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COMMUNICATE TO COLLABORATE

 

The 2014 Mathematical Science Students Conference (2-4 July, Newcastle) offers an informal setting for students to hear about what their peers are researching. Submit an abstract to share your current work and form potential collaborations.

 

AustMS and AMSI will get you there: apply for full financial assistance before 2 June. General conference registration closes 18 June.

 

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SUCCESS IN THE FACE OF MANY OBSTACLES

 

Hear how the decades between 1920 and 1950 shaped the American mathematical research community.

 

Join us via your local AGR on Friday 30 May, 2.30pm AEST.

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PLATFORM 9.75, THE 2.7 DIMENSION

 

The Hogwarts Express leaves from platform 9 ¾; but how can things exist between levels? Or between dimensions for that matter?

 

AMSI Vacation Research Scholar, Christopher Thornett, describes how these ‘in between’ spaces exist not just in the muggle realm, but also in the realm of mathematics.

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A MATHEMATICIAN, A PHILOSOPHER OR A WITCH?

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a mathematician, a philosopher and by age nine, a prodigy. She fell ill at age twelve, doctors prescribed her dancing and horseback riding; this didn’t work, so she wrote the first book to discuss both differential and integral calculus.
 
Wish Maria a happy 296 birthday on 16 May

 

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Workshop Funding deadline - 6 June

CoE for Climate System Science Winter School 2014 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics    16-20 June 2014    Australian National University, Canberra

Interactions between operator algebras and dynamical systems    30 June ‐ 4 July 2014  University of Wollongong

IMS-FPS-2014    2-6 July 2014    University of Techology Sydney

2014 Mathematical Science Students Conference (2-4 July, Newcastle)

Workshop in Harmonic Analysis and its Applications    21-25 July 2014  Macquarie University

The AMSI/AustMS conference on geometric analysis and stochastic methods in geometry    21‐25 July 2014    University of Queensland