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Announcements
- The next NZIMA/NZMRI summer meeting will be held 4-9 January 2009,
at Napier, with the theme of "Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability and Complexity".
Click here for details,
or contact Rod Downey or Noam Greenberg at SMCS, Victoria University of Wellington.
- The fourth issue of our colourful twice-yearly bulletin NZ-IMAges
is being distributed (in May). If you don't receive a copy and would like to,
please let us know! Click here
for electronic copies of this and earlier issues.
- MathsReach, officially launched on 23rd February 2007
by Prime Minister Helen Clark at Onehunga High School,
is a new resource (available on the web and CD/DVD) designed to promote
the array of opportunities in mathematics open to high school students.
Click here for further
details of the launch, and
here for the MathsReach website.
- Recent awards and honours:
- Marston Conder (NZIMA Co-Director) will become the Royal Society of New Zealand's
first Vice President International when his term as President of the
RSNZ Academy comes to an end on 30th June 2008
- Rod Downey (one of the NZIMA's principal researchers) has been
awarded a James Cook Fellowship for 2008-2010
- John Kernohan (a member of the NZIMA's Governing Board) has won the
Thomson Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, for outstanding and
inspirational leadership in the management of science
- The Optima Corporation, a spin-off company created by Andrew Mason
and NZIMA principal David Ryan and colleagues, has won one of four Technology
Commendations from FRST in recognition of outstanding achievement in designing
and applying cutting-edge technology, principally the SIREN software for
optimal deployment of emergency services
- Mike Saunders, of Stanford University and a member of the NZIMA's
International Scientific Advisory Board, has been elected as an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- NZIMA Programmes for 2007/08 are as follows:
- Applications of Mathematics in the Nanosciences
(starting in the second half of 2007, with a 3-day symposium
Mathematical & Computational Nanoscience 2007
in Wellngton, 9-11 December)
Director: Dr Shaun Hendy (IRL and MacDiarmid Institute);
see http://www.macdiarmid.ac.nz/mcn/
- Algorithms: New Directions and Applications
(starting in the first half of 2008)
Directors: Dr Charles Semple (University of Canterbury),
Prof. Mike Atkinson (Otago University)
and Dr Mark Wilson (University of Auckland)
- Conformal Geometry and its and Applications
(starting in 2008, with the
NZMRI Summer Workshop
at Nelson, 6-12 January 2008)
Directors: Prof. Gaven Martin (Massey University) and
Dr Rod Gover (University of Auckland)
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