Phylomania 2014

Dates & Venue: 5–7 November; University of Tasmania

Phylogenetics is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the past evolutionary history of organisms from molecular data, such as DNA, or morphological characters. There is ongoing interest in the further development of the mathematics that underlies computational phylogenetic methods. Hidden from view, in the software packages used by biologists, are algorithms performing statistical inference using Markov models on binary trees. The mathematics involved represents a unique confluence of probability theory, discrete mathematics, statistical inference, algebraic geometry, and group theory. There are many important theoretical problems that arise, such as statistical identifiability of models, consistency and convergence of methods. These problems can only be solved using a multidisciplinary approach. Phylomania brings together phylogenetic researchers with a strong theoretical leaning, with the aim of discussing some of the more pressing problems.

Organisers

• Barbara Holland
• Jeremy Sumner

8th International Congress in Industrial and Applied Mathematics

10–14 August 2015; Beijing, People's Republic of China.

The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is the premier international congress in the field of applied mathematics held every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. From August 10 to 14, 2015, mathematicians from around the world will gather in Beijing, China for the 8th ICIAM to be held at China National Convention Center inside the Beijing Olympic Green.

The Congress is being planned by:

1. China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM)
2. The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS)
3. The Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics (CSCM)
4. The Operations Research Society of China (ORSC),
5. Chinese Association for Applied Statistics (CAAS).
6. Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC)

Scientific Program Committee

• Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences) — chair
• Robert Anderssen (CSIRO, Australia)
• Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota, USA)
• John M. Ball (Oxford University, UK)
• Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France)
• Pedro L. Silva Dias (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil)
• Weinan E (Princeton University, USA)
• Antonio Fasano (University of Florence, Italy)
• Susan Friedlander (University of Southern California, USA)
• Thomas A. Grandine (The Boeing Company, USA)
• Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Peter Jagers (Chalmers Univ. of Technology and Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Hyeonbae Kang (Inha University, S. Korea)
• Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Shigeo Kusuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Kerry Landman (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Edward Lungu (University of Botswana, Botswana)
• Weiying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Zdenek Strakos (Charles University in Prague, Czech)
• Yaxiang Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Enrique ZuaZua (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain)

Invited Speakers

• Bob Bixby (Gurobi Optimization, Inc., USA)
• Analisa Buffa (IMATI, Italy)
• Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University, USA)
• Jean Michel Coron (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
• Lisa Fauci (Tulane University, USA)
• Martin Hairer (Warwick University, UK)
• Ravi Kannan (Microsoft Research, India)
• Karl Kempf (INTEL Corporation, USA)
• Shunlong Luo (Academy of Math. and Systems Science, CAS, China)
• Volker Mehrmann (Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany)
• Gabriel Nguetseng (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon)
• Yasumasa Nishiura (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Ricardo Nochetto (University of Maryland, USA)
• Shige Peng (Shandong University, China)
• Nancy Reid (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Mark Sagar (The Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Claudia Sagastizábal (IMPA, Brazil)
• Laure Saint-Raymond (École Normale Supérieure, France)
• Jesús Sanz Serna (Univ. de Valladolid, Spain)
• Ludger D. Sax (Grid Optimization Europe)
• Jin-Keun Seo (Yonsei University, Korea)
• Zuowei Shen (National Univ. of Singapore)
• Ian Sloan (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
• Éva Tardos (Cornell University, USA) — Olga Taussky-Todd Lecturer
• Simon Tavaré (Cambridge Institute, UK)
• Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute, NYU, USA)
• Barbara Wohlmuth (Technische Univ. München, Germany)
• Yinyu Ye (Stanford University, USA)

Deadlines to remember

• 30 November 2014 : Closing date for minisymposium proposals
• 30 December 2014 : Final decisions announced for minisymposium proposals
• 30 December 2014 : Closing date for contributed paper submissions
• 1 January – 30 April : Early-bird registrations
• 28 February 2015 : Submission deadline—accepted minisymposia abstracts
• 30 January 2015 : Notifications sent to accepted contributed speakers
• 30 April 2015 : Closing date for poster submissions
• May 2015 : ICIAM 2015 program posted online
• 1 May – 15 July 2015 : Regular registration
• 16 July – 10 August : Late and onsite registration

Email the organizers at: iciam2015@amss.ac.cn.
Tel: 86-10-82541629
Fax: 86-10-62773400

Submit minisymposium proposals and contributed abstracts at “Submissions & Calls” on www.iciam2015.cn/Submissions.html

ANZIAM 2015 Conference

Dates & Venue: 1–5 February, 2015; Outrigger Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland

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 Queensland Branch in 2015.

