The AMSI–ANU Workshop on Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis

13–17 July 2009; The Australian National University, Canberra

The workshop will bring together leading international researchers together with top Australian mathematicians in two rapidly developing, and increasingly intertwined, fields of analysis: spectral theory and harmonic analysis.

The workshop will include:

• research seminars presented by leading researchers;
• six expository lectures, presented by Jan van Neerven and Hart Smith, designed for graduate students;
• a poster session, providing an opportunity for non-speaking participants (including graduate students) to promote their work.

Registration: will open on Wednesday April 15 and close on Monday June 29. There is no registration fee.

Contact: For general enquiries please email to SpectralTheory09@anu.edu.au.

Organisers:

• Daniel Daners (Sydney)
• Xuan Duong (Macquarie)
• Andrew Hassell (ANU)
• Alan McIntosh (ANU)
• Robert Taggart (ANU)
• Administrative assistant: Annette Hughes (ANU)

Future Models for Energy and Water Management under a Regulated Environment

20–22 July 2009; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

This three-day event will consist of three 3-hour short courses and three 3-hour workshops on Future Models for Energy and Water Supply under a Regulated Environment with contributed talks in the afternoon.

Speakers:

• Shahbaz Khan (UNESCO, Paris)
• Graham Weir (IRL NZ)
• Elliot Tonkes (Energy Edge P/L)

Keynote Speakers:

• Ian Rose (ROAM Consulting)
• David Swift (ESPIC South Australia)
• Mukand S. Babel (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
• Michael O'Sullivan (University of Auckland)

Topics likely to be addressed will be:

• Energy and water economy in a regulated environment
• Renewable energy sources
• Network modeling and management
• Risk management
• Risk-return and efficient frontiers
• Power system stability
• Network optomisation
• Demand forecasting
• Carbon cost of food
• Demand side management

Contact: Parvin Ahadi, ews@amsi.org.au
tel: 03 8344 1786.

Mini Winter School on Geometry and Physics

20–22 July 2009; Institute for Geometry and its Applications, University of Adelaide.

Three days of expository lectures aimed at 3rd year and honours students interested in postgraduate studies in pure mathematics or mathematical physics.

Financial support for travel and accommodation is available.

The closing date for applications is 10 June, but we would like to hear from interstate participants as soon as possible so we can book accommodation in time.

Lecturers:

• Peter Bouwknegt (Australian National University, Canberra)
• Nicholas Buchdahl (University of Adelaide)
• Finnur Larusson (University of Adelaide)
• Michael Murray (University of Adelaide)
• Mathai Varghese (University of Adelaide)

Contact: Mathai Varghese, mathai.varghese@adelaide.edu.au
Institute for Geometry and its Applications
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia

Phone: (08) 8303-4173
Fax: (08) 8303-3696.

1–15 August, 2009; University of Bath, Bath, U.K.

The conference is sponsored by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society and is being organised by the University of Bath and the University of St Andrews.

Aim:
This conference, the eighth in the series of Groups St Andrews Conferences, will be organised along similar lines to previous events in this series. For 2009 the conference returns to its usual two-week format.

Topics:
The conference aims to cover all aspects of group theory. The short lecture courses are intended to be accessible to postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in all areas of group theory.

Main speakers:

• Gerhard Hiss (RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
• Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M, USA)
• Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA)
• Dan Segal (All Souls College, Oxford)

Programme:
The speakers above have kindly agreed to give short courses of lectures in the first week of the conference. In the second week of the conference there will be three theme days:

• an ‘Engel groups day’;
• a day to celebrate the birthdays of John Cannon and Derek Holt;
• a ‘B.H. Neumann day’.

In addition there will be a programme of one-hour invited lectures and contributed talks.

The organisers are pleased to announce that full registration is now open. Please visit the conference website at http://www.groupsstandrews.org/2009/ for further details and registration instructions.

Please book early! Prices for both registration and accommodation are discounted for bookings made before April 30th.

Organising committee:

• Colin Campbell (St Andrews)
• Edmund Robertson (St Andrews)
• Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews)
• Martyn Quick (St Andrews)
• Geoff Smith (Bath)
• Gunnar Traustason (Bath)

The Biomechanics and Performance Analysis Department of the Australian Institute of Sport, takes great pleasure in hosting the

7th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport

22–25 September, 2009, Canberra, Australia.

