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Queen’s birthday honours
The Australian Queen’s birthday honours list for 2008, announced this week, includes two honours for contributions to mathematics and mathematical education. Ian Sloan has been appointed an Officer of...
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Mathematics Ashes
The Australian and UK mathematics trusts have set up a “Mathematics Ashes“, in analogy with the well-known cricketing counterpart, for the Australian and British IMO teams to compete for each year, as...
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Venkatesh receives 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan prize
I’m happy to report that my friend (and UWA undergraduate) Akshay Venkatesh, now a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, has won the 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan prize for outstanding contributions...
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Hannan Medal
The Australian Academy of Science has just announced its 2009 awards for academic excellence. The Hannan medal for research in pure mathematics went to Norman Dancer FAA at U. Sydney. Congratulations...
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Xu-Jia Wang elected to AAS
A belated congratulations to Xu-Jia Wang from the Mathematical Science Institute at ANU for being admitted to the Australian Academy of Sciences this year!
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2010 ICM speakers
The list of plenary and sectional speakers for the International Congress of Mathematicians on 19-27 August, 2010 in Hyderabad, India is now available. Among the 171 sectional speakers are two...
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Nobel Prize Laureates
Among this year’s Nobel Prize Laureates is the Australian-American molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, currently at UC San Francisco, for her work with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak on their work...
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Cheryl Praeger named as 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the Year
Cheryl Praeger at UWA has just been named 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the Year, after becoming a finalist last week. Congratulations Cheryl! [Via SymOmega.]
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L’Oréal Australia For Women In Science Fellowships
[From Nalini Joshi -T.] Applications for the 2010 L’Oréal Australia For Women In Science Fellowships are now open and close on Monday 3 May. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help...
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