The ANZIAM Conference will be held at the Outrigger Surfers Paradise, located in the heart of Surfers Paradise on Queensland’s famous Gold Coast.

• Conference registration is open.
• Abstract submission is open.
• One Day Workshop on 06 February 2015 at QUT in Brisbane, on Discrete Mathematical Models in the Life Sciences.

Invited Speakers

• Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)
• Gary Froyland (UNSW)
• Anne Juel (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
• Kerry Landman (Univ. of Melbourne) — ANZIAM Medallist
• Mary Myerscough (Univ. of Sydney)
• Hugh Possingham (Univ. of Queensland)
• Michael Small (Univ. of WA)
• Natalie Thamwattana (Univ. of Wollongong) — Michell Medallist
• Thomas Witelski (Duke University, USA)

2015 AMSI Summer School

Dates & Venue: 2–29 January 2015; University of Newcastle

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.

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

Subjects:

• Continued Fractions
• Geometric Group Theory
• Introduction to Nonlinear PDE
• Optimisation
• Intermediate Probability
• Computational Bayesian Statistics
• Mathematical Statistical Mechanics
• Nonlinear Control Theory

Key Dates:

• Travel Grant Applications open: 12 September 2014
• Travel Grant Applications close: 2 November 2014
• First registration deadline: 2 November 2014
• Final registration deadline: 20 November 2014
• Start of lectures: 8.30am Saturday 3 January 2015
• End of lectures: 5pm Thursday 29 January 2015

Website

http://research.amsi.org.au/events/2015-amsi-summer-school/

BioInfoSummer 2014: AMSI Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics

Dates & Venue: 1–5 December 2014; Monash University (Caulfield), Melbourne

Bioinformatics is an exciting, fast‑moving area analysing and simulating the structures and processes of biological systems. BioInfoSummer introduces students, researchers and others working in related areas to the discipline.

Program features

• Introduction to molecular biosciences and bioinformatics
• Next-generation DNA sequencing and sequence evolution
• High-throughput technology and omics data analysis
• Methods in bioinformatics
• Systems biology

Speakers

• Professor Mark Ragan (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)
• Professor Chris Overall (University of British Columbia)
• Professor Roger Daly (Monash University)
• Associate Professor Barbara Holland (University of Tasmania)
• Dr Alicia Oshlack, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

New Directions in Fractal Geometry

Dates: 23–28 November 2014
Venues: ANU Canberra and ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus

This conference will cover some emerging hot topics in Fractal Geometry and will stimulate collaboration between theory and applications. The goal is to showcase the strength and potential of Fractal Geometry to a wide community of researchers in mathematics and other disciplines.

• Geometry and Topology of Fractals
• Fractals in Computation and Numerical Analysis
• Fractal Transformations, Tiling and Numeration
• Fractal functions with emphasis on Wavelets
• Applications

On the applications side, the symposium will focus on areas where fractal ideas are starting to have a significant impact. For example, fractal transformations in two and three dimensions, with special properties, are an emerging area of interest in digital imaging, 3D printing and in the design of new materials. Fractal tilings and numeration are relevant to encryption and internet security. New designs for fractal antennas were suggested by recent developments in Iterated Function Systems theory.

Speakers

There will be approximately 20 full length lectures, and some contributed lectures.

• Christoph Bandt (University of Greifswald, Germany)
• Michael Barnsley (Australian National University, Australia)
• Valérie Berthé (CNRS-University Paris Diderot, France)
• Jon Borwein (University of Newcastle, Australia)
• Nathan Cohen (Fractal Antenna Systems Inc, USA)
• Thierry Coulhon (Australian National University, Australia)
• Christian Gentil (Université de Bourgogne, France)
• Jeffrey Geronimo (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Douglas Hardin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• Markus Hegland (Australian National University, Australia)
• Konstantin Igudesman (Kazan State University, Russia)
• Stéphane Jaffard (Université Paris-Est)
• Jun Kigami (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Michel Lapidus (University of California, USA)
• Ka-Sing Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Krzysztof Leśniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
• Peter Massopust (Technical University of Munich)
• Hui Rao (Hua Zhong Normal University, China)
• Károly Simon (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• Nina Snigreva (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Andrei Tetenov (Gorno‐Altaisk University, Russia)
• Jörg M. Thuswaldner (University of Leoben, Austria)
• Andrew Vince (University of Florida, USA)
• Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong, Australia)

There will be a special luncheon “Women in Fractal Mathematics” sponsored by ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).

