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By Ryan Heneghan In today’s increasingly connected world, the reality of infectious epidemics is a permanent fixture in the background of our modern consciousness. From movies like Contagion to [...]

By Tim Koussas I love mathematics; I imagine it’s one of the first things that come to mind when people who know me hear my name. It’s certainly the first thing I think of when I think about who [...]

By Shuhui He Suppose you are holding a wire frame in the shape of a helix with a straw in the middle connecting the ends of the helix and you dip it into a soap solution. Can you imagine how the [...]

By Estefania Yap, RMIT University As we grow up we are often told to make the most of what we have, but then comes the question of what and how? This is where multiple objective programming comes [...]

By Gleb Kotousov Mathematical physics is a wonderful field because the problems that are posed are on the one hand, very mathematical, but on the other, always have an interpretation in the real [...]

By Charles Gray Order is everywhere. I am three years younger than my husband. My current house is smaller than my last. I spent the first fifteen years of my working life as a musician, so order [...]

By Jonathan Keith, Monash University The number of reported Ebola cases is doubling roughly every five weeks in Sierra Leone, and in as little as two to three weeks in Liberia. The number of [...]

By Adam Wood, La Trobe University What is the shortest and straightest path between two points?  The most common answer to this question is “Well, obviously it’s a straight line!”.  This is not [...]

By Ashim Khadka My research project was based on “Atherosclerosis” one of the key issues that developed countries are trying to cope with. It has been suggested that 1/3 of the people are [...]

By Lettisia George “How good is our data?” is the question that statisticians often attempt to answer. My project provides a way of answering that question for a specific type of data, namely [...]