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ANU-ITER Research Training Scheme

Thu, 20 May 2021 07:26:25 +0000

The Australian National University (ANU)��has teamed up with the to offer an ITER-aligned research training scheme to attract talented research students.

Discipline fields span mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering and energy economics. Projects will be guided through by ITER Science Fellow Professor Matthew Hole, and/or ITER Organisation staff, with a special topics course “The Science of Toroidal Magnetic Confinement” offered to bring students to the forefront of the field.

Who can apply?��

Students applying for PhD scholarship and/or admissions
Existing ANU PhD students (less than 9 months in) who join the project of activity
International research masters students, who are on-track to join the ANU for a PhD (must have ANU supervisor commitment to stipend)

Prospective applicants are invited to send an expression of interest to Professor Matthew Hole via email at matthew.hole@anu.edu.au, who will provide regular updates on when the scheme commences this year.

Travel support is available for students to attend training at ITER or an ITER-relevant lab.

For more information, visit the ANU-ITER Research Training Scheme website .

What is ITER?

ITER (“The Way” in Latin) is the world’s largest fusion experiment.

In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak – a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.

The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow.

ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy. ITER will be the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods of time. And ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.

Science Minister Karen Andrews announces Citizen Science grants

Michael — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 03:31:19 +0000

Australian organisations with research project ideas that encourage the community to get involved are invited to apply for a Citizen Science grant. Grants of between $150,000 and $500,000 are available to support projects that enable community participation in four key research areas. Find out more from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources.

MATRIX mathematical research partnership expands

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:15:22 +0000

ANU joins Monash and the University of Melbourne, enhancing research infrastructure and impact.

Not a beautiful set of numbers

��ճԹ� — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:04:31 +0000

Article by , , 6 August, 2015

The excellent ��ճԹ� has the numbers on the state of maths education and found the state of the discipline in higher education is not good, the number of Australians starting a maths degree is less than half the OECD average. Granted it is not getting worse – but it isn’t going to better soon.

Given maths is a foundation of so many disciplines large numbers of students do not graduate innumerate – the average number of university departments maths academics service-teach is six, engineering, computer science, IT and biological, physical and earth sciences. But ��ճԹ� does not know how many undergraduates��are studying maths degrees, due to some universities not completing the 2014 survey. However using Group of Eight and Innovative Research Us as a guide the attrition rate from 1^st to 3^rd year is high, Go8 5280 to 695 and IRU 1287 to 67.

What is starkly clear is that at for all the efforts to woo women into the discipline, at the sharp end it’s still a bloke’s game – last year just 15 per cent of PhD completers were Australian women, another 25 per cent were female internationals.

None of these numbers is about to improve, because for all the emphasis of selling maths in schools, young people aren’t buying, with Y12 advanced maths enrolments dropping for 20 years. The figure for males is now around 14 per cent and 6 per cent for females. And what does not interest students at school is hardly likely to appeal at university. Universities appear to acquiesce in this. According to ��ճԹ� less than 15 per cent of universities require intermediate maths or better as a pre-req for science or commerce, the same for 41 per cent of engineering courses. CMM suspects a fair swag of the supply teaching university maths lecturers do is getting students up to a point where they can cope with first year subjects.

The good news is that the quality of maths teaching in schools has improved substantially over the last few years. Nearly three quarters of Year 11 and 12 maths teachers now have three years of tertiary education in maths, compared to 64 per cent in 2010. But qualified teachers without many kids to teach does not get us far.

Vision for a maths nation – building policy on evidence

��ճԹ� — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:05:26 +0000

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015: Australia’s future as a high technology, research-driven economy will depend on reversing 20-year trends in the mathematical sciences, according to a new report by the ��ճԹ� (��ճԹ�).

Today, ��ճԹ� release their fourth annual Discipline Profile of the Mathematical Sciences. At a time when the Australian government is responding to the Chief Scientist’s call for a strategic plan for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) it is a reminder that we cannot continue to rely on piecemeal programs tied to the electoral cycle.

The data collected for the 2015 publication paints a mixed picture of Australian engagement with the mathematical sciences.

86 per cent of science degrees��do not have intermediate mathematics as an entry prerequisite while Year 12 enrolments slide��

In fact, mathematics prerequisites for entry into science, commerce and engineering degrees are at historic lows.