Organisers

• Christoph Bandt (University of Greifswald, Germany)
• Michael Barnsley (Australian National University, Australia)
• Jon Borwein (University of Newcastle, Australia)
• Markus Hegland (Australian National University, Australia)
• Ka-Sing Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Contact

• Brittany Shoard (admin.research.msi@anu.edu.au) ph. 61 2 6125 2897

Phylomania 2014

Date & venue: 5–7 November; University of Tasmania

Phylogenetics is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the past evolutionary history of organisms from molecular data, such as DNA, or morphological characters. There is ongoing interest in the further development of the mathematics that underlies computational phylogenetic methods. Hidden from view, in the software packages used by biologists, are algorithms performing statistical inference using Markov models on binary trees. The mathematics involved represents a unique confluence of probability theory, discrete mathematics, statistical inference, algebraic geometry, and group theory. There are many important theoretical problems that arise, such as statistical identifiability of models, consistency and convergence of methods. These problems can only be solved using a multi-disciplinary approach. Phylomania brings together phylogenetic researchers with a strong theoretical leaning, with the aim of discussing some of the more pressing problems.

Confirmed speakers

• Andrew Francis (University of Western Sydney)
• Michael Charleston (University of Sydney)
• David Bryant (University of Otago)
• Steffen Klaere (University of Auckland)

Organisers

• Jeremy Sumner (Univ. Tasmania)
• Barbara Holland (Univ. Tasmania)

Workshop on Algebraic, Number Theoretic and Graph Theoretic Aspects of Dynamical Systems

Dates: 2–6 February 2015
Venue: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arithmetical dynamical systems, that is, dynamical systems generated by iterations of rational functions over fields of number-theoretic interest, have seen a significant explosion of work in recent years but still many algebraic, number theoretic and graph theoretic problems remain wide open. The interest in such dynamical systems comes also from connections that have been forged with many different areas of pure and applied mathematics. The purpose of this workshop will be to further explore the complex algebraic and number theoretic behaviour, as well as to gain a better understanding of the structure of functional graphs of arithmetical dynamical systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers from neighbouring research areas in algebraic dynamics together for a fruitful exchange of ideas and initiate new developments and collaborations.

Plenary Speakers:

• Alex Gamburd (City Univ. of New York Graduate Center)
  Expander Graphs, Strong Ergodicty, and Superstrong Approximation
• Tony Guttmann (Univ. of Melbourne)
  Recent Results in Pattern-avoiding Permutations
• Cheryl Praeger (Univ. of Western Australia)
  Cayley Graphs of Finite Groups
• Klaus Schmidt (Univ. of Vienna)
  Sandpiles and Harmonic Systems
• Joseph Silverman (Brown Univ.)
  The Arithmetic Complexity of Orbits
• Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary, Univ. of London)
  Renormalization in Two-dimensional Piecewise Isometries
• Thomas Ward (Durham Univ.)
  Rigid and Flexible Invariants for Group Automorphisms
• Nick Wormald (Monash Univ.)
  Random Graphs, Random Regular Graphs and Combs

Public Lecture

• Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 6:00 pm; Room 7, Central Lecture Block (CLB7)
  Speaker: Franco Vivaldi
  The Arithmetic of Chaos

Tentative Program:

• The workshop will start on Monday at 9:30 am and end on Friday at 1:00 pm
• Registration will start on Monday morning at 8:30 am at the front of Room 6, Central Lecture Block (CLB6)
• All talks will take place at CLB6
• We will hold a reception on Monday night, 6:00–8:00 pm at the common room of the School of Mathematics and Statistics
• There will be a public lecture on Tuesday night as detailed above
• We plan to have a free afternoon on Wednesday and will plan to organise an excursion and dinner (not included in the registration fee).

Registration

• early registration closes on 14 November 2014.
  see website for details

Program Committee & Organisation

• Brendan McKay (ANU) — brendan.mckay@anu.edu.au
• Alina Ostafe (UNSW) — alina.ostafe@unsw.edu.au
• John A.G. Roberts (UNSW) — jag.roberts@unsw.edu.au
• Igor E. Shparlinski (UNSW) — igor.shparlinski@unsw.edu.au
• Kaye Sedgers (UNSW) — k.sedgers@unsw.edu.au (Local Organisation)

SICO 2014
International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Computation and Optimization

Dates & Venue: 20–25 December 2014; The Yellow Mountains, China

Join us in the most beautiful place for the SICO 2014, to exchange ideas and present original high-level research in order to bridge gaps between mathematics and engineering sciences.

