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Announcements
- One of the NZIMA's newest programmes aims to bring teachers and lecturers together to create
a vision for senior secondary and undergraduate mathematical science.
A survey is being conducted to gather baseline data on Year 12 & 13 mathematics and statistics
teachers' views about barriers to students taking senior mathematics and statistics in schools.
If you are a Mathematics teacher currently working in a secondary school, you are invited to
participate in our Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Survey.
It should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete.
- The next NZIMA/NZMRI summer meeting will be held January 2010,
at Hanmer Springs, with the theme of
Groups, Representations and Number Theory
- The seventh issue of our colourful twice-yearly bulletin NZ-IMAges
was distributed in early December 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.
- The NZIMA undertakes and supports a wide range of activities in New Zealand
that promote excellence in the mathematical sciences. As part of this,
from time to time we call for suggestions for conferences and high-profile
visitors and other valuable research (or research-related) activities.
We are again making such a call, with a deadline
of 15th February 2010: see here
for details, or click the "Support Opportunities" link in the left hand menu bar."
- Awards and honours:
- Vaughan Jones (NZIMA Co-Director) was conferred with a knighthood in Wellington in August 2009.
Vaughan has contributed a huge amount to the mathematical sciences in New Zealand.
- Peter Hunter (U Auckland) has been awarded the Rutherford Medal
for 2009, which comes with a prize of $100,000
- Matt Visser (VU Wellington) has been elected a Fellow of
the American Physical Society
- NZIMA scholar Vicky Wang (U Auckland) won a best paper award at the
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Society's Annual Conference, for her work with fellow student Hoi Leng Lam
on developing a computer model of the human heart
- Eamonn O'Brien (U Auckland) and Andrew Pullan (U Auckland) have been
elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- David Vere-Jones (SRA and VUW) has won the Campbell Award of the
NZ Statistical Association
- The NZ Math Society Research Award for 2009 has been awarded to Andre Nies
(U Auckland)
- Margaret Woolgrove (NZIMA Research Manager) has won a General Staff
Excellence Award at the University of Auckland
- Mike Steel (U Canterbury) has won a James Cook Fellowship for 2010-2012
- Current NZIMA Programmes are as follows:
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