THE

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REPORTS FOR

THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH COUNCIL MEETING

President’s Report Secretary’s Report Treasurer’s Report Audited Financial Statements ANZIAM Report Editors’ Reports

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President’s Report Sept 2011 Peter Taylor

I have say that I have been surprised at how constantly issues arise that need to be dealt with by AustMS. I could not have kept up with them without the support of AustMS Secretary Peter Stacey, who has an amazing knack of getting across the detail of an issue and proposing a way forward all at the same time.

I would also like to thank AustMS Treasurer Algy Howe for his quick and efficient handling of all matters financial, ANZIAM President Tim Marchant for preparing the AustMS tender to the ARC for consultation on the journal ranking process and, indeed, all members of Council for their participation in debates and timely response for request for votes.

A proposal for a division of mathematical physics

The mathematical physics community of Australia and New Zealand have put forward a proposal to establish ANZAMP (Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics) along similar lines to ANZIAM. This proposal, which will be considered by Council, will, if successful, represent the biggest structural change in AustMS since the formation of ANZIAM.

My view of the proposal is that it reflects the strength of the mathematical physics community in this country. The fact that there is sufficient motivation and interest for this community to come up with such a proposal is reason enough to support it.

The National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences (NCMS)

Along with other societies representing the interests of mathematical scientists, AustMS is represented on the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences. The Chair of the NCMS Nalini Joshi has been hoping to obtain funding from the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) to put together a `decadal plan’ to provide a vision for the development of the mathematical science disciplines and a context for requests to government for funding.

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Funding from the AAS to put together the decadal plan has not been forthcoming. However, it is clear that the community needs to undertake formal strategic planning of some sort. In the current environment, it is not reasonable to expect to receive external support unless those providing the funding can appreciate the context that it will be used.

Furthermore, it is not realistic to expect honorary position holders to be able to devote sufficient time to development initiatives such as a decadal or some similar strategic plan. The mathematical science community needs the resources of a full-time `executive officer’ or `business manager’, and my strong recommendation is that AustMS needs to be a partner in finding support for such a position.

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)

During the year, AustMS maintained an interest in bidding for the ICM in 2018 and/or 2022. Bids for the 2018 ICM must be submitted by Nov 2012. Arun Ram and I have received considerable support from the Melbourne Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to prepare a preliminary budget for holding the ICM at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Arun subsequently decided that he did not want to lead an Australian bid, but Jon Borwein recently offered to take on this position on the condition (again) that administrative support will be available.

Journal ranking and the ERA

AustMS has maintained a watching brief on what has been happening with the 2012 ERA and the journal ranking process. Andrew Calder and Annie Liu from the ARC attended the April meeting of the AustMS Steering Committee. Members of the committee gained considerable insight into the ARC’s thinking at the time, but were shocked when the journal ranking process was abandoned a few weeks later. Before this happened, Tim Marchant had led an AustMS tender to act as one of the organisations providing consultation to the ARC with respect to the journal ranking.

We hope to get more insight into what is going on when Leanne Harvey, who heads the division in the ARC responsible for implementing the ERA, presents a plenary talk at this conference.

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During this year and last year, the society has had considerable trouble finding new editors for the ANZIAM journal and the Bulletin. An issue with anyone who was approached was (again) the amount of support of various types that was available for editors. All of our editors work very hard for the society, and I think it is entirely reasonable that AMPAI put in place appropriate support so that editors will not get burnt out in a short time. To do anything else will compromise the sustainability of our journals.

Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013

2013 has been designated the year of the mathematics of Planet Earth. Quoting from the website http://www.mpe2013.org/

2013 will be a special year of emphasis on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, interpreted as broadly as possible. Earth is a planet with dynamic processes in the mantle, oceans and atmosphere creating climate, causing natural disasters, and influencing fundamental aspects of life and life-supporting systems. In addition to these natural processes, humans have developed systems of great complexity, including economic and financial systems; the World Wide Web; frameworks for resource management, transportation, and energy production and utilization; health care delivery; and social organizations. Human activity has increased to the point where it influences the global climate, impacts the ability of the planet to feed itself and threatens the stability of these systems. Issues such as climate change, sustainability, man-made disasters, control of diseases and epidemics, management of resources, and global integration have come to the fore.

Council has approved the involvement of the Society as a partner in Math- ematics for Planet Earth 2013, with Jon Borwein nominated as the Society’s contact. AMSI, ANZIAM and CARMA have also agreed to be partners, and AMSI is coordinating activities. Geoff Prince has negotiated the participation of Inspiring Australia, which is expected to involve financial support.

The Federation of Australian Science and Technology Societies (FASTS), now Science and Technology Australia

Page 4 of 53 The four mathematical science societies AustMS, SSAI, ASOR and MERGA share a representative of the board of what started the year as FASTS. At the beginning of this session, Nigel Bean was the representative of the cluster of four societies. Early in 2011, he was replaced by Merrilyn Goos of MERGA as part of the previously-agreed rotation of this position. Also, FASTS changed its name to Science and Technology Australia (STA).

One of the main activities organised by STA is Science meets Parliament. This was attended by Jan de Gier of the University of Melbourne and Deborah Cromer of the University of New South Wales.

TAustMS

The Chair of the Standing Committee on Mathematics Education, Leigh Wood has been a member of a group of mathematicians who received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant to develop an on-line module that could be used for professional accreditation of tertiary mathematics teaching staff. The idea is that, since many universities are requiring new staff to undertake a formal course in tertiary teaching, it would be preferable if there were discipline-specific modules available in the mathematical sciences, and they have gone on to develop such modules.

The group proposed that successful completion of the modules be accompanied by accreditation as a Teaching Member of AustMS (TAustMS). This will be considered by Council.

Mathematics education

The National Curriculum for years K-10 of school mathematics has been essentially agreed upon, although the implementation time will vary between the states. The year 11 and 12 curriculum is still being discussed.

The advent of the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) has seen a number of proposals to define discipline standards, which AustMS has been keeping a watching brief on, through the Standing Committee on Mathematics Education. One of these is the Learning and Teaching Academic Standards (LTAS) project, which plans to develop threshold outcomes for graduates of science degrees in mathematics. The mathematics coordinator for this project is Peter Adams.

Page 5 of 53 Program Review

In the past, AustMS has had a scheme for reviewing tertiary mathematics programs. This scheme has been accessed by only a few universities, and at the beginning of this session it was decided to maintain the committee (under the chairmanship of Tim Marchant) but not to undertake any new program reviews until the situation with TEQSA and other mechanisms for course audit becomes clearer.

In 2010/2011 there has been one request for program review which was declined, at least for the time being.

The base funding review

During the 2011, the Federal Government has been conducting a review of base funding to tertiary institutions. This will set the contribution by the government to universities for teaching students in different disciplines. Geoff Prince coordinated a submission on behalf of the mathematical sciences with input from presidents of the professional societies, including myself.

Special Interest Meeting funding

In the 2010-2011 session, the total amount requested in applications for funding of Special Interest Meetings exceeded the amount allocated. This has necessitated a re-think about how funding decisions are made and we have put together a proposal that there be a biannual, rather than ongoing, call for proposals. This will allow the relative merits of proposals to be compared, rather than the `early bird getting the worm’.

New ANZIAM constitution

A new constitution of ANZIAM was approved by Council in November 2010.

The constitution working party

There was progress on the Constitution Working Party early in the year, but this slowed down. The issue will be dealt with by Council.

Page 6 of 53 A new AustMS brochure

Thanks to Michael Shaw of AMSI, a new tri-fold brochure designed for prospective AustMS members has been produced.

Gavin Brown Prize

During the year, a new best-paper prize was instituted. The prize was subsequently named the Gavin Brown Prize. It will be awarded on a three- year cycle for the best paper in each of Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics published in the previous six years with at least one author who is a member of AustMS. The first prize, for a paper in Pure Mathematics, will be awarded at this meeting.

The Chair of the selection committee Matthai Varghese has recommended that the period of eligibility be extended to nine years, a proposal that will be considered by Council.

Lift-Off Fellowships

The first Lift-Off Fellowships were awarded during 2010, and further Fellowships have been awarded this year. The purpose of these fellowships is to provide funding of up to $5,000 to help provide continuity of career for recently-graduated mathematicians looking for their first post-doctoral job.

The van der Poorten Travelling Fellowship

In memory of his contribution to the mathematical sciences, the family of the late Alf van der Poorten has provided funding for a travelling fellowship to help a young pure mathematician further his or her research career. The Steering Committee decided that it would be appropriate if the committee that considers the Lift-Off Fellowships also recommended the Award of the Alf van der Poorten Fellowships. The first such fellowship was awarded recently.

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Australian Mathematical Society Inc.

