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 January 1996 to June 1997 should reach the Secretary by the closing date 21 July 1995. A further call for applications for the period July 1997 to December 1998 will be made in October 1995.
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 considering 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.
Officers of Council. Nominations are invited for the following Officers for the Session commencing after the Annual General Meeting in July 1995:
The present elected Officers of the Society are:
President: D.W. Robinson
Vice-Presidents: C.E. Praeger, P.J. Stacey
Secretary: D. Elliott
Treasurer: A. Howe
All the present Officers are eligible for re-election.
Ordinary Members of Council. The present elected Ordinary Members of Council are:
1. members whose term of office expires in July 1995: J.E. Hutchinson, C.M. O'Keefe
2. members whose term of office expires in July 1996: E.J. Billington, A.J. Roberts, I.H. Sloan
3. members whose term of office expires in July 1997: D.P. Fearnley-Sander, B. Sims, B.H. Thompson.
Accordingly, nominations are invited for
Note that following paragraph 30 of the Constitution, J.E. Hutchinson, and C.M. O'Keefe are not eligible for re-election as Ordinary Members.
To comply with the Constitution, nominations should be signed by two members of the Society and by the nominee who shall also be a member of the Society. Nominations should reach the Secretary (whose name and address appear on the inside cover of the Gazette ) no later than Friday 5 May 1995.
For information, the following are ex-officio members of the Council for the Session 1994-1995.
Vice-President: G.C. Wake (Chairman, ANZIAM)
Editors: J.R.J. Groves (Journal A), A.S. Jones (Bulletin), J.H. Loxton
(Lecture Note Series), T.M. Mills (Gazette), C.E.M. Pearce (Journal B).
ANZIAM Representative: D.F. Paget
Public Officer of AMPAI: M.F. Newman
Monash University
Dr Robin J. Hyndman commenced employment as Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics (Statistics Section) on 4 January 1995.
University of Newcastle
Dr George Wallis has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
Mr Graeme Pettet has resigned from the Department to take up a position at the Queensland University of Technology from 18 February 1995.
Dr Neal Fowler has joined the Department of Mathematics as an Associate Lecturer from 4 January 1995.
University of New South Wales
Professor Lance Leslie (UNSW) and Professor Klaus Fraedrich (Hamburg) have been awarded the Max Planck Research Award for their work on weather models.
Northern Territory University
Under the recent academic restructuring of the Northern Territory University, the former ITAFE mathematics section is now referred to as the `School of Mathematics' in the newly established Faculty of Technology, whereas the higher education mathematics discipline is still located within the `School of Mathematical \& Physical Sciences' in the Faculty of Science. Please address all correspondences to the School of Mathematical \& Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Northern Territory University, Darwin, NT 0909.
Dr Max Lohe has extended his study leave at the University of Texas until July 1995.
University of Papua New Guinea
Dr Deane Arganbright has taken up the position as Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
As of January 1, 1995, the Mathematics Department at RMIT has split into two new Departments - the Department of Mathematics, currently headed by Associate Professor Kathy Horadam, and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, currently headed by Professor Peter Brockwell. The contact addresses and phone numbers of the two departments remain as before.
University of South Australia
Mr Basil Benjamin has retired from his lecturing position in the School of Mathematics. Basil is one of the longest serving staff members, starting in 1964 as a lecturer, then senior lecturer, and was appointed principal lecturer in 1989. His retirement will not terminate his professional interests, as can be inferred from his presence at MISG 1995 and ANZIAM '95. Basil will continue his research interests in the Scheduling and Control Group.
University of Technology, Sydney
Dr Kim Yap has retired from the School of Mathematical Sciences after 24 years of service.
Dr Ian Hoffman has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Mathematics Unit within the School, from February 1995.
Dr Debbie Street will take up an appointment as Associate Professor in the Stochastic and Operations Research Unit within the School, from May 1995.
Professor Tony Shannon has been appointed the foundation Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at UTS.
Victoria University of Technology
Ms Jan Thomas (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education) has been appointed President of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Council.
Victoria University of Wellington
Professor Rod Downey was awarded the New Zealand Association of Scientists Medal for the best research in the last three years by a scientist under the age of 40.