Special sessions
The Program Committee cordially invites proposals from the mathematics community for additional special sessions. Please send proposals to Vladimir Ejov, the Conference Director, at Vladimir.Ejov@unisa.edu.au. In such a proposal it would be helpful to include the following information:
- session title
- names of two people who have agreed to co-organise the session
- tentative list of speakers for the session
- name of a potential keynote speaker for sessions of at least 7 speakers (there will be at most one keynote speaker per session)
Special sessions
- Algebra and Number Theory
- Analysis and PDEs
- Applied Differential Equations
- Combinatorics
- Computational Mathematics
- Fundamental Statistics
- General Session
- Geometric Analysis
- Geometry and Topology
- History and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Interpolation in Mechanics
- Logic
- Mathematical Biology
- Mathematical Physics
- Mathematical Psychology
- Mathematics Education
- New Applications of Mathematics
- Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras
- Optimal Control
- Optimization: Theory and Methods
- Probability: Theory and Applications
- Random Processes
- Statistical Applications
- Stochastic-Deterministic Vinculum
- Topological and Symbolic Dynamical Systems
- Topological Groups
Algebra and Number Theory
Organisers:
Daniel Chan (UNSW)
Wadim Zudilin (MPI, Bonn)
Speakers:
Alex Ghitza (Melbourne)
Amnon Neeman (ANU)
Andrew Francis (Western Sydney)
Anthony Henderson (Sydney)
Arun Ram (Melbourne)
Des FitzGerald (Tasmania)
Daniel Delbourgo (Monash )
Justin Koonin (Sydney)
Kamel Ariffin Atan (Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Louis Rowen (Bar-Ilan University)
Siti Hasana Sapar (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Wadim Zudilin (MPI, Bonn)
William Chen (Macquarie)
Analysis and PDEs
Organisers:
Andrew Hassell (ANU)
Florica Cirstea (Sydney)
Speakers:
Alan G.R. McIntosh (ANU)
Alexei Popov (Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphereand
Radio Wave Propagation)
Andrew Hassell (ANU)
Andrew Jordan Morris (ANU)
Daniel Daners (Sydney)
Eder Kikianty (Victoria)
Florica Corina Cirstea (Sydney)
James McCoy (Wollongong)
Jiakun Liu (ANU)
Joseph Grotowski (UQ)
Julie Clutterbuck (ANU)
Maria Athanassenas (Monash)
Melissa Tacy (ANU)
Michael Eichmair (MIT)
Nurulla Azamov (Flinders)
Nurulla Azamov (Flinders)
Parinya Sa Ngiamsunthorn (Sydney)
Rui Peng (UNE)
Stephen Godfrey (UTS)
Terence Tao (UCLA)
Applied Differential Equations
Organiser:
Phil Howlett (UniSA)
Speakers:
Dale Andrew Ward (UniSA)
Anatoli Ivanov (Ballarat)
Barry Cox (Wollongong)
Dimetre Triadis (AMSI/Melbourne)
Guanghua Lian (Wollongong)
James Greenberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jim Denier (Adelaide)
Lee White (UniSA)
Phil Howlett (UniSA)
Stanley Miklavcic (UniSA)
Tony Roberts (Adelaide)
Yvonne Stokes (Adelaide)
Combinatorics
Organisers:
Darryn Bryant (Queensland)
Ian Wanless (Monash)
Speakers:
Alex Fun (Sydney)
Alice Devillers (UWA)
Brian Philip Corr (UWA)
Cheryl E Praeger (UWA)
Darryn Bryant (UQ)
Douglas Stones (Monash)
Gordon Royle(UWA)
Ian Wanless (Monash)
James Lefevre (UQ)
John Bamberg (UWA)
Judith Egan (Monash)
Judy-anne Heather Osborn (ANU)
Kerri Morgan (Monash)
Kyle Pula (U Denver)
Michael Giudici (UWA)
Neil Saunders (Sydney)
Nhan Bao Ho (La Trobe)
Ole Warnaar (UQ)
Thomas McCourt (UQ)
Wei Jin (UWA)
Wendy Baratta (Melbourne)
Computational Mathematics
Organisers:
Markus Hegland (ANU)
Frances Kuo (UNSW)
Speakers:
Bishnu Prasad Lamichhane (ANU)
Chin Foon Khoo (ANU)
David McLaren (La Trobe)
Duong Pham (UNSW)
Eric Chu (Monash)
Frances Kuo (UNSW)
Kevin Burrage (Oxford and UQ)
Markus Hegland (ANU)
Paul Charles Leopardi (ANU)
Pamela Burrage (UQ)
Quoc Thong Le Gia (UNSW)
Stephen Roberts (ANU)
Sudi Mungkasi (ANU)
Thanh Tran (UNSW)
Viet Ha Hoang (Singapore)
Vikram Sunkara (ANU)
Fundamental Statistics
Organiser:
Irene Hudson (UniSA)
Speakers:
Davide Farchione (UniSA)
