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DEPARTMENT of MATHEMATICS School of Mathematical & Information Sciences the University of Auckland Publicity Bulletin #4 Department of Mathematics Publicity Bulletin DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS School of Mathematical & Information Sciences The University of Auckland Publicity Bulletin #4 August 1997 This news bulletin concerns the activities of staff, students and visitors in the Mathematics Department at the University of Auckland. Copies of this and earlier bulletins are available from the Department Office (SMIS/Physics building, 38 Princes St, Auckland, Tel. (09) 373-7599 ext. 8743, FAX (09) 373-7457). Bulletins can also be read from the Department’s WWW home page, at: http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/ About the Department The Department of Mathematics is one of three departments in the School of Mathematical & Information Sciences. It is based on two sites (City and Tamaki campuses) and comprises over 70 academic staff and over 950 equivalent full-time students – making it one of the largest at the University of Auckland. With the Department there are two semi-autonomous units: the Applied & Computational Mathematics Unit (ACMU) and the Mathematics Education Unit (MEU). Some staff are members of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (a joint venture between the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments of the Universities of Auckland and Waikato), and some are attached to the Mathematical Biology Research Unit (a joint venture involving AgResearch). The Department has particular research strengths in algebra, combinatorics, complex analysis, differential equations and mathematical modelling, functional analysis and operator theory, history of mathematics, mathematics education, numerical analysis, and topology. Contents General Research Highlights Teaching News Profiles Appointments, Promotions Postgraduate News Visitors in 1997 Seminars & Conferences Other Staff Activities Recent Publications PhD Students & Masters Students 1 Department of Mathematics Publicity Bulletin General The current EFTS figures for the Department are close to 950, up about 6% on the same time last year. Approximate current figures are as follows: EFTS 1997 EFTS 1996 Change Wellesley 20 22 –2 Stage 1 536 500 +3 Stage 2 242 248 –6 Stage 3 96 79 +17 Stage 4 (BTech projects) 2 0 +2 Total undergraduate 896 849 +47 ( +5.5%) Postgraduate 56 51 +5 (+11.0%) Total 952 900 +52 ( +5.8%) Research Highlights NZMS Fellows Prof. David Gauld, Assoc-Prof M. K. Vamanamurthy and Prof. Marston Conder have been elected Fellows of the NZ Mathematical Society, in the inaugural round of FNZMS awards. NZMS Research Award Professor Peter Lorimer (Mathematics Department) has just been presented with the New Zealand Mathematical Society's Research Award for 1997, with the citation: "for a lifetime of achievements in mathematical research, especially for his contributions to the application of group theory in geometry and combinatorics, and to the structure and classification of finite projective planes". The Aitken Prize Robyn Curtis and Louise Parsons, two Masters students in the Department, were awarded the New Zealand Mathematical Society's Aitken Prize for 1997. The Aitken Prize was introduced in honour of AC Aitken, one of New Zealand's best-known early mathematicians and a pioneer of computing, is awarded for the best paper(s) presented by students at the annual NZ Mathematics Colloquium. It includes a certificate and a cash prize of $250. Robyn and Louise share the award this year for the talks they gave at the 5th Australasian Mathematics Convention: Robyn for her paper on "Subgraphs of hypercubes containing no small even cycles", and Louise for her paper on "Mathematical models for the foraging strategy of dairy cows". AgResearch Fellowship Dr Tatiana Sobeleva has been awarded a prestigious AgResearch Fellowship to work on genetic/kinetic models of animal growth, and other ecological models of invasive weed ecology using stochastic models. Previous to coming to NZ, Tatiana was a Professor of Physics in the Ukraine. Her interests includes stochastic biological models. Only 5 of these awards are made annually and only rarely outside of existing AgResearch scientists. She will hold the Fellowship as part of the cooperative agreement between The University of Auckland and AgResearch in the recently formed Mathematical Biology Research Unit, and will continue to be based jointly in the Applied Mathematics group based in Tamaki as well as Hamilton. Centre/Institute for the Applications of Mathematics & Statistics Profs Conder, Butcher, Reilly and Wake have been meeting heads of Statistics and Engineering with a view to establishing an interdisciplinary centre. Further meetings are scheduled for September. Research Grants The following staff of the Mathematics Department were successful in obtaining individual grants in the April grant round of the AU Research Committee: Dr Paul Bonnington $3000 for lap-top computer Dr Geoff Nicholls $10000 for CPU time on the High Performance Computer Dr Eamonn O'Brien $3000 for travel Dr Arkadii Slinko $3000 for travel 2 Department of Mathematics Publicity Bulletin