MPE Australia 2013

An Australian Academy of Science
Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference

Dates & Venue: 8–12 July 2013; RMIT, Melbourne

This conference is the central academic event of Maths of Planet Earth Australia 2013. The event will bring together the entire scientific community, to cultivate discussions and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. It aims to demonstrate Australia’s current contribution to mathematical sciences research, whilst simultaneously elaborating on the influence the mathematical sciences have on solving the challenges of our planet.

The themes are driven by the partners in the year and have been selected as key priority areas in Australian research.

• Complex (and Dynamical) Systems
• A Data-Based View of Our World
• Population censuses and the human face of Australia
• Scientific Data Mining
• Earth System Modeling
• Mitigating Natural Disaster Risk
• Sustainability – Environmental modelling
• BioInvasion and BioSecurity
• Realising Our Subsurface Potential

Plenary speakers

• Julie Arblaster (Bureau of Meteorology)
• David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the University of California)
• Simon Barry (CSIRO)
• Graeme Brown (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• Chris Budd (University of Bath)
• John Cook (University of Queensland)
• Kate Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• David Fox (Environmetrics)
• Bronwyn Harch (CSIRO)
• Brian Kennett (ANU)
• Mark Lawrence (Mark Lawrence Group)
• Robert Muir-Wood (Risk Management Solutions)
• Marc Parlange. (Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology — EFLUM)
• Peter Waterhouse (CSIRO)
• Duncan Young (ABS)

Important Dates

• Registration opens soon
• 31 May: abstract submission closes
• 10 June: Early-bird registration ends

Sponsors and Partners

• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
• Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS)
• Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
• RMIT University (RMIT)
• Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM)
• Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
• Australian Government, Geoscience Australia
• Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology
• Australian Museum
• CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics & CSIRO Education (CSIRO)
• Maths and Stats by Email
• Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA), University of Newcastle
• Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science
• Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (SSAI)
• Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania
• Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT)
• Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
• COSMOS Magazine