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NEWCASTLE, TUESDAY 13 JANUARY, 2015: We are surrounded by space. And there are lots of things in that space. Have you ever wondered how these things are classified as shapes or objects? People [...]

NEWCASTLE, 27 DECEMBER 2014: Thousands of Australians will be hitting the roads this summer; cars packed with eskies, tents and boogie boards. But who makes sure the roads are safe, the traffic [...]

Article by Andrew Trounson, The Australian. THE University of Technology, Sydney is set to become the first Australian university to introduce a compulsory maths subject for first-year [...]

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 [...]