• 13th December, 2017
    Michael Coons et al win inaugural Mahony-Neumann-Room Prize

    Michael Coons, along with two collaborators, has won the inaugural Mahony-Neumann-Room Prize for the best paper published in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society during the period 2011-2016.

    Their paper was:

    Jason P. Bell, Michael Coons and Kevin G. Hare, "The minimal growth of a k-regular sequence", Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 90(2) (2014), 195-203

    The prize was announced during the opening session of the Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting at Macquarie University on Tuesday 12th December 2017.

  • 12th December, 2017
    Rising Star award for Ali Eshragh
    Ali Eshragh has been awarded the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) Rising Star Award in 2017 (details on their website) at the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Conference’s Gala Dinner in Hobart.
  • 6th December, 2017
    A/Prof Mike Meylan awarded Clare Hall Fellowship at Cambridge

    Associate Professor Mike Meylan has just been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall of Cambridge University. Meylan is one of 40 leading scholars chosen from many disciplines for the prestigious fellowship over the 2017-2018 academic year. In addition, Visiting Fellows become Life Members of Clare Hall and are welcomed back at any time to participate in college life. Meylan will be studying the vibration of ice shelves, working with Prof. I. David Abrahams, current director of the Isaac Newton Institute and one of the leading figures in applied mathematics in the United Kingdom.

    "Most of the Visiting Fellows come from other countries, which makes the community here very culturally rich. It is a wonderful opportunity to experience the academic and cultural life of this amazing university."

  • 23rd November, 2017
    Promotions success

    Congratulations to all of the CARMA members who have received promotions!

    Prof. Chris Kellett, Prof. Steve Weller, Senior Lecturer Elena Prieto and Senior Lecturer Ali Eshragh.

  • 18th November, 2017
    A quantum of fame for Michael Assis
    CARMA member Michael Assis is featured in an article entitled The Atomic Theory of Origami in the online magazine Quanta.
  • 5th October, 2017
    Michael Coons on AustMS Programme Committee
    CARMA member Michael Coons has been invited and since accepted a position on the Programme Committee for the 2019 AustMS meeting to be held at Monash.
  • 15th August, 2017
    Shaun Cooper has a newly published book out, "Ramanujan's Theta Functions". The final page of preface contains the following acknowledgement: "The manuscript was prepared over a number of years and was completed during long leave at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Michael Coons, Mumtaz Hussain, Wadim Zudilin, and the late Jonathan Borwein provided excellent hospitality and a wonderful working environment at Newcastle." Book cover
  • 18th July, 2017
    IFAC Foundation Award for Steve Weller and Chris Kellett
    The IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Foundation was created to foster the scientific and social goals of innovative control engineering activities. The inaugural IFAC Foundation Award recognises a contribution which shows how automatic control science and technology can contribute to significant advances in the broad area of sustainable development. The award-winning paper “Impact of climate model parametric uncertainty in an MPC implementation of the DICE integrated assessment model” shows how control engineering techniques can be applied to robustly estimate the so-called ‘social cost of carbon dioxide’. The award was presented at the Closing Ceremony of the 2017 IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, France on 14 July 2017.
  • 15th June, 2017
    Laureate Professorship for George Willis
    CARMA director and world-renowned mathematician Professor George Willis has received a $2.8 million ARC Laureate Fellowship to support his research, aimed at developing the algebraic theory of zero-dimensional symmetry. While being important pure mathematics research, this also has application in the field of computer science with relevance to data structures, potentially optimising computer performance.

    Congratulations George!
  • 24th May, 2017
    CARMA RHD Students Win Prizes for Mathematical Visualisations
    The postgraduate students in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences celebrated their research through an artistic exhibition curated by Dr Michael Gladys. First prize went to CARMA member Matt Skerritt for his artwork titled "Relative Reflections", second prize went to Alaa Yousif for his work titled "Science Assimilates Nature". The peoples choice award went to CARMA member Scott Lindstrom with "Rotation of Hyperbolic Space”. Congratulations Matt and Scott!
  • 18th May, 2017
    2014 Euler Medal awarded to CARMA member Brian Alspach
    Brian Alspach has been one of the most influential graph theorists over the last five decades. He has contributed pioneering works, fundamental discoveries, and celebrated results in areas including: tournaments and digraphs; permutation groups and their actions on graphs; decompositions and factorizations; Hamilton and other cycles; and searching and sweeping strategies in graphs. Brian’s example and leadership have set the standard for collaborative research; he has been a tremendous influence in the mathematical community. He is a talented mentor, with a knack for encouraging young people. Even a brief meeting with him has proven influential in numerous careers, but Brian goes far out of his way to provide further encouragement. In summary, Brian is widely recognised as a distinguished researcher, a generous collaborator, a talented and dedicated mentor, and an energetic leader in the mathematical community.
  • 28th February, 2017
    Bishnu Lamichhane now Chair of the Computational Mathematics Group Aus
    Bishnu has been elected as the new chair of ANZIAM's Computational Mathematics Group.
  • 28th February, 2017
    Visit by Canadian Maths Society president
    Current CARMA visitor Professor Michael Bennett is one of Canada's top mathematicians and an expert in number theory, specifically in the area of Diophantine approximation. In addition to his research, Prof Bennett has been a proponent for equity and sustainability practices in mathematics—during Prof Bennett's recent sentence as Head of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, he ended the need for adjuncts (sessionals) by employing fair hiring practices. Professor Michael Bennett is the current President of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He is visiting Michael Coons.