Article by Natasha Bita, The Australian. WHAT’S five times four? Geophysicist Peter Ridd was gobsmacked to see a first-year university student pull out a calculator to work out the no-brainer [...]
The election results for 2015-2019 for the leadership team of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) include the announcement of Helen MacGillivray as the President-elect for 2015-2017, [...]
Article by Loretta Florance, ABC News. Loretta interviewed several of BioInfoSummer 2014 speakers about the important role mathematicians and statisticians play in the current battle against [...]
AMSI congratulates Professor Jonathan Borwein of the University of Newcastle on being elected in the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for his contributions to nonsmooth [...]
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 [...]
Volume 41, Number 5, November 2014 The AMSI Director provides a regular news submission to the AustMS Gazette. In this issue Professor Geoff Prince covers: Five years at AMSI and 36 (on and off) [...]
Understanding firewall rules is time consuming, complicated and hard. The majority of people know how to turn their firewalls off, but do these people know exactly what it is they are doing or [...]
Article by Megan Lehmann published in The Australian on Saturday 18 October 2014. Lehmann’s piece looks at the success of Alex Gunning, a teenage Melbournian who won a gold medal — with [...]
Terry Speed from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is the winner of the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. If you’re on Twitter share the news with the hashtag [...]
The Defence Science Institute (DSI) has partnered with the APR.Intern program to access high-end quantitative and analytical expertise, from within Victoria’s leading universities, to benefit the [...]