Last update: 23 June 2010

Announcements

• 23 June 2010 : Updates
• • Plenary talk

  • Dr Marty Ross will present a talk titled "How I failed as a mathematician, and how you can avoid it."

  • Conference dinner

  • The conference dinner will be held at Tsubu Bar in the University of Melbourne after the conclusion of the conference. See their website for more information.

  • Recreational mathematics talk

  • Anthony Mays has agreed to give a talk titled "(Some) mathematics of juggling". Anthony Mays is a juggler, unicyclist, actor, stuntman, podcaster and writer par mediocre. He is currently indentured in a life of mathematical servitude to the omni-present Ph.D thesis.

• 22 June 2010 : Draft programme
• A draft programme is now available here.
• 21 June 2010 : Abstracts
• Abstracts is now available here. Please understand that we tried our best to fit everyone in an appropriate group. We apologise if you are placed in a wrong category.
• 5 June 2010 : Updates
• • Registration

  • The registration period for the 2010 VMSSC conference has been extended until Friday June 11, 2010. For organisational purposes, there will be a registration fee of $15 for any registration beyond this date.

    Registration is quick, easy, and best of all free (until 11 June, 2010). You can register here.

  • Student Talks

  • Submission of abstracts has now closed, as we have completely filled all available speaking slots. We apologise for those who missed out, but unfortunately we are severely constrained by the time available to us. In future years we hope to run this event over a longer timescale.

  • Conference Lunch

  • It gives us great pleasure to announce that lunch will be provided, free of charge, to all participants. This has been made possible with the generous support of the following organisations:

    • The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne
    • The Statistical Consulting Centre
    • Australian Bureau of Statistics
    • Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society
• 18 May 2010 : Prizes
• There will be a $100 prize for the best speaker in each of three streams.

Introduction

The 2010 Victorian Mathematics and Statistics Students' Conference has been established with the explicit aim of stimulating communication between mathematics and statistics graduate students from all Victorian universities. We hope to provide a forum in which students may gain an understanding of the mathematics research being conducted across the state, as well as an opportunity to share experiences of graduate study.

The 2010 Victorian Mathematics and Statistics Students' Conference is run by students, for students. Any masters or PhD student is welcome to use this conference as an opportunity to share their research and receive feedback, develop presentation skills, gain insight into conference attendance techniques, and initiate contact with other researchers.

The conference day will consist of student talks, a plenary speaker, and a discussion panel, as well as several opportunities to socialise with other graduate students from across the state. All participants are both welcomed and encouraged to join us for dinner at the conclusion of the conference, where prizes will be awarded for the best talks!

We strongly encourage all participants to give a talk, and expect to allocate 20-25 minutes per speaker; this will be confirmed when we have finalised speaker numbers.

Objectives

The aims of the 2010 Victorian Mathemetics and Statistics Students' Conference (2010vmssc) are:

• To stimulate communication between mathematics and statistics graduate students from different Victorian universities.
• To provide a forum in which students may share experiences of graduate study.
• To provide Victorian graduate students an opportunity to gain an understanding of the research being conducted across the state.
• To provide honours and masters students with the opportunities to explore PhD research options and gain personal perspective from PhD students from across Victoria.

History

During the geometric group theory conference in Brisbane and through subsequent discussions, it came to our attention that as a country we currently have no conference where the majority of participants are graduate students in mathematics and statistics. This is - of course - untrue. See this page for more information.

This type of conference has been running for several years across the Tasman Sea – information about the New Zealand students’ conference can be found at the following here.

Intrigued by the idea, it was agreed amongst the students at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne that we should organise something similar to this in Victoria. Our vision for this conference is to emulate the New Zealand model, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale in this first year. Should the conference be a success, we intend to elaborate and expand upon the idea in the coming years.

Programme

Programme to appear 7 June 2010.

The conference will have 3 streams (pure, applied and statistics), 2 of which will be run simultaneously at any given time. This gives options for students to sit in streams different to theirs or have a break. The duration of general presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. All talks will be in room 213 and room 215. There is a possibility that more rooms may be acquired. Please check closer to the date.

Organisers

Committee:

• Stephen Mc Ateer, The University of Melbourne
• Tharatorn Supasiti, The University of Melbourne
• Maurice Chiodo, The University of Melbourne
• Nikki Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne
• Steve Lane, The University of Melbourne
• Natalie Karavarsamis, The University of Melbourne

Local Contacts

• Chris Bull, LaTrobe University
• Marsha Minchenko, Monash University
• Tharatorn Supasiti, The University of Melbourne

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following institutions

• the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne,
• Australian Bureau of Statistics,
• Statistical Consulting Centre, and
• Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society.


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