News from ACEMS

ACEMS Associate Investigator Yanan Fan (UNSW) is the lead author in a major new study looking into gender and cultural bias at the university level. Among other things, it shows that in Business and Science, a male teacher from an English-speaking background was more than twice as likely to get a higher score on a student evaluation than a female teacher from a non-English speaking background. 

New research has revealed that people’s behaviour is predictable from the social media data of as few as eight or nine of their friends.

Published today in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, a study from the University of Adelaide in Australia and the University of Vermont in the US has found that even where people have deleted their accounts they can be profiled from the information that can be drawn from their friends’ posts.

ACEMS Associate Investigator Dr Susanna Cramb has just been named a Superstar of STEM by Science & Technology Australia (STA).

Susanna is only one of 60 scientists chosen from around Australia to be a part of STA’s second cohort of Superstars of STEM. The program aims to smash society’s gender assumptions about scientists and increase the public visibility of women in STEM.

ACEMS PhD Student Tea Espeland Uggen is the 2018 winner of the J.B. Douglas Postgraduate Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Statistical Society of Australia.

The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) awards ACEMS Director Peter Taylor its highest honour, the George Szekeres Medal.

ACEMS' Tui Nolan has just been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and will use it to head to Cornell University in upstate New York.

A lunchtime chat ends with a breakthrough idea for ACEMS researchers at Monash University. That idea lands their latest research project in the most prestigious journal in physics, Physical Review Letters.

ACEMS Chief Investigator Professor Kate Smith-Miles uses a core set of mathematical questions and optimisation algorithms to find the best mathematical approach to making the world a better place.

How should 'impact' be measured in the mathematical sciences? It's a question that has taken on added importance in the last year, with the Australian Research Council unveiling its 'Engagement and Impact Assessment.'  ACEMS Director Peter Taylor looks into this question with an article he wrote in AMSI's "The Update" publication.