The

Australian

Mathematical

Society

(Inc)

Agenda for the

one hundred and twenty-first

Council meeting

with

Minutes of the previous two Council meetings and Agenda papers

The Drawing Room University House Australian National University

Sunday 4th December 2016

Page 1 of 78 The Australian Mathematical Society Incorporated

Council

The one-hundred-and-twenty-first meeting of the Council of the Australian Mathe- matical Society will be held in the Drawing Room, University House on Sunday 4th December 2016, immediately following the AMPAI Annual General Meeting (which starts at 11am and which Council members are expected to attend). Agenda

*1. Apologies

*2. Welcomes

*3. Approval of agenda Council is invited to star items for discussion, to receive unstarred reports and to approve recommendations in unstarred items.

*4. (i) Confirmation of the minutes of the one-hundred-and-nineteenth Coun- cil meeting. See pages 17 to 35 of 78 in the agenda papers. (ii) Confirmation of the minutes of the one-hundred-and-twentieth Coun- cil meeting. See page 36 of 78 in the agenda papers.

*5. Business arising from the minutes

*(i) Program Review The pressure of other duties forced Professor Miklavcic to withdraw from chairing the working party to devise a revised Society Program Review scheme. After unsuccessfully exploring other possibilities the President o↵ered to take over the task. (ii) Mathsfest At the time of preparing this agenda, the proposal to substantially in- crease international participation in the Society’s annual conference, by running signiificant international workshops on either side of the 2016 conference, has not achieved the desired e↵ect. It is therefore proposed that a decision on future funding of such events be delayed until a full review of the 2016 meetings has been conducted. (iii) Increasing the Society’s interaction with undergraduates The ACE network hook-up to explore possibilities, discussed in item 14 (v) of the one-hundred-and-nineteenth meeting, has not yet taken place but is planned for Semester 1 2017.

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Page 2 of 78 *(iv) A good practice scheme to guide the implementation of gender equity policies At its one-hundred-and-nineteenth meeting Council suggested that the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group adapt for Australia the London Mathematical Society’s Good Practice Scheme. The WIMSIG Executive Committee has discussed this suggestion and has decided that WIMSIG will not undertake this project. Reasons are provided in the group’s report to Council, on page 51 of 87.

If Council is still keen on this project, then the Special Interest Group suggests that we set up a committee for this express purpose. The Group believes that such a project would be most successful if undertaken by the Society as a whole, not only by WIMSIG. WIMSIG would be supportive of such a committee, and would be happy to contribute (for instance by recommending potential participants), but will not be taking responsibil- ity for the project. 6 chair a Aidan woking party . *6. Reports from the Society’s Ocers

*6.1 President’s Report to Council (Professor T.R. Marchant) See pages 2to4of53intheAGMandCouncilreports,alsoincludedaspages37 to 39 of 78 in the agenda papers. 6.2 Secretary’s Report to Council (A. Prof. P.J. Stacey) See pages 5 to 15 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. *6.3 Treasurer’s Report to Council, Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements (Dr A. Howe) *(i) Treasurer’s Report See pages 16 to 20 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports, also included as pages 40 to 44 of 78 in the agenda papers, with supplementary information on page 45.

(ii) Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2016 See pages 21 to 30 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports, also in- cluded as pages 46 to 55 of 78 in the agenda papers. As a result of the changed financial year, the auditor’s comparison with his most recent prior audit is not very useful. For that reason the 2014-15 audited statement is included, for Council’s information, as pages 56 to 66 of 78 in the agenda papers.

It is the business of the AGM, rather than Council, to receive audited statements.

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Page 3 of 78 *7. Meetings *7.1 Reports on meetings held (i) Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting, 2015. See pages 2 to 3 of 87 in the reports to Council. *(ii) Early Career Workshop 2015. See page 4 of 87 in the reports to Council. The report contains the suggestion to discontinue the small Early Career Workshops in odd years, of which the 2015 workshop was the first. (iii) ANZIAM Early Career Workshop 2016. See pages 5 to 10 of 87 in the reports to Council. 7.2 Annual Meeting 2016 (i) Sixtieth Annual Meeting, 2016. See pages 11 to 12 of 87 in the reports to Council. (ii) Early Career Workshop 2016. See page13 of 87 in the reports to Council. 7.3 Future Meetings (i) The sixty-first annual meeting of the Society be held at Macquarie University from Tuesday 12th to Friday 15th December 2017, with Professor P. Smith and Professor X. Duong as Co-Directors. (See pages 14 to 15 of 87 in the reports to Council.) (ii) It will be recommended to the AGM that the sixty-second annual meeting of the Society be held at The University of Adelaide from Tuesday 4th to Friday 8th December 2018, with Dr T. Leistner as Director. 7.4 Report from the Vice-President, Annual Conferences (i) The report from Professor V. Gaitsgory is on page 16 of 87 in the reports to Council. *(ii) Early Career Lecturer. Since 2009 one of the plenary speakers at the Society’s annual conference has been designated the Early Ca- reer Lecturer and has been selected by the organisers of the Early Career Workshop. In early August the Program Advisory Board for the 2017 conference asked the Secretary if we now have an Early Ca- reer Lecturer every year or every second year, when we have a bigger Yes ECR event. It also asked if the Program Advisory Board could ap- proach the early career workshop organisers with a suggestion about apossibleEarlyCareerLecturer.

An email discussion then took place between the Vice-President (An- nual Conferences), the Secretary, the Chair of ANZIAM and early career workshop organisers. In the discussion it was asked if the Early Career Lecturer should also speak at the associated Early Ca- Yes reer Workshop. Extracts from the emails are provided in page 67 of 78 in the agenda papers.

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Page 4 of 78 From information provided by the Chair of ANZIAM and the ANZIAM Early Career Workshop organiser it was clarified that the J.H. Michell Medal winner is e↵ectively an early career lecturer at the ANZIAM meeting and no further Early Career Lecturer is required. Further- more the organisers of the workshops hosted by ANZIAM have chosen not to have technical presentations during the workshop.

The questions to be addressed by Council therefore relate to the Society’s annual conference and the associated early career worksops, as follows. (i) Should the Early Career Lecturer be selected by the Conference Program Advisory Board or the Society’s Early Career Represen- tatives (who organise the early career workshops)? If the former, should an Early Career Representative be added to the Program Advisory Board? (ii) Should there be an Early Career Lecturer every year or just in even years, when there is an associated full early career work- shop? (ii) Should the Early Career Lecturer necessarily talk at the associ- ated early career workshop?

*7.5 3 Financial assistance for conferences *(a) Funding for annual conferences The Vice-President (Annual Con- ferences) seeks advice from Council on an appropriate ceiling for reg- istration fees for the annual conference, noting the capitation fee for each registrant at the Society’s annual conference of twenty-five per- cent of the ordinary membership fee of the Society (proposed to be $138 in 2017, corresponding to a capitation fee of $34.50). Early reg- istration fees for ordinary members since 2010 have been $320, $350, $375, $400, $400, $500, $500. Council resolved in 2005 that confer- ence registration fees for the Society’s Annual Meeting should not change more than 15% from one year to the next, unless otherwise approved by Council. *(b) 2018 Annual Conference Council needs to approve seeding money and funds for plenary speak- ers for the 2018 Annual Conference, conditional upon a suitable draft budget. For the 2017 (61st) conference (already approved) $35,000 was approved, of which $25,000 was for plenary speakers, and it was requested that the conference budget should be set so that the ad- vance could be returned. *(c) Budget for minor 2017 Early Career Workshop If it is decided to continue the early career workshops in odd years, Council needs to approve a budget allocation for a 2017 workshop. As reported on page 4 of 87 in the reports to Council, $3519.97 was spent in 2015, including $3080 for catering: excluding dinner and $347 for dinner.

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Page 5 of 78 *(d) Special Interest Meetings Council needs to confirm total limits and individual meeting limits for the financial years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 and set them for 2019-2020. For the financial years 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 the total limit is $35,000 and the normal limit for each meeting is $6,000. *7.6 Financial assistance for student attendance at conferences i An allocation for the 2016-17 session needs to be determined for the Student Conference Support Scheme. The allocation for 2015-16 was $15,000 and, on page 31 of 87 in the reports to Council, the committee requests $16,000 for 2016-17. *7.7 Support for IMO attendance At its one-hundred-and-first meeting in 2006, Council resolved “That a continuing amount of $1,500 per annum be provided to the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee for the support of the Australian IMO teams.” Prior to that time, allocations were made on an annual ba- sis, rising from $300 in 1981 to $1,500 in 2004. In 2001 the commitment of $1,200 was subject to AAMT contributing at least $1,800 and in 2003 the commitment of $1,200 was subject to a matching commitment from AAMT.

The Society’s annual contribution to support Australian students to at- tend the IMO has remained at $1,500 per annum since 2004 whereas that from AAMT has risen to $3,000, to support 6 students at $500 each. Following discussion between the Secretary, President and Treasurer, it is suggested to Council that the allocation revert to being made on an annual basis and be $3,000 for 2017. *7.8 Science meets Parliament , In 2016 Council provided up to $1,500 per person to support registration costs, suitable accommodation and economy class airfares for two mem- bers selected as Society delegates to Science meets Parliament in 2017.

Council is invited to determine what, if any, funding should be provided in 2017. *7.9 Conference support rules The Special Interest Meeting rules say “These grants are intended for once-o↵meetings and not for regular meetings. If it is intended to hold regular meetings on a specific subject area, the organisers should consider forming a Special Interest Group of the Society.”

During the last year two Special Interest Meeting applications were re- ceived from Special Interest Groups: for the meeting ”Applied Proba- bility at the Rock” and for the meeting ”Number Theory Down Under” (proposed as a Mathsfest meeting). Both applications were supported by AMSI. The President, Secretary and Treasurer sought advice from Steer- ing Committee on whether these should be classified as regular meetings,

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Page 6 of 78 given that they were larger in scope than normal meetings of Special In- terest Groups.

Steering Committee confirmed that Special Interest Groups cannot ex- pect regular additional funding from the Special Interest Meeting budget, but can occasionally apply under this scheme for special meetings with more than the usual number of international participants. However, the funding already provided to the Special Interest Group should be taken into account.

Council is requested to endorse this interpretation and to specify how frequently a Special Interest Group should be eligible to receive Special Interest Meeting funding for such exceptional meetings.

*8. Journals and Publications

*8.1 Report from Editors’ Committee (Professor G. Hocking) This committee meets at 9:15 a.m. on Sunday 4th December 2016.

8.2 Reports from the Editors (i) Journal of AustMS (Professor G.A. Willis) See pages 31 to 36 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (ii) ANZIAM Journal (Professor A.P. Bassom and Professor G. Hocking) See page 37 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (iii) Bulletin (Professor J.H. Loxton) See pages 38 to 39 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (iv) Gazette (Professor S.A. Morris and Associate Professor D.T. Yost) See pages 40 to 41 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (v) Electronic Editor (Professor A.J. Roberts) See page 42 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (vi) Lecture Series (Professor C.E. Praeger) See page 43 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. (vii) Web Site (Dr R.R. Moore) See pages 44 to 45 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports.

8.3 Terms of Oce of Editors The present editors and their terms of oce are as given:

Bulletin Professor J.H. Loxton (31/3/2017) Journal of AustMS Prof G.A. Willis (30/6/2019) ANZIAM Journal Prof A.P. Bassom & Prof G. Hocking (31/12/2018) ANZIAM J. Supplement Prof A.J. Roberts (31/12/2018) Gazette Prof S.A. Morris & Assoc. Prof. D.T. Yost (31/12/2017) Lecture Series Prof C.E. Praeger (31/12/2016) Web Site Dr R.R. Moore (31/12/2018)

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Page 7 of 78 At its one-hundred-and-nineteenth meeting Council resolved that Pro- fessor J. Ramagge be appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Lecture Note Series from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019.

The Nominations and Publications Committee recommends that the term of o↵ce of the the Bulletin Editor be extended to 31st March 2020.

9. Reports from Divisions

9.1 Report from ANZIAM (Professor M.R. Myerscough) See pages 46 to 50 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports. 9.2 Report from ANZAMP (Assoc. Prof. T.M. Garoni) See pages 51 to 53 of 53 in the AGM and Council reports.

