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A $1.25 million gift has enabled The University of Wollongong to establish Australia’s first philanthropically funded chair in mathematics for more than a century. This visionary donation [...]

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Teenagers are being challenged to determine a second-hand car’s value using a spreadsheet program. The AMSI assignment titled: ‘Linear Relationships (… and how Maths can help you choose a great [...]

The Department of Education will encourage workers to take a mid-career leap into education under a new plan to address the lack of maths, science and technology teachers in NSW schools. It is [...]

Software and Uninhabited Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) combine to detect objects of interest using sonar imagery. Find out more about the application of machine learning to algorithms at DST.

How Defence is using a method of enabling estimation in the midst of uncertainty: the particle filter. Read more about how maths narrows the search for missing aircraft through DST

Dr Lynette Vernon of Edith Cowan and Curtin universities in Campus Morning Mail

Modelling by BoM moves ENSO Outlook to La Niña Alert status. Read more at the Bureau.

Most Australians want fair outcomes across generations. The Australian Actuaries Intergenerational Equity Index (AAIEI) contributes to this discussion by tracking and assessing 24 indicators [...]

Commentary and terminology clarified by UniSA Professor of Biostatistics, Adrian Esterman in ‘The Conversation’. Security guards at Melbourne’s quarantine hotels have been widely [...]