Special Events:

• Featured Plenary lectures on cuting-edge research
• Special topics on emerging fields in computation and optimization
• Selected papers for Conference Proceedings by Springer and special issues of international journal
• Tours to enjoy marvellous natural beauties, ski, and hot spring, …

Conference Prizes:

• Best paper prizes for young scientists
• Best students paper awards

Organisers

• Liping Chen — China
• David Y Gao — Australia
• Xiqiao Feng — China
• Zhen Luo — Australia
• Qinghua Qin — Australia
• Yizhong Wu — China
• Ning Ruan — Secretary

Sponsors:

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
• Federation University Australia
• Australia National University (ANU)
• Tsinghua University
• University of Technology Sydney
• International Society of Global Optimization (http://www.iSoGOp.org)

Sequences and Their Applications

Dates: 24–28 November 2014
Venue: Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

The international conference on SEquences and Their Applications (SETA) is a biannual conference series devoted to the mathematical theory of sequences used in wireless communications, cryptography and their applications. The theory and practice of sequences has developed in parallel with cryptography, which is one of the significant applications of the field with impact on block and stream ciphers, protocols, randomness and pseudo-randomness.

This is a premier conference for researchers working in mathematics, communications and computer science in the specific area of pseudorandom sequences. The conference provides a forum for the research communities of these domains, and covers all of the fundamental, computational and implementation aspects of these fields. The proceedings will again be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics include:

• Randomness of sequences
• Correlation (periodic and aperiodic types) and combinatorial aspects of sequences (difference sets)
• Sequences with applications in coding theory and cryptography
• Sequences over finite fields/rings/function fields
• Linear and nonlinear feedback shift register sequences
• Sequences for radar distance ranging, synchronization, identification, and hardware testing
• Sequences for wireless communication
• Pseudorandom sequence generators
• Correlation and transformation of Boolean functions
• Multidimensional sequences and their correlation properties
• Linear and nonlinear complexity of sequences

Invited Speakers

• Josef Dick (UNSW, Australia)
• Tor Helleseth (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Kathy Horadam (RMIT University, Australia)
• Bernhard Schmidt (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Organisers

• A/Prof. Udaya Parampalli (Univ. Melbourne) — general chair
• Dr. Kai-Uwe Schmidt (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Germany) — program co-chair
• Dr. Arne Winterhof (Austrian Academy of Sciences) — program co-chair

Registration

Please see details at http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/udaya/seta14/.
Participants from AMSI member organizations can apply to AMSI for travel funding.

AMSI workshop “Differential Geometry, Complex Analysis and Lie Theory”

Dates & Venue: 5–7 December; La Trobe University, City Campus, Melbourne
Locations Friday: Teaching Rooms 3 and 4 of 360 Collins St
Saturday/Sunday: Room FS104 of 215 Franklin St.

Invited Overseas Speakers

• Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College, USA)
• Kang-Tae Kim (POSTECH, Korea)
• Dmitry Millionschikov (Moscow University, Russia)
• Tracy Payne (Idaho University, USA)

Registration

There is no registration fee. Registration is open. Closes on 23 November.

The workshop is a satellite event of the 8th Australia – New Zealand Mathematics Convention.

Organisers

• Yuri Nikolayevsky (La Trobe University) — contact: y.nikolayevsky@latrobe.edu.au
• Grant Cairns (La Trobe University)
• Gerd Schmalz (University of New England)
• Vlad Ejov (Flinders University)

Integrable Systems 2014

Dates & Venue: 4–5 December; School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney.

The area of integrable systems lies at the boundary of mathematics and physics. Integrable systems are universal limiting models of science that are widely applicable. The field grew from observations of astonishingly well-ordered and predictable behaviour in certain models of non-linear lattices used to describe the thermal properties of metals and led to the theory of solitons and completely integrable systems, one of the most profound advances of twentieth-century mathematics. Reductions led to the Painlevé equations, which are canonical representations of integrable models in one dimension.

Speakers

• Dinh Tran (La Trobe University)
  A Lax pair for an asymmetric lattice equation
• Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra)
  Superposition formulas & geometric integrability
• Da-jun Zhang (Shanghai University)
  Some results on solutions to lattice equations

Register

Please email integrable@maths.usyd.edu.au with your title, full name, email address and primary institution.
Registrations close 3 November 2014.

Organisers

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

Biarri Applied Mathematics (BAM) conference

Dates & Venue: 25–26 November 2014; RMIT University, Melbourne

The Biarri Applied Mathematics (BAM) conference is a free event being co-hosted with RMIT and supported by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI).