. *10. Reports from the Society’s Subcommittees

*10.1 Standing Committee on Mathematics Education ( Assoc. Pro- fessor B.I. Loch) (i) The Committee’s report is on pages 17 to 19 of 87 in the reports to Council. ? *(ii) In July Council approved the resolution “That up to $8,000 be pro- completions vided to support updating of the professional development unit E↵ec- not ( asf) tive teaching, e↵ective learning in the quantitative disciplines.” Dur- - many it ing discussion, several members pointed out that in the long run do refer to ... - people stop-gap allocations won’t maintain an e↵ective or up-to-date unit. tracking Council is therefore invited to further discuss the ongoing funding of - difficulty ! the unit. access *10.2 Accreditation Committee (Assoc. Professor B. Sims) (i) The Committee’s report is on pages 20 to 21 of 87 in the reports to Council. *(ii) The report contains the recommendation that Council establish a working party including representatives from industry and the teach- ing profession to investigate ways to increase the utility and popu- larity of Accreditation by the Australian Mathematical Society espe- cially at levels other than that of Fellow, including the possibility of new, or rebadged, levels of accreditation.

The President, as Chair of the Membership and Marketing Commit- tee, has agreed to the matter being referred to that committee. *(iii) The President recommends to Council that henceforth members of the Accreditation Committee should be Fellows of the Society. 10.3 Nominations and Publications Committee (Assoc. Prof. P.J. Stacey, Secretary) The Committee’s report is on page 22 of 87 in the reports to Council.

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Page 8 of 78 10.4 Mahler Lectureship Committee (Assoc. Prof. M.G. Jackson) The Committee’s report is on page 23 of 87 in the reports to Council. *10.5 Fellowship Committee ( Assoc. Prof. D.A. Pask) (i) The Committee’s report is on pages 24 to 30 of 87 in the reports to Council. *(ii) The Committee notes that the current funding system for the Lift- they're O↵Fellowships may not be sustainable in the longer term (under the not

current conditions) and asks Council to review the funding arrange- doing a good ments as soon as possible. Secretarial note At its meeting last year Council resolved that the job deciding Lift-o↵Fellowship scheme be continued, with an allocation of $35,000 between ayearforthefinancialyears2016-2017,2017-2018and2018-2019, them ! to fund up to seven fellowships per year, each of up to $5,000. In implementing this decision, in consultation with the Secretary, the committee’s emphasis has been on the allocation of $35,000 a year rather than the number of fellowships. *(iii) During the financial year 2015/16 an unsuccesssful applicant asked for feedback on their Lift-O↵application, which they duly received from the Committee. The applicant then asked if they could resubmit No an amended application. The Committee was divided on this issue, . and seeks clarification from Council for future reference. *(iv) Students who enquire about living expenses from the Committee are now told that a reasonable rate would be a pro rata version of the current standard (APA) PhD stipend. In the future the Commit- tee believes that there should be specific comment to this e↵ect on the Lift-O↵section of the AustMS website and asks the Council for approval. 10.6 Appeal Committee No appeals were received in 2015-2016. *10.7 Student Conference Support Committee (ProfessorP.Broad- bridge) : (i) The Committee’s report is on pages 31 to 33 of 87 in the reports to Council. *(ii) The committee suggests that it might be helpful if the Society had 7.7 some policy on partial or zero support for overseas student applicants, for example Australians enrolled in overseas universities. 10.8 Committee on Membership (ProfessorT.R.Marchant)

See page 34 of 87 in the reports to Council. *11. Reports from Special Interest Groups *11.1 Victorian Algebra Group (i) The Group’s report is on pages 35 to 38 of 87 in the reports to Council.

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Page 9 of 78 *(ii) The Group requests a change of name to Australian Algebra Group. *11.2 The Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (i) The report from the Special Interest Group is in pages 39 to 68 of 87 in the reports to Council. Rate can *(ii) The report foreshadows the expiry of Professor Joshi’s Georgina Sweet Laureate Professorship before the 2018 Society meeting and contribute requests the Society to consider supporting the Women in Mathe- some . matics Dinner into the future by including it in the event budgets for future annnual meetings of the Society. industry IAMSIIAust MS ?? 30%?? *(iii) Group expenses On page 67 of 87 in the reports to Council there is a request for $3,200 for Group expenses, including travel money to attend events for advocacy, for the 2016-17 session. In 2015-16 the request, which was granted, was for $3,200. *(iv) Cheryl E. Praeger Travel Awards. Council needs to authorise a $l2k budget for the financial year 2017-18. $20,000 is requested on page

67 of 87 in the reports to Council. In 2016-17 the request, which was awarded . granted, was for $20,000. *(v) Anne Penfold Street Awards Council needs to authorise a budget $1500 for the financial year 2017-18. $3,000 is requested on page 67 of 87 in

. the reports to Council. In 2016-17 the request, which was granted, awarded was for $3,000. L more from 11.3 The Applied Probability Special Interest Group money Kate The Group’s report is on page 69 of 87 in the reports to Council. . 11.4 The Mathematics Education Special Interest Group The Group has not submitted a report. 11.5 The Number Theory Down Under Special Interest Group The Group’s report is on pages 70 to 72 of 87 in the reports to Council. 11.6 The Optimization and Computation Special Interest Group The Group’s report is on pages 73 to 78 of 87 in the reports to Council.

12. Report from the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences (Professor P. J. Forrester) See page 79 of 87 in the reports to Council.

13. Other Reports

13.1 AustMS Public Ocer See the report from Dr P.J. Cossey on page 80 of 87 in the reports to Council.

*14. Report of Steering Committee

(i) A meeting was held on 30th November, after the preparation of this agenda.

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Page 10 of 78 Drupal? (ii) Steering Committee is pursuing the establishment of a working party to to investigate possibilities for modernising the Society’s website and Desperately making content entry less technical. chair . need a . (ii) A general email was sent out requesting input on a possible move to a citation-based ERA evaluation for pure mathematics but there was no Note ! consensus in the responses. Steering Committee therefore agreed that it was not appropriate to put a submission to the ARC advocating a change from peer-reviewed assessment in pure mathematics. Benchmarking data is being sought from the ARC to inform discussion of the ERA results ⇒ for Mathematical Physics.

Wednesday . *(iv) Members of Steering Committee provided input into a submission to the Australian Research Council on the proposed measurement of research engagement and impact submitted by the Society, AMSI and the the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. The submission, which was based on discussions at an ACEMS/AMSI Workshop on Measuring Research Engagement and Impact in the Math- ematical Sciences, is included as pages 68 to 73 of 78 in the agenda papers. (v) It was agreed that the Society should join in sponsoring the event in honour of Jon Borwein to be held at the Institute Henri Poincar´e.

15 Resolutions of Council since September 2015 Since the 120th Council meeting, held on Tuesday 29th September 2015, Coun- cil has electronically approved the following resolutions.

(i) [Dec 2015] That Professor J.H. Rubinstein be appointed as the Chair of the George Szekeres Medal Committee for 2016 and that Dr R.S. Anderssen be ap- pointed as a member for 2016 and 2018, to replace Professor P.G. Hall. (ii) [Feb 2016] That applicants for Fellow shall normally have 1) a Masters or Doctoral degree from a recognized university or college, which includes a major component in an area of mathematics; 2) a senior professional standing and been employed for at least five years in a relevant position or positions, with a major focus in an area of math- ematics, within the university, government, industry or business sectors; 3) made substantial contributions to the mathematical sciences in one or more of the areas a) research, b) teaching and scholarship, c) leadership, service and management or d) industry and innovation. (iii) [Apr 2016] That the committee on membership become the Membership and Market- ing Committee, with the terms of reference proposed by the committee and with between five and eight members, of whom at least two hold non-university appointments. The Chair of the Accreditation Commit- tee shall hold ex-ocio membership and other members (except for initial members) should have a two year term with the possibility of reappoint- ment.

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Page 11 of 78 (iv) [Apr 2016] That Professor T.R. Marchant be appointed as the Chair of the Member- ship and Marketing Committee until the Society’s 2018 Annual General Meeting, that Professor L.M. Batten and Dr M.E. Roberts be appointed as members to the 2018 AGM and that Professor G.E. Prince, Dr J. Roumeliotis and Dr E.J. Tonkes be appointed as members until the 2017 AGM. (v) [Apr 2016] That Professor P.J. Forrester be appointed as the member of Steering Committee elected by Council. (vi) [Apr 2016] That Professor N. Joshi be thanked for her oustanding work as a member of Council and Steering Committee from 2005 as Elected Vice-President, President-elect, President, Immediate-past-President and, during her pe- riod as Chair of the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences, the member of Steering Committee elected by Council. (vii) [Jul 2016] That up to $8,000 be provided to support updating of the professional development unit E↵ective teaching, e↵ective learning in the quantitative disciplines. (viii) [Aug 2016] That Professor S.O. Warnaar be appointed as a member of the Gavin Brown Prize Committee until the 2016 AGM.

16. New Council 2016/2017

16.1 Following paragraph 34(iii) of the Constitution, Council needs to appoint the Secretary and Treasurer for the new session. The Secretary and Treasurer have both indicated that they are willing to serve for a further session. 16.2 Following a call for nominations for the next session of Council, made in the Gazette Vol. 3 No. 2, May 2016, a general email to members and subsequent activity by the Nominations and Publication Committee to find a nominee from Tasmania, the nominations received exactly matched the vacancies. The distribution by States of the elected Council members satisfies the requirements of the Constitution.

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Page 12 of 78 Subject to Council approval of those marked with an asterisk, the members of the 2016/2017 Council will be: Ocers

President: K.A.Smith-Miles Immediate-past-President T.R. Marchant Elected Vice-President: J.A.G. Roberts Secretary: * P.J. Stacey Treasurer: *A. Howe Vice President (Chair, ANZIAM) M.R. Myerscough Vice President (Chair, ANZAMP) T.M. Garoni

Ordinary Members

NewMembers CurrentMembers

A.P. Bassom (2019) J.E. Licata (2019) A.C.M. Thomas (2019) J. de Gier (2017) H.S. Sidhu (2017) A. Sims (2017) N.G. Bean (2018) A. Devillers (2018) D.M. Donovan (2018) Ex ocio Members

Vice-President (Annual Conferences) V. Gaitsgory Representative of ANZIAM J. Piantadosi Representative of ANZAMP V. Mangazeev Chair, Standing Committee on Mathematics Education B.I. Loch Public Ocer of AustMS & AMPAI P.J. Cossey Member elected to Steering Committee *P.J. Forrester Editors: Gazette S.A. Morris/D.T. Yost Journal AustMS G.A. Willis ANZIAM J. A.P. Bassom/G. Hocking ANZIAM J. Supplement A.J. Roberts Bulletin J.H. Loxton Lecture Series J. Ramagge Web Site R.R. Moore

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Page 13 of 78 17. Awards 17.1 Australian Mathematical Society Medal (i) The 2016 AustMS Medal Areportappearsonpage81of87inthereportstoCouncil.

The Committee was: P.G. Bouwknegt (Chair); N.C. Wormald (Out- going Chair); P.J. Forrester (Incoming Chair); C.M. O’Keefe (one year term). (ii) Composition of the 2017 AustMS Medal Committee The Nominations and Publications Committee recommends that Dr C.M. O’Keefe be appointed as Incoming Chair and Professor A. Hen- derson as committee member for one term. 17.2 The George Szekeres Medal This medal is only awarded in even years. (i) The 2016 George Szekeres Medal Areportappearsonpage82 of 87 in the reports to Council. The Committee is: J.H. Rubinstein (Chair); Dr R.S. Anderssen (vice Outgoing Chair); Professor C.E. Praeger ( Incoming Chair); Profes- sor R.L. Street (one term). Composition of the 2018 George Szekeres Medal Committee The Incoming Chair and member for one term will be appointed in 2017. 17.3 The Gavin Brown Prize

(i) The 2016 Gavin Brown Prize Areportappearsonpages83to 84 of 87. in the reports to Council. The Committee was: J.F. Grotowski (Chair); S.O. Warnaar (vice Outgoing Chair); J. Ramagge (Incoming Chair); A.P. Bassom (one year term). (ii) Composition of the 2017 Gavin Brown Prize Committee The Nominations and Publications Committee recommends that Pro- fessor S.O. Warnaar be appointed as Incoming Chair and Professor P. Solomon as committee member for one year. 17.4 The B.H. Neumann Prize (i) The report of the 2015 B.H. Neumann Prize Committee is on pages 85 to 87 of 87 in the reports to Council.

