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Announcements
- Some new video interviews and presentations have been added to our
MathsReach website.
If you haven't seen these, do take a look. They're well worth seeing.
Just click on "videos" on the horizontal menu bar.
- The next NZIMA/NZMRI summer meeting will be held 8-13 January 2012, at Nelson,
with the theme of
Random Media and Random Walks.
- The tenth issue of our colourful twice-yearly bulletin NZ-IMAges
was distributed in March this year. If you would like to subscribe to receive it,
please let us know.
Electronic copies of this and earlier issues are available here.
- Awards and honours:
- John Butcher (one of our founding PIs) was awarded the inaugural Jones Medal
by the Royal Society of NZ in November 2010, and awarded the Van Wijngaarden Prize
by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Amsterdam) in February 2011
- Ross Ihaka (University of Auckland) and Robert Gentleman (Genentech,
formerly also at the University of Auckland), whose work in creating
the "R" system for statistical computing was featured on the front page
of Issue 3 of our NZ-IMAges bulletin, have won the inaugural Statistical
Computing and Graphics Award from the American Statistical Association
- NZIMA Co-Director Vaughan Jones has been appointed to a Distinguished
Professorship at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, from August 2011
- NZIMA Co-Director Marston Conder has been selected by the American
and New Zealand Mathematical Societies as the first "Maclaurin Lecturer",
under a new cooperative venture between the two societies,
and he will make a lecture tour of universities in the USA in 2012/13
- Adam Day, a former student of Rod Downey at Victoria University of
Wellington who was engaged in our Algorithms programme, has won a prestigious
Miller Fellowship to the University of California at Berkeley
- Mike Hendy (one of our founding PIs) has been awarded a 6-month
Alfried Krupp Senior Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg,
in Griefswald, Germany, for the northern summer of 2012
- Rod Downey (one of our PIs) and Andre Nies (a key participant in
our Logic and Computation programme) won the 2010 Shoenfield Prize of
the Association for Symbolic Logic, jointly with Denis Hirschfeldt and
Sebastiaan Terwijn, for their article 'Calibrating randomness'
- Shaun Hendy (Director of our programme on the "Mathematics of the
Nanosciences") has been elected incoming President of the New Zealand
Association of Scientists, and has also won the inaugural Massey University
Distinguished Young Alumni Award
- NZIMA Board chair Len Cook has been made a Life Member of the NZ
Statistical Association
- Bill Barton (Director of our programme in Mathematics Education)
has been elected as President of the International Commission
on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), from 2010 to 2012.
- Current NZIMA Programmes are as follows:
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