• 11th December, 2015
    CARMA PRC renewed
    CARMA has been renewed as a University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre through 2020. Read our presentation here.
    Well done by all of you.
  • 10th December, 2015
    CARMA PhD student award at EMAC
    CARMA PhD student Muhammad Ilyas was selected as one of the best student presenters at EMAC in Adelaide, receiving a Highly Commended award in the William Finlay Blyth Prize.
  • 9th December, 2015
    Postdoc position @Newcastle
    You will be working as part of an international team led by Associate Professor Murray Elder as part of the ARC 2016 Discovery Project "The language complexity of problems in algebra and logic". More information see http://www.austms.org.au/Jobs/Academic988.html
  • 1st December, 2015
    Another honourable mention for Cameron Rogers
    Congratulations to Cameron who tonight was awarded the Victorian Algebra Conference Honourable Mention for his talk "Using random walk distributions for determining Følner sequences".
  • 25th November, 2015
    PhD opportunity @Newcastle
    You will be working as part of an international team led by Associate Professor Murray Elder as part of the ARC 2016 Discovery Project "The language complexity of problems in algebra and logic". More information at http://www.austms.org.au/Jobs/Scholarship193.html
  • 18th November, 2015
    CARMA Member David Bailey wins prestigious super computing award.
    David Bailey has been recognised for his work on The NAS Parallel Benchmarks.

    The Supercomputing Conference (SC15) Test of Time Award Committee has recognized “The NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Summary and Preliminary Results” written by D. Bailey, E. Barszcz, J. Barton, D. Browning, R. Carter, L. Dagum, R. Fatoohi, P. Frederickson, T. Lasinski, R. Schreiber, H. Simon, V. Venkatakrishnan, and S. Weeratunga from the SC91 conference as the SC15 Test of Time Award (ToTA) paper for this year.

    The ToTA recognizes an outstanding paper that has appeared at the SC conference and has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact and recognition that the paper has changed HPC trends.
  • 17th November, 2015
    AustMS Lift-Off Fellowship awarded to Meks Ndii
    CARMA RHD student Meks Ndii has been awarded an AustMS Lift-Off Fellowship which will enable him to travel to Florida to attend the Epidemics conference in December. Congratulations Meks!
  • 6th November, 2015
    Congratulations to Juliane Turner
    Juliane Turner is a most deserved winner of the 2015 FSCIT Administrative Employee of the Year. Well done, Juliane!
  • 6th November, 2015
    New AMSI funding scheme for women
    AMSI have announced a new travel grant scheme for women (students and early career researchers) in mathematics, the "AMSI-BHP Billiton Foundation Choose Maths Travel Grants for Women". Details can be found on AMSI's website.
  • 30th October, 2015
    Five CARMA Members receive 2016 ARC Discovery Project funding
    Congratulations to CARMA Members Murray Elder, Jeff Hogan, Chris Kellett and Mirka Miller, who along with CARMA director Borwein were successful in the just announced competition.
  • 1st October, 2015
    Matt Tam wins 2015 Bernard Neumman prize
    CARMA Ph.D. student Matt Tam was a winner of the 2015 Bernhard Neumann Prize. This prestigious prize is given for the best student talk at the annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, and was awarded on Wednesday 30 September. There were 48 talks in the competition. In 2011 the award was won by then CARMA student Dr James Wan and in 2013 Tam himself received an honourable mention as did Cameron Rogers in 2014.
  • 17th September, 2015
    AMSI "Choose Maths News"
    AMSI has a new quarterly maths newsletter which you can view at schools.amsi.org.au/news/, and you can also subscribe to an e-mail version.