Also the Department was awarded an infrastructure grant of $100 000 to upgrade the Department's staff computer system and purchase a number of X-terminals. Most was put into upgrading the Sun Enterprise server ("Aitken") based at Tamaki. Dr Mike Thomas has been awarded assistance from Texas Instruments to the value of $16000 for his research into graphics calculators, and the Mathematics Education Unit has obtained continuation of its British Council funded Link with The Open University with a grant worth $22000. Travel grants from the University's Graduate Research Fund have been won by the following PhD students in the Maths Department this year: Tina Chan David Chen Peter Dobcsanyi Yee Yoon Hong Saraswathi Kota Anjana Singh Cameron Walker Tsukasa Yashiro. Teaching News Web pages Summaries containing general information on Mathematics papers taught by the Mathematics Department are now available on web pages at: http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/Teaching/Summaries/summaries.html. New papers Four new papers are likely to be introduced by the Mathematics Department in 1998. One is 445.109 Further Mathematics (see the December 1996 issue of the Maths Dept Bulletin). Two others are Stage 3 papers to be trialled under "Special Topics" options: 445.381FC Special Topic: Applied Discrete Algebra (2 points), and 445.388SC Special Topic: Mathematical Biology (2 points). Another is a 4th year paper 445.788FT Advanced Topic: Applied Mathematical Modelling (2 points) principally for BTech students, but also available for Masters students. Consideration is being given to replacing papers 445.350 Topology and 445.355 Geometry (which are offered in alternate years) with a single paper, 445.353 Geometry and Topology, to be offered each year. A committee to consider the matter has been appointed, consisting of David Alcorn and Chris King together with other volunteers. From 1988, the papers 445.101 and 445.202 will be the single-semester papers 445.101SC and 445.202FC, instead of double semester papers. Cyclical Review The review of the core papers 445.151, 152, 162, 251, 252 and 260 is currently underway, chaired by Paul Hafner. It is hoped that a comprehensive proposal will be put before the Department in September, and that the review process will be finished in October. A mini-review of analysis- related 300-level papers is planned for later this year. Manukau Institute of Technology The paper 445.102 will be taught at MIT in both semesters of 1998, under the auspices of the Department. This is a contribution to an initiative to offer university courses to students at MIT. Teacher Education The secondary teacher education programme is being extended in 1998 to include an intake of students who are already teachers, but of other subjects. These students will study mathematics content in lieu of teaching practice during their pre-service programme. A proposal for a BEd programme for primary teachers in the School of Education contains a compulsory 2-point mathematics content. If accepted, this will be provided by an adaptation of the current paper 445.101. 3 Department of Mathematics Publicity Bulletin Mathematical Olympiad About 100 students from Auckland secondary schools participated in the first Auckland Mathematical Olympiad at the end of May. This initiative, suggested by Arkadii Slinko, had the financial support of the ASB Bank Trust. Teaching Seminar: Using the Computer in Our Teaching On 14th August a seminar addressing some of the issues surrounding the use of the computer in undergraduate mathematics teaching was held. Mike Thomas, Werner Schmidt, John Pemberton, Michelle Wood, Paul Hafner and Geoff Nicholls each made a presentation followed by discussion. Two Coups Last year, in his History of Computers and Computing paper, Garry Tee surprised his class by introducing in person Mrs Catherine Caughey, who operated the first working computer COLOSSUS at Bletchley Park in England during the Second World War. This year he matched that by introducing David Bolam, who helped to build that first computer under secrecy so tight that not all restrictions have yet been lifted by the British Government. Profiles Profile: Dr Jianbei An Dr Jianbei An is a lecturer based at the City campus. His research interests are mainly in group theory, and in particular, the modular representations of finite groups. The representation theory of finite groups is one of the most important and active areas of modern mathematics. A particular focus in recent years is the modular representation theory, and a central topic is the famous Alperin weight conjecture. Jianbei has been working on the modular representation theory for several years, and his work has concentrated on the Alperin weight conjecture and the Dade conjecture, which is a generalization of the Alperin weight conjecture. Last year Jianbei was invited to visit Japan to review a national research project, which is supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Japan and organised by Associate Professor Katsuhiro Uno (Osaka University, Japan), and to give talks at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) conference at Kyoto and the Algebra conference at Chiba.
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