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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 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 [...]

By Krystyn Villaflores, La Trobe University According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, expenditure on health totalled $130.3 billion in 2010/11, rising $7.8 billion from the [...]

By Luke Keating Hughes The idea of de Rham’s Theorem is that with two very different approaches to making measurements on a space we can find striking similarities. The spaces we are talking [...]

By Alastair Dyer Loosely speaking, we can think of covering a sphere by taking the surface of an n-torus (the surface of the shape given by gluing n doughnuts together) which is made out of [...]