New Podcast gets Australian teachers talking Maths
MATHSTALKS, the new podcast from AMSI Schools is enabling teachers to access high-quality, practical professional development, and bringing new knowledge aligned to key learning outcomes into [...]
AMSI celebrates National Reconciliation Week 2020 with the BHP Foundation
The theme for #NRW2020 – “In This Together” – is resonating in ways that could not have been foreseen when announced by Reconciliation Australia last year. At AMSI, we are committed [...]
“A forecasting model is an opinion column with more maths”
What will happen when we lose faith in modelling? Parnell Palme McGuinness in today’s Financial Review (Nine Media paywall access required).
Eminent Mathematicians and Statisticians elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Sciences
Mathematicians Professors Robyn Owens and Gary Froyland, and statistician Professor Aurore Delaigle are three of the 24 top scientists elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Sciences. [...]
Australia’s COVID-19 lifestyles revealed in latest ABS reporting
One in five Australians is eating more snack foods with a similar proportion increasing alcohol consumption. Household chores, hobbies and cooking participation levels increased. Read the latest [...]
Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers
We turn to epidemiologists and infectious disease models; during the Bubonic plague people turned to astrologers. [Read more history from UQ’s Michelle Pfeffer at The Conversation]
Swedish model trades more disease for less economic damage
“If we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model.” [Analysis and statistics in today’s AFR ] – Nine Media paywall access required
Pollen Count Forecasting
Melbourne Grass Pollen Forecast is a service run from The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne and alerts those who suffer from hay fever and seasonal asthma of the likelihood of [...]
ACEMS Mathematician Sarah Belet in national Fame Lab final
A participant in the British Council’s 2020 Fame Lab national final for Australia, mathematician Sarah Belet from Monash University recounts her experience in the global science competition [...]
Statistician Sir Adrian Smith elected as Royal Society President
AMSI conveys its warm congratulations to Sir Adrian Smith upon his election as President of the Royal Society, a role he will assume at the end of November. A highly distinguished statistician, [...]