��ճԹ� Director, Professor Geoff Prince insists: “Universities must phase in restoration of maths prerequisites; the lack of them sends a negative and misleading message to schools about the value of these subjects.”

Intermediate and advanced mathematics subjects are the gateway to quantitative professions; the 20-year decline in participation is choking the country’s galloping demand for graduates with these skills. And it has the potential to halt the nation’s productivity growth.

At least 30 per cent of Year 7-10 maths classes are taught without a qualified maths teacher

This figure is more than double the international average and must be repaired as part of our STEM planning.

In order to secure the future supply of mathematics teachers we need to know why potential educators aren’t choosing to be maths teachers. The only immediate solution is to provide professional development to the many conscientious and professional educators teaching maths out-of-field.

This is a national issue requiring national leadership; state and federal governments must act together to solve the teacher supply problem.

Women make up only 30 per cent of undergraduate maths enrolments holding back our STEM workforce and productivity growth

The proportion of young women represented at all stages of the mathematics pipeline is inadequate. A significant consequence of this is that adult women numeracy is below that of men – around 30 per cent in some age groups. And, in terms of the national economy, it is widely recognised that weak participation by women in STEM fields is handicapping Australia’s productivity and competitive advantage.

“We are proud to be working with the BHP Billiton Foundation to increase participation of girls and women in study and career pathways involving mathematics and statistics,” says Professor Prince.

Maths’ multi-billion dollar value to the economy under threat as PhD rate stagnates

A 2015 report by the Australian Academy of Sciences indicates that, of those business sectors based on a single core discipline, mathematical sciences account for the top three (and five of the top seven). The report also highlighted that the direct impact of advanced physical and mathematical research is worth $145 billion to the economy per year, the flow-on impact amounts to $292 billion per year. This is in stark contrast to 54 per cent of adult Australians having only basic numeracy skills and the proportion of Year 12 students studying “harder” maths in steady decline.

“Unfortunately, this stellar contribution hides an alarming trend,” says Professor Prince. “Governments are trying to drive up business employment of STEM trained research professionals, however, domestic PhD numbers in the mathematical sciences are among the very lowest in the OECD. Universities and businesses must improve engagement to maximise the economic benefits of mathematics and statistics.”

The ��is accompanied by a policy document —��— that identifies four key priorities to reverse these confronting trends:

Restore university maths prerequisites from their historic low and turn around declining school mathematics enrolments
Train the unqualified teachers of school mathematics and secure the supply of future qualified maths teachers
Increase the number of girls studying maths and women employed in the quantitative professions.
Boost the engagement of Australian business with mathematical sciences research

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, has called for action: “It’s time to do what so many other countries have already done: take a long-term strategic view of STEM’s pivotal role in securing a stronger Australia.”

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For Interview:
Professor Geoff Prince
Director, ��ճԹ�
M: 0407 546 336
E: director@amsi.org.au

Media contact:
Stephanie Pradier
Media Communications, ��ճԹ�
M: 0424 568 314
E: stephanie@amsi.org.au

RESOURCES:

Prerequisites, or lack thereof:��Data can be found in Table 2.10 (page 13)��

Value of the mathematical sciences to Australia’s economy, looking at the top seven sectors that use a single science discipline. The mathematical sciences have a value of $18 billion of the $22 billion per year to the Australian economy of across these top seven sectors:��Data from Table 4.2 (page 38)��

Falling participation rates in advanced mathematics enrolments:��Figure 2.7 (page 12)��

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Collaborative brainpower: Australia’s next resource?

��ճԹ� — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:32:08 +0000

MELBOURNE, TUESDAY 28 JULY, 2015:��What Professor Michael Shelley does is so unlike what other people do. And over three weeks he will be sharing his ideas and advanced theoretical work, and tools, with Australia’s brightest minds.

This year, in conjunction with ANZIAM, ��ճԹ� brings Professor Michael Shelley, New York University, to Australian shores. He founded the Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the Courant Institute and his interests and research look into how structures move and interact with fluids.