(ii) Following Resolution 87/20, the President and Secretary advise Coun- cil that the 2016 B.H. Neumann Prize Selection Committee is to be chaired by Assoc. Prof. K.A. Seaton, and will consist of her nomi- nees. (iii) Prize value The value of the prize for 2017 needs to be determined. The figure of $1,000 (or $600 each if shared) is suggested for approval by Council.

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Page 14 of 78 17.5 The Mahoney-Neumann-Room Prize This prize will be awarded for the first time in 2016.

18. Committee Membership: Elections to Committees of Council AlistofthemembershipofcommitteesofCouncilistobefoundonpages74to 77 of 78 in the agenda papers, incorporating recommendations to Council from the Nominations and Publications Committee. Council is invited to approve these recommendations.

19 AustMS Membership matters Subscriptions for 2017 The Treasurer proposes that the subscriptions be: Ordinary Member $138 Sustaining Member $276 Reciprocal Member $69 Reduced Rate Member $35 Education Member $69 Retired Member $35 Early Career Member $69 Life Membership at Retirement for Members over 55 years $690

Existing Ordinary Members who renew their subscriptions before January 1st 2017 are entitled to a rebate of $5, which should be deducted from their pay- ments. All new Ordinary Members are entitled to pay their first year’s sub- scription at the concession rate of $69 (no rebate). Subscription for an Institutional Member: $1859 In addition the Treasurer proposes the following prices of journals to Members: Ordinary Sustaining Reciprocal Reduced Rate/ Member Member Member Retired Member Education Memb. Journal AustMS Paper copy (ResidentinAust.) $113.30 $113.30 $113.30 $56.65 (Resident overseas) $103 $103 $103 $51.50

ANZIAM Journal Paper copy (ResidentinAust.) $96.80 $96.80 $96.80 $48.40 (Resident overseas) $88 $88 $88 $44

Bulletin (ResidentinAust.) $107.80 $107.80 $107.80 $53.90 (Resident overseas) $98 $98 $98 $49 The Journals produced by AMPAI are subjected to GST. The Gazette is supplied free to all Members paying subscriptions.

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Page 15 of 78 20. Honorary Membership of the Society The President and Secretary recommend that, in accord with the guidelines presented to Council at its one-hundred-and-ninth meeting, the following mem- ber be awarded Honorary Membership of the Society.

Professor A.L. Carey FAA

*21. Any other business

*(i) Science meets Business Science and Technology Australia now organises annual meetings between scientists and business leaders, to supplement the annual meetings with politicians. As with Science meets Parliament,eachmemberofScience and Technology Australia can send two delegates. The first meeting, in 2015, was in Sydney and the second, in 2016, was in Melbourne. More information about the latter is contained in page 78 of 78 in the agenda papers.

Council is requested to discuss if the Society should support delegates to the 2017 meeting and, if so, the amount to be provided. In 2016 Council provided up to $1,500 per person to support registration costs, suitable accommodation and economy class airfares for two members selected as Society delegates to Science meets Parliament. However Science meets Business has been a single day meeting.

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Page 16 of 78 DRAFT 119th Council Minutes 1

The Australian Mathematical Society (Inc)

Minutes of the one-hundred-and-nineteenth meeting of the Council of the Australian Mathematical Society Incorporated, held in Room 1.01, Tonsley Campus, Flinders University, South Australia on Sunday 27th September 2015, commencing at 11.15 a.m.

Present:

T.R. Marchant (Chair), P.J. Stacey (Secretary), A. Howe (Treasurer), J.M. Borwein, J. de Gier, J.A. Filar, A. Henderson, L.K. Forbes, V. Gaitsgory, A. Glen, G. Hocking, N. Joshi, B.I. Loch, J.H. Loxton, S. Morrison, J. Piantadosi, A.J. Roberts, H. Sidhu, A. Sims, J.G. Sumner, S.O. Warnaar.

G.E. Prince attended by invitation.

1. Apologies: A.P. Bassom, P.J. Cossey, P.J. Forrester, D. Mallet, S.A. Morris, R.R. Moore, C.E. Praeger, G.A. Willis, D.T. Yost.

2. Welcome The President, Professor T.R. Marchant, welcomed new Council members and those attending by invitation.

3. Approval of agenda The agenda was approved, unstarred reports were received and recommendations in unstarred items were approved.

4. (i) Confirmation of the minutes of the 117th Council meeting The minutes of the 117th Council meeting were confirmed. (ii) Confirmation of the minutes of the 118th Council meeting The minutes of the 118th Council meeting were confirmed.

5. Business arising from the minutes

(i) Program Review The President reported that, following a discussion by Steering Committee, he had requested Professor S.J. Miklavcic to chair a working party to de- velop a revised Society Program Review scheme. Professor Miklavcic had presented a proposal to Council, outlining the tasks which he envisaged the working party undertaking and asking for Council to provide guidance on four discussion points.

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The third task identified was to collate data pertaining to all relevant mathe- matics degrees or mathematics-dominant degrees o↵ered by Australian uni- versities. Professor Prince pointed out that AMSI, as part of its annual discipline profile, collected much of these data.

It was generally agreed that there should be a single set of guidelines for all mathematics degrees, that there should be a distinction between bach- elor, honours and coursework masters degrees and that higher degrees by research should not be considered, although the working party could choose to consider articulation paths into research degrees. The highest priority pertains to bachelors degrees and a staged approach could be adopted, in which other course types are added at a later stage. It was noted that it would be possible to accredit departments rather than degree programs, but that the latter had the advantage of potentially feeding into a revised ac- creditation scheme for graduates of those degree programs.

During discussion it was pointed out that one important potential benefit of an accreditation scheme would be to protect small departments: to do this it was considered better to stipulate key features required for a mathematics major rather than attempting to focus on core content. It was suggested that criteria should be suciently flexible to accommodate a diverse range of courses and to be forward looking rather than being tied to current practice.

It was suggested that it would be desirable to consider schemes operated by the SSAI and various overseas bodies, for example in the United Kingdom and Ontario. However, it was noted that many overseas models would be dicult for the Society to implement.

Council hopes that a report can be presented by the working party in the first half of 2016. The chair of the Standing Committee on Mathematics Education reiterated the willingness of that committee to contribute to the task.

(ii) Possible future ICM bid Council noted that two of the three members supported to attend the Seoul ICM declined the invitation to serve on the proposed working party, follow- ing which Steering Committee decided not to proceed with plans to bid to host an ICM.

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(iii) Funding for regular conferences, including funding for Divisions and Special Interest Groups Council Resolved That, when the subventions from a member’s fee would 1 otherwise total more than seventy per cent of the fee, the Society will retain thirty per cent of the membership fee, with remaining moneys being distributed proportionally to Divisions and Special Interest Groups. (iv) Expenditure priorities The Secretary explained that his discussion paper was intended to provide a global perspective, to guide expenditure decisions by Council. It was noted that, over the last five years, there has been an average annual combined surplus for AMPAI and the Society of about $90,000. Thus, even taking into account a possible decrease in publication income, there is considerable potential for increasing our annual expenditure. However, it will be impor- tant to monitor publication income trends to make sure that any increased expenditure is sustainable.

It was commented that we should also look at ways of increasing income and that one way to do this would be to expand our membership base to in- clude more members working in industry and more reciprocal members from Asian mathematical societies. It was noted that to do this, we would need to expand our activities to deliver more benefits to these potential members and the first step should therefore be to hold discussions with them. One point of view expressed was that we should invest money on building up the membership base; another was that the likely increase in total membership fees would be small. It was also noted that it might be profitable to invest money in an online presence, which could lead to increased participation in income generating activities.

It was generally agreed that the Society should spend more on activities to promote gender equity and also on support for meetings. However there were divided opinions on the funding of the Society’s annual conference: some members supported a reduction in registration fees, which are widely felt to be expensive, whereas others saw the conference as a potential source of income to support other Society activities. It was also suggested that new initiatives, such as lecture tours, could be considered.

The President concluded the discussion by pointing out that it should inform funding decisions to be made later in the meeting.

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6. Reports from the Society’s Ocers 6.1 President’s Report (Professor T.R. Marchant).

The President’s report was received. The President highlighted some points and congratulated AMSI on establishing the Choose Maths initiative.

There was an extensive discussion of the relative merits of honours and course- work masters degrees, with a variety of di↵erent views being expressed. It was commented that, although there was too much variability of opinion for the So- ciety to have a position, it was an important issue which could be raised in other fora such as the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences and the Aus- tralian Council of Heads of Mathematical Sciences.

There was also extensive discussion of the potential benefit of encouraging mem- bers to participate in the QS university ranking survey, with some members ques- tionning the methodology and others advocating Society endorsement of partic- ipation. It was agreed that, on behalf of the Society, the President would obtain a list of email addresses from publicly available lists of mathematical scientists based at Australian universities, would forward the list to QS and would send an email to all those on the list, advocating participation in the survey.

6.2 Secretary’s Report (Associate Professor P.J. Stacey) The Secretary’s report was received.

6.3 Treasurer’s Report and Audited Statements

(i) Treasurer’s Report (Dr. A. Howe) The Treasurer’s report for the Society was received. The Treasurer com- mented that, although the Society made a loss, when combined with AMPAI there was a profit of $119,764. (ii) Audited financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2015 and for 1 June 2015 to 31 July 2015 These were noted, to be received at the Annual General Meeting.

7. Meetings

7.1 Reports on meetings held (i) It was noted that the fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Society was successfully held at the University of Melbourne in December 2014. (ii) It was noted that an Early Career Workshop was successfully held on the weekend preceding the Society’s fifty-eighth annual meeting.

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7.2 Annual Meeting, 2015 (i) A report from the Director, Associate Professor V. Ejov, was received. (ii) A short Early Career workshop was being held at the same time as the Council meeting. 7.3 Future Meetings (i) The sixtieth annual meeting of the Society will be held at the Aus- tralian National University from Monday 5th December to Thursday 8th December 2016, with Professor J.I.E. Urbas as Director. (ii) Council supported the recommendation to the AGM that the sixty- first annual meeting of the Society be held at Macquarie University from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th December 2017, with Professor P. Smith and Professor X. Duong as Co-Directors. 7.4 Report from the Vice-President (Annual Conferences) The report from the Vice-President (Annual Conferences) was received. 7.5 Financial assistance for conferences (a) Noting that the organisers could request additional funding, Council Resolved That the Society provide an advance of $35,000, of which 2 $25,000 is expected to be spent on plenary speakers, for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society at Macquarie University. The conference budget should be set so that the advance can be returned.

The di↵erential registration fee for members and non-members was raised and it was suggested that non-member registrants could become Society members.

Secretarial note At its ninety-third meeting in 2002 Council resolved that the registration fees for non-members at Annual Conferences be equal to an amount at least as large as the fee for members plus their registration fee, with non-members being granted membership of the Society for the remainder of that calendar year.

(b) Noting the funding to be provided by AMSI and ANZIAM, Council Resolved 3 That the Society provide up to $4.600 towards the Febru- ary 2016 Early Career Workshop and up to $8,000 to- wards the December 2016 workshop.

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(c) Council Resolved That the total amount available for Special Interest 4 Meetings in each of the financial years 2016-2017, 2017- 2018 and 2018-2019 will be increased to $35,000 with a normal limit for each meeting of $6,000. (d) Professor Prince explained his proposal to substantially increase inter- national participation in the Society’s annual conference by running significant international workshops on either side of the 2016 confer- ence. Members gave enthusiastic support to the initiative and, noting that responsibility for organising the workshops would not fall upon the Conference Director, Resolved That the Society provide up to $25,000 to match on a 5 50/50 basis the funding provided by AMSI for two inter- national workshops to adjoin the Society’s 2016 annual conference. 7.6 Financial assistance for student attendance at conferences Council Resolved 6 That $15,000 be allocated to the Student Conference Support Scheme for the 2015-2016 session.

