IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances in Moving Boundary Problems in Mechanics

Dates: 12–15 February 2018
Venue: University of Canterbury, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand

Many problems in mechanics involve deformable domains with moving boundaries. Examples include

• fluid-structure interaction
• free surface flows
• flows over soft tissues and textiles
• flows involving accretion/erosion
• flows through deformable porous media
• material forming
• shape optimisation

to name but a few. The interaction of the moving boundary with the participating media leads to fascinating phenomena in a very broad range of contexts such as:

• flutter
• wave-breaking
• dune formation
• ripple formation on the ocean floor
• flow instabilities
• structure resonance and failure
• atherosclerosis
• ice formation on aircraft wings.

This symposium, which is going to be the first IUTAM Symposium in New Zealand, aims to gather the community of engineers and scientists involved in moving boundary and related problems in mechanics.

The symposium will facilitate a mix of researchers working on the development of related mathematical methods and algorithms, and applications of recent and ongoing problems. We also encourage researchers performing experiments related to moving boundary problems to participate. Since the community of researchers involved in moving boundary problems in mechanics is fairly fragmented, we believe that this symposium will be a unique opportunity to cross-fertilise ideas and concepts from different disciplines of mechanics and foster engineering applications.

Symposium Organization

• Dr Stefanie Gutschmidt
• A/Prof Mathieu Sellier

Important Deadlines:

• Submission of Abstracts: October 20, 2017
• Notification of Acceptance: November 24, 2017
• Early Bird Registration: November 30, 2017

Local Organizing Committee

• Rosalind Archer
• Joel Balmer
• Sid Becker
• Richard Clarke
• Stefanie Gutschmidt
• James Hewett
• Mark Jermy
• Miguel Moyers Gonzalez
• Mathieu Sellier
• Phillip Wilson

For more information see the website.

Dates: 4-8th February 2017

Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia

This conference is the premier annual meeting in Australia and New Zealand, where leading and young applied mathematicians gather to exchange ideas to promote and advance the application of mathematics to science, engineering and industry.

More information available here.

Australian Algebra Conference 01

Dates: 27–29 November
Venue: University of Technology Sydney, Sydney CBD.
(Lecture space to be advised.)

The event continues the proud tradition that was previously known as the Victorian Algebra conference.

The aim of the annual Australian Algebra Conference is to foster communication between algebraists in Australia. We interpret algebra broadly, including areas such as topological algebra, algebraic logic, graph theory and coding theory. The conference is run by the Australian Algebra Group, which is a special interest group of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Registration

All information and registration details can be found at http://aac2017.ltumathstats.com/

Organisers

• Tony Dooley (UTS)
• Murray Elder (UTS) – local organiser
  email: Murray.Elder@uts.edu.au
• Lucia Kralova (UTS) – local administration, registration
  email: Lucia.Kralova@uts.edu.au
• Lawrence Reeves (Univ. Melbourne)
• Anne Thomas (Univ. Sydney)

Sponsors

• School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
• CARMA, The University of Newcastle
• Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS)

Month of Mathematical Biology

Dates: 27 June – 20 July 2018
Venue: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Water Street, Creswick, Victoria, 3363, Australia

Organisers

• Ruth Baker (Univ. Oxford, UK)
• Kevin Burrage (Queensland Univ. Tech.)
• Helen Byrne (Univ. Oxford)
• Edmund Crampin (Univ. Melbourne)
• Mark Flegg (Monash Univ.)
• Alexander Fletcher (Sheffield Univ., UK)
• Edward Green (Univ. Adelaide)
• Samuel Isaacson (Boston Univ., USA)
• James Osborne (Univ. Melbourne)
• Hans Othmer (Univ. Minnesota, USA)

related event

• Multicellular virtual tissues: towards drug discovery and improved therapies

ANZAMP 6th Annual Meeting

Dates: Tuesday 30 January – Thursday 1 February, 2018
Venue: Spencer on Byron Hotel, Takapuna, Auckland NZ.

An additional day, Friday 2nd Feb., will be dedicated to the celebration of the career of Ernie Kalnins (Univ. Waikato).

