Appointments
Edith Cowan University:• Dr Sandra Pereira has been appointed to a three-year position as Lecturer A inBiostatistics.
La Trobe University:• Dr Will Wright has been awarded a three-year New Zealand Science and Technology
postdoctoral fellowship, taken up in the research group on dynamical systems andscientific computation.
Monash University:• Prof. Robert Bartnik, FAA, has been appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics.
• Dr Richard Wardle has been appointed Lecturer in Atmospheric Science in the
School of Mathematical Sciences.
University of Melbourne:• Ms Emma Carberry has started a one year appointment as a Research Fellow.
• Mr Zaiping Lu has been appointed as a Research Fellow for 3 months.
• Mr Davaatseren Baatar started a 3 year appointment as a Research Fellow in September 2005.
• Dr Jorgen Rasmussen started a 2 year appointment as a Research Fellow in September 2005.
University of Sydney• Prof. Neville Weber has been appointed to the Chair of Mathematical Statistics.
University of Wollongong:• Dr Mark Nelson was promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1 January 2005.
• In July 2005, Dr Grant Cox and Dr James McCoy were appointed as Lecturers.
• Prof. Ray Chambers has been appointed as Professor of Statistical Methodology, tocommence March 2006.

Completed PhDs
Monash University:• Dr Truc Le, Stochastic volatility models, supervisor: Prof. Fima Klebanar.
• Dr Justin Freeman, Stagnant lid convection, supervisor: Dr Andrew Prentice.
• Dr Robert Goler, The generation of cloud lines over Cape York Peninsula, supervisor: Prof. Michael Reeder.
RMIT University:• Dr Natthaphan Boonyanunta, Improving the Predictive Power of Consumer Credit
Classification Modeling, supervisor: Dr Panlop Zeephongsekul.

News279• Dr Simon McNicol, Traitor tracing using generalised Reed-Solomon codes and combinatorial designs, supervisors: Dr Serdar Boztas and Dr Asha Rao.
University of Ballarat:• Dr Rishat Baratov, Conical Decompositions, supervisors: Prof. A. Rubinov andProf. S. Morris.
• Dr Long Jia, Optimization in telecommunications, supervisors: Prof. A. Rubinov
and Dr A. Bagirov.
• Dr Michelle O’Brien, Consumer doctor decision-making surrounding adverse drugreactions, supervisors: Dr J. Yearwood and Dr J. Harvey.
• Dr Jiapu Zhang, Derivative-free hybrid methods in global optimization and theirapplications, supervisors: Dr A. Bagirov and Prof. A. Rubinov.
University of Melbourne:• Dr Liam Merlot, Techniques for academic timetabling, Supervisors: Dr Natashia
Boland, Dr Peter Stuckey and Dr Barry Hughes.
University of Sydney• Dr Michael Kemp, Geometric Seifert 4-manifolds with aspherical bases, supervisor:
Dr J.A. Hillman.
• Dr James Parkinson, Buildings and Hecke Algebras, supervisor: Dr Donald Cartwright.
University of Wollongong:• Dr Frank Bierbrauer, Mathematical modelling of water-droplet impact on hot galvanised steel surfaces, supervisor: Dr S.P. Zhu.
• Dr Wei-Liang Wu, Boundary element formulations for fracture mechanics problems,supervisor: Dr X.P. Lu.
• Dr Ngamta Thamwattana, Some analytical solutions for problems involving highly
frictional granular materials, supervisor: Prof. J. Hill.

Awards and other achievements
On 9 August 2005, 24 Australians were presented with Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.
Three of these prizes involved mathematical work. Prof. Mark Burgman from the Universityof Melbourne’s School of Botany has won the Botanic Gardens Trust Eureka Prize for
Biodiversity Research, for his work in understanding uncertainty and improving decisionmaking by developing better statistical methods and tools for monitoring so that decisions
based on collected data are more reliable.
Dr Antonio Reverter is the winner of the NSW Ministry for Science and Medial Research
Eureka Prize for Bioinformatics Research. He has developed bioinformatics algorithms revealing key genes in cattle.
Dr James Franklin from the University of New South Wales has won the Australian
Catholic University Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics. Franklin has applied his proposition, that the single core of ethics is the equality of worth of every individual person, toreal-world mathematical topics.
Dr John Buckland (supervisors: Klaus Ecker and Maria Athannesas) was awarded one often 2004 Monash University, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medals for excellence in a PhD thesis.

