14th December, 2016

"Sound Advice" Leads George Willis to Gavin Brown Prize

Gavin Brown Best Paper Prize winner Professor George Willis from the University of Newcastle was recognised for his outstanding joint original research paper with Yehuda Shalom, Commensurated subgroups of arithmetic groups, totally disconnected groups and adelic ridgidity, Geom Funct. Anal. 23 (2013) no. 5, 1631-1683.

"I thank the Australian Mathematical Society for this great honour. I am particularly pleased to receive the Gavin Brown Prize because my first job was working with him. One of the good pieces of advice that he gave me was to broaden my interests, and I think that I have followed that advice in this work," said Professor Willis.

14th December, 2016

Bernhard Neumann Prize honourable mention for Scott Lindstrom

CARMA PhD student Scott Lindstrom received an honourable mention for the Bernhard Neumann Prize for his presentation in the Annual Meeting of Australian Mathematical Society in Canberra last week. Congratulations Scott!

14th December, 2016

AMS' Levi L. Conant Prize for Bailey, Borwein, Mattingly and Wightwick

David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Andrew Mattingly, and Glenn Wightwick received the 2017 Conant Prize for their article "The Computation of Previously Inaccessible Digits of π2 and Catalan's Constant," Notices of the AMS, August 2013.

Levi L. Conant was a mathematician and educator who spent most of his career as a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. More information about him is available on the AMS website.

12th October, 2016

Project Management Achievement Award for Amir Salehipour

Dr Amir Salehipour (CARMA) and Miss Leila M. Naeni (School of Built Environment, UTS, and School of EE&CS, UON) won the prestigious 2016 Project Management Achievement Award (PMAA) - Research Category, awarded by Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), for conducting outstanding research in the context of enhancing the well-known earned value (EV) technique with advanced mathematics and statistics tools in order to overcome several limitations of the earned value, particularly, when determining acceptable levels of deviations from the baseline plan. In the study, which we published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ERA 2010 ranked A*), we concluded that implementing the developed tools together with the traditional tools noticeably improves the project controlling scheme (http://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0001078).

30th September, 2016

Vale Jonathan Borwein
Laureate Professor Jon Borwein, director and founder of the CARMA Research Centre, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, 2nd August, 2017. Jon was a towering figure in mathematics, supervising numerous students and post-doctoral fellows, organising workshops and conferences, and acting as a mentor and collaborator across the globe. His academic output was staggering, publishing over 500 scientific papers and twenty-eight books. Since arriving in Australia, his impact on mathematical research both here at the University of Newcastle and across the country cannot be overstated.

The following links show the esteem Jon was held in and expand upon the story of his life.
While CARMA will continue the legacy which Jon built, we know that Jon is truly irreplaceable both as a mathematician and as a person. A memorial service celebrating his remarkable life and achievements was held on Wednesday, 21st September, 2017.

18th April, 2016

National Colloquium - STEMS: Putting Statistics into STEM

The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA), via its Statistics Education Section, is hosting a 2-day colloquium and workshop (2-3 June 2016, UTS) to develop a platform for the transformation of Statistics Education in Australia, in response to an increasingly massive demand for statisticians and an equally massive shortfall in supply. Please consider the program at STEMS2016.com; it includes speakers & representatives from: Harvard University; Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Qantas; ACARA, ACEMS, ABS, AMSI, NSW BOSTES, SSA; and will include a Panel Discussion session including Q&A floor discussion, followed by exploration of ideas and a workshop to develop and initiate a plan of action for progressing Statistics education in Australia.

FREE seminar 1 June at UTS:
Speaker: Dr Peter Howley
Details: https://stems2016.com/pre-colloquium-seminar/

1st March, 2016

Building Statistical Literacy for Success in Higher Education

A project which aims to improve statistical literacy has been awarded Higher Education Participation Programme National Priority Pool funding, It will "create, evaluate and disseminate a set of digital media resources designed both for low SES, culturally diverse and remotely located students".

The team is led by CARMA's Peter Howley, Elena Prieto, Ali Eshragh and Kath Holmes.

27th January, 2016

AustMS Lift Off

CARMA PhD student Matthew Tam has been awarded an Australian Mathematical Society Lift-off Fellowship. Tam will use the fellowship to visit Dr Francisco Aragón Artacho at the University of Alicante in Spain. A list of Lift-Off Fellows, to date, can be found at the Lift-Off Fellowship website.

4th January, 2016

In Memoriam: Mirka Miller

Dear Colleagues: I am sorry to have to tell you that our friend and colleague Mirka Miller passed away at 10am on Saturday 02/01/2016 after a short illness. The funeral service is on Wednesday (06/01) at 3pm. The Funeral Chapel is located at 209 Maitland Road Mayfield (off-road parking is available across the road). Following the service there will be a get-together at Customs House. In lieu of flowers it is suggested that people consider making a donation to the GI Cancer Institute (gicancer.org.au). More details will be available in Tuesday's Newcastle or Sydney Morning Herald.