By Timothy O’Sullivan, The University of Melbourne Most of us are familiar with the concept of Atoms, the idea that everything around us and inside us is made up of these very tiny building [...]
By Angus Lewis, The University of Adelaide It’s summer in Australia and Christmas is coming. Friends and family travel from across the country to be together. It’s very exciting for [...]
By Todd Neve, The University of Melbourne The Ising Model is a mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics. It was first studied by Ernst Ising in the 1920s to analyse critical [...]
By Daniel Kon, The University of Adelaide My AMSI VRS project fell somewhere in the intersection of mathematics and genetics. The study of genetics in the age of computers involves dealing with [...]
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 [...]