Conferences
The following is a list of conferences that we are aware of in the Australian region, or which may be of special interest to Australian mathematicians. A much broader list of international conferences is maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
Optimisation in Industry workshop
Optimisation in Industry workshop
Dates & Venue: 5–7 June 2013; RMIT University, Melbourne.
The workshop is a collaboration between academics, IBM Research and other research organisations. It is supported by AustMS and AMSI, as well as other organisations, including ASOR, MASCOS, RMIT, and Melbourne University and Red & Black Architecture Studio.
The goal of the workshop is to discuss business analytics and optimisation applied to real-world problems, to share state-of-the art research results, learn about available analytics tools, and learn from experienced researchers how to handle projects that have an industry partner.
- Talks on Day 1 will demonstrate value to industry and teach the participants how to advocate research in optimisation and in business analytics.
- Talks on Days 2 and 3 have the primary goal to train students, researchers, practitioners in how to conduct successful research on industry problems.
We hope that you will encourage interested students and industry partners to take part. We have an amazing list of speakers lined up, with local and international speakers of the highest calibre.
Speakers
- Prof Natashia Boland (University of Newcastle, Australia)
- Dr Brenda Dietrich (IBM Fellow and VP, USA)
- Dr Simon Dunstall (CSIRO, Australia)
- Gerald Gamrath (ZIB, Germany)
- Dr Heng-Soon Gan (University of Melbourne)
- Dr David Jensen (CTO of BAMS, IBM Research, USA)
- Dr Arnt-Gunnar Lium (SINTEF, Norway)
- Dr Irv Lustig (IBM Research, USA)
- Prof Martin Savelsbergh (University of Newcastle, Australia)
- Dr Gaurav Singh (CSIRO, Australia)
For more details about the workshop, the speakers, the program and the registration, please consult the website: http://optimisationinindustry.com/
Climate Science Winter School: Modelling the Climate System
Climate Science Winter School: Modelling the Climate System
Dates & Venue : 17–21 June 2013; University of NSW.
A high-level education program for honours and graduate students interested in climate science. Students should have a background in a suitable quantitative discipline such as maths, physics or computational science.
Topics covered include:
- Fundamentals of atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial modelling.
- Model evaluation, including modes of variability and extremes.
- Land/atmosphere/ocean coupling.
- Experimental design, detection and attribution and model performance.
- Application examples from current Centre of Excellence research.
Participants will also receive advice and instruction on a range of research and career skills including:
- The peer review process.
- Research integrity.
- Applying for research funding.
- Career prospects post PhD and postdoc.
- Communicating your science through the media.
Registration
The school is open to anyone and funding is available to support attendance. Priority will be given to honours and graduate students working on climate science problems. The number of places is strictly limited.
- Application: 1-page CV and a half page statement on why you wish to attend.
- Forward to: coecss@unsw.edu.au by 15 March 2013.
- For further information contact Melissa Hart (melissa.hart@unsw.edu.au)
Supported by
Mathematics of Transportation Networks
AMSI workshop: Mathematics of Transportation Networks
Dates & Venue : 19–21 Juney 2013; Monash University, Victoria.
This workshop will bring together researchers from multiple academic disciplines, including mathematics, engineering and computer science, as well as stakeholders from government and industry, to discuss the application of mathematics to the design and operation of transportation networks.
Topics covered will include
- traffic flow theory and simulation
- optimization and control
- data mining
- intelligent transport systems
- logistics
- infrastructure planning
Public Lecture
- Prof Mark Wallace (NICTA)
Keynote Speakers
- Prof Serge Hoogendoorn (Delft University of Technology)
- Prof Katsuhiro Nishinari (The University of Tokyo)
- Juerg von Kaenel (IBM)
Organisers
- Tim Garoni (School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University)
- Jan de Gier (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne)
- Majid Sarvi (Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University)
- Hai Vu (Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology)
- Stephan Winter (Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne)
- Lele Zhang (School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University)
Contact
For any questions about the workshop, please email at mpetn@monash.edu.au.
Sponsors
2013 AMSI Winter School
2013 AMSI Winter School
Dates & Venue:
24 June to 05 July 2013; University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane.
(poster)
2013 is the International Year of the Mathematics of Planet Earth, and the 8th annual AMSI Winter School will be on this theme. The winter school is aimed at post-graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the mathematical sciences and cognate disciplines. The Winter School aims to enable participants to broaden and deepen their mathematical knowledge, and to build collaborative networks with other PhD students and early career researchers.
