UTS Mathematician honoured!

Professor Lindsay Botten was recently appointed as the new Director of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

NCI is an initiative of the Australian Government being conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, where the project is being hosted by The Australian National University.

Professor Botten’s appointment comes at an important time in the implementation of the commonwealth government's National Computational Infrastructure project, part of the ‘Platforms for Collaboration Capability’ within the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

Congratulations to Professor Botten on his new appointment.

For more information, see NCI website.

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ICE-EM Schools Mathematics Program

UTS Mathematical Sciences is a member of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. The Institute’s education division has been authorised to prepare the ICE-EM Mathematics program comprising a full set of mathematics textbooks, teacher resource materials and professional development for Upper Primary to Year 10.

The Schools Project was based on an identified need for a program that would:

• Take into account key elements identified by practising teachers

• Ensure that the curriculum requirements of all states and territories can be met

• Assist in improving students’ learning in mathematics

• Encourage students to study mathematics to their highest ability

The program is now complete and we encourage schools to consider adopting the ICE-EM Mathematics program. We believe that students experiencing the program will be well prepared to undertake any sequence of Year 11 and 12 mathematics.

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Young statistician elected to Council

Congratulations to Mr Stephen Bush. Currently a postgraduate research student at UTS, Stephen has recently been appointed to the NSW Branch Council for the Statistical Society of Australia (SSAI).

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UTS top-ranked in Teaching and learning

2007 Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching

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New Book: Street and Burgess

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New Book: Platen and Heath

A Benchmark Approach to Quantitative Finance, Springer (2006), by Professor Eckhard Platen of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Quantitative Finance Research Centre and Dr David Heath, also of the Quantitative Finance Research Centre. From the preface, the book ‘… presents an introduction to the mathematical framework typically used in financial modelling, derivative pricing portfolio selection and risk management. It offers a unified approach to risk and performance management by using the benchmark approach, which is different to the prevailing paradigm …’. For more information, please contact Professor Eckhard Platen.

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New Book: Cohen

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ARC Discovery Project Grant Successes

The Australian Research Council has approved grants for the following Discovery Projects. Names of staff in the Department are printed in boldface.

• Prof A Novikov; A/Prof K Borovkov; Dr MJ Craddock: $ 235,000 over 3 years for ‘Boundary Crossing Analysis for Random Processes with Applications to Risk Management’

• Prof E Platen; A/Prof E Schlogl: $ 340,000 over 4 years for ‘Pricing and Hedging Extreme Maturity Contracts’

• A/Prof DJ Doiron(UNSW); Prof J Hall; Prof DJ Street: $ 540,000 over 5 years for ‘The training and job decisions of nurses: an integrated approach using panel surveys and dynamic discrete choice experiments’

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ARC Centre of Excellence Grant Success

The Australian Research Council has extended its funding of the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) under the Centres of Excellence program. CUDOS is a multi-institutional centre comprising nodes located at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, UTS, the Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology. The UTS CUDOS node is led by Prof Lindsay Botten, one of the centre’s Chief Investigators. The Centre has been granted an additional $7,500,000 for the period 2008-10.

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New courses for 2008

2008 sees the introduction of two exciting new undergraduate courses: the Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) and the Bachelor of Science (Statistics). These replace the existing Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree. Course. Also in 2008, completely revised programs for the Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance and the Bachelor of Mathematics and Computing. Click here for more information.

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