in Pure Mathematics. He is currently at the University of Wisconsin, and will be taking up his position here in July 2012.
Prizes and Scholarships for 2010–2011
The School's Prizes and Scholarships Presentation Evening was held on May 9th. For a list of the award winners see the Prizes and Scholarships 2010-2011 page.
SUMS Problem Competition 2011
The SUMS Problem Competition for 2011 has been released. It is open to undergraduates at any Australian university, and there are prizes to be won!
Research project on cell cooperation in cancer
The Human Frontier Science Program Organization has awarded US$300,000 p.a. for three years to the School's A/Prof. Mary Myerscough and her collaborators Guy Lyons (University of Sydney Central Clinical School) and Silvio Gutkind (National Institute of Health, Bethesda USA), for their project cell cooperation in cancer.
New lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Dr Stephan Tillmann, a PhD graduate of the University of Melbourne, will be joining the School in December as a lecturer in Pure Mathematics.
Stephan is a topologist with several recent papers on 3-manifolds.
"Periodic table of shapes" project uses Magma software package
The School's Computational Algebra group is collaborating with geometers at Imperial College London in a project that aims to classify higher-dimensional Fano varieties. For more information, see the article in the Science magazine Cosmos
Two new lecturers in Applied Mathematics
Dr Sheehan Olver and Dr Peter Kim have been appointed to lectureships in Applied Mathematics.
Sheehan Olver, who is currently at St John’s College Oxford, is a numerical analyst. He has recent research interests in the areas of integrable systems and random matrix theory. Sheehan will be joining the School in November 2011.
Peter Kim is currently at the University of Utah. He works in mathematical biology, including topics such as mathematical immunology, cancer and virus dynamics, as well as dynamical systems. Peter will be joining the School in July 2011.
T.M. Cherry Prize 2011
Samuel Butler was awarded the T.M. Cherry Prize for the best student talk at the ANZIAM 2011 conference held in Adelaide. The title of Samuel's talk was "Solitons and the discrete Korteweg–de Vries equation".
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.