A series of mini-courses will be offered over the two-week long School. The courses in the first week will be more introductory in nature, and the courses in the second week will lead into current research problems. The courses cover a range of topics in the broad area of the mathematics of planet earth, and are offered by eminent national and international researchers.
The Winter School is one of AMSI's flagship higher-education programs, which comprise vacation schools (Summer School, Winter School and BioInfoSummer), Vacation Research Scholarships and the AMSI intern program. The annual AMSI vacation schools and scholarships are funded jointly by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Speakers
- Week 1
- Week 2
- Geoff Mercer (ANU)
Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases - Volker Michel (Universität Siegen)
Regularization of inverse problems in geomathematics - Hugh Possingham (UQ)
Optimal landscape management
- Geoff Mercer (ANU)
Register at http://www.amsi.org.au/WS13.php
For further information please email winterschool@maths.uq.edu.au
The annual Winter School is funded jointly by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Sponsors
IGA/AMSI Workshop on Representation Theory and Operator Algebras
IGA/AMSI Workshop on Representation Theory and Operator Algebras
Date & Venue: 1–5 July 2013; The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
This interdisciplinary workshop will be about
- aspects of representation theory (in the sense of Harish-Chandra),
- aspects of noncommutative geometry (in the sense of Alain Connes), and
- aspects of operator K-theory (in the sense of Gennadi Kasparov).
It features the renowned speaker, Professor Nigel Higson (Penn State University).
Lecture Series by Nigel Higson
- Lecture 1: The Geometry of the Weyl Character Formula
- Lecture 2: A Sketch of Harish-Chandra's Theory for Noncompact Groups
- Lecture 3: Baum–Connes versus Beilinson–Bernstein
- Lecture 4: Contractions of Lie Groups and the Mackey Analogy
- Lecture 5: On the Category of Tempered Representations
There will be additional talks given by invited speakers.
- Michael Cowling (University of New South Wales)
- Loek Helminck (North Carolina State University)
- Peter Hochs (University of Adelaide)
- Tony Licata (Australian National University)
- Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
Registration
There will be no registration fees: all are welcome. However, if you are interested in attending, kindly send an e-mail to Peter Hochs by 5 June 2013, with the following information:
- Name
- Position and Affiliation
- E-mail address
Organisers:
- Peter Hochs (University of Adelaide
- Mathai Varghese (University of Adelaide)
- Adam Rennie (University of Adelaide)
- Anne Thomas (University of Sydney)
Workshop on Applications of Category Theory
Applications of Category Theory]
Dates & Venue: 2–5 July 2013; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
This workshop, which complements the international Category Theory 2013 conference to be held at Macquarie the week following, will address developing areas of mathematics in which an important role is played by category theory, and in particular by monoidal, enriched, or higher-dimensional category theory. It will comprise a series of lectures by four invited speakers:
Invited Speakers
- Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Richard Garner (Macquarie University)
- Michael Shulman (Institute for Advanced Study, USA)
- Scott Morrison (ANU, Australia)
The participation of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers is particularly encouraged.
There will be no charge for this workshop, but participants are requested to register their intent to attend; to do so, please send an email to Richard Garner (richard.garner@mq.edu.au).
For accommodation options, see the accommodation page.
Sponsors 
- Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
- MoPE 2013
More information about both events can be found at the conference website.
Category Theory 2013
Category Theory 2013
Dates & Venue: 7–13 July 2013; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The international conference Category Theory 2013 will take place at Macquarie University, from 7-13 July this year. Talks in areas closely related to category theory are welcome.
It will be preceded by an AMSI-funded workshop on Applications of Category Theory, which is intended especially for graduate students an early-career researchers.
Invited Speakers
- Eugenia Cheng (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Pieter Hofstra (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Zurab Janelidze (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
- Emily Riehl (Harvard University, USA)
- Michael Shulman (Institute for Advanced Study, USA)
- Ross Street (Macquarie University, Australia)
Scientific committee
- Tom Leinster — chair (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Maria Manuel Clementino (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
- Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Marino Gran (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Stephen Lack (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Robert Paré (Dalhousie University, Canada)
- Myles Tierney (formerly Rutgers University, USA)
Organisers
- Richard Garner (Macquarie University)
- Stephen Lack (Macquarie University)
- Dominic Verity (Macquarie University)
- Ross Street (Macquarie University, Australia)
Sponsors 
- Australian Mathematical Society
- Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
- NSW Government
More information about both events can be found at the conference website.