7.7 Science meets Parliament Council discussed Professor Sims’s report on his participation in the 2015 Science meets Parliament.Itagreedthatitwasimportanttoconsiderthe targeted parliamentarians and their interests when selecting delegates spon- sored by the Society. One natural choice would be to select one senior member, to discuss policy issues, and one early career researcher able to explain the value of their research. Council then

Resolved That in 2016 the Society will support registration costs, 7 accommodation and travel expenses, to a maximum of $1,500 per person, to support up to two Society delegates to attend Science meets Parliament.

7.8 Conference support rules Council considered a recommendation from the President, Treasurer and Secretary, which would align the Society’s conference support rules more closely with AMSI’s, and Resolved 8 That conference support grants should not be used for catering, administrative expenses and venue hire.

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It also Resolved 9 That the minimum registration fee, before applicable dis- counts, for meetings supported by the Society should nor- mally be $25 per day.

Council paused for lunch at 1.15 p.m. and resumed at 1.45 p.m.

8. Journals and Publications

8.1 Report from the Editors’ Committee

Professor Hocking reported that the Editors’ Committee had discussed re- ports prepared by Cambridge University Press, which showed that the jour- nals are all going well although it would be desirable to improve citation rates. Members of the Editors’ Committee had made various suggestions to do this, including asking CUP to prepare lists of articles which could be sent out to members. In discussion by Council it was further suggested that we could publish special issues, invite survey articles and publish articles arising from workshops sponsored by the Society.

At the Editors’ Committee it had been agreed to start the Mahoney-Neumann- Room Prize next year. CUP suggests that the selection process should in- clude the construction of a shortlist, which could be publicly disseminated for advertising purposes.

8.2 Reports from the Editors

The following reports were received: (i) Journal of AustMS (Professor J.M. Borwein, Professor G.A. Willis) (ii) ANZIAM Journal (Professor A.P. Bassom, Professor G. Hocking) (iii) Bulletin (Professor J.H. Loxton) (iv) Gazette (Professor S.A. Morris, Associate Professor D.T. Yost) (v) Electronic Editor (Professor A.J. Roberts) (vi) Lecture Series (Professor C.E. Praeger) (vii) Web Site (Dr R.R. Moore)

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8.3 Terms of Oce of Editors Council Resolved 10 That Professor J.M. Borwein and Professor G.A. Willis be re-appointed as Editors of the Journal until 30th June 2019; that Professor A.P. Bassom and Professor G. Hock- ing be re-appointed as Editors of the ANZIAM Journal until 31st December 2018; that Professor S.A. Morris and Associate Professor D.T. Yost be re-appointed as Editors of the Gazette until 31st December 2017; that Professor A.J. Roberts be re-appointed as Electronic Editor un- til 31st December 2018 and that Dr R.R. Moore be re- appointed as Editor of the Web Site until 31st December 2018. Council further Resolved 11 That Professor J. Ramagge be appointed as Editor of the Lecture Note Series from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019.

9. Reports from Divisions The reports from Professor LK.. Forbes and Professor J. de Gier were received. 10. Report from the Society’s Subcommittees

10.1 Standing Committee on Mathematics Education (i) Associate Professor B.I. Loch’s report was received. (ii) Council Resolved That the co-ordinator of the professional development 12 unit E↵ective teaching, e↵ective learning in the quantita- tive disciplines become a member of the Standing Com- mittee on Mathematics Education.

10.2 Accreditation Committee Associate Professor B. Sims’s report was received. Associate Professor Loch o↵ered to discuss with the Standing Committee on Mathematics Education the suggestion about encouraging Society accreditation by practising math- ematics teachers.

The President reported that he had taken steps to promote accreditation as aFellowandthatfurthersteps,suchasbroadeningthecriteriatobemore applicable to those working in industry, would be proposed by the Commit- tee on Membership in consultation with the Accreditation Committee.

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10.3 Nominations and Publications Committee (i) The report from the Nominations and Publications Committee was re- ceived. (ii) Council Resolved That, subject to the inclusion of an introductory para- 13 graph, to be approved by Steering Committee, on making best e↵orts to achieve diversity, the terms of reference for the committee be as follows. An annual call will be made in the Gazette of the Australian Mathe- matical Society and by a general email to members for expressions of interest from any member to serve the Society in any positions that may be open, including the position of President-elect, and membership of Council subcommittees.

The major responsibilities of the Nominations and Publications Com- mittee are then as follows. 1. To arrange for the nomination of a member as President-elect. 2. In the absence of suciently many nominees for membership of Council or elected Vice-President, to seek nominees for those posi- tions. 3. To recommend to Council proposed Editors and an Incoming Vice- President (Annual Conferences), Public Ocer, Treasurer and Sec- retary, as vacancies arise. 4. To recommend to Council proposed members of Council subcom- mittees. In accord with Councils resolution 35 at meeting 53 in 1982, before mak- ing a recommendation to Council on a replacement Editor, the commit- tee will consult with the President and current Editor.

The committee will consult the President before making a recommenda- tion to Council for a replacement Public Ocer, Treasurer or Secretary.

The committee may decide to seek suggested names from Council for any of the positions on which it makes recommendations.

The committee may seek expressions of interest directly from individuals for any vacancy that it is seeking to fill. 10.4 Mahler Lectureship Committee The report on the Mahler Lectureship was received. Council agreed to delegate to the President the approval of revised arrangements for Professor Bhargava’s tour.

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10.5 Fellowship Committee (i) Associate Professor L. Ward’s report was received. (ii) Council Resolved That the Lift-o↵Fellowship scheme be continued, with 14 an allocation of $35,000 a year for the financial years 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, to fund up to seven fellowships per year, each of up to $5,000. (iii) Council declined to make more specific the conflicts of interest policy for the committee: it felt that it was better to leave in place the flexibility in the policy approved by Council at its 109th meeting in 2010. This stated that a conflict of interest is a situation in which a member of a committee has, or could be perceived to have, a duty to more than one person or organisation, and cannot do justice to the actual or potentially distinct interests of all parties. (iv) Council

Resolved That Rule 2 for both the Lift-o↵Fellowships and the 15 Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowship be amended to include the stipulation that the applicant must have been amemberoftheSocietyfortheconsecutivetwelve-month period immediately prior to the date of application. 10.6 Appeal Committee Council noted that one appeal had been received in 2014-15 and had been upheld: the Medal Committee considered a missing nomination. 10.7 Student Conference Support Committee Dr J. Droniou’s report was received. 10.8 Committee on Membership Professor T.R. Marchant’s report was received.

11. Report from Special Interest Groups

11.1 Victorian Algebra Group The Victorian Algebra Group’s report was received. 11.2 The Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (i) The Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group’s report was re- ceived. (ii) Council noted that the suggestions made about the Nominations and Publications Committee had been addressed in its earlier consideration of that committee’s terms of reference.

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(iii) Council Resolved 16 That $3,200 be provided to the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group for Group expenses for the session 2015-2016.

(iv) Cheryl E. Praeger Travel Awards Council Resolved 17 That in the financial year 2016-2017, $20,000 be made available to the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group, to fund Cheryl E. Praeger Travel Awards.

(v) Anne Penfold Street Awards Council Resolved 18 That in the 2016-2017 financial year, $3,000 be made available to the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group, to be used for Anne Penfold Street Awards.

11.3 Request to form an Applied Probability Special Interest Group Council agreed that special interest groups with very narrow fields of in- terest should not proliferate and, noting that the group’s objectives could potentially be broadened in future,

Resolved 19 That the Applied Probability Special Interest Group be admitted as a special interest group of the Society.

12. Report from the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences Professor N. Joshi’s report was received. She further informed Council that there would be an information session for conference participants on the status of the Decadal Plan and, in answer to a question, explained the Academy’s processes for selecting the Chair of the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences.

13. Other Reports

13.1 AustMS Public Ocer Dr. P.J. Cossey’s report was received.

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14. Report of Steering Committee

(i) The committee had nothing to report from its teleconference on Tuesday 22nd September 2015. (ii) Council Resolved 20 That the terms of reference for the committee be amended as follows.

The functions of Steering Committee shall be: 1) to prepare the business of Council so that it can be handled eciently at the Annual Meeting and by email; 2) to advise both the Council and AMPAI on matters which arise between the Annual Meetings of these two bodies; 3) to consider any matters referred to it by either Council or AMPAI; 4) to provide advice, on request from the President, on presidential discre- tionary expenditure; 5) to provide advice, on request from the President and Editor(s), on edi- torial policy for any of the Society’s serial publications; 6) to prepare an annual budget for the next financial year; 7) to facilitate discussion between the Society, its Divisions and AMSI. The committee will normally meet about four times a year, with at least one face-to-face meeting. (iii) Council Resolved 21 That the President be authorised to sign an agreement for the Society to continue as a member of AMSI from 2016 to 2018 inclusive, with membership payments of $30,750 in 2016, $31,518.75 in 2017 and $32,306.72 in 2018. Fur- thermore, that the Society provide a grant of $16,000 to AMSI to support the 2015 AMSI Summer School. In relation to this resolution, Council noted that ANZIAM had agreed to contribute $7,000 of the amounts in each of the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. It also noted that the Treasurer would explore if it is possible to make the payments as grants rather than membership fees, in which case the Society will not have to pay GST on the contributions.

Council requested that before the President signs the draft agreement pre- sented to the meeting, the words ‘GST exclusive’ be removed from the description of the Society’s sponsorship of the AMSI Summer School and that the ‘Promotion of AustMS/ANZIAM’ should become ‘Promotion of AustMS/ANZIAM/ANZAMP’.

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(iv) This matter had been discussed in response to the President’s report. (v) Council held a general discussion on possible ways of increasing the Soci- ety’s interaction with undergraduates, noting that undergraduate students will not join the Society unless they see benefits from this. Two possibilities mentioned were to seek to increase the appeal of the Gazette to undergrad- uates and to start an undergraduate Facebook page. It was suggested that perhaps the Society could sponsor careers talks but it was noted that there are already sponsors for such sessions. The President suggested that there could be scope for undergraduate mathematics societies to aliate with the Society. Professor Prince then agreed to organise an ACE network hook-up to further explore possibilities. 15. Resolutions of Council since December 2014 Resolved 22 That the following resolutions of Council, approved by email, be received. (i) [Jan 2015] That, subject to approval by the Society in a Special Ballot, Council ap- proves the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP) as a Division of the Society. Council further approves the proposed constitution for ANZAMP. (ii) [Mar 2015] That the Mathematics Education Special Interest Group be admitted as a special interest group of the Society. (iii) [May 2015] That the Number Theory Down Under Special Interest Group be admitted as a special interest group of the Society. (iv) [Aug 2015] That, in the event of a successful application to the Oce for Learning and Teaching for $30,000 to support further development of the professional development unit E↵ective teaching, e↵ective learning in the quantitative disciplines, up to $10,000 be provided by the Society to cover expenses allocated to it in the application. 16. New Council 2015/2016 16.1 Appointment of Secretary and Treasurer Resolved 23 That Dr A. Howe be appointed as Treasurer for the Session 2015/2016.

Resolved 24 That Associate Professor P.J. Stacey be appointed as Secretary for the session 2015/2016.

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16.2 Council for the session 2015/2016 The members of Council, to take e↵ect after the forthcoming AGM, are as follows.

