The ANZIAM 2014 Conference

ANZIAM is the professional association for industrial and applied mathematics in Australia and New Zealand. The annual conference of ANZIAM is an established gathering of applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers, from academia and industry, which will be hosted by the New Zealand Branch in 2014. The host town of Rotorua is only 220 km south of Auckland.

Invited Speakers

• Alison Etheridge (Oxford): Stochastic processes, population genetics.
• Lisa Fauci (Tulane): Biological fluids.
• Douglas Heggie (Edinburgh): "Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics - a Three-Body Problem"
• Shane Henderson (Cornell): Optimization
• Shaun Hendy (Victoria University of Wellington) "Slippery issues in micro and nanoscale flows"
• Bernd Krauskopf (Auckland): "Discovering the geometry of chaos"
• Geoff Mercer (ANU)
• Terry O'Kane (CSIRO): "The statistical mechanics, dynamics and predictability of geophysical flows"

Registration

Student attendance is supported through the CSIRO–ANZIAM student support scheme.

Contact

For any enquiries, please email anziam2014@math.auckland.ac.nz .

Fluids in New Zealand 2014 Workshop

Registration is now open for the 2014 Fluids in New Zealand Workshop. The second workshop, organised by the University of Auckland on behalf of the NZ Fluid Mechanics community, will be held:

Dates & Venue: 29–31 January 2014; University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The workshop aims to bring together fluid mechanists from all backgrounds and specialisations to discuss their recent research in a friendly and collaborative setting. Registration is free.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Professor Roger Nokes (University of Canterbury)
• Dr Geoff Willmott (Callaghan Innovation)

For more information, please see the conference website http://homepages.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/~jden259/FiNZ2014

The FiNZ Organising Committee

• Dr John Cater - Engineering Science, Auckland
• Prof John Chen – Chemical and Materials Engineering, Auckland
• Dr Richard Clarke – Engineering Science, Auckland
• Prof Jim Denier - Engineering Science, Auckland
• Dr Heide Friedrich – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland
• Dr Stuart Norris – Mechanical Engineering, Auckland
• Dr Shixiao Wang – Applied Mathematics, Auckland
• Dr Phil Wilson – Department of Mathematics, Canterbury

Convenor

Prof J.P. Denier j.denier@auckland.ac.nz
Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
Phone: +64 9 923 7910
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142
Office: Room 339, 70 Symonds Street

Fluids in New Zealand 2014 Workshop

Registration is now open for the 2014 Fluids in New Zealand Workshop. The second workshop, organised by the University of Auckland on behalf of the NZ Fluid Mechanics community, will be held:

Dates & Venue: 29–31 January 2014; University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The workshop aims to bring together fluid mechanists from all backgrounds and specialisations to discuss their recent research in a friendly and collaborative setting. Registration is free.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Professor Roger Nokes (University of Canterbury)
• Dr Geoff Willmott (Callaghan Innovation)

For more information, please see the conference website http://homepages.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/~jden259/FiNZ2014

The FiNZ Organising Committee

Prof J.P. Denier j.denier@auckland.ac.nz
Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
Phone: +64 9 923 7910
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142
Office: Room 339, 70 Symonds Street

Vietnam International Applied Mathematics Conference

Dates: 19–20 December 2013
Venue: Dong An Polytechnic College, Di An Town, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam.

In Vietnam and in other countries of ASEAN, the Technology Mathematics and Informatics Tools are becoming more and more integrated in the society specially in Vietnam Applied Mathematics is rapidly gaining strength in academics and industrial circles. The main purpose of this conference consists in bringing together the researchers acting in various areas of Applied Mathematics, Informatics and Practitioners.

That is the first international conference organized by VSAM, therefore the organizers are calling world-wide participants from Vietnam and abroad, firstly from ICIAM Family to join this academic activity in order to increase the international co-operations of the VSAM and, more generally, of the Vietnamese mathematical community.

