!NZ Probability Workshop 2014

Dates: 6–10 January, 2014
Venue: Distinction Te Anau Hotel, Te Anau, New Zealand

This 5 day workshop will consist of 3–4 days of talks with 1–2 days left open for discussion/excursion.

• Intended arrival and departure dates to/from Te Anau are Sunday Jan 5 and Saturday Jan 11 respectively.
• Accommodation will be provided at Te Anau Lakeview Holiday Park.
• The most convenient way to get there is to fly to Queenstown (e.g. with Air NZ or Jetstar) and take a bus (e.g. tracknet) or drive to Te Anau.
• A bus has been chartered a bus for the return journey from Queenstown airport to Te Anau, departing 3pm on Sunday 5 and 9:30am on Saturday 11.

Planned excursion(s) are weather dependent and include a half or full-day hike on the Kepler track, and a trip (likely at own cost) to Milford Sound.

Organiser

Mark Holmes (Univ. Auckland) m.holmes@auckland.ac.nz

ANZAMP Inaugural Meeting

Date & Venue: 27–29 November 2013; Mantra Resort, Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.

Reception: Tuesday 26 November 2013

The Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics will hold its inaugural annual meeting in the seaside town of Lorne, Victoria. Registration to this meeting is now open via the conference website. ANZAMP aims to attract a broad audience.

Keynote Speakers

• Peter Forrester (The University of Melbourne)
• Vladimir B. Matveev (Université de Bourgogne, France)
• John Roberts (The University of New South Wales)
• Robert Thompson (The University of Otago, New Zealand)

Sponsors

• Australian Mathematical Society
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS)
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
• Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU
• School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
• School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
• School of Physics, The University of Western Australia

Further information

• Jon Links (Director, Univ Queensland)
• Kerry Hill (Administrative Officer anzamp.meeting@gmail.com)

ANZIAM Early Career Workshop Feb 2014

after the ANZIAM 2014 conference, Rotorua, New Zealand.

Date: Friday 7th February 2014
Venue: 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 (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Dr Pen Holland (Landcare Research)
• Claire Postlethwaite (Univ. Auckland)
• Terry O'Kane (CSIRO)

Organisers

• Alex James (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Richard Brown (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Roslyn Hickson (Univ. Newcastle)

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 .

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

Geometric invariance and nonlinear partial differential equations

Dates: 9–14 February 2014
Venue: Kioloa Coastal Campus, Australian National University, Edith and Joy London Foundation

This conference is the second major event in the 2013 ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute special year on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. The aim of the meeting is to bring together Australian and international researchers in geometric aspects of nonlinear PDE with particular emphasis on:

• geometric flows and their applications;
• affine, conformal,complex and convex geometric structures;
• problems arising from Lie group invariances.

The meeting will have the structure of an Oberwolfach or Banff Workshop.

• February 9 will be the arrival date with a welcoming function in the evening.
• Lectures will take place from the morning of Monday, February 10 until lunch time on Friday, February 14,
• hike in the Murramarang National Park tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, February 12,
• followed by the conference dinner in the evening.

Registration

Registration is now open! (register online)

• Full registration fee (incl. meals): AUD350
• closing date: 15 January 2014

Overseas participants

• Kazuo Akutagawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Zbiginiew Blocki (Jagellionian University, Krakow)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University)
• Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
• Ferdinand Coda-Marquez (IMPA and Paris)
• Xiaojun Huang (Rutgers University)
• Gerhard Huisken (University of Tübingen)
• Haizhong Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
• Fang-hua Lin (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
• Monika Ludwig (Technical University of Vienna)
• Hui Ma (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
• Xinan Ma (University of Science and Technology, Hefei)
• Gaven Martin (Massey University, Auckland)
• Joel Merker (Uni Paris XI)
• Andre Neves (Imperial College, London)
• Duong Phong (Columbia University)
• Jie Qing (UC Santa Cruz)
• Severine Rigot (University of Nice)
• Felix Schulze (University College, London)
• Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)
• Yuguang Shi (Beijing Univ)
• Gang Tian (Princeton and Beijing Universities)
• Peter Topping (Uni Of Warwick)
• Ben Weinkove (Northwestern University)
• Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge)
• Paul Yang (Princeton University)

Scientific Committee

• Ben Andrews (ANU)
• Neil Trudinger (ANU)
• Paul Yang (Princeton, USA)

Organising Committee

• Ben Andrews (ANU)
• Julie Clutterbuck (ANU)
• Alexander Isaev (ANU)
• Neil Trudinger (ANU)
• James McCoy (Univ. Wollongong)

Statistical Analyses dealing with Water & Environment

Speaker: Dr Mark James Fielding (DHI Water & Environment)
Time & Date: 11.00am AEDT; Monday 16 December 2013
Venue: Room 310 (Access Grid Room), Physical Sciences 2, La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus.

