ACEMS in the media

A growing number of jobs rely on mathematics, yet the percentage of students studying advanced maths at school has dropped, and often Australia's brightest graduates head overseas. A new institute is hoping to change that. Among those featured in this ABC 7:30 story is ACEMS Chief Investigator Kate Smith-Miles.

ACEMS Student Sarah Belet breaks down your chances of winning at McDonald's Monopoly in this story in The Conversation.

Our Great Barrier Reef project with QUT, Virtual Reef Diver, has been selected as the ABC Citizen Science Project for National Science Week 2018.

How hard is it to predict a winner in the World Cup? And what chance does Australia really have in winning the World Cup? ACEMS' Adrian Barnett (QUT) and Scott Sission (UNSW) break it all down with some statistical analysis.

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.

ACEMS Deputy Director Kerrie Mengersen will lead a new 20-year study on Brisbane's Queen's Wharf Project, including the effects of gambling.

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.