Organized by:

1. Vietnam Society for Application of Mathematics (VSAM)
2. Dong An Polytechnic College (DAP)
3. International Institute for Research, Training and Development of Human Resource (IHR)

The main streams are:

• Applied Algebra, Logics and Cryptology.
• Applied Analysis.
• Applied Probability and Statistics.
• Computer Sciences.
• Mathematical Finance and Management.
• Industrial Mathematics (There will be a focus on application of mathematics to problems arising from industry, the economy and society).
• Scientific Computation and Numerical Analysis.
• And any other mathematical application/subject will be gladly welcomed.

Guest of Honor

• Prof. Barbara Keyfitz , ICIAM President

Plenary/Invited Speakers:

• Prof. Jacques Belair (Canada)
• Prof. Matt Davison (Canada)
• Prof. Nguyen Quy Hy (Vietnam, Former President of VSAM)
• Prof. Mario Primicerio (Italy, ICIAM-Officer at Large )
• Prof. Pham Hong Quang (Vietnam)
• Dr. Phung Dinh Thuc (Vietnam, President of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group)
• Prof. Jimhong Wu (Canada Research Chair)

Scientific Program Committee

• Prof. Le Hung Son — cochair (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
• Prof. Taketomo Mitsui — cochair (ICIAM Officer-at-Large, Japan)
• Prof. Pham Ky Anh (Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam)
• Prof. Dang Quang A (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam)
• Prof. Jacques Belair (University of Montreal, Canada)
• Prof. Pham Huy Dien (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam)
• Prof. Nguyen Quy Hy (Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam)
• Assoc. Prof. Tran Van Lang (Institute for Applied Informatics and Mechanics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
• Assoc. Prof. Tong Dinh Quy (Hanoi University of science and Technology, Vietnam)
• Assoc. Prof. Phan Dinh Tuan (University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

Registration

All the participants are asked to submit the registration form to the organizing committee through the conference website (online registration) or sending the filled registration form directly (per email) to the contact persons (viamc2013@dongan.edu.vn) at your earliest convenience, but not later than 15 November 2013.

• registration fee: 50 USD for ordinary participants
• 20 USD for students and accompanying persons

Fees include all local expenses during the conference , conference materials and proceedings. The fees are payable in cash at the registration desk of the conference.

Workshop on Mathematical modelling and numerical solutions

Dates: 12–13 December 2013
Venue: National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW

Mathematical modelling and numerical solutions play an important role in solving practical problems. This workshop aims to promote research collaborations and exchange ideas between academics/researchers doing research in mathematical modelling and those doing research in computational methods, and to establish connections between researchers at tertiary institutions and working in industry in Australia.

Registration

The organisers would appreciate informal expressions of interest as soon as possible.
Please email Dr. Dmitry Demskoy (ddemskoy@csu.edu.au) if you are willing to participate in the workshop.

Organisers:

• Dr Zhenquan Li (Charles Sturt University)
• Dr Dmitry Demskoy (Charles Sturt University)
• A/P Mark Nelson (University of Wollongong)
• Dr Jason Sharples (University of New South Wales, Canberra)

Limits to Growth Symposium: Beyond the Point of Inflexion

The School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW is hosting a full day symposium on Limits to Growth on 11 December 2013 at Parade Theatre, NIDA, Sydney.
This will be followed by a Q&A session on the evening of the 12 December 2013 at UNSW.
The event is part of this year's Mathematics of Planet Earth.

Date & Venue: Wednesday 11 December at 9:00 am; Parade Theatre, NIDA, Sydney.

Date & Venue: Thursday 12 December, 18:00–19:30; Leighton Hall, UNSW, Sydney

The focus of the event will be to address key questions:

• Is economic growth forever sustainable?
• What impact would a stagnant or declining population have on GDP?
• Can mathematical models guide policy makers in answering these questions?
• What is the strategic plan for planet Earth?

A little over forty years ago an international team led by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens III carried out a major study of growth in five key areas; population, agricultural production, natural resources, industrial production and pollution. The team concluded that, if current trends continued, limits to growth would be realised within one hundred years with a sudden and uncontrollable decline in population and industrial capacity. Many of the projections on resources and pollution proved to be incorrect, with technological advances reversing trends. However the central (mathematical) result, that continued exponential growth is not sustainable indefinitely, is indisputable, and we have now entered an era, beyond the point of inflexion, where the rate of population growth is slowing.

