News from ACEMS

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.

The Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) elects ACEMS Deputy Kerrie Mengersen as one of its new Fellows in 2018.

The Statistical Society of Australia awards ACEMS Chief Investigator Louise Ryan with its highest honour, the Pitman Medal.