Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2014 (MISG 2014) registrations are now open! See the website for more information: http://mathsinindustry.com/

Congratulations to Masoud Talebian, who with his co-author Garrett Van Ryzin was runner-up in the 2013 INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Competition for their submission Markdown Management at Sports Unlimited. This is a wonderful achievement: congratulations! Details on the INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Competition can be found at https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/Case-and-Teaching-Materials-Competition Click on "Show all finalists" to see more details of Masoud and Garrett's contribution.

Rose and Borwein publish chapter in the new book, The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums. This is a collection of the best articles from The Conversation. It includes an essay by CARMA PhD student Michael Rose and CARMA director Jon Borwein.

The International Group Theory Online Seminar resumes its sessions next Thursday at noon (New York time). Schedule: Oct 3, 2013 - Dmytro Savchuk (University of South Florida); Oct 17, 2013 - Anton Klyachko (Moscow State University, Russia); Oct 31, 2013 - Inna Bumagin (Carleton University, Canada); Nov 14, 2013 - Pascal Weil (Université Bordeaux I, France). Please note that as of this Fall semester we are going to use Blackboard Collaborate software instead of Wimba Classroom for seminar broadcasting. This is going to resolve some technical issues we faced in the past. The instructions will be sent to everyone subscribed to the seminar mailing list (https://lists.stevens.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/accwebinar) and also posted on the seminar webpage at http://www.stevens.edu/algebraic/GTI/

Congratulations to Dr Masoud Talebian for his selection as a finalist for the INFORMS Teaching and Case Study competition, for his "Markdown Management at Sports Unlimited" case which has been used in teaching MATH3840 in the past. It was co-authored with Prof. Garrett van Ryzin of Columbia University.

The purpose of this annual competition is to encourage the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of new, unpublished cases in operations research and the management sciences. The finalists will be presented at a special open session of the annual INFORMS meeting and a panel of judges will select the winning entry based on these presentations. General information on the prize and last year's winners can be found at here.

The Golden Goose Awards go to two sets of award winners "whose federally funded research may not have seemed to have significant practical applications at the time it was conducted but has resulted in tremendous societal and economic benefit. Mathematicians Lloyd Shapley and David Gale (deceased) and economist Alvin Roth are being recognized for their work which led to the national kidney exchange and other programs such as the national matching program for new medical residents and hospitals. Thousands of people in the United States are living with transplanted kidneys today thanks, in large part, to a kidney donor matching program that grew out of federally funded research on matching pairs by mathematicians David Gale and Lloyd Shapley. Their work, which used marriage as a model, provided the foundation for economist Alvin Roth to develop numerous practical market applications, and their subsequent research on matching was the basis for today From the AMS website: http://www.ams.org/home/page

Each summer universities and other places put on summer schools, vacation research projects, etc.. The list for 2013/14 is available here. UPDATE: AMSI Summer School registration is now open.

Research projects for Summer students at the University of Newcastle can be found by following the link at the top of our research page.

Stanford professor Stephen Boyd will be visiting Australia in September, giving specialist talks and public lectures. Full details are on the AMSI web site.

Applications for 2013/2014 AMSI Vacation Research Scholarships are now open. Full details are available on AMSI's website.

An interview with CARMA director Jon Borwein about experimental mathematics has appeared in "International Innovation".

CARMA PhD student Matt Tam from has been awarded a 2013 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research Candidates and will receive an annual top-up in addition to his existing scholarships.

CARMA's Judy-anne has written a review for the movie "World War Z" for The Conversation (available here). She focuses on the seeds of science in the film, and their basis in reality.

The Alternating Reflections website is now up. A full version of our "Douglas-Rachford Methods" website is available here.

The flagship optimization journal Mathematical Programming has published two special issues in honour of the 60th birthday in May 2011 of Laureate Professor and CARMA Director Jonathan Borwein.

Volume 139, Issue 1-2, June 2013. Special Issue: Computational and Analytical Mathematics. ISSN: 0025-5610 (Print) 1436-4646 (Online).

Details and papers may be seen here.

The new version of our "Walks" website is here.

The Australian Mathematical Sciences Student Conference will be held this year at the Mathematical Sciences Institute of the Australian National University, Canberra during July 15-17. The primary aim of the conference is to bring together Australian postgraduate and honours students of the mathematical sciences and enable them to communicate their work in afriendly and informal atmosphere that will facilitate dialogue and encourage collaboration.
See the conference website for more information.

Registration for the Society's annual conference, to be held at the University of Sydney from 30 September to 3 October 2013, is now open at http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/austms2013/.

This year’s Winter School, hosted by the University of Queensland, runs from 24th June until 5th July. It offers a number of mini-courses relating to the theme Mathematics of Planet Earth. Mini-courses in the first week are numerical methods on GPUs, large-scale inversion for geophysical exploration, and dynamical systems & singular perturbation. Building on these, the second week offers mini-courses on mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, regularization of inverse problems in geomathematics, and optimisation for nature conservation. For more information, visit www.amsi.org.au/WS13.php.

15-17 July 2013 (ANU) The goal of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Student Conference is to bring together postgraduate and honours students in the mathematical sciences from around Australia, enabling them to communicate their work, facilitating dialogue, and encouraging collaboration, all in a friendly and informal atmosphere. More info at the ANU website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7xPo1YXzY Museum of Mathematics http://momath.org/

The International Group Theory Online Seminar resumes its sessions in the Spring 2013 with the talk "On the elementary theory of finitely generated nilpotent and polycyclic groups" by Mahmood Sohrabi (Stevens Institute of Technology) on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at noon (New York time). All information about the seminar can be found at http://www.stevens.edu/algebraic/GTI/