Nature has a thing or two to teach us about evolution

“My tools are mathematical modelling, simulation and analysis,” Michael says. And, he draws his inspiration from the natural world – flags flapping in the wind, snakes slithering underfoot and bacteria swimming through baths.��Would you ever associate flapping flags and renewable hydroelectricity?

“My theories on flags influenced engineers who design flapping devices to extract energy from flowing water. And my modelling of “turbulent” bacterial baths has helped biophysicists understand that how bacteria swim – by turning their flagellae – can have a huge effect on collective behaviour and gave new theoretical tools for studying other more complicated problems in biology,” says Michael.

By working on understanding natural phenomena, Michael explains, groundwork is being laid for others to work on problems of higher complexity. Innovation of this kind requires collaboration across many fields of research such as mathematics, biology, physics, engineering and chemistry.

“People are at the core of knowledge transfer,” says Professor Geoff Prince, ��ճԹ� Director. “And now, more than ever, innovation across multiple disciplines is essential for Australia to remain competitive in the global economy.”

Innovation walks on two legs

As global economy woes become more profound investing in innovation and promoting the importance of collaboration among STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is necessary.

Each year ��ճԹ� supports the visits of 50 international academics to Australia. This equips the brilliant young minds of Australian research with the tools and the knowledge to extend their research capability and to do innovative and exciting things.

Exposure to state of the art research, while networking with future colleagues can only lead to clever people, a clever country and a strong economy.

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For Interview:��

Professor Michael Shelley, New York University: Co-Director, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

About:

The ��ճԹ�-ANZIAM Lecture Tour is a biennial activity organised by the ��ճԹ� (��ճԹ�) in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM). Over three weeks a prominent mathematician tours Australian universities giving lectures at a variety of levels, including several public lectures.

27 July – 12 August 2015

Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle

Media Contact:

Stephanie Pradier

E:��stephanie@amsi.org.au

P:��+61 424 568 314

What’s missing in research policy?

��ճԹ� — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:52:53 +0000

Senator Kim Carr,Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Industry, gave a speech to the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) senior staff forum on��Wednesday, 22 July 2015��.

In his address��Senator Carr��highlights the importance of fundamental research and reminds us:

Universities, by definition, are dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge.��They exist to discover what is not known as well as to pass on to new generations what is already known.

A research policy that neglects basic research will also fail to achieve its objectives with regard to applied research.��You will all know instances of discoveries arising from pure research that not only expanded technological possibilities but transformed our daily lives. […]��Without research into black holes, we wouldn’t have WiFi.

Read��the senator’s speech here, or on��his .

The Government’s Agenda

Today I propose to talk about the Abbott Government’s research agenda and Labor’s approach.

You will not be surprised to hear that I believe that the Government’s agenda is fundamentally flawed.

It is not only a matter of the substantial cuts the Government has made, and intends to make, to the funding of universities, to publicly funded research agencies, and to programs promoting industry-research collaboration.

Those cuts are bad enough. Over the course of two Budgets, the Government has sought to drain more than $3 billion from the system.

What’s arguably worse, however, is the incoherent, indeed chaotic, nature of this so-called agenda.

Earlier this month, the Government announced yet another review of research policy – the sixth in less than two years.

The Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, said that the Government would undertake a review of university research funding and policy as part of its��Boosting the Commercial Returns from Research��strategy.

I am not going to argue that the current block grant funding system is perfect – and I know the IRU is of the view that it could be improved.

But the context and nature of this review give me no confidence that it will lead to positive change.

Christopher Pyne’s announcement did not mention adequacy of funding, or how this review would interact with the work of the other studies.

There was no discernible requirement for input from industry, and no apparent direction to take account of broader science and innovation policy.

The importance of basic research

Worst of all was the fact that neither in the terms of reference nor in the Minister’s statement was there any mention of the importance of basic research and the generation of new knowledge.

That is the deepest problem I have with the Abbott Government’s research policy: I fear that the balance between pure and applied research has been lost.

My issue here, as I trust you understand, is with the Government.

I am aware that some of you are personally involved in the work of the new review.

I have no doubt that the review will do everything the Minister has asked of it.

The problem lies in what he has failed to ask.

A research policy that neglects basic research will also fail to achieve its objectives with regard to applied research.

You will all know instances of discoveries arising from pure research that not only expanded technological possibilities but transformed our daily lives.