Keynote Speakers, Wednesday 11th December

• Professor Graciela Chichilnisky (Professor of Economics, Columbia University)
  architect of the carbon credit emissions trading market underlying the Kyoto Protocol
• Graeme Maxton (Economist, Fellow of the International Club of Rome)
  author of The End of Progress
• Professor Jørgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy, BI Norwegian Business School)
  co-author of Limits to Growth and author of 2052
• Professor Peter Victor (Professor in Environmental Studies, York University)
  author of Managing without Growth
• Ross Gittins AM (Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald)
• Professor Clive Hamilton AM FRSA (Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics), author of Growth Fetish
• Peter Harper (Deputy Australian Statistician for the Population, Labour and Social Statistics Group, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
  Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting
• Ken Henry AC (Economist)
  Former Secretary to the Department of Treasury.

Several of the speakers will participate in a public panel discussion and Q&A event on Thursday 12th December in UNSW's Leighton Hall, facilitated by Ticky Fullerton (journalist for the ABC and presenter of The Business).

Info and bookings: http://mpel2g.net/

Organising Committee

• Bruce Henry — Chair (Head of School, UNSW)
• Isaac Donnelly (UNSW)
• Susannah Waters (Staff, UNSW)
• Kaye Sedgers (Staff, UNSW)
• Chris Angstmann (Applied Mathematics, UNSW)
• Peter Straka (Statistics, UNSW)
• Gary Froyland (Applied Mathematics, UNSW)

ACCMCC, the Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

is the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia.

This year it will be held at The University of Western Australia, supported by The Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. The conference covers all areas of combinatorics in mathematics and computer science.

Registration is now available: the deadline for early bird registration is Friday 8 November 2013.

Featured speakers

• Matt DeVos (Simon Fraser University)
• Vida Dujmović (University of Ottawa)
• Graham Farr (Monash University)
• Bill Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington)
• Primož Potočnik (University of Ljubljana)
• Tamás Szőnyi (Eötvös Loránd University)
• Nick Wormald (Monash University)

Attendees (especially students) are invited to give contributed talks. Contributed talks are 20 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes for questions.

Students (at the Honours, Masters, or PhD level) are eligible for support to attend the 37ACCMCC. Preference will be given to early applications. The CMSA has a limited amount of money to partially offset travel costs for a small number of student delegates.

For more information about 37ACCMCC, please contact the organisers at 37accmcc@uwa.edu.au.

Organisers

• John Bamberg (UWA)
• Alice Devillers (UWA)
• Michael Giudici (UWA)
• Irene Pivotto (UWA)
• Gordon Royle (UWA)
• Eric Swartz (UWA)

Workshop on Integrable Systems

Date: 2nd December 2013 Venue: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

Speakers:

• Omar Foda (University of Melbourne)
  Nekrasov's partition functions and minimal conformal field theories
• Kenji Kajiwara (Kyushu University)
  Discrete m\mathrm{KdV} and discrete sine-Gordon flows on discrete space curves
• Geoff Prince (La Trobe University)
  Solvable structures and the integration of PDEs
• Reinout Quispel (La Trobe University)
• John Roberts (University of New South Wales)
  Non-QRT maps
• Hidetaka Sakai (University of Tokyo)
  Isomonodromic deformation and 4-dimensional Painlevé type equations
• Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra)
  On Einstein metrics and the n-wave resonant interaction system
• Claude Viallet (CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
  
• Yasuhiko Yamada (Kobe University)
  

Organisers:

• Nalini Joshi (U Sydney)
• Sarah Lobb (U Sydney)
• Christopher Lustri (U Sydney)
• Milena Radnovic (U Sydney)

The Workshop is funded by:

• The Project Geometric construction of critical solutions of nonlinear systems from the Australian Research Council; and
• The University of Sydney.

BioInfoSummer — AMSI Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics

Date & Venue: 2–6 December 2013; University of Adelaide, South Australia

BioInfoSummer is a major annual bioinformatics educational and outreach event in Australia, bringing together in excess of 150 biologists, statisticians and bioinformatics professionals.

