By Rhiannon Kirby, Monash Univeristy ”The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is [...]
By Alex Ligthart-Smith, La Trobe University When I found out I had been accepted into the AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship program I was so excited and grateful. At nearly 26, it has taken me [...]
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 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 [...]