280NewsDr David Easdown has been awarded the 2005 University of Sydney College of Sciences
and Technology Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Supervision.
Prof. Cheryl Praeger will be awarded Docteur Honoris Causa of the Université Libre
Bruxelles on 12 November in Brussels, Belgium.
The 2005 Moyal Medallist is Bob Anderssen (CSIRO) who will deliver the Moyal Lecture
entitled ”Mathematics in Action” on Friday 28 October 2005. The Moyal Medal is awarded
annually by Macquarie University for research contributions to mathematics, physics orstatistics, the areas of research of the late Prof. Jose Enrique Moyal who was Professor ofMathematics at Macquarie University for five years from 1973 to 1977.

New Books
Jason Fulman, Peter M. Neumann and Cheryl E. Praeger, A Generating Function Approachto the Enumeration of Matrices in Classical Groups over Finite Fields, Memoirs of theAmerican Mathematical Society, Number 830, Vol 176 (AMS Providence 2005).
Iain Raeburn, Graph Algebras (AMS Providence 2005), 113 pp., Softcover, ISBN 0-82183660-9.

AustMS Accreditation
The secretary has announced the accreditation of:Mr Marc West, Redfern NSW, as an Accredited Member (MAustMS).

Conferences
The 7th Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference
25–28 September 2005, RMIT University, Melbourne
Co-Chairs: Bill Blyth (School of Mathematical & Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University) and Liuping Wang (School of Electrical & Computer System Engineering,RMIT)
E-mail : emac2005@rmit.edu.au
Web: http://www.ma.rmit.edu.au/emac2005/index.html
23rd Victorian Algebra Conference
24–26 September 2005, The University of Western Australia
Web: https://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/vac05
Invited Speaker: Prof. Péter Pálfy (Eötvös University, Budapest)
The conference precedes the 49th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, also in Perth.

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Miniconference on Functional Analysis — in honour of Simon Fitzpatrick
25–26 September 2005, The University of Western Australia
Organiser: Dr John Giles
E-mail : jan.garnsey@newcastle.edu.au
Web: https://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05/html/mc_fitzpatrick.html
49th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society
27–30 September 2005, The University of Western Australia
Director: Prof. Lyle Noakes
E-mail : lyle@maths.uwa.edu.au
Web: http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05
DELTA’05, Fifth Southern Hemisphere Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics & Statistics Teaching & Learning
22–26 November 2005, Kingfisher Bay, Fraser Island, Queensland
Convenor: Dr Chris Harman
E-mail : harman@usq.edu.au
Web: http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/delta05/
8th International Conference of The Mathematics Education into the 21stCentury Project: “Reform, Revolution and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education”
25 November–1 December 2005, Johor Bharu, Malaysia
Contact: Dr Alan Rogerson
E-mail : arogerson@vsg.edu.auQuantum Field Theory and its ramifications — in honour of Bob Delbourgo’s65th birthday
30 November–2 December 2005, University of Tasmania
Convenor: Dr Peter Jarvis
E-mail : QFT.Fest@phys.utas.edu.au
Web: http://www-theory.phys.utas.edu.au/theory/qftfest/index.html
30th Australasian Conference in Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial
Computing (30ACCMCC)
5–9 December 2005, University of Queensland
Organisers: Elizabeth Billington (Director), Peter Adams, Darryn Bryant, DianeDonovan, Barbara Maenhaut, Victor Scharaschkin
Web: http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/cdmc/30accmcc.html
ICE-EM AMSI Summer School 2006
16 January–10 February 2006, RMIT University, Melbourne
Organisers: Prof. Kathy Horadam and Dr Lynne McArthur
E-mail : Kathy.Horadam@ems.rmit.edu.au
E-mail : Lynne.Mcarthur@ems.rmit.edu.au

