Friday 9th July

The New South Wales branch of ANZIAM will hold a one-day virtual conference on Friday 9th July.  A Zoom link will be sent at a later date.

The conference will run from approximately 10am to 5.30pm (depending upon the number of speakers).

This meeting features the 2020 winner of WIMSIG Maryam Mirzakhani Award, Dr Hoa Bui (Curtin) as the invited speaker: https://www.maintenance.org.au/users/viewuserprofile.action?username=hoa.bui. Title: Optimisation Methods for Maintenance Scheduling in the Mining Industry.

There is no registration fee.

If you would like to give a presentation or are planning on attending please contact Dr Xiaoping Lu (xplu@uow.edu.au) by 30 June, and abstracts/titles of presentations should

be send to Xiaoping by Tuesday 6 July.

Election of Speakers

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ECRs and students are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the meeting.

In the fortunate event that we are over-subscribed with speakers, priority will be given to students and ECR, with preference given to NSW ANZIAM members. For established researchers, preference will again be given to NSW ANZIAM members.

Student prize

A prize in the value of $100, will be awarded to the best student presentation.

Organisers

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Dr Xiaoping Lu,

Centre for Financial Mathematics,

School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics,

University of Wollongong

A/P Mark Nelson

Centre for Multidisciplinary Mathematical Modelling,

School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics,

University of Wollongong

Workshop on the Intersections of Computation and Optimisations

https://www.mocao.org/WICO

MoCaO (Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation) is planning a new workshop for late 2021 which is sponsored by the ANU, UNSW and AMSI.

This workshop intends to bring together researchers from the areas of computation, optimisation, computing sciences and engineering interested in the cross- fertilization of ideas around the following theme:

 Optimisation often faces unique issues when there is a need to efficiently compute. On the other hand, computational techniques at times utilise optimisation within their algorithms. Both areas fundamentally need to understand approximation in all its facets which is also fundamental to computation as are the associated notions of convergence. Indeed, recent research has blurred the boundaries between optimisation (continuous and discrete), computation and areas of computing science. The area of machine learning has crept into relevance everywhere. Recently research has turned to its use in computational techniques including the enhancement of optimisation algorithms and the cycle of cross fertilisation of ideas has continued to date.

Workshop Format

We intend to run the workshop in a blended format, involving a face to face component which will be held at the ANU mathematics school in conjunction with a simultaneous\parallel online format to which both group of participants will engage. Some keynotes will present in person (streamed online from ANU) and other will engage totally online in a remote format. We encourage local and international participants to take part in the online workshop. In addition to their keynote presentations, keynotes who will be invited to give a lectorial-discussion session that will promote research questions and engage emerging researchers in these areas.

Keynotes Speakers:

Prof Gerlind Plonka-Hoch (University of Goettingen, Germany)

Prof. Frances Kuo (UNSW)

Prof Stefan Wild (Argonne, USA)

Prof Stephen Wright (Wisconsin, USA) 

Prof. Ian Turner (QUT)

Prof. Claudia Sagastizabal (IMECC-Unicamp and CEMEAI, Brazil)

Prof Martin Berggren (Umeå University, Sweden)

Important dates:

Registration Opens: 07/06/2021

Workshop Dates: 22/11/2021 to 25/11/2021

Local Organising Committee

Future Announcements and Grants:

We intend to follow up with regular announcements regarding workshop accommodation, details on format and software and funding opportunities for ECR, PHD and female participants. We also wish to draw female participants attention to the possibility of applying for the WIMSIG Cheryl E. Praeger Travel Award (support for attending conferences/visiting collaborators) and/or the WIMSIG Anne Penfold Street Awards (support for careering responsible while attending conferences/visiting collaborators).