Statistics for period 1/8/2010 to 31/7/2011

NEW MEMBERS TOTAL: 124 *Ordinary Members (O) Early Career (EC) Special Education Members (SE) Reciprocal Members (Recip) Reduced-rate Members (RR) Retired Members (Ret) Life (L) * Student Members (S)

ADAMS, Mr Matthew P (S) HARTLEY, Mr David J (S) AGRAWAL, Manju R (O) HAUTPHENNE, Dr Sophie M (O) ALQARALEH, Mr Hakam (RR) HEARD, Mr Drew K (S) ANGSTMANN, Dr Christopher (O) HOLMES, Miss Rachel J (S) ATKINS, Mr Ross T (RR) HORADAM, Mr Daniel P (S) ATKINSON, Dianne (O) HORSLEY, Mr David E (S) BACK, Julian M (RR) HSIEH, Mr Mike (RR) BANKS, Christopher C (S) HUANG, Mr Jing (S) BEATON, Mr Nicholas R (R) HUSSAIN, Dr Mumtaz (RR) BEDA, Prof Peter B (O) JACKSON, Mr James(S) BEDFORD, Mr Raymond A (S) JAFARIASBAGH, Ms Nahid (S) BIRRELL, Mr Andrew A (S) JAMES, Mr Simon G (EC) BORGER, Dr James (O) JOHNSTON, Dr Barbara M (EC) BOYS, Mr Clinton (RR) KEITH, Mr Stephen J (O) BRYAN, Mr Paul A (S) KIM, Dr Peter S (EC) CARR, Mr Elliot J (RR) KITSEN, Mr Simon (RR) CHALMERS, Mr Alexander D (S) KUMJIAN, Dr Alexander (Recip) CHAMBERS, Mr Kain (S) LANGFORD, Mr Matthew L (S) CHAPMAN, Prof Jon (O) LERNER, Mr Boris (RR) CHEN, Dr Mike (O) LI, Mr Hui (S) CHERNIH, Mr Andrew (S) LI, Dr Zhenquan (O) CHISHOLM, Ms Catherine (S) MACPHERSON, Mr Anthony G (O) CLEMENTS, Dr David L (O) MAHANTA, Dr Snigdhayan (EC) COCKS, Mr David T (O) MAMMADOV, Dr Musa (O) COOPER, Mr Matthew K (RR) MATTNER, Trent W (O) COPE, Mr Robert C (S) MAYS, Anthony (RR) CROMER, Dr Deborah (EC) MCDONALD, Mrs Christine A (SE) COWPERTWAIT, A/Prof Paul (O) MEI, Mr Lin-Feng (RR) DAVY, Dr Pamela J (O) MENZEL, Miss Kate L (S) DE ROZA, Mr Shaun (RR) MINAS, Mr James P (S) DENIPITIYA, Mrs Chamani (RR) MOBBERLEY, Mr Andrew G (O) DEV, Miss Priya (RR) MOHAMMADIAN, Mrs Ghazaleh (S) DRONIOU, Prof Jerome (O) MOHD SAFUAN, Mrs Hamizah (RR) DULLIN, Dr Holger (O) MOITSHEKI, A/Prof Raseelo J (O) DUNBAR, Ms Michelle (S) MUHANDIRAMGE, Dr Ranga D (EC) ENYANG, Mr John (O) NADER, Mr Jean-Roch P (RR) FINN, Caley R (S) NASSIOS, Mr Jason (S) FLORIO, Mr Brendan J (RR) NAZARATHY, Dr Yoni (O) FRASCOLI, Dr Federico (EC) NEESON, Mr Michael J (S) GALLIGAN, Linda A (O) ODGERS, Dr Benjamin E (Sus) GIBSON, Mr Matthew J (RR) O'REILLY, Dr Malgorzata M (O) GREEN, Mr Christopher (RR) ORTIZ BRANCO, Mr Omar E (S)

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OSHODI, Mr Raymond O (O) SONG, Ms Yawei (S) OSTLER, Mr David B (O) STANCEVIC, Mr Ognjen (S) OURY, Mr David (S) STRAKA, Mr Peter (S) PAPADOPOULOS, Mr George (S) STUART, Ms Robyn M (RR) PETRAVIC, Dr Janka (O) SUMMIT, Dr Raymond A (O) POTAPOV, Dr Denis (O) SUPASITI, Mr Tharatorn (RR) PROBERT, Mr William J M (S) TARR, Mr Garth M (S) PUTRI, Mrs Endah R M (RR) TEAKLE, Mr David (O) RATNAM, Mr Rishni C (RR) TEHSEEN, Mrs Naghmana (S) RATNAYAKE, Mr Yasiru D (RR) TONG, Mr Wiliam (S) RIDLEY, Dr Barbara H (O) TREGUBOV, Mr Ilya ROSE, Mr Michael (S) TRIADIS, Dr Dimetre (O) SANCHEZ, Mr Stephen J (RR) TRISILOWATI, Mrs (RR) SCHAERF, Dr Timothy M (O) VO, Mr Theodore (RR) SCIBERRAS, Mr Luke W (S) WEBSTER, Dr Samuel B G (EC) SEGERMAN, Dr Henry (EC) WHALE, Dr Ben (Recip) SHAUSAN, Mrs Aminath (RR) WHILE, Dr Peter T (O) SHELLARD, Mr David S (S) WHITE, Prof Lee R (O) SKERMAN, Ms Fiona A E (RR) WONG, Mr Anthony (S) SOLOMON, Prof Patricia J (O) ZHANG, Dr Tonghua (O)

MEMBERS WHO PASSED AWAY TOTAL: 4

BENNETT, John M NOYE, A/Prof John BROWN, Prof Gavin VAN DER POORTEN, Em/Prof Alf J

MEMBERS WHO CANCELLED THEIR MEMBERSHIP TOTAL: 14

ABLETT, Mr Chris PRESTON, Em/Prof Gordon B ABRAMOV, Dr Vyacheslav SMITH, Prof Stephen D HAMER, A/Prof C J SMS, University of Adelaide KENNEDY, Dr James SULLIVAN, A/Prof Robert P LIM, Dr Leng Leng TACY, Miss Melissa E LIM, Dr Allan TAGGART, Dr Robert J MCKIBBIN, Prof Robert WONGDEELERT, Mr Boonchai

DEEMED RESIGNED MEMBERS TOTAL: 50 (Membership status can be resumed by payment of outstanding fees)

ARKINSTALL, Dr John R. CARTWRIGHT, Dr Donald I BADDELEY, Prof Adrian J CHOI, Prof Jeongwhaan BHATTI, A/Prof Faqir M COHEN, Mr Samuel N BIGNELL, Ms Georgina J CORR, Mr Brian P BULTMANN, Ms Roswitha COUCH, Mr Michael J BURNS, Prof Keith H CRAIG, Dr Maurice D BYCROFT, Miss Clare DAVIS, MrNicholas J

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EDWARDS, Dr Stephen A PAN, Mr Yu GATT, Mr Raymond R PENG, Mr Rui GIBSON, A/Prof William G PONCINI, Mrs Aleah F GODFREY, Mr Stephen J PULA, Mr Jon K HACKETT-JONES, Dr Emily RATH, Dr Nandita JIN, Dr Wei RESSEL, Prof P KEEDLE, Mr Grant W ROJAS, Mr Omar KENNETT, Ms Carolyn SANCHEZ, Mrs Penny S LLOYD, Dr Simon T SAPUTRA, Mr Kie V I LOCK, Ms Kaiser SCHRADER, Mr Gus K MCCUE, Dr Scott W SCHRADER, Mr Philip J MCINTYRE, Dr Peter D SMITH, Mr Benjamin R MEAKIN, Dr John C SUN, Mr Michael Y MICKLER, Mr Ryan THOMPSON, Dr Rosemary S MITAL, Dr J N TROTTA, Ms Belinda MOHAIS, Dr Rosemarie E TUKE, Mr Jonathan S MOORE, Dr Beveley J WOON, Ms Siew Fang NGUYEN, Miss Giang Thu WU, A/Prof Y-H

NEW ACCREDITATIONS TOTAL: 6

4 New Fellows (FAustMS): KEITH, Dr Stephen J JOHNSON, Prof Michael S J MIKLAVCIC, Prof Stanley J MILLER III, Prof Charles F

1 New Accredited Members (MAustMS): ODGERS, Dr Benjamin E

1 New Graduate Member (GAustMS): TEAKLE, Mr David

TOTAL ACCREDITATION LIST: Fellow (FAustMS) 113 Accredited Member (MAustMS) 32 Graduate Member (GAustMS) 14

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FINANCIAL MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY :

Membership Type Year 2011 Year 2010 Change

Ordinary 511 504 7 Reduced Rate 27 161 -134 Student Rate 104 0 104 Retired 103 112 -9 Life 60 59 1 Honorary 25 21 4 Reciprocal 37 39 -2 Special Ed 10 10 0 Sustaining 3 2 1 Institutional 4 5 -1 Free 28 20 8 Non-Financial 33 38 -5 Early Career 45 28 17 0 TOTAL: 990 999 -9

Sustaining members: Prof Nalini Joshi, Prof Robert Bartnik and Dr Benjamin E Odgers As at 31/7/11, 218 members (including the above listed 50 deemed resigned members) have not renewed their 2011 membership

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2. 2011 Subscriptions and Journal Prices to Members

The 54th Annual General Meeting, held at the University of Queensland, endorsed the deci- sions of Council and the Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Incorporated that the subscriptions and journal prices to members for 2011 be as follows:

Ordinary Member – $118 Sustaining Member – $236 Reciprocal Member – $59 Reduced Rate Member – $30 Retired Member – $30 Education Member – $59 EC Member – $59 Life Membership at Retirement for Members over 55 years – $412 ANZIAM – $12, but Reduced Rate Member – $6 Subscription for an Institutional Member: $1 405.

Note

1. Existing Ordinary Members who renewed their subscriptions before 1st January 2011 were entitled to a rebate of $5.00, deducted from their payments.

2. Members were permitted to pay for up to three years in advance, at the current rate of membership.

3. The one year’s free student membership of both AustMS and ANZIAM was extended to include free membership in 2011 for all existing student members who remained students.

4. All new Ordinary Members were entitled to pay their first year’s subscription at the concession rate of $59 (no rebate).

