ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers in Parkville, Victoria, Australia | College & University

ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers

Locality: Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3138 6741

Address: University of Melbourne, Peter Hall Building 3010 Parkville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.acems.org.au

Likes: 880

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• College & University

24.01.2022 We're very proud to have ACEMS research among the many great projects listed in the just released "Making a Difference" publication from the Australian Research Council. Check out the story titled, "Fighting pollution with maths". https://online.flippingbook.com/view/889600/

24.01.2022 The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) names its new director: https://amsi.org.au/20//17/new-director-announced-by-amsi/

23.01.2022 Join us this Wednesday for our next Virtual Public Lecture. Professor Shane Henderson from Cornell University looks at analytics and bikes. It's an interesting maths & stats problem: how do bike sharing companies make sure there are bikes at bike stations - and also spots at the station for people to return bikes? The lecture is at 11 am (2 Sept) - register to your free zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acems-virtual-public-lecture-a

23.01.2022 Have you registered yet for our National Science Week Virtual Quiz? It's fun for the whole family - from the comfort of your home. The Quiz is on Thursday at 6 pm AEST. Register here to get your zoom link: bit.ly/ACEMSNSWQuiz

21.01.2022 Thanks "Brains on Games" for featuring our Virtual Reef Diver game! To see how the game works, check out Dr Brian's video below. To check out all our games, head to: https://acems.org.au/games

20.01.2022 ACEMS is proud to be an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence. But what is an ARC Centre of Excellence, you ask? Beginning this week, the Centre of Excellence network will begin showcasing different Centres, their research, and their researchers as part of our just released "Q & ARC" video series. This week, we get to meet our friends over at Exciton Science! (tease: ACEMS is later this month!) EXCITON SCIENCE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/jUL4fXfbSYQ #QandARC

20.01.2022 A mathematician uses her craft to unravel arguments about differences between men and women. This is an excerpt from a new book from Dr Eugenia Cheng: "x + y: A Mathematicians Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" https://www.wired.com//how-to-undo-gender-stereotypes-in-/

19.01.2022 Really interesting - Emperor penguins display rigorously geometric spacing and mathematical efficiency when they huddle together for warmth, which may reveal secrets to their overall health. From Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-of-the-penguins-202008/

17.01.2022 AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship applications are open!

17.01.2022 We were so honoured to have Professor Galit Shmueli as our guest speaker for our latest Virtual Public Lecture. The video from her talk is now available online: https://acems.org.au/acems-public-lecture-series

16.01.2022 People use the term impossible in a variety of ways. It can describe things that are merely improbable, like finding identical decks of shuffled cards. It can describe tasks that are practically impossible due to a lack of time, space or resources. But Mathematical impossibility is different. Mathematician David Richeson explores the long history, and surprising relevance, of problems that just cant be solved. https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-math-gets-impossibly-ha Quanta Magazine

16.01.2022 Congratulations to Dr Nicole White (ACEMS @ QUT) - just awarded an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship. Find out how she plans to use statistics to help critically ill #COVID19 patients and the people caring for them. https://acems.org.au/news/advance-qld-covid19

15.01.2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. This story in Nature shows why funders need to be offering more than moral support. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02541-9

14.01.2022 Would you take a highly-cited paper from years ago that you wrote and go back and see how the research stacks up now? That's just what ACEMS Chief Investigator Kate Smith-Miles did with some facial recognition work she did back around 2007. What did she find out? Kate has the answer in this plenary lecture from the Computational Techniques and Applications conference, hosted online by University of New South Wales. You can see the lecture video here: https://youtu.be/_mcwgf9z0gw

14.01.2022 Isn't everything about mathematics already in a textbook? Absolutely not! We need maths and stats to help solve a lot of the problems our world is facing. Find out more about our work, and meet some of our researchers in this "Q & ARC" video. The #QandARC video series features a different Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence every week. The series is a great chance for you to see some of the amazing research taking place right here in Australia!

