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 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 [...]
