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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 [...]

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) [...]

ANZIAM is the professional association for industrial and applied mathematics in Australia and New Zealand. The annual conference of ANZIAM is an established gathering of applied mathematicians, [...]

Article written by AMSI Chairman, Dr Ron Sandland, for ABC Science online, 17 September 2014. Ron asks the question is big data a friend or foe? His opinion: "It can be both!"

UNIVERSITIES letting students with poor maths into science and engineering programs have been put on notice by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Academics complain that maths [...]

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 [...]

Now more than ever maths is pervading every nook and cranny of science, industry commerce and government. The BAM Conference this year will highlight the breadth of places where the mathematical [...]

Australia’s Chief Scientist has unveiled an ambitious agenda for change to increase the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills to help secure the country’s future prosperity.

A woman has won the maths world's "Nobel prize" for the first time. Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University, California, will receive the Fields medal tomorrow at the International Congress of [...]

Archimedes Day Lecture 2014 AMSI-SSAI Lecture Tour Scientists have now mapped the human genome – the next frontier is understanding human epigenomes; the ‘instructions’ which tell the DNA [...]