President: T.R. Marchant President-elect: K.A.Smith-Miles Elected Vice-President: J.A.G. Roberts Secretary: P.J. Stacey Treasurer: A. Howe Vice President (Chair, ANZIAM) To be selected by ANZIAM Vice President (Chair, ANZAMP) To be selected by ANZAMP

Ordinary Members

NewMembers CurrentMembers

N.G. Bean (2018) A. Devillers (2018) D.M. Donovan (2018) S. Morrison (2016) J.G. Sumner (2016) J. de Gier (2017) H.S. Sidhu (2017) A. Sims (2017) Ex ocio Members

Vice-President (Annual Conferences) V. Gaitsgory Representative of ANZIAM J. Piantadosi Representative of ANZAMP J. de Gier Chair, Standing Committee on Mathematics Education B.I. Loch Public Ocer of AustMS & AMPAI P.J. Cossey Member elected to Steering Committee N. Joshi Editors: Gazette S.A. Morris/D.T. Yost Journal AustMS J.M. Borwein/G.A. Willis ANZIAM J. A.P. Bassom/G. Hocking ANZIAM J. Supplement A.J. Roberts Bulletin J.H. Loxton Lecture Series C.E. Praeger Web Site R.R. Moore

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17. Awards

17.1 Australian Mathematical Society Medal (i) The 2015 AustMS Medal The report was noted. Note: The medal was awarded to Dr S. Morrison. (ii) Membership of the 2016 AustMS Medal Committee Council Resolved That the membership of the 2016 AustMS Medal 25 Committee be: Chair: Professor P.G. Bouwknegt; Incoming Chair: Professor P.J. Forrester; Member for one year: Dr C. O’Keefe; Outgoing Chair: Professor N.C. Wormald. (iii) Council noted that, after consultation with the chairs of all prize and medal committees, a revised system fror receiving nominations will be es- tablished from 2016. 17.2 The George Szekeres Medal Council Resolved That the membership of the 2016 George Szekeres Medal 26 Committee be: Chair: ProfessorP.G.Hall; Incoming Chair: Professor C.E. Praeger; Member for one year: Professor R.H. Street; Outgoing Chair: Professor J.H. Rubinstein. 17.3 The Gavin Brown Prize (i) The report of the Gavin Brown Prize Committee was received.

The report contained a request for Council to change Rule 9 for the Gavin Brown Prize. In response Council Resolved 27 That Rule 9 for the Gavin Brown Prize become

The Selection Committee may consult with appropriate external asses- sors. Nominators are requested to suggest names of three assessors.

Note: In 2015 the Prize was awarded to Professor Andrew Hassell for his paper Ergodic billiards that are not quantum unique ergodic, Annals of Math- ematics, 171:2 (2010), 605 -619.

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(iii) Council Resolved That the membership of the Gavin Brown Prize 28 Committee for 2016 be: Chair: Professor J.F. Grotowski; Incoming Chair: Professor J. Ramagge; Member for one year: ProfessorA.P. Bassom; Outgoing Chair: Professor J.M. Borwein. 17.4 The B.H. Neumann Prize (i) The report of the 2014 committee was received. (ii) The 2015 Committee consisted of: Norman Do (Monash)(Chair),PascalBuenzli(Monash),SimonClarke(Monash), Andy Hammerlindl (Monash), Markus Hegland (ANU), Peter McNamara (Queensland), Julia Piantadosi (South Australia), Charl Ras (Melbourne), Katherine Seaton (La Trobe), Anne Thomas (Sydney).

Note: The prize was awarded jointly to Murray Neuzerling (La Trobe) for his talk Using algebra to avoid robots and Matthew Tan (Newcastle) for his talk Recon- struction algorithms for blind ptychographic imaging.

Honourable mentions were given to Joshua Howie (University of Melbourne), Adrienne Jenner (University of Sydney), Brendan Patch (University of Queens- land) and Danya Rose (University of Sydney).

(iii) Prize value: Council Resolved That the value of the 2016 B.H. Neumann Student Prize shall 29 be $1,000, and $600 each person if shared. 17.5 The Mahoney-Neumann-Room Prize Council noted that the prize will be awarded for the first time in 2016.

18. Committee Membership

18.1 Elections to Committees of Council

Steering Committee Council Resolved 30 That Professor N. Joshi be the member of the Society elected by Council to Steering Committee.

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Standing Committee on Mathematics Education Council Resolved That Dr A.R. Albrecht, Dr L. Ferrario, Dr D. King and Dr 31 H. Lonsdale be appointed to serve on the Committee, for the two sessions to the 2017 Annual Meeting.

Accreditation Committee Council Resolved 32 That Associate Professor B.A. Burton be appointed to serve on the Accreditation Committee for three years to the 2018 Annual General Meeting.

Fellowship Committee Council Resolved That the membership of the Fellowship 33 Committee for 2015-16 be: Chair: Associate Professor D.A. Pask ; Incoming Chair: Professor S.A. Morris; Outgoing Chair: Associate Professor L. Ward. Student Conference Support Committee Resolved That the membership of the Student 34 Conference Support Committee for 2015-16 be: Chair: Professor P. Broadbridge; Incoming Chair: Dr J. Parkinson; Outgoing Chair: Dr J. Droniou.

19. AustMS Membership matters Subscriptions for 2016 Council supported the Treasurer’s recommendation that Members’ Subscriptions for 2016 be: Ordinary Member $136 Sustaining Member $272 Reciprocal Member $68 Reduced Rate Member $34 Education Member $68 Retired Member $34 Early Career Member $68 Life Membership at Retirement for Members over 55 years $700

Existing Ordinary Members who renew their subscriptions before January 1st 2016 are entitled to a rebate of $5, which should be deducted from their payments. All new Ordinary Members are entitled to pay their first year’s subscription at the concession rate of $68 (no rebate). The very small increase in membership fees are in line with the rate of inflation.

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Subscription for an Institutional Member: $1748

In addition Council supported the Treasurer’s recommendations that the prices of journals to Members be: Ordinary Sustaining Reciprocal Reduced Rate/ Member Member Member Retired Member Education Memb. Journal AustMS Paper copy (ResidentinAust.) $111.10 $111.10 $111.10 $55.55 (Resident overseas) $101 $101 $101 $50.50 ANZIAM Journal Paper copy (ResidentinAust.) $94.60 $94.60 $94.60 $47.30 (Resident overseas) $86 $86 $86 $43 Bulletin (ResidentinAust.) $102.30 $102.30 $102.30 $51.15 (Resident overseas) $93 $93 $93 $46.50 The Journals produced by AMPAI are subjected to GST. The Gazette is supplied free to all Members paying subscriptions.

20. Any Other Business

(a) Council

Resolved 35 That the Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation Special Interest Group be admitted as a special interest group of the Society.

(b) Professor Joshi advised Council of the recent launch of the Science in Aus- tralia Gender Equity (SAGE) initiative, which is a program of activities designed to improve gender equity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics sectors. An early part of the program is to undertake an Australian pilot of the Athena SWAN Charter, a United Kingdom pro- gram to evaluate, address and provide accreditation on gender equity poli- cies. Professor Joshi poiinted out that, in the United Kingdom, the London Mathematical Society had produced a Good Practice Scheme, to guide the implementation of the Charter at a departmental level. Council agreed that it would seek help from the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group to prepare a similar document to suit the Australian context. (c) Professor de Gier informed Council of the establishment of MATRIX@Melbourne, a residential research institute established by the University of Melbourne

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and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Fron- tiers. He encouraged applications for programs. (d) Associate Professor Henderson informed Council that he was liaising with other Asian mathematical societies to ascertain their potential interest in establishing an Asian counterpart of the William Lowell Putnam Mathemat- ics Competition. He invited Council members to talk to him if they were interested.

There being no further business, the meeting closed at approximately 4 p.m.

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The Australian Mathematical Society (Inc)

Minutes of the one-hundred-and-twentieth meeting of the Council of the Australian Mathematical Society Incorporated, held in the Matthew Flinders Lecture Theatre at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia on Tuesday 29th September 2015, commencing at approximately 6.20 p.m.

Present: T.R. Marchant (Chair), A. Howe (Treasurer), N.G. Bean, V. Gaitsgory, J. de Gier, B.I. Loch, J.H. Loxton, S. Morrison, A. Sims.

M. Neuzerling attended by invitation, as student representative.

1. Apologies: A.P. Bassom, J.M. Borwein, P.J. Cossey, A. Devillers, D. Donovan, L.K. Forbes, G. Hocking, N. Joshi, R.R. Moore, S.A. Morris J. Piantadosi, C.E. Praeger, G.E. Prince, A.J. Roberts, J.A.G. Roberts, H. Sidhu, K.A. Smith-Miles, P.J. Stacey, J.G. Sumner, G.A. Willis, D.T. Yost.

2. Welcome to new Council members The Chair welcomed new members and the new student representative.

3. Matters arising from the 119th meeting of Council The President reported on discussions about Professor Bhargava’s availability for arescheduledMahlerLectureTour.

4. Matters arising from the 59th Annual General Meeting of the Society There were none.

5. Date and location of the one-hundred-and-twenty-first Council meeting It was decided that the 121st Council meeting would be held on Sunday 4th December 2016, the day prior to the start of the 60th Annual Meeting, at the Australian National University. It was also decided that the Annual General Meeting should be held on Monday or Tuesday lunchtime.

6. Any Other Business

(a) It was agreed that Steering Committee should discuss the possibility of the 2017 Council meeting being held on Monday 11th December, with a Tuesday conference start. (b) The student representative suggested that the Society’s Twitter account should be publicised more.

The meeting closed at approximately 6.30 p.m.

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Annual Meeting 2016

There have been many changes in the Australian higher educational sector this year, including the new research impact and engagement assessment, the ACOLA review and the new research training program (RTP), all which reinforce the government’s innovation and industry engagement agenda.

The ACOLA review of Australia’s research training system has been released and the report makes recommendations regarding industry involvement in HDR training and the value of industry placements. In particular it states that every candidate who wishes to undertake an industry placement should be encouraged to do so. The Mathematical Sciences are well placed in this endeavor due to the soon to be expanded ASMI Intern and also the Mathematics in Industry Study Group. However the scale of placements under the expanded AMSI Intern is 1000 by 2020 (not all in the mathematical sciences, of course) and hence challenging to implement. For example, HDR supervisors may need to develop new industry relationships and links in order to offer suitable placements to their students. The new RTP guidelines also state that universities must report on industry experiences of their HDR students.

ACEMS/AMSI recently held a one day workshop on measuring research engagement and impact in the mathematical sciences. Peter Taylor (UMel) chaired the event and the speakers were Leanne Harvey (ARC), Kerrie Mengersen (QUT), Geoff Prince (AMSI), Jacqui Ramagge (USyd) and myself. Each speaker brought a different perspective to the workshop with themes such as long lead times for impact in mathematics (Ramagge), mathematics a broad church requiring a broad range of metrics (Mengersen), engagement on our terms (Prince) and research engagement important but publications and rankings still the main game (Marchant).

One outcome of the meeting was the submission of a formal response to the ARC engagement and impact consultation paper. I encourage you to read our response and the speakers’ presentations, which can found on the AMSI website. It’s likely that the 2018 assessment will use both industry research income metrics and case studies at the 2 digit FOR code level. One of the issues is that industry research income is not highly relevant for Pure Mathematics, which as an enabling discipline, often measures its impact on other disciplines and over very long timescales.

The workshop and our consultation paper response has clarified a number of issues relating to research impact and engagement in the mathematical sciences and is a good example of how we can work together, in a co-operative and effective manner. The ARC will run a pilot assessment exercise in 2017, which we hope to participate in. Clearly the government places a very high priority on its innovation and university-industry engagement agendas so it is vital that we respond and engage with these new trends.

Page 37 of 78 The recent 2016 QS Mathematics subject rankings shows 16 Australian universities in their World top 400 list, with an average ranking of 193 (my calculation). The 2015 list contained the same 16 universities with an average ranking of 205, so we have improved on last year. The main drivers of these assessments are journal paper citations and reputational surveys and I think it’s important for the Society to discuss measures that can positively influence both these metrics.

The 2016 Science Meets Parliament was held in early March. The two AustMS representative were Prof. Troy Farrell, QUT, and myself. SMP brings together over 100 scientists, from a vast range of professional societies, for two days of presentations and a small group meeting with a MP. I particularly enjoyed the talks by Prof. Brian Schmidt, now VC at the ANU and the Australian Chief Scientist, Dr. Alan Finkel. I spoke to two Labor backbenchers during the event and listened to presentations by both Bill Shorten and Christopher Pyne. All expressed very positive sentiments about Science and Technology and it seems that most aspects of government policy in this area have bipartisan support. Two common and clear themes were expressed by everyone associated with SMP; the growing importance of university interaction with industry and the need to support more female scientists in Australia to achieve senior career positions.