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Auckland and held at the Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna, Auckland in New Zealand from 30th January to 1st February, 2018. Takapuna is a central, coastal suburb of Auckland, popular for its beach, shops, cafes and restaurants.

Keynote speakers

• Maria Eugenia Gabach Clement (FaMAF-UNC, IFEG CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina)
• Vladimir Bazhanov (Australian National Univ.)
• Natasa Pavlovic (Univ. Texas, USA)
• Jingbo Wang (Univ. Western Australia)
• Tanja Schilling (Univ. Freiburg, Germany)
• Luc Vinet (Univ. Montréal, Canada)

For further information, including transport and accommodation information, see the conference website: http://www.anzamp.austms.org.au/meetings/current/

A. J. Guttmann Prize

This prize ($500) is awarded for the most outstanding talk by a student or recent graduate (PhD completed in the calendar year of the annual meeting) at the Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP). The prize is named in honour of Professor Anthony J. Guttmann, who has been, and continues to be, a leading figure in the mathematical physics community in Australia. Among many distinctions, Tony Guttmann has a distinguished research record in statistical mechanics, was President of the Australian Mathematical Society and was one of the leading figures in the establishment of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. Tony is renowned for the guidance and wisdom he offers to his colleagues and students, and he is a tireless advocate of programs for talented students in mathematical physics, and mathematics more generally.

Program Committee

• Sergei Kuzenko (Univ. Western Australia)
• Jonathan Kress (Univ. New South Wales)
• Nalini Joshi (Univ. Sydney)
• Milena Radnovic (Univ. Sydney)
• Thomas Quella (Univ. Melbourne)
• Phillip Isaac (Univ. Queensland)
• Mark Holmes (Univ. Melbourne)
• Rod Gover (Univ. Auckland)
• Bernd Krauskopf (Univ. Auckland)

Local Organising Committee

• Rod Gover (Univ. Auckland)
• Bernd Krauskopf (Univ. Auckland)
• Anna Barry (Univ. Auckland)
• Andrew Keane (Univ. Auckland)
• Pedram Hekmati (Univ. Auckland)

Administration

• Jörg Frauendiener (Univ. Otago)

Sponsors

• Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP)
• The Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland
• The Dodd–Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Further information

• Email: anzamp.meeting@gmail.com

ACSME 2017: Australian conference for Science and Mathematics Education

Dates & Venue: 27–29 September, Monash Univ., Clayton Campus

The Conference will be held on:

• Wednesday & Thursday, 27–28 September 2017
• The Discipline day, Friday 29 September 2017

The theme this year is: Science and mathematics teaching and learning for the 21st century.
This might include new ways of engaging students in and outside the classroom and/or lab, curriculum design, graduate outcomes, work integrated learning.

Conference local organising team

• Tina Overton, Monash University
• Chris Thompson, Monash University
• Cristina Varsavsky, Monash University

Program committee

• Tina Overton (Chair), Monash University
• Deb King, Melbourne University
• Barbie Panther, Federation University
• David Hoxley, LaTrobe University
• Yvonne Hodgson, Monash University
• Jan West, Deakin University

ACDS liaison

• Liz Johnson, Deakin University
• Jen Aughterson, Deakin University

String Geometries and Dualities

Dates: 11–15 September 2017.
Venue: University of Adelaide, 7.15 Ingkarni Wardli Building

The workshop is based on common mathematical structures underlying contemporary developments in String Geometries and Dualities, which occur in high energy physics, string theory, and related areas. It should be of interest to mathematicians and physicists working on the application of generalised geometry, K­-theory, topology, representation theory, index theory, and modular tensor categories to new problems in the above areas of physics. It is hoped that new research directions and collaborations will be forged during this interdisciplinary meeting.

For students, there will also be introductory lectures and opportunities to give talks.

International speakers

• Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
• Jarah Evslin (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Fei Han (National University of Singapore)
• Keith Hannabuss (Oxford University)
• Machiko Hatsuda (Juntendo University)

* Pedram Hekmati (University of Auckland)

• Meng-Chwan Tan (National University of Singapore)
• Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala University)

Registration and further details

Please take a look at the workshop webpage: http://www.iga.adelaide.edu.au/workshops/WorkshopSep2017/

Dates: 4-8th February 2017

Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia

This conference is the premier annual meeting in Australia and New Zealand, where leading and young applied mathematicians gather to exchange ideas to promote and advance the application of mathematics to science, engineering and industry.