Bioinformatics creates biological information and knowledge by the acquisition, archiving, integration, analysis and interpretation of biological data. Biotechnology, drug development, medicine, cancer research, agriculture and plant science are just a few of the many areas in which bioinformatics is having a massive impact.

Daily Themes

• Monday, 2 December: Introduction to biology and bioinformatics (link)
• Tuesday, 3 December: Evolutionary Biology (link)
• Wednesday, 4 December: Systems Biology (link)
• Thursday, 5 December Next Generation Sequencing (link)
• Friday, 6 December Programming for bioinformatics (link)

The program will include presentations by outstanding national and international speakers:

• Dr Sylvain Foret (The Australian National University)
• Dr Stéphane Guindon (The University of Auckland)
• Dr Joseph Heled (The Univesity of Auckland)
• Dr Barbara Holland (The University of Tasmania)
• A/Prof Gavin Huttley (Australian National University)
• Dr Ben Kaehler (Australian National University)
• Dr Karin Kassahn (SA Pathology)
• Prof Jeff Leek (Johns Hopkins University)
• Dr Martin Morgan (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
• Dr Ville Mäkinen (Helsinki University of Technology)
• Dr Alicia Oshlack (The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute)
• Prof Falk Schreiber (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
• Prof Terry Speed (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research)
• A/Prof Jean Yang (The University of Sydney)

The annual AMSI vacation schools and scholarships are funded jointly be the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. EMBL Australia and Bioplatforms Australia are major sponsors of BioInfoSummer.

Key dates:

• Last day for early bird registration: 1 November 2013
• Last day to submit an abstract: 23 November 2013
• Registration closes: 23 November 2013

Major sponsors

• EMBL Australia
• BioPlatforms Australia
• University of Adelaide
• DIISRTE, Australian Government
• VLSCI life sciences computation

MODSIM2013: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Date & Venue: 1–6 December 2013; Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia

The theme for this MODSIM 2013 event will be Adapting to Change: the multiple roles of modelling.

Plenary Speakers

• Prof Graeme Dandy (University of Adelaide)
  The multiple roles of modelling in water resources planning and management
• Prof Jerzy Filar (Flinders University)
  The power and limitations of mathematical models and Plato’s Cave Parable
• A/Prof Hedwig van Delden (Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, The Netherlands)
  Integrated modelling for policy support: lessons learnt and current challenges
• Dr Jeff Kepert (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
  The science and technology of forecasting severe weather
• Dr Maja Schlüter (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden)
  Embracing change – modeling for resilience thinking and ecosystem stewardship
• Prof Paul Whitehead (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  Adapting to climate change in freshwater ecosystems: multiple modelling approaches to assess processes, dynamics and strategies
• Dr Alex Zelinsky (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
  The challenges of modelling and simulation for defence and national security

Program Chairs

• Prof R.S. Anderssen (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics)
• Dr J. Piantadosi (University of SA)

Co-convenors

• Prof J. Boland (University of SA)
• Dr J. Piantadosi (University of SA)

Organising Committee

• Dr Robert Anderssen (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics)
• Dr Fred Bowden (Land Operations Division, DSTO)
• A/Prof Felix Chan (Curtin University)
• Dr Belinda Chiera (University of South Australia)
• Ms Susan Cuddy (CSIRO, Land and Water)
• Dr Paul Gaertner (Joint Operations Division, DSTO)
• Prof Tony Jakeman (The Australian National University)
• Mr Peter Manger (The Australian National University)
• Dr Malcolm McPhee (NSW Department of Primary Industries)
• Dr Peter Pudney (University of South Australia)
• Mr Tony Weber (BMT WBM, Brisbane)

Sponsors

11th Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference

Date: Sunday 01 – Wednesday 04 December, 2013

Venue: Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld.

The venue is located next to the Brisbane River and the Botanic Gardens. Public transport, accommodation, shopping and dining options are all within walking distance. There is also a Welcome Reception on the Sunday evening, and an Informal Restaurant Evening.

