The ICMI President has announced that Professor Gilah Leder has won the Felix Klein Award for 2009.

The Group of Eight’s (Go8) Review of Education in Mathematics, Data Science and Quantitative Disciplines, released today, found that the state of mathematical sciences in Australia has deteriorated to a dangerous level …

The first issue of the Gazette in 2010 is now online.

The death of Emeritus Professor Evan James Williams of the University of Melbourne, a longstanding member of the Australian Mathematical Society, has been announced in the Melbourne Age today, January 29th.

Cheryl Praeger has just been named 2009 WA Scientist of the Year.

Masters' fees scholarships are offered to selected candidates who enrol in the first year of the Master of Information Sciences program majoring in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Massey University.

The final issue of the Gazette in 2009 is now online.

The Graduate Fellow Program is a new initiative by CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics which aims to support the mathematical sciences pipeline in Australia and encourage talented students to try out a career in research for two years.

1st Conference of the European Society for Mathematics and the Arts, to be held in Paris, at l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Amphi Hermite.

The Victorian and SA branches of ANZIAM will be holding a joint meeting in December this year in Halls Gap. See the calendar entry.

A joint meeting of the NSW and ACT branches of ANZIAM will be held on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th December (ending at around 1pm) at the Coachhouse Marina Resort, Batemans Bay.

I am sorry to inform members that Professor Clive Davis died last Thursday. The message from the Head of Mathematics at UQ included the following:

The Australian Mathematical Society and the Statistical Society of Australia Inc have now recommended a finalized list of journal rankings in the mathematical sciences FoR codes (01, 0102, 0103, 0104, 0105, 0199) to the ARC.

The Institute for Geometry and its Applications (IGA), in the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, would like to announce an exciting special year in Geometry in 2010!

… for Attendance at the ANZIAM and Special Interest Group Conferences.

AMSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Geoffrey Prince as AMSI Director.

Announcement for BHN100, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bernhard Neumann.

This year's Clay–Mahler Lecturer is Fields Medallist Terence Tao. Terry and two Clay lecturers, Mohammed Abouzaid and Danny Calegari, will be in Australia from mid-August till early October. They will travel to a selection of Australian universities to give talks, as well as attending the AustMS annual meeting in Adelaide.

As Editor of the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, I have had a few queries from members of the Society who are subscribers but who have missed out on issues.

Issue four of the Gazette in 2009 is now online.