Clay-Mahler Lecturer 2009

Prof. Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles

Prof. Tao will visit Australia in August and September 2009, he is plenary speaker at the 53rd annual meeting of AustMS and will speak at a number of member institutions.

Lecture tour

Access Grid Lectures

Mahler Lecturer 2007

Prof. Mark Kisin, University of Chicago

Prof. Kisin's research centres on p-adic Hodge theory and its applications to the arithmetic of modular forms and modularity of Galois representations. He spoke at the 51st Annual Meeting of AustMS and a number of member institutions.

Mahler Lecturer 2005

Prof. Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinios at Urbana - Champaign

Prof. Berndt's research is in the areas of number theory, elliptic functions, q-series, continued fractions, character sums, classical analysis adn Ramanujan's notebooks. He spoke at the 49th Annual Meeting of AustMS and a number of member institutions.

AMSI-MASCOS Lecturer 2007/08

Em. Prof. Dr. Ingo Müller, Technical University of Berlin.

Prof. Müller's expertise is in thermodynamics, he developed Extended Thermodynamics, a thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes rarefied gases. He was plenary speaker at the AMSI-MASCOS Theme Program Concepts of Entropy and their Applications and delivered customised lectures at nine member universities.

AMSI Lecturer 2008

Prof. Linda Petzold, University of California Santa Barbara

Dr Petzold's research interests include Numerical ODEs, DAEs and PDEs, scientific computing. Dr Petzold visited Australia twice, in February 2008 as plenary speaker at the 2008 ANZIAM annual conference and in July/August 2008 visiting a number of member institutions and plenary speaker at the 14th Biennial Comupational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC).

AMSI Lecturer 2007

Prof. Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University

Dr Meng's research interests are in the area of statistical inference under complex settings. Dr Meng visited Australia twice, in July 2007 as plenary speaker at the annual joint conference of the Statistical Society of Australia and the New Zealand Statistical Association and in July 2008, during both visits he spoke at a number of member institutions.

AMSI Lecturer 2006

Prof. John E. Dennis Jr, Rice University

Prof. Dennis's expertise is in optomisation algorithms for industrial and computational mathematics. He was plenary speaker at the 2006 ANZIAM annual conference.  He then spoke at nine member universities.