AMSIConnect is a two-day residential conference for AMSI Vacation Research Scholars near the completion of their projects. Participants are funded to travel to and stay in Melbourne to [...]
By Antony Kennett, Monash University Mathematics has always been a huge part of my life. My parents love to tell me the story of the time I decided to fill in an entire maths book before I could [...]
By Alycia Winter, University of South Australia I have always been passionate about mathematics. This is due to how you can find it anywhere. You use it when you shop or when you cook. It is also [...]
By Leonard Whitehead, Federation University My interest in optimisation first started when I was still in high school. The idea of being able to maximise or minimise anything seemed almost [...]
By Asem Wardak, The University of Sydney In primary school I remember taking nets of different shapes like cubes and pyramids, and gluing their sides together to get the three-dimensional shape. [...]
By William Troiani, The University of Melbourne What can and can’t a computer do This question is central to the area of Mathematics now referred to as computability theory. In the early 1900’s, [...]
By Phuong Tran, Queensland University of Technology In the third year of my mathematics degree, our lecturer introduced the class to an area of statistics called Bayesian statistics. Up until [...]
By Kyle Stevens, University of Wollongong Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that mathematics is behind everything. Whether it was seeing the golden spiral [...]
By Terry Shang, The University of Sydney This summer I looked at investigating a particular second order differential equation called a Hill equation. The study of differential equations is the [...]
By Melissa Scott, La Trobe University To me, the decision to do postgraduate study in biostatistics was a long, unnoticed process. It began in the second semester of my first year. I had returned [...]
By Samuel Schneider, Monash University Maths isn’t something I ever set out to study at university, it’s more something that I’ve fallen into. Growing up I liked how pure it was as a subject, how [...]
By Bethany Phipps, The University of Adelaide My Research Project was on the Survival Data Analysis for Improving Patient Outcomes. For a patient to undergo elective joint replacement surgery [...]
By Jessica Penfold, The University of Adelaide Influenza is an infectious disease which can cause death in very young, very old or immunocompromised people. It tends to occur seasonally, with [...]
By Alexander Nunn, The University of Melbourne The paper plane. The perfect way to demonstrate both your ingenuity and your devil may care attitude towards life and gravity. The graceful and [...]
By Peizheng Ni, Monash University Do you have a dream that you want to turn it into reality? Have you discovered what is your really passion about? You maybe want to be a basketball player like [...]
By Wern Shing Ng, University of Wollongong At this time and age, the world is set on a goal to wean itself off its addiction towards non-renewable fossil fuels. Black gold – a term associated [...]