During 2015 The University of Melbourne established MATRIX, a new mathematical research institute, and appointed Prof. Jan de Gier as Director. During 2016 it became a joint partnership between Melbourne and Monash Universities. MATRIX programs take place at the Creswick campus, near Ballarat in rural Victoria. It is already attracting high profile international researchers to Australia, for collaborative research with members of Australian mathematicians, via its many workshops. MATRIX is similar in concept to the Banff International Research Station (Canada) and Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (Germany) which bring researchers together for short but intense periods of collaboration, at a remote location. I congratulate Melbourne and Monash Universities on their support of MATRIX and am sure it will lead to an increased number of international research collaborations for our members.

After a long period of decline the level of Society membership increased in the last year. Total membership is up 150 to 1200 and ordinary members (who pay full membership fees) up from 510 to 560. During my term as President I sent promotional emails to non- member mathematicians, based at Australian Universities, asking them to join the Society. I believe that this kind of activity needs to be maintained and form part of a more sophisticated future digital marketing campaign.

The criteria for AustMS fellowship have been broadened, a new fellowship application form developed and a promotional campaign undertaken has seen fellowships increase. This will increase the profile of our society and also provide a pool of role models for early career researchers. There is much more work to do in this space and during 2016 a new membership and marketing committee was established with the aim of improving membership numbers, particularly from mathematicians who work in industry, government and school education.

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The AustMS relies heavily on its volunteer office holders for its smooth running and operation. I am very grateful for the support of our Secretary, Dr. Peter Stacey, and Treasurer, Dr. Algy Howe, for the huge amount of time and effort they both volunteer to support the society. Their corporate knowledge and experience is exceptional and I thank them both for their contribution. I have really enjoyed working with them and the other AustMS office holders during my term as President, which ends during the 2016 AustMS meeting. I wish the new President, Prof. Kate Smith-Miles all the best for her term of office and the challenges ahead.

Professor Tim Marchant, FAustMS

President

Page 39 of 78 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 1st August 2015 – 31st July 2016

In the past financial year the Society has provided:

$7,790 to STA (includes 2015 contribution) $8,503 for student travel grants to the 2015 AustMS AGM $1,278 for Aust. Math. Sciences Student Conference travel grants (half share with AMSI) $440 for EC workshop $1,200 for B H Neumann prize $37,250 for 10 Lift Off fellowships $16,000 for AMSI Summer School 2015 $10,000 for 2016 AustMS AGM seeding money at ANU $30,852 to Special Interest Meetings $3,675 for Heidelberg Laureate Forum travel grants (half share with AMSI)

Our accounts show that AustMS provided $160,915 in grants for the financial year.

At the end of December 2015, the JAustMS paid subscription numbers stood at 321, of which 137 institutions paid via their parent consortium. In addition a further 2,955 institutions also got online access via consortia. The total profit to AustMS, for the JAustMS, was £84,381 which is a decrease of 9.1% on the previous year.

At the end of December 2015, the Bulletin paid subscription numbers stood at 277, of which 122 institutions paid via their parent consortium. In addition a further 2,964 institutions also got online access via consortia. The total profit to AustMS, for the Bulletin, was £57,986, which is a decrease of 13.5% on the previous year.

At the end of December 2015, the ANZIAM J paid subscription numbers stood at 186, of which 94 institutions paid via their parent consortium. In addition a further 2,994 institutions also got online access via consortia. The total profit to AustMS, for the ANZIAM J was £40,142, which is an increase of 5.2% on the previous year.

Over the years, there has been a steady annual decrease in direct subscriptions,

Page 40 of 78 ie those in which one of our journals is specifically requested. However, this has been countered by annual increases in indirect subscriptions, where our journals are included in consortia. Going against the trend this year, direct subscriptions to the ANZIAM J have increased by 5%.

I note that pricewise, in the case of JAustMS, approximately 43 indirect subscriptions equal one direct subscription.

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

For the period 1st August 2015 – 31st July 2016 the audited financial statements show that our total receipts were $123,724 and the total payout was $187,160 giving an operating loss of ($63,436). The receipts include money collected for ANZIAM, ANZAMP, SIG’s 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 $42,058.

This financial year AMPAI made a profit of $98,494. Taking into account the fact that the Society made a loss of ($63,436), we see that the combined profit of the Society and AMPAI, over this financial year, is $35,058.

The Society’s income was made up from:

Total subscriptions from Members $107,650 (including ANZIAM, ANZAMP, SIGs and accreditations)

Grant money returned (from AMSI) $4,953

Copyright royalties $590

Interest income $18,412

Counting Australia In $35

Donation received $164

The payments were:

Officers expenses $3,380

Grants (including subventions) $160,915

Page 41 of 78 AMSI membership $ (waiting for ANZIAM contribution of $7,000 - ANZIAM Treasurer on leave and location of cheque book unknown - $30,924.80 paid in early August 2016)

ANZIAM $20,907 (subscriptions $9,657, subvention $11,250)

ANZAMP $6,171 (subscriptions $2,665, subvention $3,506)

Applied Probability SIG $550 (subscriptions $204, subvention $346)

Mathematics Education SIG $ ($720 collected in subscriptions, but Math Ed SIG still working out bank account details)

Math of Computation & Optimization SIG $974 (subscriptions $353, subvention $621)

Number Theory Down Under SIG $612 (subscriptions $221, subventions $391)

Victorian Algebra Group $1,253 (subscriptions $383, subvention $870)

WIMSIG (including Cheryl Praeger travel $13,759 awards)

Bank, credit card and eway fees $2,475

Storage of journals $1,380

Insurance/Indemnity Insurance $3,021

Page 42 of 78 Total paid up membership at 31st July 2016 was 834 (non-financial members are not included).

July July 2016 2015

Fellows 143 131 Graduate Members 14 16 Accredited Members 38 35 Ordinary Members 533 499 Reduced rate Members 22 16 Student Members 177 130 Early Career Members 84 84 Reciprocal Members 30 36 Education Members 11 9 Non-financial Members 35 35 (officials from other societies) Honorary Members 26 27 Free Members 67 57 Life Members 63 63 Retired Members 84 84 Deceased Members 6 5 Resigned Members 31 19 Deemed Resigned Members 102 123 New Members 167 176

Institutional Member Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University, Department of Mathematics La Trobe University, AMSI

Sustaining Member Prof Nalini Joshi Dr Benjamin Odgers Dr Todd Oliynyk Dr Ilknur Tulinay

Page 43 of 78 Divisions and Special Interest Groups

Financial Student Total Members Members

ANZIAM 472 106 578

ANZAMP 156 51 207

Applied Probability SIG 31 23 54

Mathematics Education SIG 85 37 122

Mathematics of Computation 53 33 86 and Optimization SIG

Number Theory Down Under SIG 41 23 64

Victoria Algebra Group SIG 53 26 79

Women in Mathematics SIG 187 55 242 (Free to join)

Algy Howe Treasurer 24th October 2016

Page 44 of 78 Divisions and Special Interest Groups 2015

Financial Student Total Members Members

ANZIAM 406 108 514

ANZAMP 103 66 169

Applied Probability SIG 0 0 0

Mathematics Education SIG 0 0 0

Mathematics of Computation and Optimization SIG 0 0 0

Number Theory Down Under SIG 0 0 0

Victoria Algebra Group SIG 23 32 55

Women in Mathematics SIG 130 76 206 (Free to join)

Page 45 of 78 Australian Mathematical Society

Financial Statements For the year ended 31 July 2016

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Contents

Committee's Report 3

Income and Expenditure Statement 5

Detailed Balance Sheet 6

Statement by Members of the Committee 8

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members 9

Page 47 of 78 Page 3 Australian Mathematical Society Committee's Report For the year ended 31 July 2016

Your committee members submit the financial accounts of the Australian Mathematical Society for the financial year ended 31 July 2016.

Committee Members The names of committee members at the date of this report are: Tim R Marchant, FAustMS Algy Howe, FAustMS Kate A Smith-Miles, FAustMS John A G Roberts Peter J Stacey, FAustMS Nigel G Bean Alice Devillers Diane M Donovan Scott Morrison Jeremy G Sumner Jan De Gier, MAustMS Harvinder S Sidhu Aidan Sims Mary Myerscough Vladimir Gaitsgory Birgit I Loch Julia Piantadosi P John Cossey Peter Forrester Sidney A Morris, FAustMS David T Yost Tim Garoni George A Willis Andrew P Bassom Graeme Hocking Anthony J Roberts John H Loxton Cheryl E Praeger, FAustMS Ross R Moore

Principal Activities The principal activities of the association during the financial year were: .

Significant Changes No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year.

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 48 of 78 Page 4 Australian Mathematical Society Committee's Report For the year ended 31 July 2016

Operating Result The deficit from ordinary activities after providing for income tax amounted to Year ended Year ended 31 July 2016 31 July 2015 $ $ (63,436) 26,183

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

______Tim R Marchant, FAustMS

______Algy Howe, FAustMS

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 49 of 78 Page 5 Australian Mathematical Society Income and Expenditure Statement was For the year ended 31 July 2016

2016 2015 $ $ M 0mgman . Income z fnancidl Subscriptions 102,397 21,249 Interest received 18,412 3,620 Other income 2,915 1,643 yeah Total income 123,724 26,512 we the Expenses %hanged Officers Expenses 4,881 1,668 Total Grants 160,915 (8,729) uhng AMSI expense 11,000 4,400 accorded Bank Fees And Charges 30 30 Commission 2,156 313 Depreciation - Surplus journals (12) Fees & charges 289 31 Insurance 3,021 1,410 Pitman bequest interest 69 Purchase of surplus journals AMPAI 14 Postage 2,350 668 Repairs & maintenance 785 549 Storage 1,380 Sundry expenses 269 Total expenses 187,160 329 Profit (loss) from ordinary activities before income tax (63,436) 26,183 Income tax revenue relating to ordinary activities Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (63,436) 26,183 Total changes in equity of the association (63,436) 26,183

Opening retained profits 373,998 347,815 Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (63,436) 26,183 Closing retained profits 310,562 373,998

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 50 of 78 Page 6 Australian Mathematical Society Detailed Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2016

Note 2016 2015 $ $

Current Assets

Cash Assets

Cash At Bank - CBA Current A/C 34,272 71,667 CBA Security Investment A/C 182,784 210,135 Term Deposit #2476 459,726 445,040 Term Deposit #2484 212,299 211,222 889,081 938,064

Receivables

Accounts Receivable 14,218 12,937 14,218 12,937

Other

Prepayments 11,000 Journals On Hand 69 52 69 11,052

Total Current Assets 903,369 962,054

Total Assets 903,369 962,054

Current Liabilities

Other Subscriptions in advance 51,282 46,531 51,282 46,531

Total Current Liabilities 51,282 46,531

Total Liabilities 51,282 46,531

Net Assets 852,086 915,523

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 51 of 78 Page 7 Australian Mathematical Society Detailed Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2016

Note 2016 2015 $ $

Members' Funds

Reserves

Net Assets 541,524 541,524 Accumulated surplus (deficit) 310,562 373,998 Total Members' Funds 852,086 915,523

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 52 of 78 Page 8 Australian Mathematical Society Statement by Members of the Committee For the year ended 31 July 2016

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 July 2016 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:

______Tim R Marchant, FAustMS President

______Algy Howe, FAustMS Treasurer

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 53 of 78 Page 9 Australian Mathematical Society Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

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 July 2016.

Committee's Responsibility for the Financial Report The committee of Australian Mathematical Society is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation 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 and fair presentation 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 and fair presentation of the financial report 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.

Opinion In our opinion, the financial report presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Australian Mathematical Society as at 31 July 2016 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 requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act of the Australian Capital Territory 1991.

Page 54 of 78 Page 10 Australian Mathematical Society Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

Basis of Accounting and Restriction on Distribution Without modifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 1 to the financial statements, 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 12 October, 2016:

______James Daniels, CPA Federation Tax & Accounting 116 Crawford Street Queanbeyan NSW 2620

Page 55 of 78 Australian Mathematical Society

ABN 80 494 677 202

Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2015

Page 56 of 78 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202

Contents

Committee's Report 3

Income and Expenditure Statement 5

Detailed Balance Sheet 6

Notes to the Financial Statements 8

Statement by Members of the Committee 9

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members 10

Page 57 of 78 Page 3 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Committee's Report For the year ended 31 May 2015

Your committee members submit the financial accounts of the Australian Mathematical Society for the financial year ended 31 May 2015.

