L’Oréal Australia For Women In Science Fellowships

[From Nalini Joshi -T.] Applications for the 2010 L’Oréal Australia For Women In Science Fellowships are now open and close on Monday 3 May. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help early-career women scientists to consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are awarded to women  who have completed [...]

Cheryl Praeger named as 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the Year

Cheryl Praeger at UWA has just been named 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the Year, after becoming a finalist last week.    Congratulations Cheryl! [Via SymOmega.]

Nobel Prize Laureates

Among this year’s Nobel Prize Laureates is the Australian-American molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, currently at UC San Francisco, for her work with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak on their work on telomeres and their role in protecting chromosomes.  In the US, Blackburn is perhaps best known for being controversially dismissed from President George W. Bush’s [...]

2010 ICM speakers

The list of plenary and sectional speakers for the International Congress of Mathematicians on 19-27 August, 2010 in Hyderabad, India is now available.  Among the 171 sectional speakers are two Australian-based mathematicians, Norman Dancer (for the PDE section, at U. Sydney) and Brendan McKay (for the Combinatorics section, at ANU), as well as Australian-born Mark [...]

Xu-Jia Wang elected to AAS

A belated congratulations to Xu-Jia Wang from the Mathematical Science Institute at ANU for being admitted to the Australian Academy of Sciences this year!

Hannan Medal

The Australian Academy of Science has just announced its 2009 awards for academic excellence.  The Hannan medal for research in pure mathematics went to Norman Dancer FAA at U. Sydney.  Congratulations Norman!

Venkatesh receives 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan prize

I’m happy to report that my friend (and UWA undergraduate) Akshay Venkatesh, now a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, has won the 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan prize for outstanding contributions to areas of mathematics influenced by the great Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan.  The prize, worth US$10,000, is only awarded to those under the age of [...]

Mathematics Ashes

The Australian and UK mathematics trusts have set up a “Mathematics Ashes“, in analogy with the well-known cricketing counterpart, for the Australian and British IMO teams to compete for each year, as part of their planned joint training sessions, thus injecting the traditional Aussie values of sport and rivalry with the Poms into the competition. [...]

Queen’s birthday honours

The Australian Queen’s birthday honours list for 2008, announced this week, includes two honours for contributions to mathematics and mathematical education.  Ian Sloan has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) For service to education through the study of mathematics, particularly in the field of computational mathematics, as an academic, researcher and [...]