Now more than ever maths is pervading every nook and cranny of science, industry commerce and government. The BAM Conference this year will highlight the breadth of places where the mathematical sciences are making a difference, perhaps even where you might least expect: from the burgeoning analytics sphere to bioinformatics, telecommunication network design, disaster modeling, climate science, sport and finance. Over two days The BAM Conference will showcase mathematical tools and techniques used to solve problems in the real world, through case studies and in-depth talks. From this you will also get a glimpse of the many and diverse career paths that mathematics offers.

ICPAM2 — International Conference in Pure and Applied Mathematics

The Papua New Guinea Mathematical Society (PNGMS) is hosting an international mathematical conference at the University of Goroka, in cooperation with the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the African Mathematical Union (AMU).

Dates: 8–12 December 2014
Venue: University of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

ICPAM-GOROKA 2014, aims at bringing together experts in different fields of pure and applied mathematics, as well as researchers, undergraduates and postgraduate students from around the world to discuss mathematical questions, exchange high level knowledge of methods and investigate diverse applications of Pure and Applied Mathematics to astronomy, biology, business, banking, chemistry, computer science, education, engineering, geosciences, health care, medicine, physics, security, the military, etc. Academia and industries are invited to participate.

Public Lectures

• Fred Van Oystaeyen (Universiteit Antwerpen, BELGIUM)
• Jean-Pierre Serre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Collège de France, FRANCE)
• Barry Mazur (Harvard University, USA)

Invited Speakers

• Adewale Solarin (National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, NIGERIA)
• Samuel J.L. Kopamu (University of Goroka, PNG)
• Aderemi O. Kuku (Grambling State University, USA)
• Omar Kihel (Broke University, St Catherines, CANADA)
• Stefaan Caenpeel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BELGIUM)
• Michel Waldschmidt (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, FRANCE)
• Claude Levesque (Universite Laval, CANADA)
• Cecilia Nembou (Divine Word University, PNG)
• Henri Darmon (Mcgill University, CANADA)
• Kenneth K. Nwabueze (University of Papua New Guinea, PNG)
• David Easdown (Sydney University, AUSTRALIA)
• K.P Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)
• Mikhail V. Volkov (Ural State University, RUSSIA)
• John C. Meakin (University of Nebraska, USA)
• Thomas Hall (Monash University, AUSTRALIA)
• Daniel O. Makinde (Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
• Miroslav Kures (Brno University of Technology, CZECH REPUBLIC)
• Mihail Ursul (PNG University of Technology, PNG)
• MGM Khan (University of South Pacific, FIJI)
• Stanford Shateyi {Unversity of Venda, SOUTH AFRICA)
• Yinhuo Zhang (university of Hasselt, BELGIUM)
• Sergey Sekatskii (Ecole Polytechique Federale de Lausanine, SWITZERLAND)
• Surindar Uppal (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, KENYA)
• Josef Slapal (Brno University of Technology, CZECH REPUBLIC)
• Walter Roth (University of Brunei, BRUNEI)
• Michal Cerny (University of Economics, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)
• Jian-Jun Shu (Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE)
• Adam Gillard (Pacific Adventist University, PNG)
• Milan Hladik (University of Economics, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)
• Kay Owens (Charles Sturt University, AUSTRALIA)

Contact

• Dr Samuel Kopamu – Chair, ICPAM-GOROKA (2014), University of Goroka
  P O Box 1078, Goroka 441, EHP, Papua New Guinea.
  E-mail: samkopamu@gmail.com

CTAC 2014
The 17th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference

Dates & Venue: 1–3 December 2014; Australian National University

CTAC is organised by the special interest group in computational techniques and applications of ANZIAM, the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Division of the Australian Mathematical Society. The meetings provide an interactive forum for researchers interested in the development and use of computational methods applied to engineering, scientific and other problems. Our aim is to conduct a high quality conference on computational mathematics; scientific, technical, and industrial applications; and high performance computing.

The special themes for the meeting will include:

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Data assimilation
• Optimisation
• Inverse problems

Contact

• Marcus Heglund (markus.hegland@anu.edu.au)

For more information about CTAC 2014 go to http://maths.anu.edu.au/events/ctac-2014 or phone/email us on:
E: CTAC2014@anu.edu.au
T: +61 2 6125 2897

Mathematics in Industry Study Group (MISG) 2015

Dates: 27–31 January 2015
Venue: Science and Engineering Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

• Academics and Researchers

The MISG is an exciting and dynamic forum where academics and researchers can apply their expert knowledge in the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to help solve real world, industrially relevant problems.

The MISG provides a structured opportunity for you to make contact and to forge partnerships with Australian and New Zealand industries that are interested in utilizing your skills. It is also an opportunity to collaborate with other mathematicians, scientists and engineers to produce outcomes of immediate industrial relevancy.