EMAC2013 is organised by the Engineering Mathematics Group, a special interest group with the Australian and New Zealand Industrial & Applied Mathematics Division of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Conference topics range broadly over engineering mathematics, statistics & OR and applications, including engineering mathematics education. Full papers are submitted after the conference for full peer review and publication in a special part of the Electronic Supplement of the ANZIAM Journal. The deadline for submission of papers will be early January 2014.

Contact

Please email: emac2013@qut.edu.au

CARMA OANT AGR seminar, UNiSA

Speaker: A/Prof Regina Burachik (UniSA)
Title: Interior Epigraph Directions Method for Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization via Generalized Augmented Lagrangian Duality
Time: 3:00 pm (AEDT), Tuesday 26 November 2013
Venue: University of South Australia
Also available on the Access Grid network (venue: UniSA).

Abstract: We propose and study a new method, called the Interior Epigraph Directions (IED) method, for solving constrained nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization. The IED method considers the dual problem induced by a generalized augmented Lagrangian duality scheme, and obtains the primal solution by generating a sequence of iterates in the interior of the dual epigraph.

• First, a deflected subgradient (DSG) direction is used to generate a linear approximation to the dual problem.
• Second, this linear approximation is solved using a Newton-like step. This Newton-like step is inspired by the Nonsmooth Feasible Directions Algorithm (NFDA), recently proposed by Freire and co-workers for solving unconstrained, nonsmooth convex problems.

We have modified the NFDA so that it takes advantage of the special structure of the epigraph of the dual function. We prove that all the accumulation points of the primal sequence generated by the IED method are solutions of the original problem. We carry out numerical experiments by using test problems from the literature. In particular, we study several instances of the Kissing Number Problem, previously solved by various approaches such as an augmented penalty method, the DSG method, as well as the popular differentiable solvers ALBOX (a predecessor of ALGENCAN), Ipopt and LANCELOT. Our experiments show that the quality of the solutions obtained by the IED method is comparable with (and sometimes favourable over) those obtained by the other solvers mentioned.

Joint work with Wilhelm P. Freire and C. Yalcin Kaya.
Seminar Convenor: Dr C. Yalcin Kaya (yalcin.kaya@unisa.edu.au)

AGR Technical Support: Richard Rawinski (Richard.Rawinski@unisa.edu.au)

This talk will be broadcast using Access Grid Technology from The University of South Australia. To participate in this seminar, book your University's AGR or a university/APAC etc. AGR that you are otherwise able to use. A listing of Access Grid nodes is available at: http://www.accessgrid.org/nodes.

This seminar notice and others are available on the AMSI Website (www.amsi.org.au): Events > AGR Events

If you (and your colleagues) wish to participate, please:

1. book your own AGR (or university/APAC etc. AGR that you otherwise are able to use), and ask your AGR technical people to contact Richard Rawinski Richard.Rawinski@unisa.edu.au.
2. The technical details to join the event:
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Contact:

Ms Maaike Wienk
Access Grid Coordinator
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Building 161, C/- The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
P: 03 8344 1776 | F: 03 9349 4106
E: agr@amsi.org.au | W: http://www.amsi.org.au

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

mini workshop with Russian visitors

Title: Mathematics from Novosibirsk to Sydney

Date: 1:30 pm, Monday 25 November 2013
Venue: RC-4082, Red Centre Building, Univ. of New South Wales.

We are planning for an open half-day workshop on Monday November 25 with a group of visiting Mathematicians, Statisticians and Computer Scientists from Novosibirsk State University. This will be a chance to forge new friendships with one of the strongest math departments in Russia.

The agenda will start with a meet and greet luncheon, then a series of ten short (15+5 minute) talks across the afternoon from five local speakers and five of the visiting group, with an afternoon tea. At the end of the day we will have a drinks and nibbles session, and those who are interested can go out to dinner together.