More information available here.

AMSI Summer School 2018

Dates: 8 Jan.– 2 Feb. 2018
Venue: Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Victoria

What is Summer School?

AMSI Summer School 2018 is a four-week residential program hosted by Monash University. It offers eight exciting subjects by specialist lecturers from around Australia and students can study one or two subject areas including one subject for credit.

Honours and Postgraduate students in the mathematical sciences and cognate disciplines are invited to register their interest for this event, as well as researchers and professionals who may wish to get involved in the program extras offered at the AMSI Summer School.

To maximise the students’ experience, the School will feature domestic keynote speakers, researchers and/or lecturers, as well as a number of program extras including social events, a special guest public lecture, careers session, and a women in the maths panel event.

The School is primarily for honours and postgraduate students in the mathematical sciences and cognate disciplines, but other students are welcome to apply.

What courses are being offered?

• Iterative methods for sparse matrices
  A/Prof. Timothy Moroney (Queensland Univ. Tech.)
• Low-dimensional topology
  Dr Daniel Mathews (Monash Univ.) and A/Prof. Jessica Purcell (Monash Univ.)
• Mathematical relativity and Lorentzian geometry
  Dr Andy Hammerlindl (Monash Univ.) and A/Prof. Todd Oliynyk (Monash Univ.)
• Mathematics of extensional flow
  A/Prof. Yvonne Stokes (Univ. Adelaide)
• Probabilistic methods and random graphs
  Prof. Nick Wormald (Monash Univ.) and Dr Jane Gao (Monash Univ.)
• Probability, complex analysis and lattice models
  Dr. Laurie Field (Australian National Univ.) and Dr. Gregory Markowsky (Monash Univ.)
• Statistical machine learning
  Dr. Lamiae Azizi (Univ. Sydney)
• Topological data analysis
  Dr. Vanessa Robins (Australian National Univ.) and Dr. Katharine Turner (Australian National Univ.)

How can I register?

Apply for AMSI Summer School at http://ss.amsi.org.au/apply-now/.

AMSI Travel Grants and CHOOSEMATHS Grants can provide full or partial support for students and early career researchers. For more information, please visit the event website at http://ss.amsi.org.au/grants.

Sponsors

AMSI BioInfoSummer is funded jointly by:

• Australian Government Department of Education and Training
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI
• support from Monash University

AMSI BioInfoSummer 2017

Dates: 4–8 December 2017
Venue: Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Victoria

What is BioInfoSummer?

AMSI BioInfoSummer 2017, hosted by Monash University, is a key training event in Australia, bringing together people from all disciplines to share current research and developments in BioInformatics. Students, researchers, and professionals are invited to register for this event — to experience the exploration of research and information in the below areas:

Themes:

• Data Visualisation
• RNA-seq theory and practice
• Proteomics & metabolomics data
• Clinical bioinformatics & variant calling for disease
• Single-cell genomics

Invited Speakers:

• Dr Tallulah Andrews (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst.)
• Dr Mirana Ramialison (Australian Regenerative Medicine Inst.)
• Dr Ralf Schittenhelm (Proteomics Platform, Monash Univ.)
• Dr Tamara Heck (Digital Life Lab, Univ. Southern Queensland)

Attendees will also have the chance to network and engage with a panel of academics and professionals on bioinformatics careers.

How can I register?

Register at http://bis.amsi.org.au/register-now/.

AMSI Travel Grants and CHOOSEMATHS Grants can provide full or partial support for students and early career researchers. For more information and to apply please visit http://bis.amsi.org.au/apply-for-a-grant/.