Ordinary, Sustaining, Reduced Rate, Education & Retired Members Reciprocal Members & Life Members

J. Australian Mathematical Society Resident in Australia $88 $44 Resident overseas $80 $40

ANZIAM Journal Resident in Australia $74.80 $37.40 Resident overseas $68 $34

Bulletin Resident in Australia $81.40 $40.70 Resident overseas $74 $37

Gazette Free to all members.

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3. The Australian Mathematical Society Medal In 2010 the Australian Mathematical Society Medal was awarded to Professor Kate Smith-Miles. The 2011 AustMS Medal Committee consists of: Professor B. Andrews (Chair); Professor B.D. McKay(Outgoing Chair); Professor S.O. Warnaar (Incoming Chair); Professor A. an Huef (1 year term).

4. The George Szekeres Medal The George Szekeres Medal is awarded in even years; in 2010 this medal was awarded to Professor P.G. Hall. The 2010/12 George Szekeres Medal Committee consists of: Professor A.J. Guttmann (Chair); Dr F. de Hoog (Outgoing Chair); Professor J.H. Rubinstein (Incoming Chair); Professor A. Neeman (Member, one yr.).

5. The Gavin Brown Prize The Gavin Brown Prize for a publication by a member of the Society was established by Council in 2011. The inaugural Gavin Brown Prize Committee (for the 2011 prize) consists of: Professor M. Varghese (Chair); Professor P.G. Hall (pre Incoming Chair); Professor A.P. Bassom (Incoming Chair); Dr A. Henderson (Member, one yr.); Professor J.E. Hutchinson (Member, one yr.).

6. The B.H. Neumann Prize The 2010 prize was awarded to Anita Ponsaing (the University of Melbourne) for her talk entitled Separation of variables for the symplectic character using Sklyanin’s Q-operator approach. Also special commendations went to: Wendy Baratta (University of Melbourne), Ali Eshragh (University of South Australia), Ivan Guo (University of Sydney), Tyson Ritter (University of Adelaide), Roger Senior (Australian National University).

7. The Mahler Lecturer The 2011 Mahler Lecturer was Professor Peter Sarnak of Princeton University. The Mahler Lecturer Committee for 2009-11 consisted of: Dr A. Hassell (Chair); Dr F. de Hoog (Outgoing Chair); Professor S.O. Warnaar (Incoming Chair); Professor R. Zhang (Vice-President (Ann Conf)); Dr D. Pask (Director 2011 Annual Conference).

7. The Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowship The Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowship was established by Council in 2011 following a generous offer of financial support by the family of the late Professor Alf van der Poorten. The winner of the inaugural Fellowship, for 2011, was Dr Raymond Vozzo of the University of Adelaide. The 2011 Selection Committee consists of: Professor A.P. Mathas (Chair); Professor P.G. Taylor; Assoc. Prof. P.J. Stacey.

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8. Lift-off Fellowships The Australian Mathematical Society Lift-off Fellowships were established by Council in March 2010. Fellowships have subsequently been awarded to: 2009-2010 Michael Haythorpe (University of South Australia), Roslyn Hickson (Australian National University), Judith Egan (Monash University),

2010-11 Philip Brooker (Australian National University), Neil Saunders (University of Sydney), Michael Pauley (University of Western Australia), Wendy Baratta (University of Melbourne), Joanne Hall (RMIT University).

The Selection Committee consists of: Professor A.P. Mathas (Chair); Professor P.G. Taylor; Assoc. Prof. P.J. Stacey.

9. Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting The Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at the University of Ballarat, from Monday 24th to Thursday 27th September 2012. The Director is Associate Professor D. Yost.

10. Council Members for the session 2010/2011 The elected 1 Members of Council for this past session, 2010 AGM – 2011 AGM, were: President: P.G. Taylor Immediate-Past-President: N. Joshi Elected Vice-President: A.P. Mathas Secretary: P.J. Stacey Treasurer: A. Howe

Ordinary Members: M.R. Giudici (2011) A. Henderson (2011) J. Ramagge (2011) J.M. Borwein (2012) B.M. Maenhaut (2012) A. Ram (2012) F. Larusson (2013) M. O’Reilly (2013)

1The Secretary and Treasurer are appointed by Council for each session; see the Constitution, VII 34(iii).

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The ex officio members of Council for the 2010–11 session were: Vice-President (Chair ANZIAM): T.R. Marchant Vice-President (Annual Conferences): R. Zhang AustMS Member elected to Steering Committee: J.H. Rubinstein Representative of ANZIAM: P.G. Howlett (until Feb 2011) P. Broadbridge (from Feb 2011) Chair, Standing Committee on Maths Education: L.N. Wood Public Officer of both AustMS and AMPAI: P.J. Cossey Editors: Gazette A.R. Albrecht/K. White Journal of AustMS M.G. Cowling ANZIAM Journal A.P. Bassom/ G. Hocking Supplement to ANZIAM J. A.J. Roberts Bulletin D.E. Taylor (until May 2011) W.W.L. Chen/G.L. Cohen (from May 2011) Lecture Series C.E. Praeger Electronic Site R.R. Moore

8. Reciprocity Agreements The Society currently operates reciprocity agreements with the following societies: American Mathematical Society Mathematical Society of Brunei Darussalam Calcutta Mathematical Society New Zealand Mathematical Society Canadian Mathematical Society Singapore Mathematical Society Czech Mathematical Society (CMS) and Union of Czech Math’ns and Physicists (JCMF) Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung Sociedad Matem´aticaMexicana Edinburgh Mathematical Society Soci´et´eMath´ematiquede Belgique European Mathematical Society Soci´et´eMath´ematiquede France Gesellschaft f¨urAngewandte etc. Soci´et´eMath´ematiqueSuisse Glasgow Mathematical Association Southeast ASian Mathematical Society Hong Kong Mathematical Society Suomen Matemaattinen Yhdistys Indian Mathematical Society Svenska Matematikersamfundet Indonesian Mathematical Society Islenzka Staerdfraedafelagid Uni´onMatem´aticaArgentina Korean Mathematical Society Unione Matematica Italiana London Mathematical Society Wiskundig Genootschap Malaysian Mathematical Society Mathematical Society of Japan Real Sociedad Matematica Espa˜nola Pakistan Mathematical Society Slovak Mathematical Society (A list of contact addresses for each of these Societies is available from the Business Office.)

A reciprocity agreement has also been negotiated with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). A signed agreement is awaited. 9. Electronic mailing list The email list is used to send messages likely to be of general interest to members. Between January and August 2011 there were 46 email messages. To request that a message be sent to the list, please email [email protected]. If you are a member of AustMS, are not receiving any email announcements from the Society and wish to do so, please send your email address to [email protected] .

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10. Honours to members and friends of the Society During the last session it has been a pleasure to congratulate the following members or friends of the Society.

Dr F.R. de Hoog on his recognition as a CSIRO Fellow for 2010, Dr A. Henderson on being awarded the Christopher Heyde Medal of the Academy of Science, Professor C. Rogers on being awarded the Hannan Medal of the Academy of Science, Dr S. Scott and Dr M. Tanaka on being awarded the Moran Medal of the Academy of Science, Professor J.J. Monaghan on his election to the Australian Academy of Science, Professor I. Petersen on his election to the Australian Academy of Science, Professor M. Varghese on his election to the Australian Academy of Science, Professor A. Yu on his election to the Australian Academy of Science, Professor P. Bartlett on being awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, Professor P.G. Hall on being awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, Professor I. Petersen on being awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship.

11. Deaths of members and friends of the Society It was with great regret that I informed members during the last session of the deaths of Professor A.J. van der Poorten, Professor J.M. Bennett, Professor G. Brown, Professor G. Hjorth, Professor J.B. Miller and Dr R. Worley.

12. Acknowledgements and thanks I am grateful for the help I have received throughout the year from the President, Peter Taylor, the Treasurer, Algy Howe, the editor of the electronic site, Ross Moore, and all the other editors and officers of the Society. The Secretary gets a chance to glimpse the huge amount of work they all do for the Society, for which all members should be grateful. I should also like to thank Darren Condon from La Trobe University for his help with IT issues and May Truong and the other members of the Society’s Business Office for their help throughout the year.

Peter Stacey 26 August 2011

Department of Mathematics and Statistics La Trobe University Vic 3086 EMAIL: [email protected]

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AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY INC.

Department of Mathematics Email: [email protected] John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building Telephone: (02) 6125 8922 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Fax: (02) 6125 8923 ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA

Treasurer's Report for June 1st 2010 - May 31st 2011

In the past financial year the Society has provided:

$3,000 for 2010 and 2011 to the Australian Mathematics Trust to help with the individual expenses of members of the Australian Team training for the Mathematical Olympiad Competition $25,000 special grant to Australian Mathematics Trust $3,336.83 to FASTS $1,000 to the Victoria Algebra Group $4,207.97 for student travel grants to the 2010 AustMS AGM, University of Queensland, Brisbane $8,250 for EC Workshop at University of Queensland $600 for B H Neumann prize $33,748.76 for seven Lift Off fellowships $8,000 to the Geometry & Topology Down Under Conference $1,500 to NZMRI/NZIMA meeting $24,000 for AMSI membership $15,000 for AMSI summer school and vacation scholars

Grant Moneys Returned:

$3,636.36 from PRIMA 2009 $2,211 from Phylomania Conference at the University of Tasmania

At the end of December 2010, the JAustMS paid subscription numbers stood at 389, of which 95 institutions paid via their parent consortium. In addition a further 1,594 institutions also get online access via consortia.

For the Bulletin, the paid subscription numbers stood at exactly 333, of which 82 institutions paid via their parent consortium. In addition a further 1,602 institutions also get online access via consortia.