• Businesses

The MISG provides a structure for your business to access knowledge from over 100 world leading applied mathematicians, statisticians and physical scientists. MISG researchers can assist in the development of new technologies, add competitive value to existing technologies, provide the tools to analyse your current data, underpin service industries, and provide the expertise to monitor, predict and solve the quantitative technical challenges that face your business.

The MISG is a special event of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Division (ANZIAM) and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). It is an exciting event that sees applied mathematicians, statisticians, engineers and physical scientists work together with industry representatives on technical problems that are of immediate relevance to the industry partner.

Since its inception, the MISG has worked with more than 85 business and industry partners, ranging from large multinational conglomerates to small-to-medium enterprises. Over the years, the group has worked on more than 150 different projects spanning a broad spectrum of sectors including government, financial services, mining, car manufacturing, railways and freight, metal processing, food and beverages, oil and gas, utilities, biomedical science, and technology. Academics and researchers challenge themselves to achieve the best possible outcomes in a short amount of time for government, industry and business, so the workshop atmosphere is exciting and vibrant.

Project’s for MISG 2015 will be selected by November 2014.
Successful business applicants must pay a registration fee.
For academic problem solvers registration is free but essential.

Director: A/Prof. Troy Farrell (t.farrell@qut.edu.au)

5th Queensland Brain Institute Short Course in Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience

Dates & Venue: 11–13 February 2015; Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Are you an undergrad or postgrad studying Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or Computer Science?

Are you interested in the possibility of applying your knowledge to understand how the brain works?

This 3-day course is about how people like you can contribute to answering some of the most exciting scientific questions of the 21st century. Questions such as:

• how information is coded and decoded in the brain,
• how memories are stored,
• how the brain learns from experience.

The course will consist of 2 components: lectures introducing basic concepts in mathematical and computational neuroscience given by Prof Geoffrey Goodhill, and talks and demos introducing some current topics in neuroscience research given by leading neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (www.qbi.uq.edu.au).

No prior knowledge of neuroscience will be assumed; however participants should have a good grounding in University level mathematics. The course is not intended for people already working in the area of mathematical and computational neuroscience.

Registration is free but only 20 places are available. To apply please send a CV, academic transcript, and one-paragraph statement of why you wish to attend the course to Prof Geoffrey Goodhill, (g.goodhill@uq.edu.au).
Closing date for applications is 28 November 2014.

Scholarships are available to help support travel and accommodation for those coming from outside the Brisbane area.

Comments from previous courses include:

• "An excellent course"
• "Very engaging and accessible”
• "Very understandable and clear”
• "Fun and educational"
• "Thanks for the opportunity to learn about something so fascinating"
• "One of the best events I have attended during my academic life"

A 3-minute video introduction to Maths and the Brain.

Workshop on Algebraic, Number Theoretic and Graph Theoretic Aspects of Dynamical Systems

Dates: 2–6 February 2015
Venue: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arithmetical dynamical systems, that is, dynamical systems generated by iterations of rational functions over fields of number-theoretic interest, have seen a significant explosion of work in recent years but still many algebraic, number theoretic and graph theoretic problems remain wide open. The interest in such dynamical systems comes also from connections that have been forged with many different areas of pure and applied mathematics. The purpose of this workshop will be to further explore the complex algebraic and number theoretic behaviour, as well as to gain a better understanding of the structure of functional graphs of arithmetical dynamical systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers from neighbouring research areas in algebraic dynamics together for a fruitful exchange of ideas and initiate new developments and collaborations.

Plenary Speakers:

• Alex Gamburd (City Univ. of New York Graduate Center)
  Expander Graphs, Strong Ergodicty, and Superstrong Approximation
• Tony Guttmann (Univ. of Melbourne)
  Recent Results in Pattern-avoiding Permutations
• Cheryl Praeger (Univ. of Western Australia)
  Cayley Graphs of Finite Groups
• Klaus Schmidt (Univ. of Vienna)
  Sandpiles and Harmonic Systems
• Joseph Silverman (Brown Univ.)
  The Arithmetic Complexity of Orbits
• Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary, Univ. of London)
  Renormalization in Two-dimensional Piecewise Isometries
• Thomas Ward (Durham Univ.)
  Rigid and Flexible Invariants for Group Automorphisms
• Nick Wormald (Monash Univ.)
  Random Graphs, Random Regular Graphs and Combs

Public Lecture

• Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 6:00 pm; Room 7, Central Lecture Block (CLB7)
  Speaker: Franco Vivaldi
  The Arithmetic of Chaos

Tentative Program:

• The workshop will start on Monday at 9:30 am and end on Friday at 1:00 pm
• Registration will start on Monday morning at 8:30 am at the front of Room 6, Central Lecture Block (CLB6)
• All talks will take place at CLB6
• We will hold a reception on Monday night, 6:00–8:00 pm at the common room of the School of Mathematics and Statistics
• There will be a public lecture on Tuesday night as detailed above
• We plan to have a free afternoon on Wednesday and will plan to organise an excursion and dinner (not included in the registration fee).