Australia New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop
Australia New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop
Dates: 8–11 July, 2013
Venue: The Women's College, St Lucia campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
The workshop is to be held at the University of Queensland and is sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and by the School of Mathematics and Physics.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers in the field of applied probability from the region and elsewhere.
The scope includes:
- stochastic financial models
- queueing theory
- actuarial science
- stochastic biological models
- Monte-Carlo methods
- inference for stochastic models
- general applied probability
- related fields and applications.
Invited Keynote Speakers
- Sergey Foss (Novosibirsk, Russia)
- Malwina Luczak (Sheffield, UK)
Registration
Registration will open during February 2013. (see website)
Organizers
- Nigel Bean (U Adelaide)
- Jeff Hunter (U Auckland, NZ)
- Dirk Kroese (U Queensland)
- Yoni Nazarathy (U Queensland)
- Phil Pollett (U Queensland)
- Leonardo Rojas-Nandayapa (U Queensland)
- Joshua Ross (U Adelaide)
- Peter Taylor (U Melbourne)
- Ilze Zidenis (U Auckland, NZ)
MPE Australia 2013
MPE Australia 2013
An Australian Academy of Science
Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference
Dates & Venue: 8–12 July 2013; RMIT, Melbourne
This conference is the central academic event of Maths of Planet Earth Australia 2013. The event will bring together the entire scientific community, to cultivate discussions and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. It aims to demonstrate Australia’s current contribution to mathematical sciences research, whilst simultaneously elaborating on the influence the mathematical sciences have on solving the challenges of our planet.
The themes are driven by the partners in the year and have been selected as key priority areas in Australian research.
- Complex (and Dynamical) Systems
- A Data-Based View of Our World
- Population censuses and the human face of Australia
- Scientific Data Mining
- Earth System Modeling
- Mitigating Natural Disaster Risk
- Sustainability – Environmental modelling
- BioInvasion and BioSecurity
- Realising Our Subsurface Potential
Plenary speakers
- Julie Arblaster (Bureau of Meteorology)
- David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the University of California)
- Simon Barry (CSIRO)
- Graeme Brown (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- Chris Budd (University of Bath)
- John Cook (University of Queensland)
- Kate Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- David Fox (Environmetrics)
- Bronwyn Harch (CSIRO)
- Brian Kennett (ANU)
- Mark Lawrence (Mark Lawrence Group)
- Robert Muir-Wood (Risk Management Solutions)
- Marc Parlange. (Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology — EFLUM)
- Peter Waterhouse (CSIRO)
- Duncan Young (ABS)
Important Dates
- Registration opens soon
- 31 May: abstract submission closes
- 10 June: Early-bird registration ends
Sponsors and Partners
- Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
- Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS)
- Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
- RMIT University (RMIT)
- Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM)
- Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
- Australian Government, Geoscience Australia
- Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology
- Australian Museum
- CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics & CSIRO Education (CSIRO)
- Maths and Stats by Email
- Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA), University of Newcastle
- Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science
- Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (SSAI)
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania
- Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT)
- Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
- COSMOS Magazine
New Opportunities at the Interface between Ecology and Statistics
Symposium: New Opportunities at the Interface between Ecology and Statistics
Dates: 11–12 July, 2013
Venue: The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Ecologists and statisticians have much to gain from working together, and this two-day symposium is designed to provide precisely such an opportunity. World leaders from ecology and statistics will be paired up to present their own perspectives on topical issues (including modern methods for modelling species distributions; finding patterns in multi-species data; applications of maximum entropy estimation), and round-table discussions will workshop opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration on these topics. This is reflected in the diverse list of invited speakers, which includes:
Invited Speakers
- Trevor Hastie (Stanford Univesity, USA)
- Bill Shipley (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
- Noel Cressie (University of Wollongong)
- Chris Daly (Oregon State University, USA)
- Anne Chao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Jane Elith (University of Melbourne)
- Gerry Quinn (Deakin University)
This symposium has been designed as a collaborative forum for researchers with interests in ecology, statistics, or both.