Regarding subscriptions, JAustMS had a drop of 6.7% compared to 2009, while the Bulletin suffered a 8.8% drop. According to Roger Astley of CUP; “This shows how hard

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pressed library budgets have been over the last couple of years.”

Incomes for both JAustMS and the Bulletin have increased – 20% more than the previous year for JAustMS and 14% for the Bulletin. However, almost all the growth has come from one-off sales of the online archives.

The strength of the Australian dollar continues to depress the amounts of money returned to us by CUP.

The citations per paper for JAustMS and the Bulletin have again risen this year to 1.99 citations per paper for JAustMS and 1.60 citations per paper for the Bulletin.

Again, publishing of the ANZIAM J is running late and total payments, for the publication of the ANZIAM J in 2010, have not been received in this financial year.

The Business Office has again been very well run by May Truong, Amy Choo and Michael Foo.

For the period June 1st 2010 - May 31st 2011 the audited financial statements show that our total receipts were $146,388 and the total payouts were $157,803 giving an operating profit (loss) of ($11,415). The receipts include money collected for ANZIAM but not for AMPAI.

It is well known that AMPAI pays for much of the expenses of the Society. The full production costs for the Gazette, paid by AMPAI, was $32,260.

This financial year AMPAI made a profit of $44,975. Taking into account the fact that the Society made a profit (loss) of ($11,415), we see that the combined profits of the Society and AMPAI, over this financial year, is $33,560.

The Society’s income was made up from:

Total subscriptions from Members $80,251 (including ANZIAM and accreditations)

Copyright royalties $459.22

Interest income $64,139.16

Advertising (Gazette) $420

Counting Australia In $239.98

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The payments were:

Officers expenses $9,957.27

Grants $103,950.61

AMSI membership $24,000

Transfer to ANZIAM $13,826.75 (subscriptions: $4,038, subvention $9,788.75)

Bank, credit card and eway fees $2,056.45

Storage of journals $3,477.60

Miscellaneous insurance $2,647.78

Total paid up membership at 21st July 2011 was 879 (non-financial members are not included).

July July 2011 2010

Fellows 110 107 Graduate Members 14 11 Accredited Members 31 27 Ordinary Members 500 502 Reduced rate Members 126 156 Early Career Members 41 28 Reciprocal Members 35 39 Education Members 10 10 Non-financial Members 33 38 (officials from other societies) Honorary Members 25 21 Free Members 29 21 Life Members 60 59 Retired Members 102 113 Deceased Members 5 2 Resigned Members 14 11

3 Page 19 of 53

Deemed Resigned Members 52 26 New Members 132 145

Institutional Member : Auchmuty Library University of Newcastle, Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University, Department of Mathematics La Trobe University AMSI Sustaining Member : Prof Nalini Joshi

Algy Howe Treasurer 10th August 2011

4 Page 20 of 53 Australian Mathematical Society

ABN 80 494 677 202

Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2011

Page 21 of 53 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202

Contents

Committee's Report 3

Income and Expenditure Statement 5

Detailed Balance Sheet 7

Notes to the Financial Statements 9

Statement by Members of the Committee 11

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members 12

Page 22 of 53 Page 3 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Committee's Report For the year ended 31 May 2011

Your committee members submit the financial accounts of the Australian Mathematical Society for the financial year ended 31 May 2011.

Committee Members The names of committee members at the date of this report are: Peter G Taylor Algy Howe Nalini Joshi Andrew Mathas Peter J Stacey Jonathan M Borwein Michael R Giudici Anthony Henderson Barbara Meanhaut Arun Ram Jacqui Ramagge Finnur Larusson Malgorzata O'Reilly Amie R Albrecht Andrew P Bassom P John Cossey Michael Cowling Phil G Howlett Tim R Marchant Ross R Moore Graeme Hocking Cheryl E Prager Rubin Zhang Anthony J Roberts Kevin White Leigh Wood William Chen Graeme Cohen

Principal Activities The principal activities of the association during the financial year were: fostering communication among its members; organising and supporting mathematical conferences in Australasia; giving grants; awarding prizes and making the community aware of mathematics.

Significant Changes

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 23 of 53 Page 4 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Committee's Report For the year ended 31 May 2011 No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year.

Operating Result The deficit from ordinary activities after providing for income tax amounted to

Year ended Year ended 31 May 2011 PrevYearEnd $ $ (11,415) (35,734)

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Members of the Committee on :

______Peter G Taylor

______Algy Howe

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 24 of 53 Page 5 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Income and Expenditure Statement For the year ended 31 May 2011

2011 2010 $ $

Income Subscriptions 80,251 79,283 Interest received 64,304 35,594 Other income 1,833 13,347 Total income 146,388 128,223

Expenses Officers Expenses 9,957 7,211 Total Grants 111,930 102,012 Administration 4,085 Advertising and promotion 5,585 AMSI payment 24,000 24,000 Bank Fees And Charges 5 Commission 1,544 1,755 Fees & charges 512 502 Insurance 2,648 2,899 Pitman bequest interest 213 154 Purchase of surplus journals AMPAI (11) 10,069 Postage 2,753 1,556 Repairs & maintenance 637 629 Storage 3,478 3,243 Sundry expenses 142 254 Total expenses 157,803 163,957 Profit (loss) from ordinary activities before income tax (11,415) (35,734) Income tax revenue relating to ordinary activities Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (11,415) (35,734) Total changes in equity of the association (11,415) (35,734)

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 25 of 53 Page 6 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Income and Expenditure Statement For the year ended 31 May 2011

2011 2010 $ $ Opening retained profits 474,750 510,484 Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (11,415) (35,734) Closing retained profits 463,335 474,750

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 26 of 53 Page 7 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Detailed Balance Sheet As At 31 May 2011

Note 2011 2010 $ $

Current Assets

Cash Assets

Cash At Bank - CBA Current A/C 34,744 31,686 CBA Security Investment A/C 240,966 CBA Cash Management Trust 293,836 CBA Term Deposit 1 377,636 366,489 CBA Term Deposit 2 392,771 366,489 1,046,118 1,058,499

Receivables

Accounts Receivable 9,594 8,900 9,594 8,900

Current Tax Assets

TFN Withholding 165 165

Other

Journals On Hand 3,328 3,302 3,328 3,302

Total Current Assets 1,059,205 1,070,702

Non-Current Assets

Property, Plant and Equipment

Office equipment 34,542 Less: Accumulated amortisation (34,542)

Total Non-Current Assets

Total Assets 1,059,205 1,070,702

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 27 of 53 Page 8 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Detailed Balance Sheet As At 31 May 2011

Note 2011 2010 $ $

Current Liabilities

Other Subscriptions in advance 54,345 54,428 54,345 54,428

Total Current Liabilities 54,345 54,428

Total Liabilities 54,345 54,428

Net Assets 1,004,859 1,016,274

Members' Funds

Reserves

Net Assets 541,524 541,524 Accumulated surplus (deficit) 463,335 474,750 Total Members' Funds 1,004,859 1,016,274

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 28 of 53 Page 9 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2011

Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

This financial report is a special purpose financial report prepared in order to satisfy the financial reporting requirements of the Associations Incorporations Act of the Australian Capital Territory. The committee has determined that the association is not a reporting entity. The financial report has been prepared on an accruals basis and is based on historical costs and does not take into account changing money values or, except where specifically stated, current valuations of non-current assets. The following significant accounting policies, which are consistent with the previous period unless otherwise stated, have been adopted in the preparation of this financial report.

(a) Cash and Cash Equivalents Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand, deposits held at call with banks, and other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

(b) Revenue and Other Income Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable after taking into account any trade discounts and volume rebates allowed. For this purpose, deferred consideration is not discounted to present values when recognising revenue. Interest revenue is recognised using the effective interest rate method, which for floating rate financial assets is the rate inherent in the instrument. Dividend revenue is recognised when the right to receive a dividend has been established. Grant and donation income is recognised when the entity obtains control other the funds, which is generally at the time of receipt. All revenue is stated net of the amount of goods and services tax (GST).

(c) Leases Leases of PPE, where substantially all the risks and benefits incidental to the ownership of the asset, but not the legal ownership, are transferred to the association, are classified as finance leases. Finance leases are capitalised by recording an asset and a liability at the lower of the amounts equal to the fair value of the leased property or the present value of the minimum lease payments, including any guaranteed residual values. Lease payments are allocated between the reduction of the lease liability and the lease interest expense for that period. Leased assets are depreciated on a straight line basis over the shorter of their estimated useful lives or the lease term. Lease payments for operating leases, where substantially all the risks and benefits remain with the lessor, are charged as expenses in the period in which they are incurred.

Page 29 of 53 Page 10 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2011

(d) Goods and Services Tax (GST) Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where the amount of GST incurred is not recoverable from the Tax Office. In these circumstances, the GST is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of an item of the expense. Receivables and payables in the assets and liabilities statement are shown inclusive of GST.

Page 30 of 53 Page 11 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Statement by Members of the Committee For the year ended 31 May 2011

The Committee has determined that the association is not a reporting entity and that this special purpose financial report should be prepared in accordance with the accounting policies outlined in Note 1 to the financial statements. In the opinion of the Committee the Income and Expenditure Statement, Statement of Financial Position, and Notes to the Financial Statements: 1. Presents fairly the financial position of Australian Mathematical Society as at 31 May 2011 and its performance for the year ended on that date. 2. At the date of this statement, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the association will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due. This statement is made in accordance with a resolution of the Committee and is signed for and on behalf of the Committee by:

______Peter G Taylor President

______Algy Howe Treasurer

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 31 of 53 Page 12 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

Report on the Financial Report We have audited the accompanying financial report, being a special purpose financial report, of Australian Mathematical Society (the association), which comprises the Statement by Members of the Committee, Income and Expenditure Statement, Balance Sheet, notes comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes for the financial year ended 31 May 2011.

