AMSI – Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation

AMSI VACATION RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year AMSI funds around 50 university students from AMSI Member universities across Australia to spend their summer holidays working on a research project with a supervisor.

Each Vacation Research Scholar experiences life as a researcher as they complete a project, write up their results and present to peers and supervisors at the VRS student conference AMSIConnect, held in Melbourne at the end of the summer.

Many universities encourage their students to participate in the AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship program to prepare for honours or PhD coursework.

For more information: https://vrs.amsi.org.au/about/

APPLICATIONS

1 August – 14 September 2018

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AMSI Summer School 2019

The AMSI Summer School 2019 program enables students to take up to 2 intensive honours-level subjects during the four-week residential school; however, it is highly recommended that students only nominate one course for credit/assessment. AMSI and The University of New South Wales are pleased to offer the following eight subjects.

Course	Lecturer/s
An introduction on non-commutative functional analysis: Quantised Calculus	Professor Fedor Sukochev, The University of New South Wales Dr Galina Levitina, The University of New South Wales
Analytic Number Theory	Dr Michael Coons, The University of Newcastle
Dynamical System: Models of Chaotic Dynamics	Dr Andy Hammerlindl, Monash University
Optimisation	Associate Professor Regina Burachik, The University of South Australia
Mathematics of Planet Earth	Dr Shane Keating, The University of New South Wales Associate Professor Lisa Alexander, The University of New South Wales
Models in Mathematical Biology	Associate Professor Peter Kim, The University of Sydney
Mathematical Methods for Machine Learning	Dr Zdravko Botev, The University of New South Wales
Stochastic Modelling	Dr Giang Nguyen, The University of Adelaide

For more information, please visit https://ss.amsi.org.au/courses-lecturers/

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Registrations now open for AMSI Optimise—a new event in 2017

The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute is holding the inaugural AMSI Optimise workshop in Melbourne on the week of the 26th to the 30th of June at the Monash University conference centre, level 7, 30 Collins Street Melbourne.

This event is intended to become an annual event in the AMSI flagship event calendar and has attracted government funding. This event consists of a 3-day industrial outreach program, which will bring industrial practitioners, academics and students together to explore successful collaborations and to discuss future challenges. The 3-day program will be followed by a 2-day research workshop on optimisation.

The program, registration and information about travel grants is now available on the website: http://optimise.amsi.org.au/

The workshop will be attended by the following international speakers who will speak and attend both the 3-day outreach program and the 2-day research workshop:

Professor Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Professor Roberto Cominetti, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Professor Alejandro Jofré, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Application for workshop travel grants close on the 21st of May, abstract submission closes on the 27th of May and registration closes on the 16th of June.

Please encourage colleagues to participate and support this important event.

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AMSI Winter School 2017—Applications Now Open!

QUT 26 JUNE - 7 JULY

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

Hosted by the Queensland University of Technology, AMSI Winter School is a two-week residential program for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers in the mathematical sciences and cognate disciplines.

This year the event will focus on computational foundations of data science, with the aim to develop the next generation of quantitative scientists who can thrive in tomorrow’s information age. Our impressive line-up of international and national speakers will build your knowledge in large-scale computational methods of data science, and introduce you to a range of topical applications.

This year, AMSI Winter School 2017 will feature courses on the following themes:

Bayesian Inference & Data Assimilation
High-Dimensional Statistics
Inverse Problems
Machine Learning
Nonlinear Optimisation
Numerical Linear Algebra

Apply now to develop skills and knowledge in the computational foundations of data science and tackle the fundamental challenge of “turning data into knowledge”.

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Apply for a Grant

Two types of funding are available to help students attend AMSI Winter School 2017. AMSI Travel Grants and CHOOSEMATHS Grants are offered to eligible applicants from AMSI member institutions.

The grants provide full or partial support to students and early career researchers to help cover the cost of travel, accommodation, and care for family members or dependent children.

Grant Applications close on 21 May 2017

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Featured Course: Optimisation Techniques For Data Analysis

Professor Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Optimisation techniques have become a mainstay of data analysis and machine learning. Many problems in these domains can be formulated and solved naturally as optimisation problems.

The course will review basic optimisation techniques, their application to data analysis problems, and their fundamental theoretical properties.

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PROGRAM EXTRAS

27 JUNE 2017 – VC FORUM WITH SIR TIMOTHY GOWERS

28 JUNE 2017 – WOMEN IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES PANEL EVENT

29 JUNE 2017 – PARTICIPANT TALKS

30 JUNE 2017 – CUBE VISIT

03 JULY 2017 – PUBLIC LECTURE WITH DR PETER MAY, HEAD OF RESEARCH AT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY

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