Sessions will be organised around five special topics, with a pair of speakers on each topic.
A tentative listing is as follows:
- Applications of maximum entropy estimation in ecology (Shipley, Hastie)
- Mapping bioclimatic variables (Cressie, Daly)
- Measuring diversity (Chao)
- Presence-only data and point pattern analysis (Elith)
- Multivariate analysis (Quinn)
Registration
The early bird registration deadline is 30 May 2013, register before then to receive a 20% discount.
Registration will close on 4 July 2013, or earlier if necessary.
| Regular | AU$240* | AU$300 |
| AMSI member | AU$190* | AU$240 |
| Student | AU$160* | AU$200 |
| *before May 31 |
This symposium is a Mathematics of Planet Earth event, hosted at the University of New South Wales by Eco-Stats Research at the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre.
Australian Mathematical Sciences Student Conference
Australian Mathematical Sciences Student Conference
Dates & Venue: 15–17 July 2013; Haydon Allen Bldg., ANU, Canberra
The goal of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Students' Conference is to bring together postgraduate and honours students in the mathematical sciences from around Australia, enabling them to communicate their work, facilitating dialogue, and encouraging collaboration, all in a friendly and informal atmosphere.
Participating
AMSSC is a conference for students to share their research, develop presentation skills and initiate contact with other students. As such, the conference program consists almost exclusively of participant talks. The organising committee invites all students to present at this conference. AMSI is offering partial travel and accommodation subsidies to students who deliver a talk.
Important dates
- Registration opens: 18 March
- Abstract Submission closes: 14 June
- Registration closes: 14 June
Registration costs (see website)
- Graduate Student (AMSI/AustMS member) $20
- Other graduate students $30
- Honours Student (AMSI/AustMS member) $15
- Other honours students $20
Contact:
- Alex Ament (amssc@anu.edu.au)
Organising Committee
GAIA 2013
AMSI/AustMS Workshop on General Algebra and its Applications: GAIA 2013
(poster)
The program will consist of talks from plenary speakers as well as shorter contributed talks. If you wish to present a contributed talk, please submit your abstract via the website by March 31.
There will be a special edition of Algebra Universalis in honour of Brian Davey's 65th birthday and the conference.
Plenary speakers
- Libor Barto (Charles University, Prague)
- Andrei Bulatov (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- David Clark (SUNY New Paltz, USA)
- Igor Dolinka (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Peter Jipsen (Chapman University, USA)
- Marcin Kozik (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
- Andrei Krokhin (Durham University, UK)
- Miklos Maroti (Bolyai Institute, Hungary)
- Ralph McKenzie (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- Hilary Priestley (Oxford University, UK)
- Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Russia)
- Ross Willard (Waterloo University, Canada)
Important dates:
- Submission of abstracts due by March 31. (Approaching quickly!! Students are particularly encouraged present their work.)
- Notification of abstract approval will be given by May 5.
- Registration (NOW OPEN):
- Standard registration AU300, before May31; AU350 after May 31.
- Student registration AU100, before May31; AU150 after May 31.
- AustMS/AAMSI member AU210 before May31; AU260 after May 31.
Organising Committee:
- James East (University of Western Sydney)
- Marcel Jackson (La Trobe University)
- Tomasz Kowalski (La Trobe University)
- George McNulty (University of South Carolina)
- Todd Niven (La Trobe University)
Recycling rocks: understanding sustainability in a dynamic earth
Recycling rocks: understanding sustainability in a dynamic earth
Dates & Venue : 15–16 July 2013; University of Melbourne, Victoria.
Effective strategies for sustainable development require an interdisciplinary approach to advance fundamental understanding and to solve real world, 21st century, problems. A necessary first step in this quest is to assemble and create a common language and framework for discovery, and to integrate data, methodologies, perspectives, and concepts from the various disciplines.
This workshop addresses the nature of material recycling and energy transfer in a dynamic Earth. Specific areas that will be addressed include: the movement of fluid and heat along interconnected systems, and integrated experimental and mathematical approaches toward understanding the fundamental dynamical processes underlying geophysical hazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides, rock falls), in situ remediation, and mines, minerals and energy exploration systems.
