A joint meeting of the NSW and ACT branches of ANZIAM will be held on Friday 21st November and Saturday 22nd November (ending at around 1pm) at the Coachhouse Marina Resort, Batemans Bay.

http://www.coachhouse.com.au

The registration desk will open at 1:30 pm on Friday 21 Nov and the meeting will start at 2 pm in the Sea Breeze room.

For delegates staying at the conference resort the following room rates have been negotiated. To obtain these rates please mention “Mathematics Meeting” when making your booking.

The accommodation rates are:

• Single Share rate is $148.50 pp
• Twin share rate is $ 80.00 pp
• Triple Share rate is $ 63.50 pp
• Quad share rate is $ 58.50 pp

(Please note that triple share accommodation usually includes one delegate sleeping in either a bunk bed or a sofa bed. Twin share is the recommended arrangement. Delegates can request breakfast for an extra cost of around $22 for a full buffet breakfast.)

Registration fee:

• Student member of ANZIAM $25
• Accompanying person $30
• Everyone else $50

The conference registration fee includes the following:

• a. Afternoon tea on Friday 21 Nov.
• b. Dinner (either a 3-course alternate serve dinner or a BBQ, depending on the numbers)
• c. Morning Tea on Saturday 22 Nov.

The registration fee can be made payable at the time of booking of the accommodation to the resort, or on the day itself.

A limited amount of money is available to contribute towards the costs of student presenters (provided that they are members of either ACT or NSW ANZIAM). This will take the form of a contribution towards accommodation & travel costs. A prize will be awarded for the best student presentation.

Since we have to provide firm numbers of delegates to the resort by November 7th it would be very useful if delegates can send us, either Harvi Sidhu (h.sidhu@adfa.edu.au) or Mark Nelson (mnelson@uow.edu.au), a clear indication of attendance at the meeting.
(Abstracts can be sent a few days before the meeting.)

During the course of the meeting the NSW and ACT branches will hold their annual general meetings to elect committees for 2009. Anyone wishing to stand for election should contact Mark Nelson (Branch President, NSW) mnelson@uow.edu.au, or Harvi Sidhu (ACT) h.sidhu@adfa.edu.au.

Please send title/abstract of presentations to Harvi Sidhu (h.sidhu@adfa.edu.au). For further information please do not hesitate to contact either Harvi or Mark.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting.

Regards,
Harvi and Mark

Directors:

• Mark Nelson (Branch President, NSW) mnelson@uow.edu.au
• Harvi Sidhu (ACT) h.sidhu@adfa.edu.au

7th Australia – New Zealand Mathematics Convention

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

This is a joint Australia–New Zealand meeting, incorporating the 2008 Australian Mathematics Colloquium and the 2008 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium.

Invited Speakers

• Carl de Boor (Wisconsin-Madison)
• Vaughan Jones (Berkeley), AustMS Distinguished Lecturer
• Kerry Landman (Melbourne)
• Gregory F. Lawler (Chicago)
• Charles Leedham-Green (Queen Mary, London)
• John W. Morgan (Columbia)
• Karen Parshall (Virginia)
• James Sneyd (Auckland), ANZIAM Lecturer
• Angelika Steger (ETH Zurich)
• Neil Trudinger (ANU), NZIMA Lecturer

Director: Rick Beatson (R.Beatson@math.canterbury.ac.nz)

Registration, accommodation and finance: anzmc2008@uco.canterbury.ac.nz

Abstract submission and early-bird registration closes on Friday 31st October

Academic and other enquiries: ANZMC2008@math.canterbury.ac.nz

Travel Grant

The Australian Mathematical Society will provide up to AUD$250 to student members of the AustMS attending the 7th Australia–New Zealand Mathematics Convention, providing they present a paper and travel from Australia. The travel grant will be paid by the AustMS upon application to the Treasurer of the AustMS

Special Theme Program on Group Theory, Combinatorics and Computation

The University of Western Australia in Perth, 5–16 January, 2009.

In honour of Professor Cheryl Praeger's 60th Birthday.

The special theme programme will be broken down into two weeks. Participants may attend either week or both.