The overall theme of this Symposium is:
Building a Bridge between Computer Science and Sports Science.

It will feature 6 Keynote Presentations from around the world. We wish to extend a warm welcome to IACSS members, computer scientists and sports scientists alike, to join us in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport for what promises to be a wonderfully exciting and informative event.

Further details about the Symposium, including information regarding Registration, Submissions and Accommodation, can be found at: http://www.ausport.gov.au/about/events/iacss2009.

A social network for the event has been set up at: http://iacss09.ning.com/.

If you have any questions regarding the Symposium please email them to: iacss2009@ausport.gov.au.

The first-ever Australian Mathematical Society Early Career Researchers Workshop will be held:

Sunday 27 September 2009, at Mt Lofty House, Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

The Workshop will consist of short research presentations by leading ECRs, advice presentations on various aspects of mathematical careers in academia and industry by more senior mathematicians, and plenty of time for discussion.

Participants in the Workshop will also be invited to a special ECR lunch during the Annual Meeting, attended by the plenary speakers.

Research Speakers

• Thomas Britz (University of New South Wales)
• Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University)
• Zhiyou Wu (University of Ballarat)

Advice Speakers

• Jan de Gier (University of Melbourne)
• Kerry Landman (University of Melbourne)
• Industry representative (TBA)

Registration is free for any registered participant in the Society's 2009 Annual Meeting who is an ECR or PhD student in the mathematical sciences at an Australian university or research organisation.
(An ECR is defined as having no more than approximately 5 years full-time equivalent research experience since award of PhD.).

Numbers for the Workshop are strictly limited, so those who wish to attend are advised to register soon by filling in the form linked to the Annual Meeting web-page, and ticking the box to register for the ECR Workshop: http://www.unisa.edu.au/austms2009/

The Workshop is sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and the Australian Mathematical Society.

Organisers:

• Bronwyn Hajek (Bronwyn.Hajek@unisa.edu.au)
• Anthony Henderson (anthonyh@maths.usyd.edu.au)

53rd annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, to be held at: University of South Australia, City West Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide city.

Plenary Speakers

• Clay–Mahler Lecturer: Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT)
• Werner Ballmann (University of Bonn, MPI Bonn)
• Clay–Mahler Lecturer: Danny Calegari (Caltech)
• Michael Eastwood (UAdelaide)
• Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard)
• Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University)
• Kerry Landman (Melbourne)
• William Moran (DSTO/Uni Melbourne)
• Jacqui Ramagge (Wollongong)
• Clay–Mahler Lecturer: Terence Tao (UCLA)
• ANZIAM Lecturer: Peter Taylor (Uni Melbourne)
• Early Career Lecturer: Akshay Venkatesh (Courant Institute)

Director: Vladimir Ejov (UniSA)
Secretary: Regina Burachik (UniSA)
Local Chairperson: Lesley Ward (UniSA)

Pi in the Sky: Extending Mathematical Horizons

Biennial Conference of the NZ Association of Mathematics Teachers

Conference 2009 — More than Kilograms and Metres

Wed 30 Sept – Fri 2 Oct, 2009; Surfair Marcoola Beach, Marcoola, Queensland

The theme More than Kilograms and Metres was chosen to appeal to the broader metrology community. The conference will focus on advances in metrology, new equipment, techniques and the importance of measurements in the course of all commercial, industrial, and scientific activities. The theme will be delivered via presentations; workshops, and trade displays by some of the leading equipment suppliers. The conference provides a perfect opportunity for the broader metrology community including government, industry leaders, suppliers and metrologists to interact and look beyond measurement.

The venue, Surfair Marcoola is right on the beach and just minutes from Maroochydore Airport, golf courses and an easy drive from Brisbane.

The first-ever (Australian) Theoretical Phylogenetics Meeting will be held:

5–6 November 2009; School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania.

The proposed event will be centered on the general theme of “theoretical phylogenetics”. Phylogenetics is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the past evolutionary history of extant organisms from present day molecular data such as DNA. Currently, there is much interest in further development of the mathematics that underlies computational phylogenetic methods. This meeting will bring together leading bio-mathematicians in the area, with the aim to attack some of the more pressing problems.

Research Speakers

• David Bryant (University of Auckland)
• Seth Sullivant (University of North Carolina)
• Jesús Fernández (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
• John Rhodes (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

Organisers:

• Dr Peter Jarvis (Peter.Jarvis@utas.edu.au)
• Dr Jeremy Sumner (http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/physics_stafflist.html)

The 9th Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference.

