Professor Tim Brown’s Personal COVID-19 Experience
“This illness is incredibly easy to catch.” AMSI director Professor Tim Brown conveys his personal experience of being confirmed as coronavirus positive to Ashley Argoon of the [...]
Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne modelling guiding COVID-19 response
AMSI members are the forefront of the complex modelling behind the Government’s response to this deadly coronavirus pandemic, with mathematicians creating models of the population to [...]
Vale Susan Ruth Wilson
19 March 1948 – 16 March 2020 Born in Sydney, Susan (Sue) Wilson graduated from the University of Sydney in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours. Her subsequent [...]
‘Lack of maths knowledge behind hoarding, experts say’: Professor Tim Brown commentary in the Herald-Sun
News Article 3 April 2020 “Nothing could further illustrate how valuable maths, statistics and interpretation of data is than what has happened in this pandemic.” Lack of Maths [...]
Models have supported Australia’s response to COVID-19
James McCaw and Jodie McVernon on mathematical modelling of infectious disease in Cosmos
New Partnership a Win for PhDs, Australian Agriculture
Media Release 26 February 2020 A $40,000 partnership between the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute’s (AMSI) APR.Intern program and Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL) will [...]
Research Fellow in Numerical Analysis
Research Fellow in Numerical Analysis Monash University, Melbourne, Australia School of Mathematics Closing date: Wednesday 4 March 2020, 11:55 pm AEDT The School of Mathematics at Monash [...]
Australia Day Honours for AMSI Founder and Maths Leader
The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) congratulates University of Melbourne Professor, Anthony (Tony) Guttmann on his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). [...]
Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
The debate may rage on but the scientific basis of Climate Change is clear and the numbers are in to prove it, according to international climate change and climate variability expert and [...]
Time to Get Real on Maths as PISA Reveals Decline
Urgent action is needed to strengthen the teacher workforce and reverse Australia’s falling mathematical performance warns the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). Released this [...]