13.01.2022 How do bike sharing services in big cities make sure bikes are where they need to be when they're needed? Maths & stats, of course! Prof Shane Henderson from Cornell University talked about that in our latest public lecture. The video from that talk is now online: https://acems.org.au/acems-public-lecture-series

13.01.2022 What a day along Moreton Bay! Tanya Dodgen & Julie Vercelloni testing out the underwater drone for our Living Together Project with the Moreton Bay Foundation - using cool technology & statistics to see how recreational activities in Moreton Bay affect the wide diversity of marine life under the surface. Here is more information about the project: https://acems.org.au//living-together-moreton-bay-foundati QUT Science and Engineering

12.01.2022 An Adelaide man breaks the Guinness World Record for world's 'tallest free-standing soap bubble'. It's one thing to create the bubble. It's another to show just how tall it was. That's where ACEMS Chief Investigator Matt Roughan comes in. Find out why he was brought in for the record attempt and what he did to verify it: https://acems.org.au//ADL-Guinness-Record-Tallest-Soap-Bub

11.01.2022 There is more to say after "R U OK?" Today is "R U OK" Day, and in a year when many of us have faced challenges were more likely than ever to hear No, Im not OK. Learn how to listen, help them find support and better ways to manage the load, and how to check in and stay connected at www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask

11.01.2022 Are the formulas and theories devised by mathematicians a construct of humanity, or do they exist on their own? It's an age old question, which has been reignited by a viral Tik Tok video. AMSI's new Interim Director Prof Asha Rao (RMIT University) and UNSW maths lecturer Dr Daniel Mansfield tackle the topic on the ABC Radio National Drive show: https://www.abc.net.au//progr/drive/is-maths-real/12622526

11.01.2022 Ruby Payne-Scott was truly one of Australia's pioneering #WomenInSTEM for her work in radio astronomy. This is a very nice story about her in Cosmos Magazine. By the way, she was the mother of ACEMS' Inaugural Director, Peter Hall. https://cosmosmagazine.com//ruby-payne-scott-stood-out-in/

10.01.2022 Congratulations to ACEMS' Professors Gael Martin and Rob Hyndman from Monash University - just named as Fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia: https://acems.org.au/news/acems-social-sciences-fellows

10.01.2022 Just 3 more sleeps until our Science Week Virtual Quiz! We hope to see you Thursday at 6pm AEST!

09.01.2022 ACEMS Associate Investigator Dr Boris Beranger will be one of the mentors for the UNSW DataSoc x Atlassian Presents: Datathon 2020. The event is being held online from 3-4 October. For all details, visit: http://unswdata.com/datathon

08.01.2022 Group testing could be the key to getting quicker answers about the prevalence of #COVID19 in Australia - research from ACEMS Chief Investigator Aurore Delaigle: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au//group-testing-to-help-cont

06.01.2022 Congratulations to these 11 ACEMS researchers - just awarded ARC Discovery Project grants. To read about their research projects, head to: https://acems.org.au/news/arc-discovery-projects-acems

06.01.2022 Scientists are using way too many acronyms - interesting study co-authored by ACEMS Associate Investigator Prof Adrian Barnett: https://cosmosmagazine.com//dna-if-you-want-to-make-scien/ Cosmos Magazine

06.01.2022 TWO 3-year Research Associate positions in Statistical Data Science at the UNSW Data Science Hub, joint with Data61/ CSIRO. A great chance to work with ACEMS' Chief Investigators Scott Sisson and Robert Kohn. https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au//research-associ

06.01.2022 Congratulations to ACEMS Associate Investigator Dr Susanna Cramb - just named a Queensland Young Tall Poppy! Susanna is a rising star and her work in statistics in making a big impact in the health sector. Read about her in our story here: https://acems.org.au/news/susanna-cramb-qld-tall-poppy

05.01.2022 We're proud to be an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence. What is an ARC Centre of Excellence, you ask? Rather than tell you, we'll show you instead. This week in our #QandARC video series, meet some researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7K4FgfwE4Y8

04.01.2022 The pandemic has exposed many of us to new statistical concepts, on the news, in everyday conversations and on social media. If we dont analyse statistics for a living, its easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics, especially if we dont have the right context. https://theconversation.com/now-everyones-a-statistician-he

04.01.2022 Join us today (Wednesday) - Noon - Melbourne & Sydney - 11:30 am - Adelaide - 11:00 am - Brisbane - 9:00 am - Perth

03.01.2022 The surprising things students DON'T need to start maths and science based degrees at university. A joint paper from Australia's Chief Scientist and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) shows many universities don't require some pre-requisite courses to study certain disciplines and why that's not good.

03.01.2022 What's the pandemic forecast? Check out how ACEMS researchers at Monash University & The University of Adelaide are using maths and stats to help inform Australia's COVID-19 response: https://acems.org.au/news/covid-forecasting-team

02.01.2022 Just out - a new online book led by ACEMS researchers: "Developing a Cancer Atlas using Bayesian Methods: A Practical Guide for Application and Interpretation" - congrats, team! https://atlas.cancer.org.au/developing-a-cancer-/index.html