A large number of leading mathematicians and statisticians visit us from overseas as well as from within Australia. Our members regularly visit their colleagues overseas, and are invited to international conferences. Indeed, the CMA has an exceptional international profile for its size. There are several seminar series as well as the School's weekly colloquium. The CMA publishes a series of research monographs and has extensive series of mathematical and statistical reports.
Details appear later.
This year two long-standing and highly valued members of the CMA retired, namely Mike Newman and Mike Osborne, though both remain with us as Visiting Fellows. The next few years will see several more retirements. This presents us with the opportunity and the challenge of assessing our role and determining the areas in which to concentrate our resources and build our future strength. We are already committed to development of the applied and computational areas which can provide links with other sections of the University. The theoretical core of activities must also be kept at its high level of strength.