Archives

By Anna Kervison, The University of Queensland  Riemannian geometry is a branch of non-Euclidean geometry developed by Bernhard Riemann, used to describe curved space. In Riemannian geometry, a [...]

By Jamieson Kaiser, Monash University I remember when I finally had the idea. I was very excited. After two weeks of working full time on my AMSI project (a life time for a university student), I [...]

By Maxim Jeffs, The Australian National University In 1960, the physicist Eugene Wigner published his essay ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences’, partly as a [...]

By Emma Johnston, Queensland University of Technology  The motion of a particle suspended in a fluid, a malaria infected mosquito zipping around a village or the price of fluctuating stock are [...]

By Michael Hallam, The University of Adelaide Everyone is familiar with the notion of a space – we live in a space after all. We can imagine one dimensional spaces such as the real number [...]

By Joseph Johnson, The University of Melbourne My research this summer was into numerical solutions to the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gas flows. This is relevant because it is necessary in [...]

By Logan Haami, University of Technology Sydney Throughout the summer of 2015/16 I was lucky enough to become an AMSI vacation research scholar by conducting my very own research project (which [...]

By Xiangyuanchai Guo, The Australian National University  Suppose you are a very smart student like me (just joking), so that you never fail any exam just like me (joking again).  Suppose I am [...]

By Luke Ginn, Queensland University of Technology  Batteries are becoming increasingly important in today’s society, with the latest release of Tesla’s Powerwall (house battery) and Tesla’s ever [...]