News from ACEMS

Three ACEMS Researchers from The University of Adelaide were part of a team that won the 2017 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Adam “Ben” Rohrlach, Prof Nigel Bean, and Dr Simon “Jonathan” Tuke provided the statistical research used in this landmark study, which uses genetics to help link Australian Aboriginals to the land that they have always claimed through their stories.

ACEMS Chief Investigator Louise Ryan looks at the statistical challenges facing the upcoming postal plebiscite on marriage equality in an article in The Conversation

ACEMS Chief Investigator Matt Roughan does the maths to prove an Adelaide man set a Guinness World Record for the largest indoor, free-floating soap bubble.

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) is proud to announce that it has just officially added Monash University as its seventh member university.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) welcomed Professor Scott Sisson as an ARC Future Fellow for his research in statistics.

Advertisers on internet want to know how you feel online through a process known as sentiment analysis, but it still has its limitations.

Centre Director Peter Taylor appeared in a Channel 7 story about the birth of a baby who was born on the same date as her mum and grandma. Peter talked about the probability of that happening

ACEMS Associate Investigator Adrian Barnett (QUT) writes in The Conversation about "regression to the mean" or why unusual, or even memorable events, are followed by more typical ones.

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has awarded ACEMS Research Fellow Chris Oates at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) its prestigious biennial Research Prize in 2017.