Contact

Angela Coughlin
Project Coordinator, Research & Higher Education
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Building 161, Monash Road, c/- The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 Australia

IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances in Moving Boundary Problems in Mechanics

Dates: 12–15 February 2018
Venue: University of Canterbury, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand

Many problems in mechanics involve deformable domains with moving boundaries. Examples include

• fluid-structure interaction
• free surface flows
• flows over soft tissues and textiles
• flows involving accretion/erosion
• flows through deformable porous media
• material forming
• shape optimisation

to name but a few. The interaction of the moving boundary with the participating media leads to fascinating phenomena in a very broad range of contexts such as:

• flutter
• wave-breaking
• dune formation
• ripple formation on the ocean floor
• flow instabilities
• structure resonance and failure
• atherosclerosis
• ice formation on aircraft wings.

This symposium, which is going to be the first IUTAM Symposium in New Zealand, aims to gather the community of engineers and scientists involved in moving boundary and related problems in mechanics.

The symposium will facilitate a mix of researchers working on the development of related mathematical methods and algorithms, and applications of recent and ongoing problems. We also encourage researchers performing experiments related to moving boundary problems to participate. Since the community of researchers involved in moving boundary problems in mechanics is fairly fragmented, we believe that this symposium will be a unique opportunity to cross-fertilise ideas and concepts from different disciplines of mechanics and foster engineering applications.

Symposium Organization

• Dr Stefanie Gutschmidt
• A/Prof Mathieu Sellier

Important Deadlines:

• Submission of Abstracts: October 20, 2017
• Notification of Acceptance: November 24, 2017
• Early Bird Registration: November 30, 2017

Local Organizing Committee

• Rosalind Archer
• Joel Balmer
• Sid Becker
• Richard Clarke
• Stefanie Gutschmidt
• James Hewett
• Mark Jermy
• Miguel Moyers Gonzalez
• Mathieu Sellier
• Phillip Wilson

For more information see the website.

Dates: 4-8th February 2017

Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia

This conference is the premier annual meeting in Australia and New Zealand, where leading and young applied mathematicians gather to exchange ideas to promote and advance the application of mathematics to science, engineering and industry.

More information available here.

ANZAMP 6th Annual Meeting

Dates: Tuesday 30 January – Thursday 1 February, 2018
Venue: Spencer on Byron Hotel, Takapuna, Auckland NZ.

An additional day, Friday 2nd Feb., will be dedicated to the celebration of the career of Ernie Kalnins (Univ. Waikato).

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Auckland and held at the Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna, Auckland in New Zealand from 30th January to 1st February, 2018. Takapuna is a central, coastal suburb of Auckland, popular for its beach, shops, cafes and restaurants.

Keynote speakers

• Maria Eugenia Gabach Clement (FaMAF-UNC, IFEG CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina)
• Vladimir Bazhanov (Australian National Univ.)
• Natasa Pavlovic (Univ. Texas, USA)
• Jingbo Wang (Univ. Western Australia)
• Tanja Schilling (Univ. Freiburg, Germany)
• Luc Vinet (Univ. Montréal, Canada)

The meeting has a tradition of encouraging contributed talks in a wide range of topics in mathematical physics. Especially encouraged are talks from ANZAMP student members who are eligible to compete for the AJ Guttmann student talk prize.

• The earlybird registration deadline is Wednesday 1 November 2017
• abstract deadline is Wednesday 15 November 2017.

Please register and book accommodation early. We are holding only a limited number of special rate rooms at the Spencer on Byron.

For further information, including transport and accommodation information, see the conference website: http://www.anzamp.austms.org.au/meetings/current/

A.J. Guttmann Prize

This prize ($500) is awarded for the most outstanding talk by a student or recent graduate (PhD completed in the calendar year of the annual meeting) at the Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP). The prize is named in honour of Professor Anthony J. Guttmann, who has been, and continues to be, a leading figure in the mathematical physics community in Australia. Among many distinctions, Tony Guttmann has a distinguished research record in statistical mechanics, was President of the Australian Mathematical Society and was one of the leading figures in the establishment of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. Tony is renowned for the guidance and wisdom he offers to his colleagues and students, and he is a tireless advocate of programs for talented students in mathematical physics, and mathematics more generally.