Over two days, this joint Mathematics in Planet Earth (MPE/AMSI) – Melbourne Energy Institute (MEI) workshop will bring together experts in the Mathematics of Complexity and Dynamical Systems together with modellers and experimentalists Planetary Science, Geophysics, Earthquake Mechanics, Mining, Slurry Flows, Water Recovery, Bioremediation and Geotechnical Engineering. The program is structured to bring together experts from disparate fields, with common interests in natural materials and dynamic phenomena.
To keep the discussions focused, each invited speaker will address the following in their presentation:
As part of your introduction, give an example of a well-understood dynamical process in your field of study.
For the main part of your talk, discuss …
- Your research with respect to what you regard is a pressing question on dynamical processes in your discipline area; and
- How other disciplines especially the mathematical sciences can assist in unraveling a solution to this question.
This event targets undergraduate and graduate research students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff from universities and national laboratories, industry representatives.
Keynote Speakers
- Simon Clark (Macquarie University)
- Alexander (Sandy) Cruden (Monash University)
- Matthew T. Evans(Oregon State University)
- Gary Froyland (University of New South Wales)
- Matt D. Jackson (Imperial College, UK)
- Louis Moresi (Monash University)
- Kathryn Mumford (University of Melbourne)
- Guillermo A. Narsilio (University of Melbourne)
- Nick Petford (University of Northampton, UK)
- Michael Small (University of Western Australia)
- Peter Scales (University of Melbourne)
- Wayne Stange (University of Queensland)
- Cino Viggiani (Université Grenoble, France)
- David M. Walker (University of Melbourne)
- Dion Weatherley (University of Queensland)
Organisers
- Antoinette Tordesillas (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne)
- Tracy Rushmer (Macquarie University)
Contact
For any questions about the workshop, please email Sebastian Pucilowski smop@student.unimelb.edu.au.
Sponsors
BioDynamics 2013
BioDynamics 2013
Dates & Venue: 11–13 September 2013; Engineer's House, Bristol, UK
This will be the first in a series of annual international workshops designed to bring together biologists, mathematicians, clinicians, physicists, and computer scientists who are interested in dynamical systems in the biological and medical sciences.
These workshops will provide a unique and exciting forum for multidisciplinary interactions, which we hope will lead to rewarding collaborations between theoretical, experimental, and clinical scientists.
This promises to provide an exciting opportunity for scientists to present their data in a multidisciplinary forum and hear how collaborations between biological scientists, clinicians and mathematicians can provide major conceptual advances in our understanding of complex systems.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
- Prof Russell Foster (Oxford University, UK)
- Dr Michael Hastings (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)
- Prof David Hazlerigg (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- Prof Allan Herbison (University of Otago Centre for Neuroendocrinology, New Zealand)
- Prof Kevin O'Byrne (King's College, London, UK)
- Prof David Rand (University of Warwick, UK)
- Prof James Sneyd (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
In addition, each session will feature a number of selected shorter talks, with plenty of time for informal discussion. Poster sessions will provide an opportunity for people to present and discuss their work. Posters will be on display throughout the workshop, and there will be prizes awarded for the best posters from students and early-career scientists.
BioDynamics 2013 promises to provide an exciting opportunity for scientists to present their data in a multidisciplinary forum and hear how collaborations between mathematicians, biological scientists and clinicians can provide major conceptual advances in our understanding of complex systems.
Scientific Programme Committee
- Prof Stafford Lightman (University of Bristol, UK)
- Prof John Terry (University of Exeter, UK)
- Dr Francesca Spiga (University of Bristol, UK)
- Dr Jamie Walker (University of Bristol, UK)
- Prof Mike Shipston (Edinburgh, UK)
The AMSI Infectious Disease Modelling Workshop
The AMSI workshop on Infectious Disease Modelling will be held in Newcastle, Australia, from 25-27th September 2013, organised by the mathematical biology special interest group of ANZIAM. This workshop is aimed at applied mathematicians and computer scientists. The main themes are the interface between model-based data and scenario analysis, and the relationship between micro-simulation and modelling. There is space in the programme for contributed talks, and there will be a prize for the best poster by an early career researcher.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
- Prof. Matt Keeling, University of Warwick
- A/Prof. Jane Heffernan, York University
- Dr Steven Riley, Imperial College London
- A/Prof. Alex Cook, National University of Singapore
Registration and abstract submission will open early June.
For more information, please see the conference website.
The InDiMo organising committee.