The research interests of our visitors range across a wide swath of Pure, Applied, Statistics and Computer Science areas; they are:

• Nikolay Abrosimov (chair of Geometry and Topology)
  Volumes of non-Euclidean polyhedra
• Evgeny Baklanov (chair of Probability and Statistics)
  generalized L-statistics
• Stanislav Bereznyuk (chair of Discrete mathematics)
  Model theory and Theory of numerations
• Olga Bogoyavlenskaya (chair of Geometry and Topology)
  Riemannian metrics on manifolds with prescribed holonomy groups
• Aleksandr Buturlakin (chair of Algebra and Mathematical Logic)
  Finite groups
• Aleksandr Bystrov (chair of Probability and Statistics)
  Limit theorems for the canonical statistics
• Pavel Emelyanov (chair of Programming)
  Semantic programming and abstract types of data
• Galina Lazareva (chair of Mathematical modelling)
  Numerical modelling in fluid dynamics
• Vitaly Lukinov (chair of Applied mathematics)
  Numerical methods of solving PDE
• Artem Pyatkin (chair of Theoretical Cybernetics)
  NP-completeness
• Evgeny Vdovin
  finite and locally finite groups

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please send me an email to Norman Wildberger (UNSW)
ph. 9385 7098, n.wildberger@unsw.edu.au

Recent developments of nonlinear PDEs

Dates: 25–29 November 2013
Venue: Manning Clark Theatre 5, Australian National University

This conference is a major event in the 2013 ANU special year on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations.

We focus on new developments in several themes of nonlinear PDEs and their applications, which include variational theory of nonlinear equations arising in mathematical physics, fully nonlinear equations arising in geometry and optimal transportation, and evolution equations arising in fluid mechanics, and other nonlinear problems in affine and conformal geometry. This conference will bring together leading international researchers and provide opportunities for Australian researchers, in particular junior researchers, to catch up with recent developments and exchange ideas with overseas experts.

Invited Speakers

• Ben Andrews (CMA, ANU)
• Henri Berestycki (EHESS, France)
• Stefano Bianchini (SISSA, Italy)
• Xavier Cabré (ICREA and UPC, Barcelona)
• Daomin Cao (Chinese Academy of Science)
• Monica Clapp (Univ Nacional Autónoma de México)
• Florica Cirstea (Univ of Sydney)
• Norman Dancer (Univ of Sydney)
• Manuel Del Pino (Univ of Chile)
• Yihong Du (Univ of New England)
• Lawrence Craig Evans (University of California at Berkeley)
• Alberto Farina (Univ of Picardie)
• Changfeng Gui (Univ of Connecticut)
• François Hamel (Univ d'Aix-Marseille)
• Minchun Hong (Univ of Queensland)
• Seick Kim (Yonsei Univ)
• Ki-ahm Lee (Seoul National Univ)
• Changshou Lin (National Taiwan Univ)
• Guozhen Lu (Wayne State Univ)
• Nikolai Nadirashvili (Univ d'Aix-Marseille)
• Ludovic Rifford (Univ de Nice)
• Susanna Terracini (Univ of Turin)
• Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institute and University of California)
• Laurent Veron (Université Francois Rabelais)
• Zhi-Qiang Wang (Utah State Univ and Nankai Univ)
• Juncheng Wei (Univ of British Columbia)
• Zhouping Xin (Chinese Univ of HK)
• Shusen Yan (Univ of New England)

Lighthouse DELTA 2013 — Shining through the fog

Dates: 24–29 November, 2013
Venue: “The Pavilion” conference centre, Bong Bong Street, Kiama, NSW, Australia.

Lighthouse DELTA 2013 builds on the knowledge and collegial networks established in previous Delta conferences, a series of biennial southern hemisphere symposia that began in Brisbane in 1997. Delta attracts a wide international audience of mathematicians, educators and researchers committed to improving undergraduate mathematics and statistics education.

The 2013 conference will be held at the Pavilion, in the coastal town Kiama, in New South Wales, Australia. The conference theme, Shining through the fog encapsulates the challenges faced by those with responsibilities for building the mathematics and statistics capacity needed for the 21st century.

