The Society sponsors Special Interest Meetings on specialist topics at diverse geographical locations around Australia. This activity is seen as a means of generating a stronger professional profile for the Society within the Australian mathematical community, and of stimulating better communication between mathematicians with similar interests who are scattered throughout the country.
These grants are intended for once-off meetings and not for regular meetings. If it is intended to hold regular meetings on a specific subject area, the organizers should consider forming a Special Interest Group of the Society. If there is widespread interest in a subject area, there is also the mechanism for forming a Division within the Society.
Applications for the period July 1996 to December 1997 should reach the Secretary by the closing date 19 January 1996. A further call for applications for the period January 1997 to June 1998 will be made in March 1996.
An application for a grant should be made on a form available from the Secretary, whose name and address appear on the inside front cover of this issue.
The rules governing the approval of grants are as follows.
In consideration of an application, Council will take into account locations around Australia of the various mathematical meetings during the period in question. Preference will be given to Meetings of at least two days' duration. The maximum allocation for any one Meeting will be $2500, with up to $8000 being available in any one calendar year. There will be six-monthly calls for applications for Special Interest Meeting Grants, each to cover a period of eighteen months commencing six months after consideration of applications.
University of Melbourne
Dr Derek Chan has been awarded a Personal Chair in Mathematics. Dr M. Shapiro has joined the Department of Mathematics as a lecturer. Mr Neil Byrne will retire at the end of 1995.
Murdoch University
Associate Professor Walter Bloom has been awarded a Personal Chair in Mathematics. Mr Robert Dunne has resigned to take up a lectureship at Victoria University of Technology. Dr Chris Reason has resigned to take up a position in earth sciences at University of Melbourne. Dr Mark Short has resigned.
University of Queensland
Dr D.E. Bryant has been awarded a University of Queensland Post-doctoral Fellowship for 1996-7. Alan Williams has been selected as one of seven finalists for the Best Student Paper award competition for Supercomputing95 . His paper has been selected as the best student paper in the ``Algorithms'' section.
Victoria University of Technology
John Roumeliotis has been appointed to a three year lectureship. Robert Dunne has been appointed to a three year lectureship.
Fellows (FAustMS)
V. T. Buchwald, University of the South Pacific
N. J. de Mestre, Bond University
H. P. W. Gottlieb, Griffith University
J. R. Giles, University of Newcastle
A. S. Jones, University of Queensland
G. J. McLachlan, University of Queensland
C. E. M. Pearce, University of Adelaide
P. K. Pollett, University of Queensland
A. G. Shannon, University of Technology, Sydney
R. H. Street, Macquarie University
A. J. van der Poorten, Macquarie University
Accredited Member (MAustMS)
T. C. Badrick, Cleveland, Queensland
J. M. Gaffney, University of Adelaide
The Medal Committee for the 1996 Australian Mathematical Society Medal is now seeking nominations and recommendations for possible candidates for this medal. This is the Society's most prestigious award and is awarded to a member of the Society, who is under 40 years of age on 1st January 1995, for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences.
For further information, please contact the Chair of the 1996 Medal Committee, Professor S.A. Morris, Department of Mathematics, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522.