Abstract: With varied methods used for multivariate extreme value analyses, a number of different techniques are compared, toward the development of a more standard approach. Issues will be addressed with the determination of univariate and bivariate extreme levels, with applications in extreme rainfall.

Time permitting, other areas of statistical analyses in Water & Environment may touched upon, including Gaussian process emulation of nonlinear computer outputs.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Andriy Olenko (a.olenko@latrobe.edu.au)
AGR IT support: Dr Darren Condon (d.condon@latrobe.edu.au)

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 Darren in advance of the seminar date; and
2. inform Andriy of your intention to participate.

This notice is available on the AMSI website (http://www.amsi.org.au): Events > AGR Events

SigmaOpt seminar, UNiSA

Speaker: Oleg Burdakov (Linköping University, Sweden)
Title: An approach to solving decomposable optimization problems with coupling constraints
Time: 2:30 pm (ACDT – Adelaide time), 3:00pm (AEDT), Tuesday 10 December 2013
Venue: Room Q1-01, Mawson Lakes Campus
Also available on the Access Grid network (venue: UniSA).

Abstract: We consider a problem of minimising f_1(x)+f_2(y) over x \in X \subseteq \mathbb{R}ⁿ and y \in Y \subseteq \mathbb{R}^m subject to a number of extra coupling constraints of the form g_1(x)\,g_2(y) \geq 0. Due to these constraints, the problem may have a large number of local minima. For any feasible combination of signs of g_1(x) and g_2(y), the coupled problem is decomposable, and the resulting two problems are assumed to be easily solved. An approach to solving the coupled problem is presented. We apply it to solving coupled monotonic regression problems arising in experimental psychology.

Co-authors: John C. Dunn (Univ. Adelaide) and Mike Kalish (Syracuse)

Seminar Convenor: A/Prof Regina Burachik (Regina.Burachik@unisa.edu.au)

Technical contact: 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 is available on the AMSI Website (www.amsi.org.au): Events > AGR Events

It is an event organized by AMSI, SigmaOpt (ANZIAM Special Interest Group in Mathematical Optimization) at University of South Australia.

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 send an email to the seminar convenor at the University of South Australia (Regina Burachik) to advise that you will be attending the seminar.
2. The technical details to join the event:
   1. From the venue client Window.
   2. Go to Navigation -> Add Venue
   3. Enter Name: UniSA

Contact:

Ms Maaike Wienk
Access Grid Coordinator
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Building 161, C/- The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
P: 03 8344 1777 | F: 03 9349 4106
E: agr@amsi.org.au | W: http://www.amsi.org.au

CIAM & SigmaOpt seminar, UNiSA

Speaker: Professor Robert M. Corless (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Title: High-order, High-accuracy Solution of a Nonlinear PDE Arising in a Two-dimensional Heat Transfer Model
Time: 2:30 pm (ACDT – Adelaide time), 3:00pm (AEDT), Monday 9 December 2013
Venue: Room Q1-01, Mawson Lakes Campus
Also available on the Access Grid network (venue: UniSA).

Abstract: A classical nonlinear PDE used for modelling heat transfer between concentric cylinders by fluid convection and also for modelling porous flow can be solved by hand using a low-order perturbation method. Extending this solution to higher order using computer algebra is surprisingly hard owing to exponential growth in the size of the series terms, naively computed. In the mid-1990s, so-called Large Expression Management tools were invented to allow construction and use of so-called computation sequences or straight-line programs to extend the solution to 11th order. The cost of the method was O(N⁸) in memory, high but not exponential. Twenty years of doubling of computer power allows this method to get 15 terms. A new method, which reduces the memory cost to O(N⁴), allows us to compute to N=30. At this order, singularities can reliably be detected using the quotient–difference algorithm. This allows confident investigation of the solutions, for different values of the Prandtl number.

This work is joint with Yiming Zhang (PhD Oct 2013).