Important dates

• IJMEST Submission Deadline: 25 March
• Registration Opens: 1 June
• Accomodation Promotion Deadline: 30 June
• Paper Submission Deadline: August 21
• Abstracts-only presentations: August 31
• Delta 2013 Begins! – 24 November

Organising Committee

• Cristina Varsavsky (Monash University) — Chair
  ph: +61 3 9905 4501; email: 2013delta@gmail.com
• Shaun Belward (James Cook University)
• Carmel Coady (University of Western Sydney)
• Deb King (University of Melbourne)
• Birgit Loch (Swinburne University)
• Dann Mallet (Queensland University of Technology)
• Kelly Matthews (University of Queensland)
• Mark Nelson (University of Wollongong)
• Leanne Rylands (University of Western Sydney)

International Steering Committee

• Tracy Craig
• Johann Engelbrecht
• John Hannah
• Ansie Harding
• Joel Hillel
• David Holgate
• Harvey Keynes
• Victor Luaces
• Aisling McCluskey
• Greg Oates
• Ivan Reilly
• Cristina Varsavsky
• Leigh Woods

Sponsors

• Swinburne University of Technology
• Monash University
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
• NSW Government
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Learning & Teaching Network (AMSLatNet)
• University of Queensland

Mathematics in Industry Study Group (MISG) 2014

Dates: Tuesday–Saturday 28 January – 1 February 2014
Venue: Science and Engineering Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane

The MISG workshop aims to provide practical, working solutions to real-life problems using methods from the mathematical sciences. Since its inception the MISG has worked with a diverse range of more than 90 Australian and New Zealand business and industry partners, ranging from large multinational conglomerates to small-to-medium enterprises, on more than 160 different projects spanning a broad spectrum of industry sectors – including mining, car manufacturing, railways and freight, manufacturing, metal processing, food and beverages, oil and gas, utilities, biomedical science, and technology.

The diversity of problems considered at the MISG is evident by considering even a small sample of past projects, namley:

• Strategic planning and optimisation in an open-cut coal mine;
• Pinpointing principal moments of inertia in a automotive engine assembly;
• Modelling of open vat red wine fermenters;
• Modelling the cooking process of a single grain of cereal;
• Blending of lubricants in petroleum production;
• Modelling the flow of pesticides through bunches of grapes;
• Analysing the impact of weather on power supply disruptions in an electricity network.

Download the flyer.

Registration:
Attendance and participation at MISG is FREE. However, in order to attend you must register by filling-in the online form.
Each student is responsible for organising their own travel, accommodation and sustenence.

Organisers:

• A/Prof. Troy Farrell: (QUT) — MISG Director
• Prof. Graeme Pettet: (QUT) — Assistant Director
• A/Prof. Scott McCue (QUT) — Assistant Director
• Mr. Ray Johnson (QUT) — Administration

Contact:
For further information please contact misg@qut.edu.au or the MISG Director.
Landline: (07) 3138 2364
Mobile: 0401 050530

12th AMSI Summer School

Dates & Venue : 6–31 January 2014; Australian National University, Canberra

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.

AT THE 2014 AMSI SUMMER SCHOOL

• Learn from Australia’s leading mathematicians and statisticians
• Choose from a wide range of courses to suit your specialty
• Gain credit towards your degree
• Meet future employers at the Careers Afternoon
• Build your networks at dinners, BBQs and special events
• Broaden and deepen your knowledge base with advanced coursework
• Discover the latest subjects in your discipline

The annual Summer School is funded jointly by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Speakers & Courses

The summer school will offer 8 courses.

• BioInformatics – Dr Conrad Burden (ANU)
• Conformal Field Theory and String Theory – Prof Peter Bouwknegt (ANU) & Dr David Ridout (ANU)
• Differential Geometry – Dr Ben Andrews (ANU) & Dr Julie Clutterbuck (ANU)
• Finite Element Method – Dr Bishnu Lamichhane (Univ. Newcastle)
• High-Dimensional Data – A/Prof Inge Koch (Univ. Adelaide) & Dr Samuel Müller (Univ. Sydney)
• Hydrodynamic Stability – A/Prof Sergey Suslov (Swinburne Univ.)
• K Theory – Dr Vigleik Angeltveit (ANU)
• Statistical Inference – Prof Alan Welsh (ANU) & A/Prof Robert Clark (Univ. Wollongong)

Registration: see the website.

• The first registration deadline is: 2 November 2013 — for those intending to apply for full travel & accommodation scholarship
• Final registration deadline: 30 November 2013

For more details of the program and financial support see the course synopses and other information.