The usual example cited by proud Australians is WiFi, which was made possible by technology CSIRO scientists developed for deep-space radio astronomy.

Without research into black holes, we wouldn’t have WiFi.

This isn’t a matter of one accidental spin-off. It is how human knowledge has always progressed.

To ignore or downgrade basic research is to curtail our chances of doing applied research really well.

Yet the Abbott Government’s much-touted commercialisation agenda fails to recognise this.

It may be, of course, that those conducting the review will advise the Government that neglecting basic research will undermine its commercial goals.

But I am not confident that ministers would understand their point.

The role of IRU

Universities, by definition, are dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge.

They exist to discover what is not known as well as to pass on to new generations what is already known.

That brings me to another question you have asked me to discuss: the role of your own network.

The six universities in the IRU have this in common: that they are chiefly located in regional cities or in outer suburbs of our larger cities.

You will know from the stance I have taken during the debate over the Government’s plans to deregulate fees that I attach a particular importance to suburban and regional universities, and the people they serve.

Your universities are sources of social mobility and inclusiveness – they provide educational opportunities to many Australians who might not otherwise have access to higher education.

What is more, they conduct research that is often very closely connected to the concerns of local communities.

I have in mind projects like:

Charles Darwin University’s research into the eradication of ear disease among indigenous Australians.
Flinders University’s research into eliminating the difference in outcomes for regional heart attack patients;
James Cook University’s development of anti-inflammatory treatments for hookworm;
Murdoch University’s study of innovations in crop rotation, saving $250,000 per farm per year;
Griffith University’s study of biogas and biochar, integrating both carbon-negative energy production and carbon sequestration within one agricultural project;

and La Trobe University’s collaboration with the Victorian Government in the use of DNA analysis to improve breeding outcomes in farming.

This research record is proof, to those who might demand it, that suburban and regional universities punch above their weight.

The ERA debate

In the sector, talk of research records often leads to discussion of the Excellence in Research for Australia framework of quality assessment, which Labor introduced.

I remain convinced that its citation-based approach is the fairest and most effective means of assessing research excellence in an international context.

And I am sure that the projects I have just mentioned would measure up well under the ERA framework.

I also know that university engagement with industry and the broader community has an impact well beyond citation, and that this is more difficult to quantify.

The challenge is to find a way of supplementing ERA, so that we also acknowledge and reward engagement.

But nothing will be gained by tearing down one measure to create the other.

Labor’s record

To hear Christopher Pyne and Ian Macfarlane talk, you would think that they invented the concept of research engagement with industry.

Yet when they try to explain what they have in mind, they all too often let business and industry off the hook, apparently expecting that universities and research agencies will do the heavy lifting.

And they misrepresent the record of Labor’s most recent time in office with breath-taking chutzpah.

So let me set the record straight here on the comparative performance of the two governments.

The Abbott Government has been in office for almost two years and recently delivered its second Budget.

In Labor’s first 18 months, we conducted comprehensive reviews of the innovation and higher education systems, and responded to these in our second Budget.

That Budget delivered a 10-year innovation strategy that included $3.1��billion in new investment in public and private sector R&D.

It introduced Sustainable Research Excellence, recognising the need to properly fund the indirect costs of research.

It established the Joint Research Engagement program, to foster and reward university research collaboration with industry and other end-users.

I think we would all agree that this measure has not been as effective at driving behaviour as we might have hoped – but it was a step in the right direction.

We took that step because I have always understood and advocated the need for universities and industry to work together better.

That’s why, in addition to our university commitments, we established, among other measures:

Commercialisation Australia – to help bring the fruits of Australian research to market;
Enterprise Connect – one objective of which was to improve businesses’ access to new technologies and the latest research; and
Researchers in Business – to build a human connection, promoting understanding by researchers of how their work could be applied, and in business of the value of highly developed research skills in driving innovation.

What has been destroyed

All of these programs have been abolished: the government has systematically dismantled the suite of innovation measures that had gained real traction in industry and the research sector and were achieving real results.

The same government is abandoning NICTA and its 300 PhD students who work directly with industry.

In two budgets, Labor created a framework for fostering research-industry collaboration. And in two budgets, the Abbott Government has done its best to destroy it.