Seminar Convenor: Dr C. Yalcin Kaya (Yalcin.Kaya@unisa.edu.au)

Technical contact: 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 is available on the AMSI Website (www.amsi.org.au): Events > AGR Events

It is an event organized by AMSI, SigmaOpt (ANZIAM Special Interest Group in Mathematical Optimization) and the Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM) at University of South Australia.

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 send an email to the seminar convenor at the University of South Australia (Yalcin Kaya) to advise that you will be attending the seminar.
2. The technical details to join the event:
   1. From the venue client Window.
   2. Go to Navigation -> Add Venue
   3. Enter Name: UniSA

Contact:

Ms Maaike Wienk
Access Grid Coordinator
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Building 161, C/- The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
P: 03 8344 1777 | F: 03 9349 4106
E: agr@amsi.org.au | W: http://www.amsi.org.au

Geometric invariance and nonlinear partial differential equations

Dates: 9–14 February 2014
Venue: Kioloa Coastal Campus, Australian National University, Edith and Joy London Foundation

This conference is the second major event in the 2013 ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute special year on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. The aim of the meeting is to bring together Australian and international researchers in geometric aspects of nonlinear PDE with particular emphasis on:

• geometric flows and their applications;
• affine, conformal,complex and convex geometric structures;
• problems arising from Lie group invariances.

The meeting will have the structure of an Oberwolfach or Banff Workshop.

• February 9 will be the arrival date with a welcoming function in the evening.
• Lectures will take place from the morning of Monday, February 10 until lunch time on Friday, February 14,
• hike in the Murramarang National Park tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, February 12,
• followed by the conference dinner in the evening.

Registration

Registration is now open! (register online)

• Full registration fee (incl. meals): AUD350
• closing date: 15 January 2014

Overseas participants

• Kazuo Akutagawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Zbiginiew Blocki (Jagellionian University, Krakow)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University)
• Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
• Ferdinand Coda-Marquez (IMPA and Paris)
• Xiaojun Huang (Rutgers University)
• Gerhard Huisken (University of Tübingen)
• Haizhong Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
• Fang-hua Lin (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
• Monika Ludwig (Technical University of Vienna)
• Hui Ma (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
• Xinan Ma (University of Science and Technology, Hefei)
• Gaven Martin (Massey University, Auckland)
• Joel Merker (Uni Paris XI)
• Andre Neves (Imperial College, London)
• Duong Phong (Columbia University)
• Jie Qing (UC Santa Cruz)
• Severine Rigot (University of Nice)
• Felix Schulze (University College, London)
• Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)
• Yuguang Shi (Beijing Univ)
• Gang Tian (Princeton and Beijing Universities)
• Peter Topping (Uni Of Warwick)
• Ben Weinkove (Northwestern University)
• Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge)
• Paul Yang (Princeton University)

Scientific Committee

• Ben Andrews (ANU)
• Neil Trudinger (ANU)
• Paul Yang (Princeton, USA)

Organising Committee

• Ben Andrews (ANU)
• Julie Clutterbuck (ANU)
• Alexander Isaev (ANU)
• Neil Trudinger (ANU)
• James McCoy (Univ. Wollongong)

ANZIAM Early Career Workshop Feb 2014

after the ANZIAM 2014 conference, Rotorua, New Zealand.

Date: Friday 7th February 2014
Venue: 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 (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Dr Pen Holland (Landcare Research)
• Claire Postlethwaite (Univ. Auckland)
• Terry O'Kane (CSIRO)

Organisers

• Alex James (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Richard Brown (Univ. Canterbury, NZ)
• Roslyn Hickson (Univ. Newcastle)

Registration is done through the ANZIAM conference registration page.

On behalf of the Statistical Society of Australia and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the organising committee invite you to register your interest in attending the joint:

Australian Statistical Conference

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting

Dates & Venue: 7–10 July 2014; Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia

Delegates from all areas of statistics will join with world class Australian and International statisticians and mathematicians to develop, network and share their knowledge and expertise. In 2014 the Statistical Society of Australia will hold its biennial Australian Statistical Conference in conjunction with the IMS Annual meeting. The Conference will provide opportunities for presentations on a wide range of topics and recognises the role that statistics plays in all aspects of modern life.

The conference objectives are to:

• attract world class statisticians to share their knowledge and expertise;
• inform delegates about new work and developments in statistics, probability and mathematical statistics;
• provide an opportunity for professionals from all of these aforementioned areas to network, present and discuss ideas.

