Past Events

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing on 8 March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board.

The aircraft remains missing despite the largest, longest and most technically challenging search in history.

Two experts associated with the search -- Neil Gordon and Peter Foley -- will speak on the associated science defining the search area, and the methods used to search the deep ocean floor in a remote area of the Indian Ocean.

The mid-year retreat for ACEMS Early Career Researchers (ECRs) will take place this year at The University of Melbourne

This one-day professional development workshop is designed to help teachers give their students an authentic experience of ‘doing maths’ while at the same time supporting success in tests and examinations.

Enabling your students to work in a way that is similar to the way a research mathematician works can dramatically change the classroom experience, for the better. Would you like to find out how, for example, a topic like Pythagoras’ Theorem could be approached a little differently?

In their work, research mathematicians do not generally sit competitions, have daily lessons or lectures, or study for tests and exams.

So what do they do? Among other things, they use previously learned facts and know-how to solve problems, problems that they initially have no idea how to solve.

In this workshop you will be tasked with solving various ‘simple’ problems, and in doing so, a way of working will reveal itself that offers an alternative to teaching just the calculations associated with mathematical ideas. You will learn how to give your students an authentic experience of ‘doing maths’ in much the same way that professional mathematicians do.

Contact:      Anita Ponsaing <anita.ponsaing@unimelb.edu.au>
Cost:           Free. Morning Tea and Lunch by own arrangement (many food venues nearby)

This event is booked out. Go here and click on "Register" to join the waiting list.

This one-day professional development workshop is designed to help teachers give their students an authentic experience of ‘doing maths’ while at the same time supporting success in tests and examinations.

Enabling your students to work in a way that is similar to the way a research mathematician works can dramatically change the classroom experience, for the better. Would you like to find out how, for example, a topic like Pythagoras’ Theorem could be approached a little differently?

In their work, research mathematicians do not generally sit competitions, have daily lessons or lectures, or study for tests and exams.

So what do they do? Among other things, they use previously learned facts and know-how to solve problems, problems that they initially have no idea how to solve.

In this workshop you will be tasked with solving various ‘simple’ problems, and in doing so, a way of working will reveal itself that offers an alternative to teaching just the calculations associated with mathematical ideas. You will learn how to give your students an authentic experience of ‘doing maths’ in much the same way that professional mathematicians do.

Contact:      Anita Ponsaing <anita.ponsaing@unimelb.edu.au>
Cost:           Free. Morning Tea and Lunch by own arrangement (many food venues nearby)

The 2018 ACEMS Workshop on Multiscale Models will be held at Monash University.

The Mathematics of Biological Systems Management Symposium will be held at The University of Melbourne on the 5th and 6th of April. The aim is to bring together researchers who work on modelling and managing biological systems to discuss the latest research and upcoming challenges.

ACEMS Associate Investigator Gael Martin is presenting a talk at Monash University. It's titled, 'Computing Bayes: Bayesian computation from 1763 to 2017!'

This is a free introductory course for new R users. We will cover R installation and set-up, as well as basic visualisation, importing data and an introduction to the Tidyverse (if time permits)