• Week 1: An international conference in honour of Professor Praeger's 60th birthday. It will contain invited 1 hour talks and short contributed talks by participants.
• Week 2: An informal week of short courses, workshops and problem sessions, especially beneficial to early career researchers and postgraduate students.

Invited Speakers:

• Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
• Peter Cameron (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
• Marston Conder (University of Auckland, NZ)
• Marcel Herzog (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
• Kathy Horadam (RMIT, Aus)
• Sasha Ivanov (Imperial College London, UK)
• William Kantor (University of Oregon, USA)
• Cai Heng Li (UWA, Aus)
• Charles Leedham-Green (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
• Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London, UK)
• Brendan McKay (ANU, Aus)
• Peter Neumann (Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK)
• Eamonn O'Brien (University of Auckland, NZ)
• Tim Penttila (Colorado State University, USA)
• Jan Saxl (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Akos Seress (Ohio State University, USA)

Organising committee:

• John Bamberg (Ghent University)
• Michael Giudici (UWA)
• Cai Heng Li (UWA)
• Alice Niemeyer (UWA)
• Tim Penttila (Colorado State University)
• Gordon Royle (UWA)

Contact:

gcc09@maths.uwa.edu.au

The 2009 AMSI Summer School will be held at the University of Wollongong from 12 January to 6 February 2009.

Organised by The School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, it is designed for Honours and coursework masters students in mathematical and statistical sciences. Courses will be available in the areas of Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Statistics.

The annual Mathematics in Industry Study Group will be held at Wollongong 27–31 January 2009 and this has been incorporated into one of the courses.

The deadline for registration is 21 November 2008.

AMSI is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and we thank them for their support.

Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium

The 15th "Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium" (CATS) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, during 20–23 January 2009.

Wellington is on the southern tip of the North Island of NZ. CATS is one of the two premier annual conferences in theoretical computer science in the Asia–Pacific.

Authors are invited to submit papers that present original and unpublished research on topics including (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Complexity Theory
• Graph Theory
• Graph Algorithms and Combinatorics
• Semantics of Programming Languages
• Algorithms on Strings
• Optimisation
• Formal Program Specification and Transformation
• Computational Algebra and Geometry
• Computational Biology
• Logic and Type systems
• New Paradigms of Computation

Programme Committee Co-Chairs:

• Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
  Rod.Downey@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
• Prabhu Manyem, University of Ballarat, Australia
  manyem@ballarat.edu.au

Joint CSIRO/ANU One-Day Seminar on Computational Mathematics and Inverse Problems

Venue: ANU Manning Clarke Lecture Theatre 6 and Foyer

Celebrating Bob Anderssen's 70th birthday

Bob Anderssen has applied mathematics to a very broad range of problems ranging from the vibrations of the earth to the formation of patterns in plants. Two themes that have been threads that draw together much of this work are the application of computational mathematics and the analysis of inverse problems.

This meeting, which focuses on computational mathematics and inverse problems and features speakers who have collaborated with Bob, will attempt to capture the diversity of his work in these areas.

Symposium dinner: A dinner is planned on Friday evening, 18:30 for 19:00.

Social activities: Saturday informal lunchtime BBQ, (location and time TBA)

Organising committee:

• Frank de Hoog, CSIRO
• Markus Hegland, Australian National University

Registration: There is no registration fee for attendance and everyone with an interest in mathematical modelling, computation and inverse problems and friends of Bob are most welcome to attend. However, in order for us to arrange catering, please register through the website

MISG2009

The Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group, held at University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

Invited speaker

• Alistair Fitt (PVC University of Southampton, UK)

Director: Prof Tim Marchant (tim@uow.edu.au)
Assoc. Director: Dr Maureen Edwards (maureen@uow.edu.au)
Administrator : Ms Joell Hall (joell@uow.edu.au)

ANZIAM 2009 will be held at Rydges Oasis Resort, Caloundra, Queensland.

Caloundra is about 1 hour's drive north of Brisbane and the resort can be reached by bus directly from Brisbane and Sunshine Coast airports. (see Map link below)

The conference will begin with the traditional Sunday evening BBQ, with the conference dinner to be held on Wednesday evening. Tuesday afternoon will be free for registrants to pursue any of the varied leisure activities available on the Sunshine Coast.

This year again boasts an excellent list of invited speakers covering a broad spectrum of applied mathematics.