Topics of interest include: spatial statistics, bayesian statistics, computational and asymptotic statistics, sample surveys/methodology, stochastic/statistical modelling, biostatistics, multivariate statistics, probability, mathematical statistics, econometrics and financial statistics.

Local Organising Committee

• Richard Gerlach (University of Sydney) — Co-Conference Convenor
• Geoff Lee — Co Conference Convenor, Former President of SSAI
• Jennifer Chan (University of Sydney)
• Boris Choy (University of Sydney)
• Edward Szoldra (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• Celina Quizon (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• Paul Sutcliffe (SA Branch of SSAI )
• Qiying Wang (University of Sydney)

SSAI Program Committee

• Scott A. Sisson (University of New South Wales) — chair
• Adrian Barnett (Queensland University of Technology)
• Susannah Cramb (Cancer Council Queensland)
• Jianqing Fan (Princeton University)
• Richard Gerlach (University of Sydney)
• Rob Hyndman (Monash University)
• Joshua Ross (University of Adelaide)
• Matt Wand (University of Technology Sydney)
• Alan Welsh (Australian National University)

IMS Program Committee

• Jianqing Fan (Princeton University) — chair
• Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
• Andrew Barbour (University of Zurich)
• Jim Berger (Duke University)
• Peter Bickel (Berkley Research, University of California)
• Tony Cai (Wharton University of Pennsylvania)
• Aurore Delaigle (University of Melbourne)
• Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Peter Hall (University of Melbourne)
• Jiashun Jin (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Iain Johnstone (Stanford University)
• Emmanuel Candes (Stanford University)
• Sara van de Geer (ETH, Zurich)
• Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall, Institute of Medical Research)
• Scott A. Sisson (University of New South Wales)
• Rene A Carmona (Princeton University)
• Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington)
• Steve Evans (Berkeley University)
• Steve Lalley (University of Chicago)
• Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH, Zurich)
• Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego)
• Ma Zhiming (Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, CAS)

Joint IISME and FYiMaths Project National forum
Assumed knowledge in maths: its broad impact on tertiary STEM programs

The First Year in Maths Project and the Institute of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education invites you to a National Forum.

Dates: 13–14 February 2014
Venue: Eastern Ave Lecture Theatre, The University of Sydney
RSVP: by 3 February 2014 at: http://sydney.edu.au/news/iisme/1875.html?eventid=10507

Does the level of maths preparation affect your students' progression in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics and engineering?

There is increasing awareness that many students entering STEM degree programs do not possess the assumed knowledge in mathematics required to succeed. This is not only evident to academics teaching mathematics in first year, but across other disciplines such as science and engineering, where students struggle to apply mathematical skills in the context of their discipline. Universities are developing a range of responses to the deficit in mathematical skills and knowledge, but the challenges of designing and delivering the STEM curriculum to under prepared students remains.

This forum will be relevant to academics with an interest in teaching and learning across science, technology, engineering and maths disciplines. It will provide a unique opportunity for academics to discuss the broad impact assumed knowledge, rather than hard pre-requisites, has on tertiary programs. This will include their perspective on student enrolment, subject development, student progression/retention and expectations across STEM disciplines and the consequent workload factors. Representatives of peak bodies and curriculum authorities will be invited to attend.

Participants will have an opportunity to share experiences and to develop strategies for moving the debate forward. Presentations from key scientists and academics researching in this area will provide context for extended discussion and consideration of possible solutions.

Program

The event will be held over two days. (program)

• Day 1
  The forum will be opened with a keynote address by Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia. There will be snapshots presented from different universities across the country, group discussions on key challenges and responses by institutions and a panel session.
• Day 2
  will focus on developing strategies. to address issues raised in Day 1. There will be a keynote speaker, panel discussion followed by a Q&A session and group discussion. Professor John Rice will interpret and reflect on the discussion during the forum and provide some direction for the next steps.

Call for presenters

On Day 1 there will be a presentation session on current initiatives in maths and science teaching responding to the diverse background of students. These will be sharp 8 minute presentations followed by a brief Q&A.

Please submit an abstract no more than 500 words outlining the initiative by 10 January 2014. Those submitting abstracts may be invited to submit full papers for publication in a special issue of IJISME. Please send your abstract to: joann.cattlin@unimelb.edu.au.

Enquiries:

If you have any questions about the program, please email joann.cattlin@unimelb.edu.au. For general questions relating to the event, please email iisme@sydney.usyd.edu.au.

Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education
(The 20th UniServe Science Conference)

Dates: Mon 29 September – Wed. 1 October, 2014
Venue: The University of Sydney & University of Technology, Sydney

We hope that you will all be able to attend and help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the conference. The program has been developed from all the responses received in the recently closed ACSME 2014 participant survey.

There are also a few special events that will be also happening during the ACSME period that you may be interested in attending.

• Garry Hoban (University of Wollongong) and Les Kirkup (University of Technology, Sydney) will be running symposiums on Thursday 2 October at the University of Technology, Sydney.
• A paper writing retreat/workshop will be held around this period.

More details will follow when they become available.

Contact

Dr Alexandra Yeung (alexandra.yeung@sydney.edu.au) Manager, Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (IISME) Associate Director, Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory (ASELL) Project

International Congress of Mathematicians, 2014

Dates: 13–21 August

Venue: COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea

Hosted by: The Korean Mathematical Society.

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest international congress in the mathematics community. It is held once every four years under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize, the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are awarded during the opening ceremony on the first day of the congress. Each congress is memorialized by printed Proceedings recording academic papers based on invited talks intended to reflect the current state of the science.

The Korean mathematical community is delighted to host the next congress in Seoul, Korea in 2014. We will make every effort to make SEOUL ICM 2014 a turning point for mathematics; to reach out to the public and to be recognized and valued by society.

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications

The eighth edition of the conference series GAGTA (Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications) will be held:

Dates & Venue: 21–25 July 2014; Newcastle, Australia.

GAGTA is a series of conferences organised periodically, since 2006, by researchers in Group Theory all over the world.

GAGTA conferences are devoted to the study of a variety of areas in Geometric and Combinatorial Group Theory, including asymptotic and probabilistic methods, as well as algorithmic and computational topics involving groups. In particular, areas of interest include group actions, isoperimetric functions, growth, asymptotic invariants, random walks, algebraic geometry over groups, algorithmic problems and their complexity, generic properties and generic complexity, and applications to non-commutative cryptography.

More details will be available soon.

38ACCMCC, the Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

is the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. Contributed talks will be sought from all areas of discrete and combinatorial mathematics and related areas of computer science.

Dates & Venue: 1–5 December, 2014; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Confirmed speakers

• Mike Atkinson (University of Otago, NZ)
• Simeon Ball (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
• Alice Devillers (UWA)
• Jaroslav Nesetril (Charles University, Prague)
• Sergey Norin (McGill University, Canada)
• James Oxley (Louisiana State University, USA)
• Andrew Thomason (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Mark Wilson (University of Auckland, NZ)
• Stefan van Zwam (Princeton University, USA)

Organiser

• Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington)
  You should email Dillon with any queries. (dillon.mayhew@msor.vuw.ac.nz)

8th Australia – New Zealand Mathematics Convention

Date & Venue: 8–12 December; University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

This is a joint Australia–New Zealand meeting, incorporating the 2014 Australian Mathematical Society meeting and the 2014 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium.

Director: P.T. Norbury (U Melbourne)

The AMSI/AustMS conference on geometric analysis and stochastic methods in geometry

Dates: 21–25 July 2014
Venue: University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane

The conference will bring together prominent international and Australian experts in geometric analysis. The focus will be on three areas, which are currently enjoying a particularly large amount of attention:

• heat kernels
• equations involving the Ricci curvature
• the Willmore functional.

As these areas are closely related to each other, the conference will aim to promote and facilitate interactions between mathematicians working in them. The list of speakers will include prominent experts in stochastic differential geometry. They will introduce their audiences to new approaches to problems in geometric analysis, thereby adding a further dimension to the meeting.

Organizers

• Thierry Coulhon (Australian National University)
• Huy The Nguyen (University of Queensland)
• Artem Pulemotov (University of Queensland)
• Glen Wheeler (University of Wollongong)
• Valentina-Mira Wheeler (University of Wollongong)

The AMSI/AustMS 2014 Workshop in Harmonic Analysis and its Applications

Dates: 21–25 July 2014
Venue: Macquarie University, Sydney

Speakers

• Leonardo Colzani (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
• Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan)
• Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Cristina Pereyra (University of New Mexico)
• Carlos Pérez (Universidad de Sevilla)
• Stefanie Petermichl (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse)
• Jill Pipher (Brown University)

Organizers

• Xuan Duong (Macquarie University)
• Chris Meaney (Macquarie University)
• Lesley Ward (University of South Australia)