Program Committee

• Sergei Kuzenko (Univ. Western Australia)
• Jonathan Kress (Univ. New South Wales)
• Nalini Joshi (Univ. Sydney)
• Milena Radnovic (Univ. Sydney)
• Thomas Quella (Univ. Melbourne)
• Phillip Isaac (Univ. Queensland)
• Mark Holmes (Univ. Melbourne)
• Rod Gover (Univ. Auckland)
• Bernd Krauskopf (Univ. Auckland)

Local Organising Committee

• Rod Gover (Univ. Auckland)
• Bernd Krauskopf (Univ. Auckland)
• Anna Barry (Univ. Auckland)
• Andrew Keane (Univ. Auckland)
• Pedram Hekmati (Univ. Auckland)

Administration

• Jörg Frauendiener (Univ. Otago)

Sponsors

• Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP)
• The Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland
• The Dodd–Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Further information

• Email: anzamp.meeting@gmail.com

IGA Australia–China Conference on Non-Commutative Geometry

Dates & Venue: 18–22 December 2017
Venue: The University of Adelaide, South Australia

Noncommutative geometry (NCG) is a theory using algebra of operators to study a class of nonstandard spaces, initially arising from quantum mechanics. Over the past few decades, it developed into an active research area with connections to many branches of mathematics and physics. This conference will bring together leading experts and early career researchers working in several streams of NCG, namely, C*-algebra, dynamics, K-theory, representation theory and mathematical physics, to promote the dissemination of novel research findings. This conference is a great opportunity for research communications and collaborations between Australian and Chinese mathematicians, and between students and experts in this field.

Future Directions in Representation Theory

Dates & Venue: 4–8 December, University of Sydney

Location

The conference will be held in Lecture Theatre 1170 in the new Abercrombie Building, on the corner of Abercrombie St and Codrington St, in the Darlington part of the main Camperdown/Darlington campus of The University of Sydney. See the campus map and transport information.

Invited speakers:

• David Baraglia (Univ. Adelaide)
• Jonathan Brundan (Univ. Oregon, USA)
• Charlotte Chan (Univ. Michigan, USA)
• Emily Cliff (UI Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Kevin Coulembier (Univ. Sydney)
• Olivier Dudas (Paris, France)
• Michael Ehrig (Univ. Sydney)
• Inna Entova-Aizenbud (Ben Gurion Univ., Israel)
• Jessica Fintzen (Univ. Michigan, USA)
• Peter Hochs (Univ. Adelaide)
• Anthony Licata (ANU)
• Gunter Malle (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany)
• Peter McNamara (Univ. Queensland)

• Arun Ram (Melbourne)
• Simon Riche (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
• Laura Rider (Univ. Georgia, USA)
• Peng Shan (Univ. Paris Sud – Orsay, France)
• Monica Vazirani (UC Davis, USA)
• Ben Webster (Waterloo/Perimeter Institute, Canada)
• Ting Xue (Univ. Melbourne)
• Yaping Yang (Univ. Melbourne)
• Xinwen Zhu (Caltech, USA)

Organizing committee:

• Anthony Henderson (Univ. Sydney) — chair
• Pramod Achar (Louisiana State Univ., USA)
• Zsuzsanna Dancso (Univ. Sydney)
• Masoud Kamgarpour (Univ. Queensland)
• Geordie Williamson (Univ. Sydney)
• Oded Yacobi (Univ. Sydney)

Sponsors:

• The University of Sydney
• The University of Queensland
• the National Science Foundation (NSF)
• AMSI
• AustMS

Workshop on mathematical modelling of risk and contiguous topics

Dates: 27 Nov.– 1 Dec. 2017
Venue: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Water Street, Creswick, Victoria, 3363, Australia

The workshop is an integral part of the approved MATRIX@Melbourne program on “Mathematics of Risk” to be run from 20 November to 8 December 2017.

The workshop topics include, but are not be limited to,

• the modelling of uncertainty and risk events using the theory of stochastic processes, in particular the evaluation of the distributions of boundary functionals of random processes;
• new methods for and approaches to computing the prices of financial derivatives;
• the systemic risk and network modelling of relevant real-life systems;
• the risk modelling and quantification, including risk measures;
• the analysis of model risk;
• the mathematical modelling of extreme events in various applied areas.

