By Peter Wreford, RMIT University My AMSI vacation research project involved applying graph theory to the genetics of drought resistant chickpeas. Chickpeas are a highly nutritious food, [...]
By Anna Vaughan, Australian National University It has long been realised that mathematics provides a beautiful and powerful framework to describe the universe in which we live. From [...]
By Sarah Gazelle, RMIT University As a child I never had an interest to learn mathematics and I never particularly enjoyed it. I was shocked on my first day of Year 6 when my teacher told me and [...]
By Kevin Duxbury, Monash University I was fortunate enough to embark on a fascinating journey into bio-mathematics taking the form of an AMSI research project. It was wonderful to gain insight [...]
By James Bubear, Queensland University of Technology A Sudoku is a puzzle that most of us will be familiar with having become a staple of most newspapers over the last decade. What many of you [...]
By Debra Briggs, Federation University Australia My interest in numbers began as a pre-schooler. When I was 3 years old I remember my mother pulling a mandarin in half and talking about how two [...]
By Alexander Baker, The University of Queensland It all began early in my life. Mathematics provided fun little logical puzzles to solve and was far more intriguing than other subjects at school. [...]
AMSI and AustMS provide young Australian researchers an opportunity to attend the international Heidelberg Laureate Forum, an annual meeting bringing together winners of the most scientific [...]
Article by Denham Sadler, StartupSmart, 24 August, 2015. While Australian women are underrepresented in STEM fields, that isn’t stopping women from excelling in tech startups, according to a new [...]
Article by John Ross, The Australian, 12 August 2015 It outshines other sciences in Discovery grant applications and trains graduates for a raft of industries. Yet schools don’t mandate it, [...]
