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 [...]
By Jackson Sweeney, Monash University We drill a well, and the oil is initially driven out of the reservoir by natural mechanisms. Unfortunately, these natural mechanisms don’t last [...]
By Jake Kays Ever travelled to Japan, Europe, China or Korea? Did you jump on a high-speed rail while you were there? If you did, you would have experienced 200+ km/h travel minimal waiting, [...]
