CARMA Research Groups
Mathematical Analysis and Systems Theory
Leader: Jeff Hogan
Data Science
Leader: Ali Eshragh
Mathematics Education Research
Leader: Liz Stojanovski
Mathematical Modelling and Industrial Applications
Leader: Mike Meylan
Number Theory, Algorithms and Discrete Mathematics
Leader: Florian Breuer
Symmetry
Leader: George Willis
NEWS
Mike Meylan wins Cherry Ripe Prize!
CARMA's Mike Meylan jointly won the Cherry Ripe Prize, along with with Prof. Peter Taylor from the University of Melbourne, at this year's ANZIAM conference. The prize is awarded to the best presentation by an established academic voted by students.
MISG newspaper article
The recent MISG workshop in Newcastle was featured in a story in the Newcastle Herald.
CARMA advisor Tony Guttmann appointed to Order of Australia
Congratulations are due to Professor Tony Guttmann, a member of CARMA's external advisory committee since its founding, who was appointed as a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year's Australia Day honours. Professor Guttmann was honoured for ... [READ MORE]
New professor: Peter Howley
Congratulations to Peter Howley on his recent promotion to professor! Prof. Howley is Assistant Dean (Outreach) for the Faculty of Science, Science and Technology Australia "STEM" Ambassador and is nationally and internationally recognised as a leader an... [READ MORE]
EVENTS
Learning and Engagement at the Intersection of Mathematics and Computing: A Conversation with Celia Hoyles and Richard Noss
5:00 pm, Thu, 27th Feb 2020
Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle Conservatoriumcnr Auckland and Laman Streets (Newcastle, NSW)
A major change in the educational policy landscape in many countries has been the introduction of computing into the school curriculum, either as part of Mathematics or as a separate subject. This has often happened alongside the establishment of ‘Coding’ in out-of school clubs. In this talk, we will reflect on the situation in England where computing has been a compulsory subject since 2014 for all students from age 7 to 16 years. We will describe the research project, UCL ScratchMaths, designed to introduce students, aged 9-11 years, to both core computational and mathematical ideas. We will discuss the findings of the project, the challenges faced in its implementation and the exciting next steps in the computing/mathematics initiative from a more international perspective.
Please visit the lecture's Eventbrite page for more information and to register for this free event.
Symmetry in Newcastle
"Fixed points for group actions on $2$-dimensional affine buildings"
— Senior Lecturer Jeroen Schillewaert
"Lattices of minimal covolume in $\mathrm{SL}_n$"
— Dr François Thilmany
"Conjugacy and dynamics in the almost automorphism group of a tree"
— Dr Waltraud Lederle
"Translation-like actions on nilpotent groups"
— Assistant Prof Mark Pengitore
10:00 am, Fri, 6th Mar 2020
(Location to be decided)
10.00-11.00: Waltraud Lederle
11.00-11.30: Morning Tea
11.30-12.30: Mark Pengitore
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Jeroen Schillewaert
15.00-15.30: Afternoon Tea
15.30-16.00: François Thilmany
These are the events in the next 21 days.
To see everything, visit the events page.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership to CARMA offers many benefits and is available by invitation to all University of Newcastle academic staff. Associate membership, also by invitation, is available to external researchers and practitioners for three-year renewable terms. Associate members are expected to visit CARMA with some frequency, typically for a total of three to four weeks each year, and to be involved in one or more ongoing research projects with CARMA members. CARMA is able to assist with the travel and living costs of such visits.