The 2018 winner of the Mahony—Neumann—Room prize for best paper in the ANZIAM Journal was two papers and one was by F. Aragon Artacho, J. Borwein and M. Tam for one of their 2014 papers. All three authors were members of CARMA at the time!

Michael Coons won the prize last year with some colleagues from Waterloo. This means that in the three years of the prize so far, CARMA produced two of the four winning papers.

Congratulations to A/Prof Peter Howley who has received word from the President of the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) advising that he has been awarded the 2018 SSA Service Award. The award will be given at the Australian Statistics Conference (ASC) which this year is in conjunction with the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics in Melbourne in August. Well done Peter!

CARMA member Dr Minh Dao was the winner of the AMSI Optimise 2018 Best Poster Competition for his poster entitled "Optimisation Design for Energy-Efficient Downlink Cloud Radio Access Networks". Hosted by the University of Melbourne, AMSI Optimise was held from 18-22 June 2018 with the conference themes of decision making under uncertainty and humanitarian applications. Congratulations Minh!

CARMA member Elena Levchenko is a co-organising for the symposium "Theory and simulation in physics for materials applications" at this year's European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) meeting in Warsaw, Poland. For full details and to submit abstracts, visit the symposium web page.

Elena's Acta Materialia paper "Composition dependence of diffusion and thermotransport in Ni-Al melts: A step towards molecular dynamics assisted databases" has been selected as a key scientific article contributing to excellence in science and engineering research It is featured in the materials engineering section of Advances in Engineering.

The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications awarded the 2014 Euler medal to Prof. Brian Alspach. This award is for "distinguished career contributions to combinatorics", and he received the medal at the the 5th International Combinatorics Conference at Monash University on 17 December 2017.