Committee's Responsibility for the Financial Report The committee of Australian Mathematical Society are responsible for the preparation of the financial report and have determined that the basis of preparation described in Note 1, is appropriate to meet the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act of the Australian Capital Territory 1991 and is appropriate to meet the needs of the members. The committee’s responsibilities also includes such internal control as the committee determine is necessary to enable the preparation of a financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor's Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial report based on our audit. We have conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Those Standards require that we comply with relevant ethical requirements relating to audit engagements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial report is free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial report. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial report, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the association's preparation of the financial report that gives a true and fair view, in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the association's internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the committee, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial report. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Auditor's Opinion In our opinion, the financial report presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Australian Mathematical Society as at 31 May 2011 and its financial performance for the year then ended in accordance with the accounting policies described in Note 1 to the financial statements, and the Associations Incorporation Act of the Australian Capital Territory 1991.

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 32 of 53 Page 13 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

Basis of Accounting Without modifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 1 to the financial report, which describes the basis of accounting. The financial report has been prepared to assist Australian Mathematical Society to meet the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act of the Australian Capital Territory 1991. As a result, the financial report may not be suitable for another purpose.

Signed on 1 August, 2011:

______James Daniels, Federation Tax & Accounting 116 Crawford Street Queanbeyan NSW

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 33 of 53 ANZIAM: Report for 2010/2011

to the Australian Mathematical Society

The leadership group for ANZIAM comprises Tim Marchant (Chair), Phil Broadbridge, (Deputy Chair and prospective Chair for 2012), Geoff Mercer (Secretary), and Peter Johnston (Treasurer).

Phil Howlett stepped down as Deputy Chair at the Glenelg ANZIAM conference and I wish to thank him for his long and valuable service to ANZIAM, over many years. I would also like to thank Simon Clarke for his efforts as ANZIAM webmaster, also over many years. Roslyn Hickson has taken over the role as the new ANZIAM Webmaster.

The annual ANZIAM Conference was held in Glenelg, S.A. from 30st January to 3th February. The conference was well organised, in a pleasant and convenient location. The conference Directors were Jim Denier and John Boland, and their committee consisted of Ben Binder, Sara Browning, Matt Finn, Julia Piantadosi, Barbara Ridely and Joshua Ross. The meeting was well attended and with over 150 presentations. The J. H. Michell medal for the outstanding young researcher was awarded to Dr. Frances Kuo from UNSW, while Mr. Michael Dallaston, from QUT was awarded the A. F. Pillow PhD Scholarship. The T. M. Cherry Prize for the best student presentation was jointly awarded to Samuel Butler from the University of Sydney and James Caffrey from the University of Melbourne. The Cherry Ripe award, selected by the students, went to Larry Forbes and Darren Crowdy. The invited speakers were Bob Anderssen (CSIRO), Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), Roberto Cominetti (University of Chile), Darren Crowdy (Imperial College, London), Georg Gottwald (Sydney), Valerie Isham (University College, London), Kate Miles-Smith (Monash) and John Sader (Melbourne). Thanks also to Kerry Landman, for her role as Chair of the invited speakers committee and the other members of the committee.

The 2012 ANZIAM conference will be held in Warrnambool, Jan, 29th-Feb. 2nd with Simon Clarke as director. ANZIAM2013 will be hosted by the University of Newcastle with Jon Borwein and Natashia Boland as conference directors.

The Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group (MISG) was held at RMIT in 2011, with John Shepherd as Director. The meeting was held 6-11th February 2010 with 150 delegates considering industry projects from the NZ Steel, Transpower, Fonterra, DSTO and EPA Victoria. The 2012 meeting will again be held at RMIT, on 5-10th February. I thank John on his hard work and congratulate him and his team for their continued success in hosting this important ANZIAM event. Strong links between the Mathematical Sciences and Industry play a vital part in the growth of Australia’s knowledge and innovation economy and MISG will continue to play an important role in this development. I’m pleased to report that QUT has agreed to host MISG2013 in Brisbane with Dr. Troy Farrell as Director. They will also consider hosting MISG2014-15. Brisbane, and Queensland generally, has undergone enormous economic growth in the last decade and is an ideal location to host MISG and source new industry partners. The School of Mathematical Sciences at QUT has many staff with strong modelling skills, in applied and computational mathematics and also statistics, who will support Troy and contribute to MISG.

Geoff Prince, Director of AMSI, John Shepherd, Troy Farrell and myself recently held a phone meeting to discuss closer cooperation between AMSI and ANZIAM regarding MISG.

Page 34 of 53 AMSI have offered support in a number of areas including PhD students, project internships, industry contacts and administration. Negotiations are continuing towards a final agreement. ANZIAM welcomes AMSI involvement with MISG as it will lead a more comprehensive and long-term interaction with industry partners and also provide welcome support for MISG Directors.

Other meetings held by ANZIAM special interest groups include the upcoming EMAC2011 at the University of Technology Sydney from 4th - 7th December. The state branches of ANZIAM had an active year in 2010 with most branches holding or supporting mini- conferences, with ANZIAM funding support.

The new ANZIAM Constitution was adopted following a special ballot in late 2010. Changes were made to the composition of the Executive committee, to allow electronic voting, plus other minor changes and modernizations.

Following discussions at the 2011 ANZIAM Executive committee and ANZIAM annual general meetings it was resolved to develop criteria for a new mid-career medal. To be called the Tuck medal, it will fill a “gap” between the Mitchell and ANZIAM medals, and recognise research achievements in Industrial and/or Applied Mathematics and service to ANZIAM. It will be a biennial award, to be first offered in 2013.

The CSIRO ANZIAM Student Support Scheme (SSS) was introduced in 2008, following generous sponsorship from CSIRO. During 2011 28 students received funding, totaling $11,938, to attend ANZIAM2011, in Glenelg. Five students also received funding to attend the CTAC2010 conference. Students seeking assistance under the SSS were required to obtain financial support from their home university wherever possible and to submit a detailed budget requesting matching funding from the SSS. The SSS panel consisted of Peter Taylor (Chair), Frank de Hoog (CSIRO) and Mick Roberts. I thank both CSIRO and the SSS panel for their support and hard work in making this scheme a success. Peter Taylor has now finished his term as Chair with Phil Howlett stepping into this role.

The AustMS tendered for the ERA2012 journal rankings in the 01 FOR code with strong support from ANZIAM members, including Jim Denier, Ian Turner and myself. The tender and ERA journal rankings were subsequently abandoned by the ARC but the exercise illustrated the ability of all sub-disciplines to work effectively together for the benefit of the Mathematical Sciences in Australia. I wish all Australian members and their Universities well in their ERA2012 assessment exercise.

Finally I would like to thank Peter Taylor and Peter Stacey for their support in maintaining strong links between AustMS and ANZIAM, during the year.

Tim Marchant August 2011

Page 35 of 53 1 JOURNAL of the AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

2011 Editor's Report to Council

I. Editorial arrangements

The team of Associate Editors is currently as follows:

L. M. Batten A. M. Hassell E. A. O’Brien F. Calegari C. D. Hodgson A. J. Pryde D. Chan M. G. Jackson I. E. Shparlinski J. Du V. Jeyakumar V. T. Stefanov P. C. Fenton J. J. Koliha T. Tao B. J. Gardner M. K. Murray G. A. Willis

Daniel Chan is the latest addition to the team. The larger number of submissions (see below) requires a larger editorial board.

Cambridge University Press manages the publishing and distribution, and Sunrise Setting (also based in the UK) handles the typesetting.

II. General Comments The Secretary for the Journal is Judy Gregory.

(a) Cambridge University Press continues the production and distribution of our Journal.

(b) Many people deserve thanks for their work in producing the Journal:

Special thanks go to the Secretary, Judy Gregory, who has helped us enormously by keeping all the processes going.

We also thank all the Associate Editors for their work in getting papers assessed and their efforts to improve the quality of papers published. Their work is essential for JAustMS and a valuable contribution to the AustMS. We also thank the Associate Editors for their suggestions to help make online submissions an efficient manner of submitting and processing papers. The Office is keeping comments about possible improvements to the website.

Special thanks go to Tony Roberts of the University of Adelaide for his work with the OJS website and for his patience in dealing with many queries from the office, authors and Associate Editors.

(c) All efforts are being made to encourage online submission of papers. The office routinely replies to new authors with the advice that they should submit their paper to our website, and Associate Editors have been requested to do likewise. This is the second year where all papers have been submitted online.

1 Page 36 of 53 2 (d) The number of papers received climbed dramatically in the first year of online submissions but has returned to more normal numbers. We still have an abundance of submissions and can attempt to raise standards.

(e) The increase in author-initiated correspondence has led to a corresponding substantial increase in the workload of the Editor, Associate Editors and office. Office records show a continuing increase in the volume of all incoming and outgoing email. All papers are now being submitted electronically. There has been a steady increase in authors’ email enquiries about the status of their paper and the expected date of publication of accepted papers. In principle, authors who submitted their papers online are able to track the progress of their papers, thus reducing the number of email enquiries sent to the office; in practice this does not happen. There has also been a steady increase in authors requesting the Secretary to submit papers online on their behalf, in spite of the detailed instructions which the office has sent. Authors claim they cannot use the website. This comment is made most frequently by authors from non-English speaking countries.