2017 Moyal Medal Presentation and Public Lecture

The Moyal Medal Committee Macquarie University invites you to attend the presentation of the 2017 Moyal Medal to Professor Hinke Osinga, University of Auckland.

Speaker: Prof Hinke Osinga (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand)
Date & Time: Thursday 2 November 2017 at 7:00–8:30pm
Place: E7A Level 8, 12 Wally's Walk, Macquarie University
Title: The art of computing global manifolds

To attend please register here.

Abstract: Global manifolds are the backbone of a dynamical system and key to the characterisation of its behaviour. They arise in the classical sense of invariant manifolds associated with saddle-type equilibria or periodic orbits and, more recently, in the form of finite-time invariant manifolds in system that evolve on multiple time scales. Dynamical systems theory relies heavily on the knowledge of such manifolds, because of the geometric insight that they can offer into how observed behaviour arises. In applications, global manifolds need to be computed and visualised so that quantitative information about the overall system dynamics can be obtained. This requires accurate numerical methods and a precise understanding of how the computations depend on various model parameters. The computation of global manifolds is a serious challenge, but an effort that pays off. This talk will focus on two case studies that represent the most recent developments in this area.

About Professor Hinke Osinga

Hinke Osinga is Professor of Applied Mathematics at The University of Auckland in New Zealand since 2011. Her doctorate is from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and she held positions at the University of Minnesota, Caltech, the University of Exeter, and the University of Bristol. She is an expert in dynamical systems and its applications and well known for developing and employing numerical methods for computing global objects known as invariant manifolds. Her publications, illustrations, animations and outreach activities have made her famous worldwide in the mathematics and arts communities.

She held an Advanced Research Fellowship of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, was invited to speak at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians, and was awarded the Research Award of the New Zealand Mathematical Society. She is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society.

The lecture will follow the presentation of the Medal, followed by...

Contact: For more information, please contact Christine Hale (christine.hale@mq.edu.au) or tel: (02) 9850 8947.

Map: for location details see M20 on the campus map.

Parking: Parking fees apply. Tickets can be purchased from vending machines in car parks (accepts coins and credit cards). W4, X3 and X4 car parks are designated for casual parking.

Catherine Le Fèvre Women in Science Symposium

Date: Friday, 20 October
Venue: Room165/7 MGSM, Macquarie University

This one day event is being hosted by the Department of Molecular Sciences (previously known as CBMS) in Room165/7 at MGSM, Macquarie University. The programme features a group of accomplished and dynamic leaders in different scientific disciplines (Mathematics, Environmental Science, Materials, Chemistry, and Biochemistry) who will share their personal career journeys in combination with insights into their own area of scientific expertise. The event will also celebrate Macquarie’s current research talent in the areas of both chemistry and biomolecular sciences with contributions from early career researchers.

We are encouraging both men and women to attend this complimentary event for staff, researchers of all career stages, and students.

Register at http://www.cvent.com/d/15qtjw.

The programme includes:

• Professor Nalini Joshi: Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney
• Dr Cathy Foley: Deputy and Science Director of CSIRO Manufacturing
• Professor Barbara Messerle: Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University
• Dr Lindsey Mackay: General Manager, NMI’s Chemical and Biological Metrology Branch
• Professor Nicki Packer: Macquarie University and Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
• Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes: Pro-vice Chancellor, Macquarie University
• Professor Alison Rodger: Head of Department, Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University

Please register so that we can attempt to cater for you. If you register and then cannot attend PLEASE DO let us know in time to ensure food is not wasted.

Statistical Challenges in Astronomy

Dates: 7–8 December 2017
Venue: RC4082, The Red Center, University of New South Wales

Current and future astronomical survey projects produce large volumes of high quality data to enable research on topics including the formation and evolution of the Milky Way, the architecture of exoplanetary systems, and the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.

This workshop will bring together statisticians and astronomers to stimulate discussions of new ideas and foster new collaborations, and hence accelerate discovery across disciplinary boundaries. Topics will include:

• group finding for big data
• high dimensional data visualisation
• generative models
• Bayesian modelling.

The format of the workshop seeks to overcome cross disciplinary language barriers and to initiate potential collaborations between participants.