Registration

• early registration closes on 14 November 2014.
  see website for details

Program Committee & Organisation

• Brendan McKay (ANU) — brendan.mckay@anu.edu.au
• Alina Ostafe (UNSW) — alina.ostafe@unsw.edu.au
• John A.G. Roberts (UNSW) — jag.roberts@unsw.edu.au
• Igor E. Shparlinski (UNSW) — igor.shparlinski@unsw.edu.au
• Kaye Sedgers (UNSW) — k.sedgers@unsw.edu.au (Local Organisation)

8th International Congress in Industrial and Applied Mathematics

10–14 August 2015; Beijing, People's Republic of China.

The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is the premier international congress in the field of applied mathematics held every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. From August 10 to 14, 2015, mathematicians from around the world will gather in Beijing, China for the 8th ICIAM to be held at China National Convention Center inside the Beijing Olympic Green.

The Congress is being planned by:

1. China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM)
2. The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS)
3. The Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics (CSCM)
4. The Operations Research Society of China (ORSC),
5. Chinese Association for Applied Statistics (CAAS).
6. Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC)

Scientific Program Committee

• Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences) — chair
• Robert Anderssen (CSIRO, Australia)
• Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota, USA)
• John M. Ball (Oxford University, UK)
• Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France)
• Pedro L. Silva Dias (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil)
• Weinan E (Princeton University, USA)
• Antonio Fasano (University of Florence, Italy)
• Susan Friedlander (University of Southern California, USA)
• Thomas A. Grandine (The Boeing Company, USA)
• Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Peter Jagers (Chalmers Univ. of Technology and Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Hyeonbae Kang (Inha University, S. Korea)
• Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Shigeo Kusuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Kerry Landman (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Edward Lungu (University of Botswana, Botswana)
• Weiying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Zdenek Strakos (Charles University in Prague, Czech)
• Yaxiang Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Enrique ZuaZua (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain)

Invited Speakers

• Bob Bixby (Gurobi Optimization, Inc., USA)
• Analisa Buffa (IMATI, Italy)
• Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University, USA)
• Jean Michel Coron (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
• Lisa Fauci (Tulane University, USA)
• Martin Hairer (Warwick University, UK)
• Ravi Kannan (Microsoft Research, India)
• Karl Kempf (INTEL Corporation, USA)
• Shunlong Luo (Academy of Math. and Systems Science, CAS, China)
• Volker Mehrmann (Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany)
• Gabriel Nguetseng (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon)
• Yasumasa Nishiura (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Ricardo Nochetto (University of Maryland, USA)
• Shige Peng (Shandong University, China)
• Nancy Reid (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Mark Sagar (The Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Claudia Sagastizábal (IMPA, Brazil)
• Laure Saint-Raymond (École Normale Supérieure, France)
• Jesús Sanz Serna (Univ. de Valladolid, Spain)
• Ludger D. Sax (Grid Optimization Europe)
• Jin-Keun Seo (Yonsei University, Korea)
• Zuowei Shen (National Univ. of Singapore)
• Ian Sloan (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
• Éva Tardos (Cornell University, USA) — Olga Taussky-Todd Lecturer
• Simon Tavaré (Cambridge Institute, UK)
• Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute, NYU, USA)
• Barbara Wohlmuth (Technische Univ. München, Germany)
• Yinyu Ye (Stanford University, USA)

Deadlines to remember

• 30 November 2014 : Closing date for minisymposium proposals
• 30 December 2014 : Final decisions announced for minisymposium proposals
• 30 December 2014 : Closing date for contributed paper submissions
• 1 January – 30 April : Early-bird registrations
• 28 February 2015 : Submission deadline—accepted minisymposia abstracts
• 30 January 2015 : Notifications sent to accepted contributed speakers
• 30 April 2015 : Closing date for poster submissions
• May 2015 : ICIAM 2015 program posted online
• 1 May – 15 July 2015 : Regular registration
• 16 July – 10 August : Late and onsite registration

Email the organizers at: iciam2015@amss.ac.cn.
Tel: 86-10-82541629
Fax: 86-10-62773400

Submit minisymposium proposals and contributed abstracts at “Submissions & Calls” on www.iciam2015.cn/Submissions.html

This is the fourth edition of the successful South Pacific meetings, South Pacific Conferences in Mathematics (SPCM) in 2005 and 2010 held in Noumea, New Caledonia, and South Pacific Optimization Meeting in 2013 (SPOM 2013) held in Newcastle, Australia. The (Fourth) South Pacific Continuous Optimization Meeting (SPCOM 2015), hosted by the University of South Australia, will take place soon after another Australian mathematics meeting ANZIAM 2015).