(f) The Journal encourages Associate Editors to reject more papers without refereeing, selecting only very promising manuscripts for refereeing. This policy helps with our space and backlog problems and is actually beneficial to many authors. The rate of papers being rejected without being refereed has decreased from the unusually high levels in the last 4 years and has returned to normal levels of ~ 16 %.

(g) Finding referees remains a problem. Refereeing is a task with little recognition and academics are under pressure to devote their efforts to publishing more frequently.

(h) This year Australia, Japan, Spain, UK, and USA again head the list of countries for papers published.

(i) CUP requested a change in procedures regarding the checking of copyright forms. The Melbourne office sends these forms to authors when the final version of the files for the paper have been received and approved. The author posts the signed and dated original copyright transfer forms to the Melbourne Office, from where an acknowledgement is sent to the author. CUP, the Printers and the Editor are sent weekly updates. The forms are then scanned, and a CD of the forms sent to Canberra for the archives. This system is working well.

(j) This is the second report where all papers dealt with have been submitted online. The backlog of papers submitted manually is now exhausted.

II. General publication data

The state of publication at 30 June 2011 (for comparability with other years) is:

(a) published Volume 90 part 1 (Feb 2011)

(b) expected soon after Volume 90 part 2 (April 2011)

(c) being typeset Volume 90 part 3 (June 2011)

Volume 90(2) was available online on 19 July 2011.

2 Page 37 of 53 3 The Journal continues to be published in three parts per volume with two volumes per year. Normally there are 432 pages (including 2 index pages) in each volume.

IV. Average publication delay

The average publication delay for recent volumes is shown below. As may be seen from the past years, the publication delay has improved in the past year (using the date of publication of the printed journal). As in previous years there are a number of very slow papers that increase the average delay in publication. The most recent figures are a marked improvement. The office is asked to provide additional statistics annually to the American Mathematical Society (Notices Backlog information), so these figures are also indicated below in the final average column.

The figures below are somewhat skewed by the fact that papers submitted for the Special Issue dedicated to Alan Carey took precedence over other papers for recent volumes.

From e-submission From acceptance From e- to print publication /revision submission to (months) to publication Electronic (months) publication (AMS stats) Volume 88(3) June 2010 12.8 4.9 11.7 Volume 89(1) Aug 2010 14 3.6 13.8 Volume 89(2) Oct 2010 13 2.5 11.2 Volume 89(3) Dec 2010 7 1 11.5 Volume 90(1) Feb 2011 7 2.2 10.0 Volume 88(2)April 2010 NA NA Average 2010 - 2011 10.7 2.8 11.6

Average 2009 -2010 19.9 10.04 14

V. Backlog

The backlog of accepted papers waiting to be processed for publication by Cambridge University Press now stands at 17, among the lowest for many years. Some priority has been given to papers by Australia and New Zealand based authors and to various special circumstances.

VI. Papers received and processed during the period of this report.

A total of 211 papers were dealt with during the period, a return to the average number in previous years, after a spike of 323 last year. The number of papers that were rejected without refereeing was 34. The 53 papers that were published came from 25 countries. The 6 countries below had 3 or more papers accepted for publication, the remaining 20 countries had 1 - 2 papers.

3 Page 38 of 53 4 Country No. papers published No. papers published 5/2009-4/2010 5/2010 – 4/2011 1 USA 9 9 2 Japan 5 5 3 UK 4 5 4 Australia 3 4 5 Spain 4 3 6 China 2 3

The following table summarises the papers received over the last year. This year, as in the previous year, the Editor, saving the Associate Editors work and time, and the authors the annoyance of a rejection after a long wait, rejected more than half the non-refereed papers. The papers returned without refereeing are also included in the total of rejected papers.

5/2009-4/2010 5/2010 – 4/2011

Unassigned, i.e. -waiting for Ed 5 12 to assign to AE or to reject NoRef In Review (with AE) 54 58 Archived: Rejected 148 132 Archived: Declined (NoRef) 41 34 Withdrawn 2 1 Total Rejected 189 166 Total Accepted 40 44

Total papers processed 231 211

Summary of total papers both ‘old Total Total Total Total system’ and ‘online’. 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Accepted 37 22 40 44 Rejected 167 242 189 166 Withdrawn 1 2 2 1 Received and dealt with 272 323* 231 211 Acceptance rate (%) 13.6% 6.8% 17.3% 20.8% Returned without refereeing / WD 145 Total 2 42 34 (18%) (16%)

Michael Cowling, Editor

4 Page 39 of 53 BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

Editors’ Report to Council 2011

Editorial Arrangements

Don Taylor concluded his term of office as editor on 13 April 2011. We all thank him for his valuable contribution. William Chen and Graeme Cohen began their tenure as joint editors from 14 April 2011, on a term which will expire on 31 March 2014. In his reports in 2009 and 2010, Don recommended that, in order to ensure continuity at the end of his term of office and to provide backup when he was unavailable, the Society gave consideration to the appointment of a deputy editor or editor-elect. It is therefore most regrettable that the Society failed to act on this recommendation, even beyond Don’s term of office. New editors were sought belatedly, and were not given any time whatsoever to find out any details of their roles, resulting in an extremely difficult handover. As the new editors were appointed well beyond the last minute, for the overwhelming majority of the first three months of their tenure, prior commitments dictated that one was away from Australia on extended travel, and the other one had to struggle alone to get to grips with the complexity of the brief. Since the middle of July, we have arrived at an arrangement whereby Graeme Cohen handles the LaTeX files from the authors and galley proofs from the publishers as well as one-third of the submissions, while William Chen prepares all copyright forms and handles two-thirds of the submissions. This arrangement may change when we review our relative workloads later, or in the absence from Australia of one or both of the editors. The team of associate editors has not changed since the change of editors. However, Barry Hughes has indicated his wish to step down at the end of 2011, and the current editors may also seek to bring in extra members to this team in the near future. The associate editors continue to play an essential and important role in ensuring the efficient processing of submissions, and we thank them for their continuing support. Brian Ackerman has been appointed as a casual assistant to the editors. This arrangement is still in its infancy, and we hope to find out in the near future whether this is satisfactory and gives the editors the necessary support. Our electronic files are currently stored folders on the computers of the editors and the assistant, and these folders are linked via the Dropbox facility, so that any update is automatically mirrored in all locations. The management of copyright transfer agreements continues to be dealt with efficiently by Judy Gregory in Melbourne.

Publication Arrangements

The Bulletin continues to use the email address [email protected] for all editorial correspondence. This is a Google Apps account which was set up in December 2009. The Bulletin continues to use the Open Journal System (OJS) for online submission, and we no longer accept other forms of submission. However, the editors find the OJS inefficient and cumbersome, with extremely poor search facilities, and do not use this system for any task other than downloading the PDF files of the manuscripts and for archival purposes. Indeed, some authors cannot be relied upon to enter their metadata accurately. The need to check and correct these entries often makes one wonder whether the OJS is a hindrance rather than a help. Publication via Cambridge University Press (CUP) continues at the rate of two volumes per year with three issues per volume and 176 pages per issue. CUP outsources the copy editing to Sunrise Settings (AZ). A LaTeX class file may be downloaded by authors from the Bulletin web site.

Page 40 of 53 Submissions Processing The policy of the Bulletin is for the editors to perform a first cull of submitted papers. The papers which survive the first cull are sent to associate editors or referees for further review. For the 12-month period ending 31 May 2011, approximately 64% of submissions were culled without refereeing, against an acceptance rate of just below 20%.

PublicationINFORMATION Data VALID AT 15:00 ON 17.08.11 YEAR FROM 01.06.10 TO 31.05.11 FROM 01.06.10 FROM 14.04.10 FROM 14.04.10 FROM 01.06.10 TO 13.04.11 TO 31.05.11 TO 31.05.11 TO 31.05.11 Don Taylor (*) Graeme Cohen William Chen TOTAL Submissions 449 60 12 521 Decline 318 14 3 335 Withdrawn 4 0 0 4 Reject 42 10 4 56 Accept 78 16 0 94 Resubmit 5 (4) 1 0 6 Refereeing 4 19 5 28

(*) two submissions appear to have been counted twice PART YEAR FROM 01.06.11 TO 17.08.11 FROM 01.06.11 FROM 01.06.11 FROM 01.06.11 TO 17.08.11 TO 17.08.11 TO 17.08.11 Graeme Cohen William Chen TOTAL Submissions 12 73 85 Decline 4 35 39 Withdrawn 0 2 2 Reject 3 11 14 Accept 0 9 9 Resubmit 0 0 0 Refereeing 4 14 18 Unprocessed 1 2 3 PART YEAR FROM 14.04.11 TO 17.08.11 FROM 14.04.11 FROM 14.04.11 FROM 14.04.11 TO 17.08.11 TO 17.08.11 TO 17.08.11 Graeme Cohen William Chen TOTAL Submissions 72 85 157 Decline 18 38 56 Withdrawn 0 2 2 Reject 13 15 28 Accept 16 9 25 Resubmit 1 0 1 Refereeing 23 19 42 Unprocessed 1 2 3

For the papers in volumes 82 and 83, covering the second half of 2010 and the first half of 2011, the average time between submission and publication is 12–13 months for papers and 4–5 months for thesis abstracts. As on 17 August 2011, there are ◦ 28 papers totalling 280 pages published online but not yet in print, ◦ 6 papers totalling 51 pages to be published online in the near future, ◦ 16 papers totalling 155 pages for which galley proofs are available, ◦ 10 papers totalling roughly 115 pages undergoing typesetting by AZ, as well as ◦ 46 papers currently under review.