Estàte Khmaladze (Victoria University of Wellington)
Gary Glonek (Adelaide)
Geoff McLachlan (UQ)
Irene Lena Hudson (UniSA)
Kim-Anh Le Cao (UQ)
Peter Hall (Melbourne)
Robert Staudte (La Trobe)
Ross A. Frick (UniSA)
Vyacheslav Abramov (Monash)
General Session
Organiser:
John Hewitt (UniSA)
Speakers:
Bevan Thompson
Dinh Tran (La Trobe)
Dion O'Neale (La Trobe)
Mark Hickman (Canterbury)
Pieter Hubert van der Kamp (La Trobe)
Geometric Analysis
Organisers:
Finnur Larusson (Adelaide)
Gerd Schmalz (UNE)
Speakers:
A. Rod Gover (Auckland, New Zealand)
Alexander Isaev (ANU)
Ben McLaughlin
Bin Zhou (ANU)
Feng Xu (ANU)
Geoff Prince (La Trobe)
Gerd Schmalz (UNE)
Ilya Kossovskiy (ANU)
Michael Eastwood (ANU)
Vladimir Ejov (UniSA)
Yuri Nikolayevsky (La Trobe)
Geometry and Topology
Organisers:
Craig Westerland (Melbourne)
Nora Ganter (Melbourne)
Speakers:
Amnon Neeman (ANU)
Ana Hinic-Galic (La Trobe)
Aniceto Murillo (Malaga, Spain)
Bell Foozwell (Melbourne)
Craig Hodgson (Melbourne)
David Roberts (Adelaide)
Rupert McCallum (ACU)
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern)
John Miller (Monash)
Michael Batanin (Macquarie)
Raymond Vozzo (ANU)
Murray Elder (UQ)
Peter Bouwknegt (ANU)
Peter Milley (Melbourne)
Peter Nickolas (Wollongong)
Rongmin Lu (Adelaide)
Stephan Tillmann (UQ)
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Organisers:
Clemency Montelle (Canterbury)
Speakers:
Clare Bycroft (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Clemency Montelle (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Eleanor Robson (Cambridge, UK)
Kathy Clark (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Interpolation in Mechanics
Organisers:
Lyle Noakes (University of Western Australia)
Tomasz Popiel (University of Western Australia)
Speakers:
Lyle Noakes (UWA)
Michael Pauley (UWA)
Philip John Schrader (UWA)
Shreya Bhattarai (UWA)
Tomasz Popiel (UWA)
Wayne Lawton (National University of Singapore)
Logic
Organisers:
Prabhu Manyem (Ballarat)
James Harland (RMIT)
Speakers:
Asher Kach (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
James Harland (RMIT)
Guohua Wu (NTU, Singapore)
Marcel Jackson (La Trobe)
Martin Bunder (Wollongong)
Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)
Raja Natarajan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Rodney Downey (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Mathematical Biology
Organisers:
Desmond Lun (UniSA)
Andreas Schreiber (Adelaide)
Tentative speakers
Alexander Nikitin (University of Warwick)
Barry Douglas Hughes (Melbourne)
Bruce Gardiner (UWA)
Jonathan Keith (QUT)
Kuhn Ip (UniSA)
Mark McDonnell (UniSA)
Peter Jarvis (Tasmania)
Sittisede Polwiang (UNSW)
Mathematical Physics
Organisers:
Ruibin Zhang (Sydney)
Peter Jarvis (Tasmania)
Speakers:
Ali Imaanpur (ANU)
Bertfried Fauser (Konstanz, Germany)
Ecaterina Howard (Macquarie)
Gerasim Iliev (MASCOS/Melbourne)
Jan De Gier (Melbourne)
Jason Doukas (MASCOS/Melbourne)
Jonathan Kress (UNSW)
Joshua Jordan Capel (UNSW)
Mark Sorrell (Melbourne)
Mathai Varghese (Adelaide)
Max Lohe (Adelaide)
Peter Zograf (Steklov Inst. St. Petersburg, Russia)
Samuel Picton Drake (DSTO)
Tim Garoni (Melbourne)
Vladimir Ivancevic (DSTO)
Xiao Zhang (Sydney)
Xia-Ji Liu (Swinburne University of Technology)
Mathematical Psychology
Organiser:
John Dunn (Adelaide)
Speakers:
Amy Perfors (Adelaide)
Anastasia Ejova (Adelaide)
Anna Ma-Wyatt (Adelaide)
Dan Navarro (Adelaide)
John Dunn (Adelaide)
Scott Brown (Newcastle)
Andrew Heathcote (Newcastle)
Stephan Lewandowsky (UWA)
Mathematics Education
Organisers:
Leigh Wood (MQ)
Mike Thomas (Auckland)
Speakers:
Ansie Harding (Uni of Pretoria, South Africa)
Birgit Loch (USQ)
Jacqui Ramagge (Wollongong)
Jan Thomas (AMSI)
Leigh Wood (MQ)
Mary Coupland (UTS)
Michael Bulmer (UQ)
Sepideh Stewart (Univeristy of Auckland)
Sergiy Klymchuk (Auckland University of Technology)
Steve Sugden (Bond)
New Applications of Mathematics
Organisers:
Phil Broadbridge (AMSI)
Bob Anderssen (CSIRO)
Speakers:
Bob Anderssen (CSIRO)