Dates & Venue: 8–12 February 2015; University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes campus, Adelaide.

SPCOM 2015 includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics from the broad area of continuous optimization:

• Variational analysis
• Optimal control theory
• Convex analysis
• Numerical optimization
• Vector optimization
• Stochastic optimization
• Functional analysis

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Radu Boţ (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Asen Dontchev (University of Michigan, USA)
• V. Jeyakumar (University of New South Wales)
• José Mario Martínez (University of Campinas, Brazil)
• Helmut Maurer (Munster, Germany)
• Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State University, USA)
• Jong Shi Pang (University of Southern California, USA)
• Terry Rockafellar (Washington, USA)
• Claudia Sagastizábal (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
• Stephen Simons (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
• Roger Wets (University of California at Davis, USA)
• Xiao Qi Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Other confirmed overseas invited speakers include: Samir Adly (University of Limoges), Henri Bonnel (Univ. New Caledonia), Rob Corless (Western University), Andreas Hamel (Univ. Bozen-Bolzano), Lidia Huerga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid), Napsu Karmitsa (Uni. Turku), Refail Kasimbeyli (Anadolu Univ.), Ekaterina Kostina (Marburg), Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Lab.), Sabine Pickenhein (Cottbus), Sandra Santos (State Uni. Campinas), Mihail Solodov (IMPA), Jie Sun (National Uni. Singapore), Christiane Tammer (Uni. Halle-Wittenberg), Firdevs Ulus (Princeton), Zhiyou Wu (Chong Qing Normal Univ.), Chao Xu (Zhejiang Univ.).

Other confirmed Australian invited speakers include: Adil Bagirov (Federation Univ) Jonathan Borwein (Newcastle), Regina Burachik (UniSA), Andrew Eberhard (RMIT) Jerzy Filar (Flinders), Vladimir Gaitsgory (Flinders), Bean San Goh (Curtin Sarawak), Markus Hegland (ANU), Phil Howlett (UniSA), Yalçin Kaya (UniSA), Alex Kruger (Federation), Bishnu Lamichhane (University of Newcastle), Guoyin Li (UNSW), Qun Lin (Curtin), Ryan Loxton (Curtin), Musa Mammadov (Federation) Jonathan Manton (Melbourne), Julia Piantadosi (UniSA), Vera Roshchina (Federation), Nadezda Sukhorukova (Swinburne University of Technology), Matthew Tam (Newcastle), Julien Ugon (Federation), David Yost (Federation).

Fitzpatrick Workshop

This half-day workshop will celebrate the 25 years of the publication of a seminal paper on maximal monotone operators by the Australian mathematician Simon Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick's paper introduced a key tool in functional analysis, with important implications in mathematical optimization. An objective of this workshop is to understand, after a quarter of a century passed, what open questions that were posed in this paper have been solved, and what questions remain open.

Stephen Simons will give a keynote talk on Fitzpatrick’s contributions to Functional Analysis. Then a number of 20-minute talks will follow. The organizers of this half-day workshop are Jon Borwein and Regina Burachik.

Two half-day tutorials

Both tutorials will be delivered on Sunday 8 February, and will cover theory and applications on optimization topics. They target postgraduate students and early career researchers, but are open to any other interested researcher. The tutorials are free of charge for all registered participants.

• Numerical smooth optimization by José Mario Martínez (University of Campinas, Brazil)
• Numerical non-smooth optimization by Claudia Sagastizábal (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)

Organizers

• Regina S. Burachik (Local chair: University of South Australia)
• C. Yalçin Kaya (Local chair: University of South Australia)
• Jonathan M. Borwein (University of Newcastle)
• Henri Bonnel (University of New Caledonia)

If you have any questions, please contact:

• Yalçin Kaya yalcin.kaya@unisa.edu.au, or
• Regina Burachik regina.burachik@unisa.edu.au

Registration

• Standard (non-AustMS member) $220
• Standard (AustMS member) $180
• Student (non AustMS member) $100
• Student (AustMS member) $80

Please contact Yalçin Kaya or Regina Burachik for registration.