Page 41 of 53 Current BAMS Team

◦ Editors: William Chen, Graeme Cohen ◦ Associate Editors: Robert Anderssen, Robert Bartnik, Donald Cartwright, John Clark, John Cossey, Bruce Craven, Brian Davey, Joseph Grotowski, Joachim Hempel, Bob Howlett, Barry Hughes, George Ivanov, Owen Jones, Gus Lehrer, Kevin McAvaney, Terry Mills, Michael Murray, Hyam Rubinstein, Brailey Sims, Ross Street, Bevan Thompson, David Yost ◦ Assistants: Brian Ackerman, Judy Gregory

William Chen / Graeme Cohen Editors 18 August 2011

Page 42 of 53 2011 Report on ANZIAM journal

In the last 12 months, significant progress has been made in refreshing the ANZIAM Journal. We have caught up to the extent that at the time of writing we have enough accepted papers to fill 52(2) (in production) and 52(3) taking us to January, 2011. Note that 52(2) is a slightly shorter than usual version. This means we are now only one volume behind where we would hope to be – a recovery from about 3-4 behind one year ago.

We have invited the ANZIAM medallists to submit review articles and they have all agreed. Grimshaw was the first in 51(1) and a paper has been received from Hill and we hope to publish one per issue over the next 1-2 years. We have also solicited articles from high profile key note speakers at the ANZIAM Conference, with a result that Champneys (in process) and Crowdy have agreed to submit articles. This has not only assisted in catching up, but has also introduced a number of high quality publications that will hopefully lead to increased citations.

At the ANZIAM conference in February, a short “advertisement” for the journal was given during the conference dinner. It is hoped that this will be followed by a more extensive drive at subsequent conferences that fall under the ANZIAM umbrella.

In July, editor Hocking attended a lunch at Cambridge with representatives from CUP. They were very pleased with the progress that has been made and were keen to follow up with some marketing in the way of posters and perhaps some incentives to local PhD students, in particular within the ANZIAM community at the conference (and its relatives). They also felt that although the perceived wisdom was that “paper” journals were on the way out, they did not feel this was reflected in the attitudes of their clients. They have agreed to create a more direct link from the CUP web site for the ANZIAM Journal to the submission page.

They did have some concerns with regard to the web pages that we need to address, but are currently not able. It is not acceptable that we do not have control over the computer that is currently hosting the OJS and this needs to be rectified as soon as possible. Even minor alterations to the web pages seem to be difficult (some still have incorrect information and lists of editors and associate editors). We need to streamline the submission process – at the moment one needs to be lucky to find the submission pages without going round in circles.

In the year July, 2010 to June, 2011 there were 153 submissions to the e- and paper journal. Of those 60 were accepted, 70 declined, 14 required to resubmit after major alterations and 9 are in various stages of revision. This snapshot provides a more balanced outcome than previously.

In short our plans to revitalize the journal seem to be slightly ahead of schedule. In the next two years we believe the journal will be back on track and will have recovered its reputation as a credible journal in applied mathematics.

Andrew Bassom and Graeme Hocking Co-Editor (ANZIAM Journal)

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Prof Tony Roberts

August 30, 2011

1 CUP issues outstanding

CrossRef and DOIs I recommend committing to funding dois for ampai and AustMS, for all publications not just journals.

Hyperlinking cup also must link up with the Electronic Sup- plement for anziam j, and with the submission system for all three journals. I recommend that on the Available Volumes list for anziam, cup insert a link to the relevant volume of the Electronic Supplement. For example, as part of volume 49 (perhaps below Issue 4) they list ”Electronic supplement”, flag it as ”free access” using their nice green symbol, and link to http://anziamj.austms. org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/issue/view/13 And similarly for other e-volumes listed at http://anziamj.austms. org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/issue/archive

Web formatting We must also require cup to improve the for- matting of the web pages: at least underlining seems to have been removed. • The bold coloured names in the table of contents and the articles are an unwelcome distraction. Although better than before, remove such effects. “Sixty-five percent showed poor comprehension of articles with high chroma color headings.” [Wheildon, 2005] • It is well known that all capitals text is hard to read. cup must stop the practice of using all capitals in article titles and author names. Wikipedia reports [via “all caps”]: Miles Tinker, in his landmark work, Legibility of Print, performed scientific studies on the readability of all-capital print. His findings were as follows: All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. . . . The use of all

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capitals should be dispensed with in every printing situation. “All capitals headlines lose significantly in legibility. . . . The most legible headlines are those in lower case.” [Wheildon, 2005]

2 Managing article submissions and review

Updating and moving OJS Currently implementing an up-to- date ojs on the commercial service Dreamhost, process managed by Hank Szeto. The status is that the trial is mostly working, but there are a couple of known problems to be fixed. Among other enhancements, the new ojs will implement captcha, to avoid fake enrolments, and implement post-publication reader comments. We cannot back each other up when activities are undertaken outside ojs. A lot of hyperlinks need to be cleaned after the move of ojs, both at AustMS and USQ.

Instructions for authors The web page http://www.austms. org.au/ANZIAM+Journal+-+Paper+preparation is a relic of type- writer days, it should instead translate to the information in ojs, which currently is at http://anziamj.austms.org.au/ojs/index. php/ANZIAMJ/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. Similarly for the other journals. For jams, the link to instructions leads to an error page, which fortunately, near the bottom, includes a link to a Melbourne univer- sity page. These would be easier to keep correct by the appropriate people if in ojs. The Bulletin instructions are at least neat, up to date and on the AustMS site.

Conference management No known progress on providing a society wide conference management system. Conference organisers appear to keep reinventing.

3 ANZIAM Journal — electronic supplement

It is now registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals. After significant prodding Scopus should be indexing all of the electronic supplement: to make it easier for them, I ftp all articles into Scopus’ site for their use. As well as ctac and emac proceedings, the supplement is also publishing the proceedings of the Maths in Industry Study Group.

Tony Roberts, August 30, 2011

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I have uploaded introductory guides to embedding interactive 3D graphics and (short) movies into LaTeX generated pdf.1 I wonder if these will work for the mathml generated by cup. I am also calling for authors to submit short video ‘abstracts’ of their articles.

1 http://anziamj.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/ 3764 for example.

Tony Roberts, August 30, 2011

Page 46 of 53 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY LECTURE SERIES

Report to Council 2011

1. Editorial Board Professor Cheryl Praeger Editor-in-Chief, University of Western Australia Professor Phil Broadbridge La Trobe University Professor Michael Murray University of Adelaide Professor Charles Pearce University of Adelaide Professor Matt Wand University of Wollongong Professor Jacqui Ramagge University of Wollongong Terms of members of the Editorial Board are to 31 Dec. 2013.

2. New publications in and submissions to the Lecture Series. The following monographs are under consideration:

(a) D. Baowan, B.J. Cox, T.A. Hilder, N. Thamwattana and J.M. Hill of the Universities of Wollongong and Adelaide for a proposed book entitled ‘Nanomathematics: Geometry and Mechanics of Carbon Nanstructures’; a conditional contract has been signed; authors are liaising with CUP on revisions.

(b) Jon Borwein, Alf van der Poorten, Wadim Zudilin for a proposed monograph to be entitled ‘Neverending Fractions’; a contract has been signed, estimated delivery of the completed manuscript within the next 12 months.

(c) Timothy Burness and Michael Giudici for a proposed monograph to be entitled ‘Classical groups, derangements and primes’; a contract has been signed and we await delivery of the completed manuscript.

A contract for a fourth volume is in the process of being signed. Two other submissions are under review. The editors enthusiastically welcome further submissions, and are happy to discuss possi- bilities with potential authors.

3. The Series: The first book published in the Series appeared in 1985, and there have been 20 books pubished to date. Publications in the series since 2007:

No. 20. Unitary Reflection Groups Gustav I. Lehrer and Donald E. Taylor Published September 2009

No. 19. Quantum groups: A Path to Current Algebra Ross Street and Ross Moore (technical) Published January 2007

Professor Cheryl E. Praeger 1 August 2011

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1. Publication Arrangements Online delivery. The AustMS Gazette is published in five issues per year. An electronic copy of each issue has been freely available online since volume 31 in 2004, but members and other subscribers continued to receive a printed copy. In 2011, the Society moved to a policy of online delivery as the default for members. In order to receive a printed copy, members need to specify this at their membership renewal, but there is no extra charge. The result is that the number of copies printed for each issue has dropped dramatically. For comparison, in 2010 the print run averaged 1074 copies per issue. In 2011, this has dropped to 600 copies per issue. At roughly $3 per printed copy, this is saving the Society about $1500 per issue. During the transition to the new delivery arrangements, the balance between the number of copies printed and dispatched has increased. As of 38(4) (the most recent issue), the Society Office is adjusting the size of the print run in order to decrease surplus.

Update on proposed cover re-design. Plans to run a competition for a new cover design have been dropped. Since the default form of delivery is now online, the cover of the printed version is not quite so important. Also, the printers of the Gazette printed a large number of cover shells without consulting the Society, and we were able consequently to negotiate a discount on these.

Print Quality. For Issue 1 of Volume 38 (March 2011), a slightly lower cost per issue was negotiated with the printers, but unfortunately the editors were not warned that the print quality would be unacceptably inferior. The experiment was terminated.

2. Editorial Arrangements

Expenditure. The Society has spent $245.70 to cover Amie Albrecht’s flights to the 2011 Council Meeting. A small amount of money will be requested for marking relief for Amie Albrecht in 2011.

Support for Editors. Of the money earmarked by the AustMS to fund teaching relief and Gazette-related expenses, little has been used by the Gazette editors. These funds are held by the AustMS and disbursed when a request is approved by the Society. The current arrangements are problematic because it is often not practical to use money allocated for teaching relief and there are too few opportunities for it to be sufficiently useful. This also does not provide for an editor in a research-only position.