Invited Speakers

• Daniel Foreman-Mackey (Univ. Washington, USA) – Keynote: Astronomy,
• Inge Koch (Univ. Adelaide) – Keynote: Statistics
• Sanjib Sharma (Univ. Sydney) – Astronomy,
• Tomasz Bednarz (UNSW) – Data visualisation
• Minh Ngoc Tran (Univ. Sydney) – Statistics

REGISTRATION

Register for this workshop HERE.

• registration is free, but places are limited.
• deadline for registration is 23rd November, 2017.

If you would like to present at the workshop, please send the title and abstract to Yanan Fan (y.fan@unsw.edu.au).

Please note that:

• lunch and refreshments will be provided.
• domestic attendees from AMSI Member organisations have access to funding via the http://research.amsi.org.au/travel-funding/AMSI travel fund. The list of organisations can be found here.
• Students or early career researchers from AMSI member universities without access to a suitable research grant or other source of funding may apply to the Head of Mathematical Sciences for subsidy of travel and accommodation out of the departmental travel allowance.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• Yanan Fan (School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW)
• Sarah Martell (School of Physics, UNSW)
• Andrew Casey (School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash Univ.)
• John Ormerod (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. Sydney)
• Catherine Greenhill (School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW)

Gauge Theory and Higher Geometry
A conference honouring Michael Murray's contributions to mathematics.

Dates & Venue: 27 November – 1 December 2017
Venue: Room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardlii Building, The University of Adelaide, South Australia

This meeting will bring together leading international and Australian researchers to discuss new developments in differential geometry, with a particular emphasis on the areas of gauge theory and higher geometry in recognition of the important contributions that Michael Murray has made to these fields over the last four decades.

The meeting will feature talks by invited speakers on current research topics, which will both describe recent advances in the areas of the workshop as well as highlight applications of these topics to other important areas in mathematics and physics. In more detail, the format of the meeting will be as follows: morning talks, by keynote speakers (one of whom includes Professor Frances Kirwan, FRS), will be 1 hour in length, followed by shorter, more focussed, afternoon talks of 45 minutes duration. We have also scheduled breaks in the middle of the day during which we hope that participants will be able to hold productive discussions on aspects of the different research topics that are being presented.

Invited speakers

• David Baraglia (Univ. Adelaide)
• Peter Bouwknegt (Australian National Univ.)
• Alan Carey (Australian National Univ.)
• Alexander Campbell (Macquarie Univ.)
• Michael Eastwood (Univ. Adelaide)
• Kiyonori Gomi (Shinshu Univ., Japan)
• Rod Gover (Univ. Auckland, NZ)
• Peter Jarvis (Univ. Tasmania)
• Frances Kirwan (Univ. Oxford, UK)
• Jouko Mickelsson (Univ. Helsinki, Sweden)
• Paul Norbury (Univ. Melbourne)
• Marcy Robertson (Univ. Melbourne)
• Kelli Francis-Staite (Univ. Oxford, UK)
• Michael Singer (University College London, UK)
• Bai-Ling Wang (Australian National Univ.)

Distinguished Video Lecture, 28 November 2017

Sir Michael Atiyah will deliver a video lecture on 28 November 2017.

IGA Distinguished Lecture Series

Frances Kirwan (Univ. Oxford, UK) will deliver a series of lectures
during the week of 4–6 December 2017.
For more information please click here.

Organising Committee

• Diarmuid Crowley (Univ. Melbourne)
• Pedram Hekmati (Univ. Adelaide)
• Danny Stevenson (Univ. Adelaide)
• Melissa Tacy (Australian National Univ.)
• Guo Chuan Thiang (Univ. Adelaide)
• Raymond Vozzo (Univ. Adelaide)

The workshop is funded by the Institute for Geometry and its Applications (IGA), the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and the Australian Mathematical Society. AMSI allocates a travel allowance to each of its member universities (for a list of members, click here).

Students and Early Career Researchers from AMSI member universities without access to suitable research grant or other source of funding may apply to their Head of Mathematical Sciences for subsidy of travel and accommodation out of the departmental travel allowance. For more information, click here.