Committee Members The names of committee members at the date of this report are: Tim R Marchant, FAustMS Algy Howe, FAustMS Peter J Forrester, FAustMS Anthony Henderson, FAustMS Peter J Stacey, FAustMS Scott Morrison Jeremy G Sumner Jerzy Filar, FAustMS Amy Glen Daniel Mallet Jan De Gier Harvinder S Sidhu Aidan Sims Lawrence K Forbes Vladimir Gaitsgory Birgit I Loch S Ole Warnaar Julia Piantadosi P John Cossey Joshi Nalini Sidney A Morris, FAustMS David T Yost Jonathan M Borwein, FAustMS George A Willis Andrew P Bassom Graeme Hocking Anthony J Roberts John H Loxton Cheryl E Praeger, FAustMS Ross R Moore

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.

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 58 of 78 Page 4 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Committee's Report For the year ended 31 May 2015

Significant Changes 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 2015 31 May 2014 $ $ (41,932.77) (10,372.13)

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

______Tim R Marchant, FAustMS

______Algy Howe, FAustMS

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 59 of 78 Page 5 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Income and Expenditure Statement For the year ended 31 May 2015

2015 2014 $ $

Income Subscriptions 96,956.87 88,315.67 Interest received 18,272.69 36,017.00 Other income 2,877.80 3,308.28 Total income 118,107.36 127,640.95

Expenses Officers Expenses 8,930.46 10,624.63 Total Grants 115,479.21 89,018.96 AMSI payment 26,400.00 26,400.00 Bank Fees And Charges 60.00 Commission 1,958.54 1,840.49 Depreciation - Surplus journals 39.38 112.20 Fees & charges 875.00 230.50 Insurance 1,424.50 2,863.22 Pitman bequest interest 77.12 87.46 Purchase of surplus journals AMPAI 41.14 46.20 Postage 1,839.15 2,455.97 Repairs & maintenance 659.68 775.13 Storage 2,019.01 2,934.78 Sundry expenses 236.94 623.54 Total expenses 160,040.13 138,013.08 Profit (loss) from ordinary activities before income tax (41,932.77) (10,372.13) Income tax revenue relating to ordinary activities Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (41,932.77) (10,372.13) Total changes in equity of the association (41,932.77) (10,372.13)

Opening retained profits 389,747.96 400,120.09 Net profit (loss) attributable to the association (41,932.77) (10,372.13) Closing retained profits 347,815.19 389,747.96

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 60 of 78 Page 6 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Detailed Balance Sheet as at 31 May 2015

Note 2015 2014 $ $

Current Assets

Cash Assets

Cash At Bank - CBA Current A/C 58,009.47 13,540.91 CBA Security Investment A/C 209,679.77 53,006.22 Term Deposit #2476 445,040.02 436,699.68 Term Deposit #2484 208,057.76 400,640.53 Term Deposit #5645 54,158.43 920,787.02 958,045.77

Receivables

Accounts Receivable 18,444.00 16,738.00 18,444.00 16,738.00

Other

Prepayments 15,400.00 16,039.01 Journals On Hand 40.04 79.42 15,440.04 16,118.43

Total Current Assets 954,671.06 990,902.20

Total Assets 954,671.06 990,902.20

Current Liabilities

Other Subscriptions in advance 65,331.37 59,629.74 65,331.37 59,629.74

Total Current Liabilities 65,331.37 59,629.74

Total Liabilities 65,331.37 59,629.74

Net Assets 889,339.69 931,272.46

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 61 of 78 Page 7 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Detailed Balance Sheet as at 31 May 2015

Note 2015 2014 $ $

Members' Funds

Reserves

Net Assets 541,524.50 541,524.50 Accumulated surplus (deficit) 347,815.19 389,747.96 Total Members' Funds 889,339.69 931,272.46

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 62 of 78 Page 8 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2015

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 over 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) 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 63 of 78 Page 9 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Statement by Members of the Committee For the year ended 31 May 2015

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 2015 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:

______Tim R Marchant, FAustMS President

______Algy Howe, FAustMS Treasurer

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

Page 64 of 78 Page 10 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

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 2015.

Committee's Responsibility for the Financial Report The committee of Australian Mathematical Society is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation 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 and fair presentation 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 and fair presentation of the financial report 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.

Opinion In our opinion, the financial report presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Australian Mathematical Society as at 31 May 2015 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 requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act of the Australian Capital Territory 1991.

Page 65 of 78 Page 11 Australian Mathematical Society ABN 80 494 677 202 Independent Auditor's Report to the Members

Basis of Accounting and Restriction on Distribution Without modifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 1 to the financial statements, 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 3 August, 2015:

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

Page 66 of 78 Extracts from an email discussion on the Early Career Lecturer

Vlad Gaitsgory (Vice-President (Annual Conferences)

In my view, it would be beneficial if the Program Committee (PC) was entirely in charge of the AustMS meetings (to avoid doubling of the topics covered by the plenary speakers). One of the options to ensure that Early Career (EC) researchers are among plenary invitees is to have an EC representative on the PC

Michael Coons (Early Career Representative 2014-18)

I completely agree with Vlad that there should be an EC Rep on the PC for the AustMS meetings. With the way the funding of the ECW works (practically) it would be good if it were one of the AustMS EC Reps. I see a lot of value in making this decision in liaison with the PC and local directors. My email conversations with John Urbas were very helpful this year and I cannot thank the ANU enough for all of their help with the ECW practicalities planning.

Norman Do (Early Career Representative 2012-16)

My understanding when I started being involved with organisation of the Early Career Workshops attached to the AustMS meetings is that it was up to the organisers of the workshop to choose an ECR plenary speaker. The expectation was that the ECR plenary speaker would also be involved as one of the speakers at the Early Career Workshop.

In 2015, an ECR plenary speaker was essentially chosen without my input and I was asked to ratify the decision. I was happy to do so at the time, but it didn't turn out so well, since he did not end up attending the Early Career Workshop at all.

Regarding the arrangements for AustMS 2016, Michael Coons (my fellow organiser for the Early Career Workshop, who is really doing all the work!) invited Matthew Kennedy from the University of Waterloo, with the approval of John Urbas.

I believe that we have had ECR plenary speakers every year at the AustMS meeting, not just when a full Early Career Workshop occurs. Personally, I'd like to see this continue, to widen the scope of the plenary speakers and given that we still have a mini-workshop for ECRs. I understand that the decision on who the ECR plenary speaker is might be best left to the Program Committee, to create a better balance amongst the plenary speakers. I would hope that the committee would consider people who would be particularly suitable for the workshop, in terms of their career experience and ability to communicate with their peers. I note that finding ECR plenary speakers has sometimes been quite difficult, since suitable candidates are often in the early stages of starting a family!

Secretarial note

When discussing this matter, Council will have already considered (under Item 7.1(iii) ) a suggestion by Michael Coons that the mini-workshop for ECRs in odd years be discontinued.

Page 67 of 78 Response to the ARC Engagement and Impact Assessment Consultation Paper from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, the Australian Mathematical Society, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers

Feedback Questions

Definitions and scope 1. What definition of ‘engagement’ should be used for the purpose of assessment? We support the ATSE definition as given in the Consultation paper; where engagement is defined in terms of interactions with research partners in industry and the wider community. However, we note that for many enabling disciplines, such as the mathematical sciences, this engagement can often occur in the form of participation in a pipeline leading from potentially quite theoretical research, through more applied research in the same discipline, through to academic researchers in cognate disciplines before it actually involves the end user. The involvement of the mathematical sciences in a particular engagement is often critical, but in some cases may only be framed in terms of interaction with other academics along the pipeline, rather than directly with the end-user. It needs to be noted further that the time-scales for such “pipeline” engagements are usually significantly longer than those for direct academic-to-end-user engagements, which are more common in other disciplines.

2. What definition of ‘impact’ should be used for the purpose of assessment? A broad definition involving the impact of research outside the university sector is appropriate, along the lines of the UK REF and the ARC definitions provided in the Consultation paper. Consideration should be given to impacts that provide more general benefits to society as well as immediate commercial benefits to industry. In this regard, a list along the lines of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “broader impact themes” could also be considered. As with engagement, it is important to realise that the typical timescale necessary to realise an impact varies significantly among disciplines, with the enabling disciplines such as the mathematical sciences often having very long time periods between the original research activity and the realisation of its impact.

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Page 68 of 78 3. How should the scope of the assessment be defined? Given the broad and complex nature of research engagement and impact it is not feasible to replicate ERA and measure all activities that occur. Clearly income measures are already available via HERDC and can be used in the assessment. However, HERDC income measures are only a coarse measure of return on investment (RoI). For example, mathematical sciences collaborations are relatively low cost and have a relatively high RoI. The same is true for PhD internships in all disciplines. We suggest that universities follow up on collaborative grants to ascertain RoI for use as a second order measure of impact. Some international grants (such the EU IRSES scheme) exclude direct incomes for Australian partners but illustrate engagement and impact as far as they include non- academic partners. Also there are data associated with higher degree research students, including industry PhDs and industry research internships, that should be collected and assessed. We strongly recommend additional national assessment of discipline impact, as opposed to just university by university discipline impact. Our reason is that this will capture the collaborative nature of some disciplines, such as the mathematical sciences, which have peak discipline bodies and learned societies, which undertake multi university industry collaborations. AMSI is in exactly this category, with its PhD industry research internship program; the ATN’s Industry Doctoral Training Centre in the mathematical sciences is another example. In addition, there are sound reasons for national discipline assessments because these directly influence strategic planning at national level to turn around Australia’s poor university-industry collaboration rates and the low uptake of research trained graduates by the private sector. Since our claim is that our discipline’s engagement and impact at a national level is greater than the sum of the universities’ contributions there needs to be an effective measure at this national level. We suggest that this be measured by the expenditure of learned societies and discipline peak bodies on industry engagement at the 2 digit FOR code level (and specific to that code). We believe any measures relating to community participation/audience numbers/website views be designed carefully. It may be very costly to collect, and potentially unreliable. However, we cannot ignore the role that new and social media will play in business, industry and academia in the future. We do not recommend the inclusion of such measure in 2017, however we do recommend that carefully designed measures that are capable of capturing this type of impact be considered for the future. Ignoring them would miss a large part of community and social impact and could also risk creating the appearance that research and engagement measures are traditional in nature and ‘dated’. Case studies will be a useful tool to highlight the best and most important examples of engagement and impact.

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Page 69 of 78 4. Would a selective approach using case studies or exemplars to assess impact provide benefits and incentives to universities? Case studies are appropriate but the total number submitted by each institution should be limited to one case study at each two digit FOR code, to minimise the assessment burden. Universities should be able to choose the FOR codes they wish to nominate for assessment, regardless of the shape of their ERA submission.

5. If case studies or exemplars are used, should they focus on the outcomes of research or the steps taken by the institution to facilitate the outcomes? ERA measures outcomes so this assessment process should only measure outcomes too

6. What data is available to universities that could contribute to the engagement and impact assessment? The number of academic publications with an industry co-author. Non-academic publications like reports, professional publications and general media, even without industry co-authors, are also suitable to capture the broad nature of engagement. Citations to all papers from industry authored works could also be used as an impact measure. Suggestions relating to higher degree research students include: the number of industry Internships as well as supervisions and scholarships. The AMSI Intern program is in the process of being expanded to a national scale by government and clearly university uptake of internships will be a key engagement and impact measure. Academic staff who hold external board and panel memberships may also be a useful measure as are honorary academic appointments for industry staff.

i. Should the destination of Higher Degree Research students be included in the scope of the assessment? Ideally yes, however, unless a comprehensive longitudinal research graduate survey is introduced in Australia, this is very difficult and costly to gather data on. The NZ Graduate Longitudinal Survey commenced in 2011 and is attempting to follow university graduates for up to 10 years, post-graduation. The 10-year duration of the NZ study indicates that any corresponding Australian study would provide little or no useful data for a 2018 assessment exercise or even for 2021.

ii. Should other types of students be included or excluded from the scope of assessment (e.g. professional Masters level programmes, undergraduate students)? Students that conduct major research projects should be considered for inclusion. This could encompass Honours and coursework Masters students that complete a major research project.