So when I look at this record, and then I hear about yet another review into how to boost the commercial returns from research, I cannot help but be sceptical.

STEM and the future

The recently announced HILDA survey – which I am sure you have heard about – has not been in the news only because it ruffled feathers among the Go8.

HILDA also reported a drift away from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines among young Australians.

In the last year of the survey, 2012, only 22 per cent of men with post-school education aged 25-34 held engineering and related qualifications, compared with 31 per cent of 45-54 year old males.

There was an increase in the number of women studying engineering, but from a very low base.

HILDA echoes findings by the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Industry Group, which have also reported skills shortages and called for a focus on improving STEM literacy across the workforce.

In September last year the Chief Scientist issued a major report on STEM, in which he called on policymakers to secure training in STEM skills across the education system and the economy.

More recently his office released a summary of a Deloitte Access Economics survey of employers, which found that almost half of those surveyed expected their need for STEM graduates and tradespeople to increase during the next decade.

If these multiple warnings worry Christopher Pyne and Ian Macfarlane, they have given no indication of it.

Perhaps they have been listening only to those who argue that there is already an oversupply of STEM graduates.

Such arguments typically try to predict the job market of coming decades by looking at the employment histories of recent graduates.

But conditions in the present post-boom market don’t change the fact that the jobs of the future are going to require STEM skills.

Three out of every four of the fastest-growing occupations in our economy will require STEM literacy.

That includes occupations that traditionally attract humanities and social science graduates.

And, although Australia’s Government is content to blithely ignore the decline in some STEM enrolments, governments in other countries with which we like to compare ourselves are investing in STEM education.

Labor’s agenda

A Labor government would not allow Australia to slip behind the rest of the world in this way.

That is why Bill Shorten announced in his Budget Reply speech that Labor will:

Set an ambition for the nation to invest 3 per cent of our GDP in Research and Development by the end of the decade;
Foster the essential literacy of the 21st century – the digital language of coding – across the school curriculum;
Boost the skills of 25,000 existing teachers and train 25,000 new teachers in STEM skills.

Provide an incentive for more talented students to study STEM disciplines at university, via HECS-free degree scholarships.

I want to emphasise the ambition here – 3��per��cent of GDP being spent on R&D by 2030.

As Bill said, this will require universities, industry, the people and the Parliament to work together and each to pull their weight.

Labor’s plan for the future of the education system and for the jobs of the future is real and it is clear.

After almost two years, what’s also clear is the Liberals’ complete lack of a plan.

A time of opportunity

Let me close by saying this is potentially a time of great opportunity for universities.

Since Mr Pyne’s plan for deregulating fees and cutting the funding of Commonwealth Supported Places by 20��per cent was announced in the 2014 Budget, the higher education debate in this country has been characterised by uncertainty and anxiety.

I believe that the time for anxiety is over, even if Mr Pyne tries for a third time to get a deregulation bill through the Parliament.

I do not think he can expect any greater success in getting a deregulation bill through the Senate than he had the previous two times.

And if the Government wants to fight an election on its plan to price many young Australians out of higher education, Labor is fully prepared for the fight.

The evidence has long been in: Australians do not want $100,000 degrees and soaring HECS debts.

What they��do��want is what your universities do well: opening up opportunities for those who otherwise might not have had them.

That is why I say now is a time of great opportunity for universities.

Universities have always had the central role in generating new knowledge.

That role puts them in pole position to help shape the knowledge economy of the 21st Century.

Chief Scientist Report: The Importance of Advanced Physical and Mathematical Sciences to the Australian Economy

��ճԹ� — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 04:52:19 +0000

Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, released — at an address to the National Press Club —a report commissioned by the Australian Academy of Science and his office.

The report reflects the ubiquity of the mathematical sciences in modern scientific research. And emphasises the knock-on effects it has for our economy. It combines the expertise of Australia’s scientific community with that of business and industry.

Professor Chubb’s speech can be found .

A PDF of the report may be downloaded .

Eradicating Ebola with mathematics and statistics

��ճԹ� — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:00:01 +0000

MELBOURNE, 28 November 2014.��The most effective and, perhaps, surprising weapons in our current battle against the spread of diseases like Ebola, HIV and cancer may prove to be mathematics and computation.