The speakers are:

• Prof Jim Hill (Wollongong, ANZIAM Medalist, 2008)
• Prof Ian Turner (QUT)
• Prof Kerrie Mengersen (QUT)
• Prof Phillip Maini (Oxford)
• Dr Graham Weir (Industrial Research Limited, NZ)
• Prof Guy Latouche (Bruxelles)
• Prof Natashia Boland (Newcastle)
• Prof Jerzy Filar (University of South Australia)

For further information relating to registration and deadlines, please check the website http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/conference/index.php/ANZIAM/2009.

Alternatively, contact:

• Peter Johnston (p.johnston@griffith.edu.au), or
• Scott McCue (scott.mccue@qut.edu.au).

The closing date for registration and abstract submission is 19/12/08.

The Institute for Geometry and its Applications will host a Workshop on Complex Geometry at the University of Adelaide from Monday 16 February to Friday 20 February 2009.

Speakers:

• Nicholas Buchdahl, University of Adelaide
• Emma Carberry, University of Sydney
• ^†Jean-Pierre Demailly, Université de Grenoble
• Michael Eastwood, University of Adelaide
• ^†Peter Ebenfelt, University of California, San Diego
• Vladimir Ejov, University of South Australia
• John Erik Fornæss, University of Michigan
• ^†Franc Forstnerič, University of Ljubljana
• Rod Gover, University of Auckland
• Adam Harris, University of New England
• Alexander Isaev, Australian National University
• Kang-Tae Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology
• Finnur Larusson, University of Adelaide
• Jürgen Leiterer, Humboldt-Universität
• Morris Kalka, Tulane University
• ^†Amnon Neeman, Australian National University
• Paul Norbury, University of Melbourne
• Gerd Schmalz, University of New England

^†Keynote speakers will give 2–3 lectures each, the first lecture being a survey intended for a broad audience.

There is no formal registration process or fee, but please let us know if you plan to attend the workshop. The workshop is supported by AMSI.

Organisers:

• Nicholas Buchdahl (Nicholas.Buchdahl@adelaide.edu.au)
• Michael Eastwood (Michael.Eastwood@adelaide.edu.au)
• Finnur Larusson (Finnur.Larusson@adelaide.edu.au)

Short Course in Computational Neuroscience

Queensland Brain Institute, Building 79, Upland Road
The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

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 2-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 in the brain, how memories are stored, how the brain learns from experience, and how to build brain-computer interfaces.

The course will consist of 2 components:

• lectures introducing basic concepts in computational neuroscience given by A/Prof Geoffrey Goodhill, Editor-in-Chief of the leading international journal Network: Computation in Neural Systems,
• talks and demos introducing some current topics in neuroscience research given by leading neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute.

No prior knowledge of neuroscience will be assumed; however participants should have a good grounding in at least first-year University-level mathematics.

The registration fee for the course is $50, which includes lunches and refreshments. Places are limited. To apply please send a CV, academic transcript and 1-paragraph statement of why you wish to attend the course to A/Prof Geoffrey Goodhill, g.goodhill@uq.edu.au.

A limited number of scholarships are available to help support travel and accommodation for those coming from outside the Brisbane area: please indicate if you wish to be considered for a scholarship. Applications will continue to be considered until Jan 16th or until the course is full.

Contact: Geoffrey J Goodhill (g.goodhill@uq.edu.au)

International Workshop on Modelling and Data Analysis for Infectious Disease Control

The workshop title reflects the major theme, which includes assessment of vaccine effects, vaccination strategies, effectiveness of antiviral drugs, non-pharmaceutical interventions and methods to estimate the parameters and functions that inform these.

The formal program runs from lunchtime on Monday (March 9) until lunchtime on Thursday (March 12). It will include sessions for informal interaction and collaboration after lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Venue: Eco Point Murramarang Resort is located on the beach, south of Sydney and east of Canberra, adjacent to a National Park. March weather is normally warm and sunny, suitable for swimming, beach combing and nature walks. (http://www.murramarangresort.com.au/)

Contact: Ros Hales (ros.hales@anu.edu.au)

Program: Niels Becker (niels.becker@anu.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.

Director: Vladimir Ejov