Page 48 of 53 Professional service, while commended by universities as employers, is not always viewed as a University activity and, as such, is not included within workload calculations. Financial assistance provided as an honorarium would support the editors in other ways, including replacing professional development funds that might otherwise have been generated through other activities (e.g. consulting or scholarly publications) that are displaced by Gazette-related work. It is important that the work of all editors be valued and supported, else it will be difficult to recruit and retain editors. One small gesture of appreciation would be free membership of the Society for all AustMS editors during their terms as editors.

3. Content

Technical articles • Unsolicited submissions of technical articles continue, albeit at a diminishing rate. • The Gazette Advisory Board (the AustMS President, Jon Borwein (Newcastle), Kerry Landman (Melbourne) and Mathai Varghese (Adelaide)) has maintained the supply of invited technical papers to the Gazette by inviting contributions from eminent mathematicians. The members of the Advisory Board also read these articles and suggest changes as they see fit. The purpose of the invited papers is to provide brief introductions to non- specialists in particular areas of mathematics. The editors suspect that not all of these articles serve that purpose, but there has been little feedback from other readers of the Gazette. • Short articles by student prize-winners and Lift-off Fellows have been published in most issues since July 2010.

Other content • News is regularly communicated to Gazette readers by the President (in the President’s Column), the Secretary (in the AustMS section), the AMSI Director (in AMSI News), and through the General News (including upcoming Conferences and Visitors). • Ivan Guo’s Puzzle Corner is popular and attracts several high-quality submissions each issue. • Mathematical Minds, a column which presents the people behind the mathematics, has taken a hiatus since May 2011, simply because of the time required by the editors to assemble this column. • We continue to request and publish reports from Society-funded conferences. • Another potentially time-consuming activity is editing book reviews. While many of those we receive are quickly edited, some require significant editing before they are publishable. We are considering compiling guidelines for writing book reviews.

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Requests to re-publish articles. There has been an increase in the number of requests we receive (particularly from Asian society newsletters) to re-publish articles from the Gazette. Our proposed course of action is to advise the requesting editor to first seek permission from the author of the original work, then permission from the AustMS (through either the Society Office or directly from the Gazette Editors). The Gazette Editors can then send the original source files and advise what type of acknowledgement should be given. Finally, a proof should be sent to the Gazette Editors so that we can check that due acknowledgement has been given.

Amie Albrecht and Kevin White Editors September 2011

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Ross Moore

September 6, 2011

In 2011 we have seen other members making use of the features available on the AustMS website. Several projects have now found a home there. As well as these, described below, other activity has been taking place.

A. AustMS ‘Twitter’ account; G. “Counting Australia In”, free chapter; B. Early Career Workshop lecture slides; H. Revised webpages for “The Bulletin”; C. Accounts to use the Wiki; I. Change of ANZIAM webmaster; D. Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter; J. Alf van der Poorten Fellowships; E. Lift-off fellowships; K. Gavin Brown “Best Paper” Prize; F. ALTC Professional Development Pro- L. OJS migration; gram modules; M. Calendar entries.

Each of these items is discussed in some detail within the following sections, ordered roughly sequentially in date/time-order of the work being done.

A. ‘Twitter’ account An account @AustMS for ‘Twitter’ posts was set up by Andrew Crisp (Sydney), Birgit Loch (Swinburne) and Ivan Guo (Sydney), in October 2010. Their most recent ‘tweets’ are listed on the AustMS entry page, with active links to http://twitter.com/#!/AustMS/ to read each posting. Replies to ‘tweets’ go to Nalini Joshi.

B. Early Career Workshop lecture slides Lecture slides from the 2010 Early Career Workshop, held in the Adelaide Hills, are available on the website, at http://www.austms.org.au/Early+Career+Researchers. It is expected that this page will be extended with documents from each year’s ECR Workshop, as or shortly after it happens.

C. Accounts to use the Wiki The AustMS website Wiki was made available to members for general use. Emails were sent out to all registered members in late October 2010, advising members of their login-name and initial password. Some appropriate documentation and ‘Help’ files are available on the site, to explain the various levels of creation and editing of Wiki pages. The Office handles new members and changes of contact details. Various projects have already made use of this facility, so that now there is content on the website prepared by people other than the Gazette editors and web-editor (i.e., myself).

1 Page 51 of 53 D. Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter In response to a request to spread news about the new quarterly journal ‘Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter’, a page was added to our website. This page has links to the Newsletter’s website and first few issues. (viz. http://www.austms.org.au/Asia+Pacific+Mathematics+Newsletter)

E. Lift-off fellowships The Wiki pages for handling applications for ‘Lift-off’ fellowships, and for displaying the names of successful applicants, has been available since mid-December 2010, thanks to work done by Andrew Mathas (U Sydney). The ‘Lift-off Fellowship Information’ is accessible under the Resources menu, while the list of ‘Lift-off’ fellows is under the ‘About Us/Awards’ submenu. Both of these pages link to the other, so either route may be used to access both the awardees and relevant information. Fellowship applications are handled through an email address: lift-off@austms.org.au.

F. ALTC Professional Development Program modules Thanks to hard work by Victoria (Tori) Vu and others, there is now a collection of Professional Development modules hosted on the AustMS site, under the Resources menu. These modules are the main output of the ALTC-funded Project: “Effective Teaching, Effective Learning in the Quantitative Disciplines”, led by Leigh Wood and Nalini Joshi. This PD Program includes a file gallery and Discussion Forum, as well as the webpages and other documents related to each module. Initially the modules were available only to candidates partaking of the PD Program. Now, after the initial batch of candidates and with the modules being essentially complete, most of the site is available for public access. Only the documents related specifically to testing are require special access, as do the archive of previous discussions from throughout the testing period. The site can be accesses as: http://www.austms.org.au/Professional+Development+Unit Work has being progressing since December 2010, with the final opening to public access occurring in August 2011.

G. “Counting Australia In”, free chapter Following discussions concerning copyright permissions with the books publishers, Halstead Press, there is now a link to a “free chapter” of Graeme Cohen’s book “Counting Australia In”. Hopefully this will help to increase sales, by giving a taste of the kind of historical information concerning mathematics in Australia, that is documented within this book.

H. Revised webpages for “The Bulletin” In February 2011, Don Taylor provided revised information for the webpages advertising the So- ciety’s journal “The Bulletin’ of the Australian Mathematical Society”. This included updated LATEX style files, more in line with what CUP uses in the final copy. Recently (September 2011) it has been suggested that “The Journal”’s website needs a similar update.

I. Change of ANZIAM webmaster In March 2011 the rˆoleof webmaster for the ANZIAM website was taken up by Roslyn Hickson (ANU), replacing Simon Clarke (Monash) who had been doing most of the work on that site since 2008.

2 Page 52 of 53 J. Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowships The ‘Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowships’ were instigated in April 2011. A webpage describ- ing the intention of these awards, along with eligibility criteria and links to the Application form, was created by Andrew Mathas (U Sydney), and accessed via the Resources menu. Similar to his earlier work with the “Lift Off” fellowships, there is also a page for listing successful applicants, accessed via the ‘About Us/Awards’ submenu. Both of these pages link to the other, so either route may be used to access both the awardees and relevant information.

K. Gavin Brown “Best Paper” Prize In February 2011 Steering Committee supported putting a resolution to Council to establish a “Best Paper Prize”. Nominations for the first award were issued for June 2011, and the successful nominee is expected to be announced at this meeting. A website will be setup, in a similar way to those for the ‘Lift Off’ fellowships and the ‘Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowships’. These pages should be ready by the time of the 2011 AustMS meeting.

L. OJS migration Work was begun at the end of June 2011 to determine how to migrate the Society’s use of the online Open Journal System (OJS) installation and databases away from their current home at UQ, to be hosted elsewhere allowing easier updating and management. Following recommendations from Hank Szeto, who originally setup the AustMS website and who is a vital participant in its ongoing upkeep, the decision was taken to use ‘DreamHost VPS’ (http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/) as the hosting service, rather than try to set it up as an extension of the AustMS site itself. As of early September 2011, an initial migration is essentially complete, with access to the tem- porary (development) site available at: http://dev.journal.austms.org.au/. Following exten- sive testing, the final URL should become (shorter & simpler) http://journal.austms.org.au/. More details on this migration are expected in Tony Roberts’ report.

M. Calendar entries The Society’s website currently lists 63 separate events within the year 2011, using the online ‘Calendar’ facility; though a few more are likely to be added before the year’s end. This is a notable decrease from 2010 (76 events) despite the multiple entries due to the AMSI lecturer tour in February, and the Mahler lecturer tour in August. Much of the activity this year has been due to: • AMSI and Mahler lecture tours; • CARMA workshops and Access Grid events; • other Access Grid events; • the usual annual or biennial events, both in Australia and New Zealand: the AustMS and Anziam meetings, MISG, CTAC and specialist conferences on either side of the Tasman. Each year there is usually one or two ‘super’-Congress events, held outside of the local area, such as this year’s ICIAM 2011 in Vancouver, and associated satellite event CT 2011 in Category Theory. It is still the case that I am not receiving advance information about workshops and other confer- ences which receive funding or sponsorship from the AustMS and AMSI. Many of these are only added to the calendar after I happen to do a Google search, or specifically visit the AMSI website to check for anything new. Thus it can be that some events are not added to the calendar until after it is too late for the entry to have any effect on attendance.

Ross Moore, web-editor for AustMS

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