11th AMSI Summer School

Dates & Venue : 7 January to 1 February 2013; University of Melbourne.

The School is an exciting opportunity for mathematical sciences students from around Australia to come together over the summer break and develop their skills and networks.

Over four weeks students take innovative courses in new and emerging areas of the mathematical science as well as more traditional ones. The eight short courses are taught by hand-picked lecturers from around Australia.

There are lots of social events including BBQs, public lectures, student seminars, the annual Summer School dinner and anything from picnics to rock climbing and paint balling.

The Careers Afternoon provides the opportunity to find out about career paths and meet prospective employers, companies such as Google, Ernst and Young, Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Bank attend.

Dr Keith Devlin (Stanford University) will speak at the Summer School dinner. His current research focuses on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis.

The annual Summer School is funded jointly by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Speakers & Courses

The summer school will offer 8 courses. Each of the courses may be taken for honours credit.

• A/Prof Wadim Zudilin (U Newcastle)
  Modular forms (outline)
• Dr Marty Ross (QED)
  Measure theory (outline)
• Dr Omar Foda (U Melbourne)
  Solitons, instantons, Lax pairs and twistors (outline)
• Prof Markus Hegland (ANU) and Dr Stephen Roberts (ANU)
  Numerical solution of conservation laws and hyperbolic linear systems (outline)
• Dr Yoni Nazarathy (U Queensland)
  Structured Markov models and control theory. A unified approach via linear algebra (outline)
• Dr Joshua Ross (U Adelaide)
  Mathematical epidemiology: stochastic models and their statistical calibration (outline)
• A/Prof Aurore Delaigle (U Melbourne) and Prof Peter Hall (U Melbourne)
  Methodology and theory for the bootstrap and for the analysis of functional data (outline)

Registration: see the website.
The first registration deadline is Friday 2 November 2012.
For more details of the program and financial support see the course synopses and FAQ.
Contact: amsi2013@ms.unimelb.edu.au.

Program Committee:

• Jan de Gier — Director (U Melbourne)
• Aurore Delaigle (U Melbourne)
• Markus Hegland (ANU)
• Jonathan Kress (UNSW)
• Michael Murray (U Adelaide)
• Geoff Prince — AMSI Director (AMSI)
• Ole Warnaar (U Queensland)

Organising Committee:

• Jan de Gier — Director (U Melbourne)
• Lee Shia Chan — Office (amsi2013@ms.unimelb.edu.au)
• Simi Henderson — AMSI (Program Manager)
• Aurore Delaigle (U Melbourne)
• Federico Frascoli (U Melbourne)
• Craig Westerland (U Melbourne)
• David Wood (U Melbourne)

Sponsors

• Australian Mathematical Society
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
• University of Melbourne
• Mαthematics of Planet Earth, 2013