Student Self-Assessment and Self-Reporting of Mathematical Errors
Speaker: James Gleeson Affiliation: Brisbane Grammar SchoolDate: Thu, 27/10/2016 - 10:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Mistake making is a huge part learning mathematics for many of...
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Paper by Prof V. Jeyakumar and Dr Guoyin Li selected for 2015 OPTL Best Paper...
Date: Thursday, 27th October 2016We are delighted to announce that a joint paper by two staff members, Professor V. Jeyakumar and Dr Guoyin Li, has been selected for the 2015 Optimization Letters...
View ArticleThe Energetics of Southern Ocean Upwelling
Speaker: Paul SpenceAffiliation: ARC Center for Excellence in Climate Systems ScienceDate: Mon, 14/11/2016 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The ocean’s meridional overturning...
View ArticleThe Visiting Teacher Fellowship and its Sphere of Influence
Speaker: Paul HancockAffiliation: UNSW (Teaching Fellow 2016) and Woonona High School Date: Thu, 10/11/2016 - 4:00pmVenue: Rex Vowels Theatre, UNSWAbstract: In this talk I will be discussing my...
View ArticlePositions Available (3): Lecturer or Senior Lecturer
Date: Thursday, 3rd November 2016Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (3 positions)Faculty of ScienceSchool of Mathematics and StatisticsRef. 57082 One of Australia’s leading research & teaching...
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Our student wins international aerospace ideas competition
Date: Tuesday, 1st November 2016One of our students has won an international aerospace ideas competition which was awarded late last month in Bulgaria.Himmat Panag, who is enrolled in a B Engineering...
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Mini Girls Do the Maths Workshop for L'Oreal Girls in Science Forum
Date: Monday, 31st October 2016Last Thursday, 15 female high school students visited the School as part of the L'Oreal Girls in Science Forum.We ran a Mini Girls Do the Maths workshop for the students,...
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Missing instrument used in oceanographic research by Moninya Roughan and...
Date: Friday, 4th November 2016An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) which has been missing for 10 months has washed up on a New Zealand beach. The oceanographic instrument had been deployed by...
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Chris Tisdell named an inaugural UNSW Scientia Education Fellow
Date: Friday, 4th November 2016We are excited to announce that Associate Professor Chris Tisdell has been named as one of 15 inaugural UNSW Scientia Education Fellows.The 15 Fellows were announced on...
View ArticleFast algorithms for the Kolakoski sequence
Speaker: Richard BrentAffiliation: ANU and University of NewcastleDate: Wed, 16/11/2016 - 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The Kolakoski sequence $1221121221221121122\ldots$ is the...
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Gary Froyland lined up to speak at Supervisor Symposium 2016
Date: Monday, 7th November 2016Professor Gary Froyland has been selected as a guest speaker for next week's Supervisor Symposium at Monash University, on a bill which also includes former Chief...
View ArticleArithmetic aspects of piecewise-linear and driven-linear dynamics
Speaker: John RobertsAffiliation: UNSWDate: Wed, 16/11/2016 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The dynamics of an iterated linear or affine map of the plane is well-understood and...
View ArticleSpectral multipliers for sub-Laplacians: Topological versus sub-Riemannian...
Speaker: Detlef MüllerAffiliation: University of KielDate: Tue, 29/11/2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In this survey talk, I shall try to give an idea about what...
View ArticleMoore-Tachikawa conjecture and chiral algebras of class S
Speaker: Tomoyuki ArakawaAffiliation: Kyoto UniversityDate: Fri, 25/11/2016 - 2:30pm to 3:30pmVenue: Carslaw 373, USYDAbstract: Motivated by the string theory, Moore and Tachikawa conjectured in 2011...
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Paul Hancock reflects on his year as a Teaching Fellow at UNSW
Date: Monday, 14th November 2016This year we had the pleasure of hosting Paul Hancock, a high school maths teacher at Woonona High School, as part of our Visiting Teaching Fellow (VTF) program.Shortly...
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Scott Sisson promoted to Professor
Date: Monday, 14th November 2016We are delighted to announce that Scott Sisson has been promoted to Professor.Scott, whose research is in computational statistics, is the current President of the...
View ArticleDrivers and controls of Antarctic Bottom Water upwelling
Speaker: Casimir de LavergneAffiliation: UNSW School of Mathematics and StatisticsDate: Mon, 28/11/2016 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Antarctic Bottom Water is the most...
View ArticleFast computation on the real line
Speaker: Prof. Arieh IserlesAffiliation: University of CambridgeDate: Thu, 24/11/2016 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Many partial differential equations of interest...
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PhD student Thais Rodrigues wins J.B. Douglas Award
Date: Thursday, 24th November 2016We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Thais Rodrigues won the J.B. Douglas Award yesterday, at the Statistical Society of Australia's 17th annual J.B. Douglas...
View ArticleRecent Inspection Techniques on Imaging and Data Science for Complex Data...
Speaker: Dr. Henry Y.T. NganAffiliation: Hong Kong Baptist UniversityDate: Fri, 09/12/2016 - 10:05am to 10:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Recently, there has been an increasing...
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