From 1 – 5 December, leading Australian and international experts will converge at Monash University’s Caulfield campus for the annual��BioInfoSummer��symposium to share their expertise and most recent discoveries using bioinformatics; a study that combines techniques from mathematics, information technologies, physical sciences and engineering and applies them to solve significant problems in biological and medical sciences.

Software programs are dissecting “big data” sets.

Our current ability to collect “big data” sets from biological systems or in medical research greatly exceeds our ability to interpret it or to recognise its significance in something as complex as a human being. Ever-evolving sophisticated computer software programs, such as PhyML, MrBayes and BEAST, can now pinpoint underlying trends and patterns from vast seas of digital information leading to possible solutions to some of the most significant health problems facing the global community.

Monash University Professor Kate Smith-Miles, Director of MAXIMA (Monash Academy for Cross and Interdisciplinary Mathematical Applications), knows first-hand the importance of collaboration. “Mathematics provides a universal language,” she says. “From modelling biological systems to developing statistical methods for analysing the spread of infectious diseases like Ebola, mathematicians are indispensable in the development and application of tools able to tackle complex issues.”

By modelling the spread of Ebola, bioinformaticians are assisting international governments and the World Health Organisation in the assessment of risks associated with its further spread. These risks propagate through the whole of society and may influence human mortality and trigger economic and political crises. Dr Barbara Holland from the University of Tasmania will present how these software programs are being used to uncover the origins of the latest Ebola outbreak.

Bioinformatics tackling cancer and��osteoporosis.

But it isn’t simply epidemics that bioinformatics aids. Research into the mutation of cancer causing cells as well as modelling the effects of drugs and exercise on bone health are some of the other examples that will be discussed. Over the next decade fractures resulting from osteoporosis are expected to cost the Australian economy $22.7 billion; using computational models we can devise optimal therapeutic interventions based on each patients specific circumstances. Associate Professor Peter Pivonka from the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science at the University of Melbourne will be presenting his latest research findings on osteoporosis.

The significance and potential significance of bioinformatics research has already reached the highest levels of government.

“The challenge is to turn these huge collections of data into information that can inform us and advance the world around us,” says Senator the Hon Scott Ryan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, who will be opening��BioInfoSummer��2014 at Monash University’s Caulfield campus.

“I congratulate the ��ճԹ� (��ճԹ�) on running��BioInfoSummer��to assist researchers across a range of disciplines to develop key statistical and mathematical skills that will enable them to pursue innovation.”

This year’s��BioInfoSummer��will bring together over 200 students and researchers. With an emphasis on the role bioinformaticians play in analysing��“big data” attendees will gain hands-on training and experience in the cutting-edge tools of rapidly evolving field.

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FOR MEDIA
Interview:
Professor Kate Smith-Miles
Associate Professor Peter Pivonka
Other speakers may be available upon request

CONTACT
Stephanie Pradier, ��ճԹ�, 0424568314
stephanie@amsi.org.au

Journalists are welcome to attend throughout the week
Building K, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road (Princes Hwy), Caulfield East

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES
Opening Ceremony – Monday 1, 10:45am
Poster session – Tuesday 2, 3:30pm
Careers panel – Tuesday 2, 6:30pm
Poster session & BBQ – Thursday 4, 5:45pm

The Australian Government provided $2 million over four years for the ��ճԹ� (��ճԹ�) Vacation Schools and Scholarships Project, and BioInfoSummer is an initiative supported under the project. The project aims to provide Australian students with access to advanced programs in the fields of mathematical and scientific research. It is part of the Government’s broader $54 million package to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics and science in Australia.

News from the ��ճԹ� Director for the AustMS Gazette

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:08:43 +0000

Volume 41, Number 5, November 2014

The ��ճԹ� Director provides a regular news submission to the AustMS Gazette.

In this issue Professor Geoff Prince covers:

Five years at ��ճԹ� and 36 (on and off) at La Trobe,
APR.Intern expansion in 2015,
Recognition for PhD supervision: call for assistance,
A farce of tragic proportions,
ATTENTION: Changes to workshop applications.

The full article and other Gazette pieces are available for download online at the .

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