Summer Programs

AMSI supports various Summer Programs through its management of the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics. Information about Summer Programs can be found on the ICEEM website.

ICE-EM/AMSI Summer Schools

The first two AMSI Summer Schools for honours and postgraduate students were held in January-February 2003 at the University of Melbourne and in January-February 2004 at the University of New South Wales. They were generously funded by grants from the Commonwealth Government’s Department of Education, Science and Training. Both were remarkably successful, attracting 110 and 138 students respectively from around Australia.

The next four Summer Schools were held at:

- Australian National University, Canberra in January 2005 (119 students)

- RMIT University, Melbourne in January - February 2006 (94 students)

- the University of Sydney in January-February 2007

- Monash University, Melbourne in January-February 2008

The 7th Summer School will be held from Monday 12 January to Friday 6 February 2009 at the University of Wollongong. Students from across Australia, as well as from overseas countries, are encouraged to participate.

Since 2005, the Summer Schools have been sponsored by the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics (ICE-EM), which is managed by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. ICE-EM has been funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Science and Training.

Program

The aim of the Summer Schools is to offer to students a range of courses in the mathematical sciences, some of which may not be normally available in their home institutions. The length of a Summer School is 4 or 5 weeks, and courses are normally 14 or 28 hours.

With the approval of their home university, students may take courses for credit toward their Honours degree. The courses are also open to postgraduate students from cognate areas who wish to extend their knowledge of appropriate areas of mathematics and statistics. They have proven to be of interest to students from Engineering, Biomedical Science, and Commerce (Finance, Risk Management and other quantitative areas), among others.

Students enjoy a stimulating atmosphere and opportunities for the interchange of ideas both with one another and with the lecturers. The feeling of camaraderie and the opportunity to share mathematical experiences with a larger group of students are key features of the summer schools.

Links to Summer School Web Sites

ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School 2008: Monash University

ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School 2007: University of Sydney

ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School 2006: RMIT University, Melbourne

ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School 2005: Australian National University, Canberra

AMSI Summer School 2004: University of New South Wales, Sydney

AMSI Summer School 2003: University of Melbourne

Summer School Videos

A number of the Summer School Lectures from both 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 are available for viewing via the Web.

See 2006 videos on "Measure Theory" by Marty Ross, "Algebraic Curves" by Emma Carberry and Nuno Romão and "Computability and Intractability" by Marcel Jackson.

See 2005 videos on "Independent Component Analysis" by Aapo Hyvarinen, "Kernel Methods for Higher Order Image Statistics" by Matthias Franz and "Nonlinear Optimization Methods" by Rob Womersley

See 2003 videos on "Knot Theory" by Professor Raymond Lickorish here.

View videos on "Enumerative Combinatorics" by Dr Richard Brak here.

View 2004 Summer School videos on "Combinatorial Matrices and Graph Theory" by Ian Wanless and Catherine Greenhill here.

View videos on "Topics in Number Theory" by Alf van der Poorten here.

To play the videos simply click on the video icon (as shown below) located on each page.

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