In 2009-10 AMSI awarded 17 competitive Vacation Research Scholarships. AMSI Vacation Research Scholarships fund students to undertake a six-week research project over the summer holiday. At the culmination of the project students come together with CSIRO vacation scholars to attend CSIRO’s Big Day In at Macquarie University.

Big Day In is a very upbeat and inclusive event and represents considerable added value to the scholarships. AMSI scholar talks were of a very high quality and there was impressive in depth discussion at the end of each talk. 

Vacation Scholars
Student	Supervisor	Topic
Australian National University
Brendan Fong	Amnon Neeman	Schemes and sheaves
Xingyu Cai	Andrew Hassell	Can one hear the shape of a drum?
Lindon Roberts	Markus Hegland	Numerical solution of elliptic and parabolic PDE with finite elements and wavelets
La Trobe University
Stacey Mendan	Brian Davey	Ternary algebras
Macquarie University
Joshua Peate	Xuan Duong	Important inequalities and interpolation
Monash University
Tony Grubman	Maria Athanassenas	Minimal surfaces
Jun Liang	Kais Hamza	Means and inequalities
Jian Yen	Christian Rau	Spatial modelling with point processes, with view toward ecology
Queensland University of Technology
Luke Fitzpatrick	Scott McCue	Melting crystals in microgravity
Elizabeth Ryan	Kerrie Mengersen	Spatiotemporal modelling of dengue
University of Adelaide
James Travis	Michael Murray	Knots, braids and applications
University of Melbourne
John Telford	Owen Jones	Forecasting childcare enrolments
University of Queensland
Georgina Davies	Michael Bulmer	Risk factors for respiratory infections amongst preschool children in Indonesia
University of Sydney
Blake Churton	Holger Dullin	Dynamics of the pentagon
David Lewis	Dave Galloway	Dynamo problem
University of Western Australia
Aedan Pope	Michael Giudici	Commuting graphs
University of Wollongong
Kate Snow	Mark Nelson	Sensitivity to initial conditions: characteristing the accuracy of the weather forecast