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7. What are the key challenges for assessing engagement and impact and how can these be addressed? The ERA2015 assessment of FOR code 01 Mathematical Sciences, indicated that wide variations exist at the four digit FOR code level between the shares of Categories 1, 2, 3 and 4 income. For example, Pure Mathematics, 0101 had 30% of the journal articles and 35% of the Cat. 1 income of 01, but only a 7% share of the Cat 2-4 income. This indicates that the sub-disciplines of Pure Mathematics are quite different to those of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in the nature and level of its industry engagement and impact. The differences that occur within the sub-disciplines of the Mathematical Sciences are likely to be even wider between some STEM and HASS disciplines. Field normalisation is undertaken for citation rates and it seems the only useful technique to apply for this assessment exercise too.

8. Is it worthwhile to seek to attribute specific impacts to specific research and, if so, how should impact be attributed (especially in regard to a possible methodology that uses case studies or exemplars)? The mapping of impacts to specific research is likely to only be possible for special examples as explored in the Case Studies.

9. To what level of granularity and classification (e.g. ANZSRC Fields of Research) should measures be aggregated? The 2 digit FOR codes are appropriate.

10. What timeframes should be considered for the engagement activities under assessment? As indicated in the responses to the first two questions, the timeframe for impact to be realized varies considerably across disciplines, but is generally considerably longer for the enabling disciplines. The timeframe will need to be longer than that for ERA, with 10 years the minimum reasonable time for the mathematical sciences.

11. What timeframes should be considered for the impact activities under assessment? See response to Question 10 above.

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Page 71 of 78 12. How can the assessment balance the need to minimise reporting burden with robust requirements for data collection and verification? We believe that the 2018 assessment should be mostly based on existing data, as available via HERDC and/or ERA. A case study chosen by universities would allow a partial but early assessment of other impacts not represented by these data. Going forward, other data may need to be collected. The collection of additional data (such as measures of HDR student engagement and impact) is likely to be very complex and needs to be carefully planned, in consultation with the sector, to ensure that uniform measures are obtained

13. What approaches or measures can be used to manage the disciplinary differences in research engagement and impact? Clearly some form of field or discipline normalisation will be needed, for research incomes by FOR codes. However, it can be quite valid to assign some sources of research income to different FOR codes, for which the benchmarks are widely different.

14. What measures or approaches to evaluation used for the assessment can appropriately account for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary engagement and impact? Case studies seem the only valid approach for discussing interdisciplinary research.

Types of engagement and impact indicators

15. What types of engagement indicators should be used? We believe that some indicators that measure HDR research impact and engagement are appropriate such as industry internships, supervisions, scholarships and industry funded HDR projects.

16. What types of impact indicators should be used? We don’t believe internal processes are important, only outcomes. Surveys of industries and end users may be a useful approach and is already used by QS in their university rankings. Citations to all papers from industry authored works could also be used.

Other 17. Are there any additional comments you wish to make? Research impact within academia (ERA assessment in the citation disciplines and the various university rankings) relies heavily on citations for the simple reason that the data is available and easy to measure. The Engagement and Impact Assessments should also be based on easily obtainable data, even if these data are imperfect proxies for the underlying process.

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Page 72 of 78 The Australian Mathematical Society, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers

9October 2016

Professor Timothy Professor Geoff Prince Professor Peter Taylor Marchant Director, Australian Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for President, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers Mathematical Society

Members of the Working Group: Professor Timothy Marchant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Dean of Research, University of Wollongong, President of the Australian Mathematical Society

Professor Peter Taylor Australian Laureate Fellow, University of Melbourne, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers

Ms Jessie Roberts Queensland University of technology, Industry Officer ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers

Professor Geoff Prince Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

Associate Professor Marc Demange RMIT University, School of Science, Mathematical Sciences discipline

Professor Joseph Grotowski Head of School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland

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Page 73 of 78 THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL 2016-17 Positions subject to Council approval are marked with an asterisk

Steering Committee Membership: For 2016/2017 For 2015/2016 President Prof. K.A. Smith-Miles Prof. T.R. Marchant Immediate-Past-President or Prof. T.R. Marchant Prof. K.A. Smith-Miles President-Elect Elected Vice-President Prof. J. A.G. Roberts Prof. J. A.G. Roberts Secretary *A. Prof. P.J. Stacey A. Prof. P.J. Stacey Treasurer *Dr A. Howe Dr A. Howe Chair of ANZIAM Prof. M.R. Myerscough Prof. L.K. Forbes Chair of ANZAMP A. Prof. T.M. Garoni Prof. J, de Gier Vice-President (Annual Confs.) Prof. V. Gaitsgory Prof. V. Gaitsgory Chair of Editors’ Committee Prof. G. Hocking Prof. G. Hocking One member of the Society elected by Council1 *Prof. P.J. Forrester Prof. N. Joshi The Annual Conference Director Prof. X.T. Duong Prof. J.I.E. Urbas and Prof. P.D. Smith Director AMSI (observer) Prof. G.E. Prince Prof, G.E. Prince

1 In the past, this elected member has generally been the Chair of the National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences. The current Chair of the NCMS is Prof. P.J. Forrester

AustMS Medal Committee Membership: For 2017: For 2016: Chair Professor P.J. Forrester Professor P. G. Bouwknegt Incoming Chair *Dr C.M. O’Keefe Professor P.J. Forrester Outgoing Chair Professor P. G. Bouwknegt Professor N.C. Wormald One member appointed for one year *Professor A. Henderson Dr C.M. O’Keefe

George Szekeres Medal Committee Membership: For 2018: For 2016: Chair Professor C.E. Praeger Professor J.H. Rubinstein Incoming Chair To be appointed in 2017 Professor C.E. Praeger Outgoing Chair Dr R.S. Anderssen** Dr R.S. Anderssen** One member appointed for one year To be appointed in 2017 Professor R.H. Street **Following the death of Professor P.G. Hall, Dr R.S. Anderssen took his place on the committee for 2016 and 2018.

Page 74 of 78 Gavin Brown Prize Committee Membership: For 2017: For 2016: Chair Professor J. Ramagge Professor J.F. Grotowski Incoming Chair *Professor S.O. Warnaar Professor J. Ramagge Outgoing Chair Professor J.F. Grotowski Professor S.O. Warnaar*** Member appointed for one year *Professor P. Solomon Professor A.P. Bassom *** Following the death of Professor J.M. Borwein, his position on the committee for 2016 was taken by Professor S.O. Warnaar Mahoney-Neumann-Room Prize Committee This committee consists of the Editor (or one of the Co-Editors) of the AustMS Journal, the Bulletin and the ANZIAM Journal. Mahler Lecturer Committee Membership: For 2016/2019: For 2018/2021: Chair Dr A.E. Ghitza *Dr T. Trudgian Incoming Chair *Dr T. Trudgian To be appointed in 2018 Outgoing Chair Assoc. Prof M.G. Jackson Dr A.E. Ghitza

Plus VP(AC), Director of the Annual Conference in the year of the tour (when known) and other members co-opted as necessary.

Fellowship Committee Membership: For 2016/2017: For 2015/2016: Chair Professor S.A. Morris Assoc. Prof. D.A. Pask Incoming Chair *Assoc. Prof. J. Purcell Professor S.A. Morris Outgoing Chair Assoc. Prof. D.A. Pask Assoc. Prof. L. Ward

Student Conference Support Committee Membership: For 2016/2017: For 2015/2016: Chair Dr J. Parkinson Professor P. Broadbridge Incoming Chair *Dr A.L.Glen Dr J. Parkinson Outgoing Chair Professor P. Broadbridge Dr J. Droniou Editors’ Committee Membership: President, Secretary, Treasurer and each Editor; all ex ocio. Chair until 31 December 2018: Professor G. Hocking.

Page 75 of 78 Editors and their terms: *Bulletin Prof J.H. Loxton (31/3/2020) Journal of AustMS Prof J.M. Borwein & Prof G.A. Willis (30/6/2019) ANZIAM Journal Prof A. Bassom & Prof G. Hocking (31/12/2018) ANZIAM J. Supplement Prof A.J. Roberts (31/12/2018) Gazette Prof. S.A. Morris & A. Prof. D.T. Yost (31/12/2017) Lecture Series Prof J. Ramagge (31/12/2019) Electronic Site Dr R. Moore (31/12/2018)

Nominations and Publications Committee This consists of four people: The Incoming or Outgoing President, the Secretary, and two other members selected by the committee. For 2016–2017 the members are: Professor Tim Marchant (Past-President); Assoc. Prof. Peter Stacey (Secretary); Professor Alan Carey (to 2017); Professor Jacqui Ramagge (to 2019). For 2015-2016 the members are: Professor Kate Smith-Miles (President-Elect); Assoc. Prof. Peter Stacey (Secretary); Professor Alan Carey (to 2017); Professor Jacqui Ramagge (to 2019).

Standing Committee on Mathematics Education Membership: The Committee comprises 10 people. Each year, four persons are elected for a two year term. Each state will have a representative on this Committee. The Director of AMSI or the Director’s nominee from the members of the Society is also a member, as is the co-ordinator of the Society’s professional development unit. To 2018 To 2017 *Asoc. Prof. B.I. Loch [VIC] (Chair) Dr H. Lonsdale [WA] *Dr P. Charlton [NSW] Dr L. Ferrario [ACT] *Dr B.Maenhaut [QLD] Assoc. Prof. D. King [VIC] *Dr K. Dharmadasa [TAS] Dr A.R. Albrecht [SA]

Accreditation Committee Council appoints three persons on a rolling basis, each for a period of three years. The Committee is For 2016–17 For 2015-16 To 2017 AGM : Assoc. Prof. B. Sims (Chair) To 2016 AGM : Assoc. Prof. I.R. Doust To 2018 AGM : Assoc. Prof. B.A. Burton To 2017 AGM: Assoc. Prof. B. Sims (Chair) To 2019 AGM: *Prof. P. Broadbridge To 2018 AGM: Assoc. Prof. B.A. Burton

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Membership: Between five and eight members, of whom at least two hold non-university appointments. The Chair of the Accreditation Committee shall hold ex-ocio membership and other members (except for initial members) should have a two year term with the possibility of reappointment. To 2017 To 2018 Prof. G.E. Prince Prof. T.R. Marchant (Chair) Dr J. Roumeliotis Professor L.M. Batten Dr E.J. Tonkes Dr M.E. Roberts A. Prof. B. Sims (Chair Accreditation Committee)

Appeal Committee The President, Secretary, Incoming or Outgoing President and Chair of ANZIAM.

EC Workshop Representatives Dr Michael J. Coons ( EC Representative for 2014-2018) *Dr L. Bennetts (EC representative for 2016-20 ) There are also ANZIAM EC representatives and local EC representatives if required.

Page 77 of 78 Following our successful first-of-its-kind Science meets Business 2015, Science & Technology Australia will hold SmB 2016 on 24 October in Melbourne.

Science meets Business 2016 brings together corporate and research leaders to build collaboration. At this exclusive event, high-calibre panellists and a hand-picked audience will discuss and work on diagnosing problems, identifying solutions and providing tools to make change. Science meets Business will broker better understanding between science and business, and promote partnerships and opportunities for innovation.

Australia cannot afford not to improve industry-STEM engagement and collaboration. Building better mechanisms to collaborate will have profound economic consequences. Science meets Business will kick-start a sophisticated conversation about the barriers between science and business and how we can overcome them.

High-level speakers from business, science and government will lead this dynamic debate over one day in Melbourne. See the full program here.

Science meets Business

Where: Telstra 242 Conference Centre, Exhibition Street (corner of Lonsdale St), Melbourne

When: Monday, 24 October 2016, 9am-6pm

Attendance is by invitation only. STA members are each invited to send two delegates: if you belong to a member organisation please contact your association to request attendance. If you do not belong to a member organisation and you would like to attend, please contact us at [email protected].

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