    The September edition includes stories on the Choose Maths programme, "National Mathematics Career Awareness", the "Inspiring Women in Mathematics Network" and more.
  • 25th August, 2015
    A/Prof Mike Meylan talks about wave power
    Recently Mike Meylan spoke to 2NURFM about his research in wave power. Listen here.
  • 20th August, 2015
    Borwein made The Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Western
    CARMA director Borwein has been made Western University's Distinguished Scholar in Residence and will spend March through June 2016 in that role at Western University in London Ontario.
  • 7th August, 2015
    Australia WINS !! International Statistical Literacy Project
    The National Secondary Schools Poster Competition (www.ssaipostercomp.info) involves teams of secondary school students creating, designing, implementing and creatively reporting upon a data-based investigation in any field (producing a "conference-poster"). National Winners are forwarded to the the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP)competition. The National Junior Division Winners from the 2014 Australian competition (Lisarow High School, Central Coast) were last week announced at the International Statistical Institute’s 60th World Statistics Congress as the Winners of the International Statistical Literacy Project – Junior Division. They receive 450 Euros and a Certificate. There were more than 20 countries competing; click here for winners and their posters.
  • 5th August, 2015
    AMSI Summer School RMIT
    http://ss16.amsi.org.au/ The AMSI Summer School is an exciting opportunity for mathematical sciences students from around Australia to come together over the summer break to develop their skills and networks. RMIT Melbourne January 2016 Travel Grant applications open: 13 August 2015 Travel Grant applications & 1st registration closes: 1 November 2015
  • 5th August, 2015
    AMSI Vacation Scholarships
    http://vrs.amsi.org.au/ * the chance to work on a real research project for six weeks * travel and accommodation to attend the Big Day In student conference in Melbourne * a six-week award of \$450/week (total $2,700) APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2015
  • 26th June, 2015
    CARMA Director elected to a FRSNSW
    CARMA Director, Jonathan Borwein, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. "The Society is the oldest learned society in the Southern Hemisphere, tracing its origin to the Philosophical Society of Australasia, founded in Sydney in 1821." It initiated a Fellows Program in 2013.
  • 4th June, 2015
    CARMA financial research hits SSRN Top 10 three times.
    Work by CARMA's financial mathematics group (MAFFIA) led by Dave Bailey and Jon Borwein, occupies three of the top ten places in the Econometrics: Mathematical Methods and Programming list of most down loaded papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website.
  • 29th May, 2015
    Mathematical Logic and Philosophy lectures now online
    Videos of the four Mathematical Logic and Philosophy lectures, given here recently by Prof Jeremy Avigad, are now available on the CARMA website. For future reference, they are linked by our Online Resources page.
  • 27th May, 2015
    David H. Bailey wins Test of Time award.
    CARMA associate, and long-time collaborator of Laureate Professor Jonathan Borwein, Bailey has been given the prestigious “Test of Time” award by the 2015 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference. The award is for the paper “The NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Summary and Preliminary Results”, co-authored by Bailey and 12 colleagues at the NASA Ames Research Center, which appeared in the Proceedings of the SC91 conference in 1991. The annual Supercomputing Test of Time Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has previously appeared in the SC conference proceedings and has deeply influenced the discipline of high-performance computing. The award will be presented at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, USA, in November 2015. See further details.
  • 30th April, 2015
    CARMA Director's news article goes viral
    The recent article It’s often the puzzles that baffle that go viral (in the Conversation of April 16 2015) has itself gone viral with over 914,000 readers so far.
  • 24th April, 2015
    Matthew Tam invited to Heidelberg Forum
    The Scientific Committee of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) has selected Matt to participate in the 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum, taking place from August 23 to 28 in Heidelberg, Germany. Only the 200 most qualified young Researchers in mathematics and computer science are granted the opportunity to experience the unique atmosphere of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
  • 2nd April, 2015
    2015 AMSI Winter School registrations are now open
    Registrations are now open for the Winter School on Algebra, Geometry and Physics! Introductory lectures in the first week lead into in-depth specialist lectures in the second week. More information is available on the 2015 Winter School website.
  • 2nd March, 2015
    UoN Report: "AMSI Summer School success"
    A story about the recent AMSI Summer School appears in the latest Microbytes, the newsletter of the Faculty of Science and Information Technology. Well done Jeff and Juliane!
  • 13th February, 2015
    AMSI Summer School concludes for 2015

    From AMSI:

    Students from all over Australia (and one participant from Kolkata) converged on the sunny University of Newcastle for AMSI’s Summer School in the Mathematical Sciences.

    Students stayed on campus for the four-week program, taking two of the eight subjects on offer, meeting employers at the careers afternoon and finding out about new research at specialist lectures.

    The social side was also a big hit with students competing in a trivia night, "Murray Elder's Famous Bushwalk" and a beach party (despite the minor hiccup of a shark sighting).