News from ACEMS

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.

The Australian Academy of Science names ACEMS Deputy Director Kerrie Mengersen as one of its 2018 Fellows.

ACEMS Deputy Director Kerrie Mengersen will lead a study that will collect and analyse data, measuring the social, economic and transport effects of Queen’s Wharf over a 20-year period. That will include an extensive look into the effects of gambling. The project was featured in this article in the Courier Mail.

Researchers led by ACEMS Chief Investigator Rob Hyndman (Monash) develop ground breaking statistical tools and software for 'optimal forecast reconciliation for hierarchical and grouped time series.'

Three QUT students took part in a summer vacation project with ACEMS to use maths, stats, and virtual reality to help track koalas and find suitable habitats for them.

A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) at QUT and their collaborators in the Computational Cardiovascular Science group at the University of Oxford have developed a novel method for constructing a virtual population for use in cardiac research.

A new study led by ACEMS and QUT has found ways to detect hidden dangers of repeated stresses on seagrass using statistical modelling.

The research, published by the Journal of Applied Ecology, found cumulative maintenance dredging which affected the light on the sea floor increased risks on seagrass survival.

It found, globally, seagrass meadows can be at risk of collapse from accumulated effects of repeated dredging and natural stress.

ACEMS Chief Investigator Scott Sisson co-wrote an article in The Conversation looking at what the numbers (and absence of responses) means in the same-sex marriage survey

Timing of dredging is the key to helping preserve one of the world’s most productive and important ecosystems - seagrass meadows.