6–9 December 2009; University of Adelaide, South Australia.

EMAC2009 is organised by the Engineering Mathematics Group, a special interest group with the Australian and New Zealand Industrial & Applied Mathematics Division of the Australian Mathematical Society. The meeting is held biennially. Contributed papers are from all mathematical disciplines, including mathematics education, with applications to a wide variety of engineering situations.

Invited Speakers

• Bill Blyth (AMSI & RMIT)
• Paul Cowpertwait (Massey)
• Yuri Sergeev (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Key Dates

• Abstracts may be submitted at any time until 30th October 2009. Talks will be accepted on the basis of the abstract, and you will be given a decision within two weeks of submitting the abstract.
• Please submit your abstract before 21st September if you want to know whether your talk is accepted before EarlyBird registration closes (30th September).
• Full written papers are due by 30th November, and will be available at the conference. Papers will be reviewed as they are received, and provided they meet, or are revised to meet, the standard, will be published in a special issue of the ANZIAM electronic journal.

Organisers

• Charles Pearce (University of Adelaide) conference chair
• Fred Bowden (DSTO) co-chairs
• Alan Branford (Flinders)
• Julia Piantadosi (UniSA)
• Andrew Metcalfe (Adelaide) conference convener

AMSI workshop:

New directions in Geometric Group Theory

14–18 December 2009; The University of Queensland, Brisbane.

We plan to have a workshop and short courses around the topic of geometric group theory, with particular emphasis on new ideas and directions of research in the field.

Keynote speakers:

• Danny Calegari (Caltech,USA)
• Indira Chatterji (Ohio State, USA)
• Daryl Cooper (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
• Yves de Cornulier (Rennes)
• Moon Duchin (U Michigan)
• Danny Groves (Illinois, USA)
• Joseph Maher (Oklahoma State, USA)
• Tim Riley (Bristol, UK)
• Anne Thomas (Cornell)

Organisers:

• Murray Elder, (Univ of Queensland) m.elder@uq.edu.au
• Lawrence Reeves, (Univ of Melbourne) L.Reeves@ms.unimelb.edu.au
• Stephan Tillmann, (Univ of Melbourne/Univ of Queensland) S.Tillmann@ms.unimelb.edu.au

Invited speakers:

• Dr Scott McCue (QUT) — J.H. Michell medalist 2009.
• Dr Carlo Laing (Massey) — J.H. Michell medalist 2008.
• Prof. Sir Roy Anderson (Imperial College London)
• Prof. Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)
• Assoc. Prof. Antoinette Tordesillas (University of Melbourne)
• Prof. Lee White (University of South Australia)
• Prof. Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego)
• Prof. Song Ping Zhu (University of Wollongong)

Organising committee: (ANZIAM@math.canterbury.ac.nz)

• Boris Baumer (co-chair)
• Alex James (co-chair)
• Misi Kovacs (treasurer)
• Carlo Laing
• Mike Plank
• Mick Roberts

The annual Mathematics and Statistics-in-Industry Study Group (MISG) workshop brings together leading mathematicians from universities, the public and the private sector from across Australia and around the world to tackle complex technical problems facing Australian businesses and industry.

In 2010, RMIT University’s School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences will host the annual MISG Workshop.

Industry partners are encouraged to contact the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences with potential projects.

Director: A/Professor John Shepherd (jshep@rmit.edu.au)
Associate Director: Dr. John Gear (jjag@rmit.edu.au)
Administrator: Ms. Petra Siskos (jpetra.siskos@rmit.edu.au)
Contact: misg@rmit.edu.au

54th Annual AustMS Meeting

27–30 September, 2010; The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane.

This is the 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society and will include all areas of mathematics.

Program details

• Welcome reception and registration: evening of Sunday 26th September
• Meeting Schedule: Monday 27th–Thursday 30th September
• Special Lectures: ANZIAM and Hanna Neumann lectures to be announced
• Public lecture Monday 27th or Tuesday 28th September
• Wednesday afternoon: 54th AustMS AGM
• Conference dinner: evening of Wednesday 29th September
• Last sessions: expected to finish 3 or 4pm Thursday 30th September
• Early Career Workshop 25th–26th September

Meeting Director: Prof Ole Warnaar
Contact: secretary@austms.org.au .