By Melissa Lee My AMSI VRS project was based on looking at structures embedded in an affine space by viewing them in terms of a game called SET. The game SET was invented by Marsha Falco, a [...]
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 [...]
By Helen Hunt I love Sudoku! I find few things nicer than sitting down with a coffee and a trivial little puzzle. Interestingly, Sudoku belongs to a class of mathematical objects known as Latin [...]
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) [...]
Join us at University of Sydney for the next BioInfoSummer symposium from 7 – 11 December 2015 Bioinformatics, is an exciting, fast‑moving area analysing and simulating the structures and [...]
By Thao Le Red imported fire ants (RIFA) are an invasive species that were accidentally introduced to Australia many years ago. The first discoveries occurred in Brisbane, 2001, and the ants have [...]
Professor Terry Speed, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, was the 2014 AMSI/SSAI Lecturer. Professor Speed is one of Australia’s most eminent statisticians and was awarded the [...]
By Mehrnaz Noori Atherosclerosis is a common form of cardiovascular disease that primarily affects large and medium sized arteries. It is the underlying cause of most cases of heart attack, [...]
By Rupert Kuveke Given a portfolio of assets, VaR assesses the assets comprising the portfolio, and produces a single figure which represents the value of the portfolio which is at risk of being [...]