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NewsMathematics-in-Industry Study Group 2006
30 January–3 February 2006, Massey University, Albany,Auckland, New Zealand
Director: Prof. Graeme Wake
E-mail : g.c.wake@massey.ac.nz
Administrator: Nikki Luke
E-mail : n.luke@massey.ac.nz
Web: http://misg2006.massey.ac.nz
This meeting is being organised by the Centre for Mathematics in Industry.
Grants are available on application for student participants. Industries wishing
to present a problem, please contact the Director. The format will be similar
to MISG2005, see the website and the Equation-Free Summaries.
Applied Mathematics Conference ANZIAM 2006
5–9 February 2006, Mansfield, Victoria
Director: Dr Simon Clarke
E-mail : anziam06@sci.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/anziam06
Recent Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: A celebration ofNorman Dancer’s 60th birthday
16–21 July 2006, University of New England, Armidale, NSW
Organisers: Daniel Daners (USN), Yihong Du, Chris Radford, Shusen Yan (UNE).
E-mail : ydu@turing.une.edu.au
Web: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/daners/une2006/

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Visiting mathematicians
Visitors are listed in the order of the last date of their visit and details of each visitor arepresented in the following format: name of visitor; home institution; dates of visit; principal
field of interest; principal host institution; contact for enquiries.
Dr Karin Erdmann; Oxford; 10 September to 7 October 2005; Specht filtration multiplicities
for Ariki-Koike algebras; USN; Dr A. Mathas
Prof. Sergei Vostokov; St Petersburg; 26 September to 21 October 2005; Automorphic forms;
USN; Dr K. Lai
Dr Alexander Kitaev; Steklov Mathematical Institute; 1 August to 1 November 2005; Singularities; USN; Prof. Nalini Joshi
Prof. Rajat Tandon; Hyderabad; 1 to 30 November 2005; Algebraic number theory; USN;
Dr K. Lai
Prof. Hans Munthe-Kaas; Norway; 18 October to 2 December 2005; –; LTU; Prof. Reinout
QuispelDr Antonella Zanna; Norway; 11 November to 2 December 2005; –; LTU; Prof. Reinout
QuispelDr Ken-ichi Maruno; Kyushu University; 21 September to 25 December 2005; –; LTU; Prof.
Reinout Quispel
Dr David Juher; Universitat de Girona, Spain; 6 September to 31 December 2005; –; UMB;
–Prof. Kazem Mosaleheh; Shiraz University; 1 January to 31 December 2005; Analysis ofPDEs; MNU; Dr Alan Pryde
Dr David Mason; University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); 1 October to 31 December
2005; –; UWA; Dr Des Hill/Dr Neville Fowkes
Prof. Wenjun Yuan; Guangzhou University of China; December 2004 to December 2005;
Differential equations and financial mathematics; CUT; Dr Yong Hong Wu
Prof. John Ryan; University of Arkansas; August 2005 to December 2005: Analysis andGeometry; ANU; Prof. Alan McIntosh
Prof. Graeme Milton; Utah; 30 September 2005 to 26 February 2006; Modelling of compositematerials; USN; C. Macaskill
Dr Hua Zhang; Yunnan Normal University; 1 March 2005 to 1 March 2006; –; UWA; Dr CaiHeng Li
Dr Raimundo Araujo dos Santos; Sao Paulo; 10 February to 10 March 2006; Singularity Theory; USN; L. Paunescu
Dr Mehdi Alaeiyan; Iran University of Science and Technology; 20 September 2005 to 19March 2006; –; UMB; –Dr Bahman Tabatabaie Shourijeh; Shiraz University, Iran; 1 October 2005 to 1 April 2006;–; UMB; –Dr Christopher Tout; Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England; 3 August 2005 to 30April 2006; Stellar Evolution; MNU; John Lattanzio
Prof. Valentin V Petrov; Steklov Mathematical Institute; 7 January 2006 to 30 June 2006;
Limit results and asymptotic methods; USN; Dr J. Robinson
Dr Zhishui Hu; University of Science and Technology, China; 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006;
Limit theorems; USN; J. Robinson
Dr Yuly Billig; Carlton University; 16 July 2005 to 16 July 2006; Quantum algebras; USN;
Dr A.I. Molev

284NewsProf. Peiwang Gao; Jinan University; 29 August 2005 to 31 July 2006; Financial Mathematics; UWG; Dr Songping Shu
Prof. Shigeyuki Hibi; National Defense Academy, Japan; 21 August 2005 to 29 August 2006;
Particle Methods; MNU; Joe Monaghan