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The 1st annual ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School was hosted by the University of Melbourne from 21 January to 21 February 2003.

A total of 107 participants attended from member universities around Australia and industry took part in the summer school. Of the attendees 47 were Honours students, 35 PhD students, 15 Masters students and 4 from industry.

Feedback was enthusiastic, commending the high standard of the teaching and subject matter, which provided challenging material somtimes not available at their home institutions.

 

Course Lecturer
Knot Theory Raymond Lickorish (University of Cambridge)
Algebraic Geometry Paul Norbury (University of Melbourne)
Measure Theory Marty Ross (Monash University)
Random Matrix Theory Nicholas Witte (University of Melbourne)
Mathematics of Financial Derivatives Omar Foda (University of Melbourne) and Kais Hamza (Monash University)
Bayesian Inference and Markov Chains Robert Kohn (University of New South Wales)
Advanced Mathematical Methods Barry Hughesand Kerry Landman (University of Melbourne)
Enumerative Combinatorics Richard Brak (University of Melbourne)
Data Mining Markus Hegland (Australian National University)

 

Student feedback

“Excellent lecturer, very clear and confident, very interesting material.” Advanced Maths Methods
“The course presented a range of material that would not have been covered at my home institution… good atmosphere and lecturing, well organised course” Measure Theory
“Very interesting, completely new material” Knot Theory
“This lecturer noted the “real world and “high level issues’ , making the course quite practical” Bayesian Inference and Markov Chains
“Never seen things (of) this manner before, very enthusiastic lecturer.” Mathematics of Financial Derivatives.

Recorded Lectures




Please be aware that these lectures range in size from 150MB to 300MB each.
 

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