ACEMS in the media

A man in France wins the lottery for the second time in just 18 months. ACEMS Chief Investigator Louise Ryan (UTS) breaks down the odds of that actually happening in this ABC News story. Excerpt from article: UTS Professor Louise Ryan from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers did a back-of-the-envelope calculation for us based on the report in Le Parisien that said the odds of winning the My Million lottery in any given week were one in 19 million.

While the science of flu forecasting is in its infancy, some say that just as we have weather maps that provide us with the probability of rain in our region, so one day flu maps could provide the probability of flu hitting a particular region. In this article in the Australian Financial Review, ACEMS Associate Investigator Joshua Ross (The University of Adelaide) talks about the possibility, as well as his research to develop flu forecasting models.

ACEMS Chief Investigator Kate Smith-Miles (The University of Melbourne) talks about gender equity in mathematics with ABC Radio in Adelaide

Recently, an Adelaide man set out to get into the Guinness World Records, by creating the world's largest free-floating soap bubble. To get him into the record book, though, Graeme Denton, aka Marty McBubble, would need someone to figure out just how big his bubble would be. So he turned to ACEMS Chief Investigator Matt Roughan from The University of Adelaide. Here is their story from ABC.

ACEMS Deputy Director Kerrie Mengersen talks about the project to create a Cancer Atlas of Australia and the impact it could have on saving lives from cancer.

An ACEMS PhD student uses statistics to provide rigorous evidence to a landmark study involving Australia’s original inhabitants.