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By Andrew Palermo, Griffith University Sending electricity through your brain sounds harmful and dangerous but in some cases it can change the way your brain works in a positive way. A method, [...]

By Diana Nguyen, The University of Sydney This project studies the classic problem in physics:  the n-body problem. This problem is concerned with how n particles (or extended bodies) move [...]

By Ho Ka Ng, The University of Adelaide Is the coffee mug the same as the doughnut? This might sound like a silly question but in topology – a branch of mathematics they are considered to [...]

By Adam Murray, The University of Queensland We can think of the Willmore energy as a measure of the roundness of a surface sitting in three-dimensional space. This is perhaps easy to imagine in [...]

By Liam Morrow, Queensland University of Technology Non-linear differential equations appear frequently in applied mathematics and are used to describe different physical systems some common ones [...]

By Michael Mcphail Many real world systems can be represented in the form of a complex network by representing objects/people/groups as points, known as nodes or vertices, and showing that a [...]

By Angus McClure This summer, together with my supervisor Prof Geoff Mercer, I have been working on constructing mathematical models describing the spread of a disease caused by the bacteria [...]

By Jaimie McGlashan According to the World Health Organisation, cancer has recently become the leading cause of death worldwide. The devastating disease is responsible for 8.2 million deaths in [...]

By Michael Mampusti Walk into a bathroom or kitchen and chances are that the walls or the floor are covered in square tiles. Perhaps not surprisingly, these collections of tiles are examples of [...]