Bronwyn Hajek (UniSA)
Emma McBryde (Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals)
James McCaw (Melbourne)
Jørgen Segerlund Frederiksen (CSIRO)
Peter Hall (Melbourne)
Philip Broadbridge (AMSI)
Raseelo Joel Moitsheki (University of the Witwatersrand)
Richard Brent (ANU)
Terry Mills (Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service)
Optimal Control
Organisers:
Yalcin Kaya (UniSA)
Volker Rehbock (Curtin)
Speakers:
Ali Devin Sezer (Middle East Technical University)
Flora Spieksma (University of Leiden)
Hans Josef Pesch (Bayreuth, Germany)
Helmut Maurer (Münster, Germany)
Honglei Xu (Curtin University of Technology)
Julia Piantadosi (UniSA)
Neil Thatcher (UniSA)
Phil Howlett (UniSA)
Robin Hill (RMIT)
Roswitha Bultmann (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Ryan Christopher Loxton (Curtin)
Vivek Shripad Borkar (Tata Institute, India)
Vladimir Gaitsgory (UniSA)
Volker Rehbock (Curtin)
Yalçin Kaya (UniSA)
Xuan Vu (TTG Transportation Technology Ltd)
Optimization: Theory and Methods
Organisers:
Adil Bagirov (Ballarat)
Regina Burachik (UniSA)
Joydeep Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur)
Musa Mammadov (Ballarat)
Speakers:
Alice Bednarz (Adelaide)
Amie Albrecht (UniSA)
Asef Nazari Ganjehlou (UniSA)
Christopher John Price (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Fusheng Bai (Ballarat)
Giang Thu Nguyen (UniSA)
Hamideh Anjomshoa (UniSA)
Ian Coope (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Indu Bala Wadhawan (UniSA)
Jonathan M. Borwein (Newcastle)
Joydeep Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, India)
Julia Piantadosi (UniSA)
Kevin White (UniSA)
Michael Haythorpe (UniSA)
Miroslav Bacak (Newcastle)
Nargiz Sultanova (Ballarat)
Paulo J. S. Silva (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Regina Burachik (UniSA)
Zari Dzalilov (Ballarat)
Zhiyou Wu (Ballarat)
Probability: Theory and Applications
Organiser:
Aihua Xia (Melbourne)
Speakers:
Aihua Xia (Melbourne)
Andrzej Kozek (Macquarie)
Daryl John Daley (Melbourne)
Daniel Dufresne (Melbourne)
Hardy Hulley (UTS)
Kostya Borovkov (Melbourne)
Philip Keith Pollett (UQ)
Ross Maller (ANU)
Samuel Cohen (Adelaide)
Random Processes
Organiser:
Kostya Borovkov (Melbourne)
Speakers:
Andriy Olenko (La Trobe)
Beniamin Goldys (UNSW)
Guenter Last (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Kais Hamza (Monash)
Owen Jones (Melbourne)
Fima Klebaner (Monash)
Peter Brockwell (Melbourne)
Zdzislaw Brzezniak (University of York)
Statistical Applications
Organisers:
Phil Ross (RERF)
Speakers:
Bimal Sinha (University of Maryland, USA)
Chris Brien (UniSA)
Dan Stram (University of Southern California)
Harry Cullings (Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan)
Mahendran Shitan (University Putra Malaysia)
Randy Carter (SUNY U at Buffalo, USA)
Wan-Ling Hsu (RERF)
Stochastic-Deterministic Vinculum
Organisers:
Kostia Avrachenkov (INRIA, France)
Vladimir Gaitsgory (UniSA)
Speakers:
Ali Eshragh (UniSA)
Amie Albrecht (UniSA)
Arie Leizarowitz (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA, France)
Jerzy Filar (UniSA)
Vivek Shripad Borkar (Tata Institute, India)
Vladimir Gaitsgory (UniSA)
Topological and Symbolic Dynamical Systems
Organisers:
John Banks (La Trobe)
Piotr Oprocha (Krakow, Poland)
Deborah King (Melbourne)
Speakers:
Judy Kennedy (Lamar University)
Francisco R. Ruiz del Portal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Guo Hua Zhang (UNSW)
John Banks (La Trobe)
Juan L.G. Guirao (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagane, Spain)
Piotr Oprocha (University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland)
Sina Greenwood (University of Auckland)
Thi Thuy Dung Nguyen (La Trobe)
Topological Groups
Organisers:
George Willis (Newcastle)
Speakers:
Daniel Horadam (Newcastle)
George Willis (Newcastle)
James Parkinson (Sydney)
Peter Lewin (Wollongong)
Peter Nickolas (Wollongong)
Thomas Stefan Weigel (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)