Sponsors

• Australian Mathematical Society
• ANZIAM
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
• Australian National University
• Australian Government, Department of Industry

ANZIAM Early Career Workshop Feb 2014

after the ANZIAM 2014 conference, Rotorua, New Zealand.

Dates & Venue: 7th February 2014; Millenium Hotel Resort, Rotorua, New Zealand.

The ANZIAM Early Career Workshop is a great opportunity for early career researchers to meet together for networking, cameraderie, and a chance to learn from the experience of some great invited speakers. The meeting will be valuable for those just starting out their research careers as PhD students, through to researchers about five years post-PhD.

Workshop Format and Focus

Acting on feedback from previous workshops we will focus on advice sessions rather than research talks. We plan to have five or six sessions on a range of topics including: getting grants, writing CVs, academic career paths inside and outside Aus/NZ, and balancing research with other commitments. The sessions will be in a variety of formats including panel discussions, hands-on active workshops and presentations.

Invited Speakers

• Dr Clemency Montelle
• Dr Pen Holland
• Claire Postlethwaite
• Terry O'Kane

Organisers

• Alex James
• Richard Brown
• Roslyn Hickson

Registration is done through the ANZIAM conference registration page.

The ANZIAM 2014 Conference

Dates: 2–6 February, 2014
Venue: Millennium Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand

ANZIAM is the professional association for industrial and applied mathematics in Australia and New Zealand. The annual conference of ANZIAM is an established gathering of applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers, from academia and industry, which will be hosted by the New Zealand Branch in 2014. The host town of Rotorua is only 220 km south of Auckland.

Invited Speakers

• Alison Etheridge (Oxford, UK)
  Modelling evolution of different genetic types in spatially structured populations
• Lisa Fauci (Tulane, USA)
  Modeling the bio-fluid dynamics of reproduction: successes and challenges
• Douglas Heggie (Edinburgh, UK)
  Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics — a Three-Body Problem
• Shane Henderson (Cornell, USA)
  Real-Time Control of Ambulance Fleets through Statistics, Simulation and Optimization
• Shaun Hendy (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
  Slippery issues in micro and nanoscale flows
• Bernd Krauskopf (Auckland, NZ)
  Discovering the geometry of chaos
• Geoff Mercer (ANU — Michell Medalist)
  Disease modelling and its impact on policy decisions
• Terry O'Kane (CSIRO — Tuck Medalist)
  The statistical mechanics, dynamics and predictability of geophysical flows

Registration

Student attendance is supported through the CSIRO–ANZIAM student support scheme.

Contact

For any enquiries, please email anziam2014@math.auckland.ac.nz .

ANZAMP symposium
Probability in statistical mechanics

Date & Venue: 17 January 2014
Venue: AMSI Access Grid Room, Building 161, Parkville Campus, The University of Melbourne

Speakers

• 10:00–11:00am — Rick Kenyon (Brown University)
  Limit shapes for random surfaces

Abstract: I will discuss the analytic solution to the limit shape problem for random domino tilings and "lozenge" tilings, and in particular try to explain how these limiting surfaces develop facets.

• 11:30am –12:30 pm — Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
  Phase transitions and conformal invariance within planar fractal carpets

Abstract: It is now known for a number of models of statistical physics in two dimensions (such as percolation or the Ising model) that at their critical point, they do behave in a conformally invariant way in the large-scale limit, and do give rise in this limit to random fractals that can be mathematically described via Schramm's Stochastic Loewner Evolutions.

The goal of the present talk will be to discuss some aspects of what remains valid or should remain valid about such models and their conformal invariance, when one looks at them within a fractal-type planar domain. We shall in particular describe (and characterize) a continuous percolation interface within certain particular random fractal carpets. Part of this talk will be based on joint work with Jason Miller and Scott Sheffield.

Organiser

• Jan de Gier (jdgier@unimelb.edu.au)
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia

Registration

Participation is free. If you plan to attend or participate via Access Grid, please register by sending an email to mailto:agr@amsi.org.auagr@amsi.org.au with a CC to mshaw@amsi.org.au.