School of Mathematical Sciences Conferences and Meetings
Melbourne Monash Meeting on
Probability & Related Fields — 2011/2
The meeting was held on 20 July 2011
and included five speakers from both
University of Melbourne and Monash
University.
The program for this meeting can be
found here.
35th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics & Combinatorial Computing
The 35th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics & Combinatorial Computing (35ACCMCC) will be hosted by the School of Mathematical Sciences during the week of 5-9 December 2011. This is the first time that Monash University has hosted the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. The conference encompasses all areas of combinatorics including graph theory, design theory, combinatorial enumeration, combinatorial algorithms, coding theory, finite geometry and so on. It will boast an impressive list of expert invited speakers from Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and Finland. Contributed talks will be given by delegates from around the world. The conference is being organised by
A/Prof Ian Wanless and Dr Daniel Horsley in the School of Mathematical Sciences, in collaboration with A/Prof Graham Farr in the Faculty of Information Technology.
Conference website
Australian Mathematical Sciences Students' Conference 2011
Monash University is proud to have hosted the first Australian Mathematical Sciences Students' Conference on June 9-10 2011. This conference was based on the Victorian Mathematics and Statistics Students' Conference held at Melbourne University in 2010 in the hopes to build a national community of young mathematicians.
There is already talk of holding another such conference in 2012 at a NSW university.
This conference was supported by AMSI and Monash's School of Mathematical Sciences and Faculty of Science.
Photographs of the event can be found on the conference webpage.
28th Victorian Algebra Conference
After many years absence, the Victorian Algebra Conference has returned to Monash on 4 and 5 November 2010. The conference was opened by our Head of School Prof Kate Smith-Miles, who, in her welcome speech, asked the participants to explain the sequence of numbers 2, 5, 10, 28, .... It stumped us all. The answer? The 2nd, 5th, 10th and 28th Victorian Algebra Conferences were all held at Monash. Prof Smith-Miles noted the 18 year gap and expressed her hope that Algebra would be more in the forefront at Monash in the future. Many of the participants had been at Monash over the years either as students, or staff, or both. We were very pleased that Prof Gordon Preston attended some of the talks and came to the conference dinner. All student talks were of high standard and the Gordon Preston Prize for the best student talk was a draw, as the judges could not separate two talks. The photo shows Gordon presenting the prize at the conference dinner to Matthew Kotros and Tharatorn Supasiti, both of the University of Melbourne. Other notable talks were the one hour presentations by Dr James East of Sydney University, Dr Don Taylor of Sydney University, and Dr Tim Stokes of the University of Waikato, NZ. The conference was organised by Dr Ian Wanless and Dr Deborah Jackson who were very pleased with its overall success, and the fact that the participants came from the major Victorian universities (Monash University, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne, RMIT and Swinburne University) as well as from ANU, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, University of Tasmania, Central Queensland Univ and University of Waikato, NZ. For information about the conference and the Victorian Algebra Group, which runs the conference each year, please go to
http://vac2010.ltumathstats.com and
http://vicalg.ltumathstats.com.
Workshop on General Relativity and Geometric Analysis
Monash University School of Mathematical Sciences is proud to have hosted a workshop on Geometric Analysis and General Relativity, from 22nd to 28th January 2010. The workshop, which was supported by contributions from AMSI, NSF and ARC grants and the Monash School of Mathematical Sciences, featured a number of prominent local and international researchers, including Thomas Leistner, Ben Andrews, Charles Baker, Julie Clutterbuck, Bryan Wang, and Shing-Tung Yau, Richard Schoen, Mu-Tai Wang, Xiao-Dong Wang, Youguang Shi, Jan Metzger, Lars Andersson and Shiu-Yuen Cheng.
It was particularly pleasing to welcome the participation of Shing-Tung Yau and Rick Schoen — their 1979 proof of the Positive Mass Theorem marked a watershed in the development of geometric analysis techniques in general relativity.
Postscript: Shortly after the Workshop concluded, it was announced that, together with Dennis Sullivan (SUNY Stony Brook), Yau has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for 2010, "for his work in Geometric Analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and
physics".
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