2024 Vic ANZIAM One Day Meeting
VicANZIAM One Day Meeting June 2024
Date: Monday 3rd June 2024, 9am – 5pm
Location: Building 80, RMIT Melbourne City campus
REGISTRATION: Registration is now open with a deadline of 20th May 2024. Please register and submit your abstract using the ‘Go to my registration’ link at the top of this page. Registration is free for students who contribute a presentation.
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Victorian branch of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society (VicANZIAM) is delighted to announce a one-day meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society.
In this event, we will bring together applied and industrial mathematicians from a broad range of backgrounds and at various career stages. We will host four plenary speakers from government, industry and academia. The workshop will also include a poster session open to students and postdoctoral researchers to present work in progress. There will be a $250 prize for the best student poster.
POSTER SESSION
A poster session for students and postdoctoral researchers will be a focus of the event. This was a particular highlight of 2022 and 2023’s workshops. The session will begin with a “lightning round”. Each poster presenter will give a 2-3 minute advertisement accompanied by one slide. This will be followed by the poster session proper.
A title and abstract will need to be submitted by 20th May 2024. There will be a $250 prize for the best student presenter.
The physical posters can be of any size and format, but no larger than vertical A0 (841 x 1188 mm). The poster boards at the venue can be used with either pins or Velcro. It is recommended that your bring your own Velcro.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
We are honoured to host the following four plenary speakers:
Dr Elena Tartaglia (Victorian Government)
Bio: Dr Elena Tartaglia is a Senior Data Scientist at the Victorian Government Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. She works in Bushfire and Forest Services, using statistical modelling to improve bushfire preparedness. Elena’s background is in applied maths and mathematical physics, and she previously worked at CSIRO’s Data61.
Title: How I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up
Abstract: When I was studying, I thought I needed to have a plan for my career. All the people I spoke to seemed to have known what they wanted to do for work from a young age, but that just wasn’t me! I knew that I wanted to study subjects that I enjoyed and that I wanted to have a steady and interesting job at the end, but I had no idea what that job would be. Now that I’ve been employed for the past eight years, I want to reflect on my career path so far, and how my choices led me to my current role.
I’ll give an overview of my career so far, with an emphasis on how I chose my career path, what sorts of projects I’ve worked on and how I’ve used mathematics in my work. I’ll talk about some choices I made during my studies, and how I think those choices helped or hindered my career path. Finally, I’ll reflect on some good and bad advice I was given when trying to choose my career path and leave you with some (good or bad) advice of my own.
A/Prof Ricardo Ruiz-Baier (Monash University)
Bio: Ricardo is in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Group at Monash University, and he is an ARC Future Fellow. He did his PhD at University of Concepcion, Chile, did his postdoc at EPFL and University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and before joining Monash he was a Lecturer at University of Oxford, UK. He works on numerical analysis for partial differential equations, concentrating in error estimates of mixed finite element methods for saddle-point problems, as well as applications in biomechanics and geophysical flows.
Title: Numerical methods for brain multiphysics
Abstract: A great example of a multiphysics problem is the phenomenon of waste transport and clearance in the brain. Different physical mechanisms such as the flow of cerebrospinal and interstitial fluids and the deformation of the brain tissue play a crucial role in clearing away, mostly during sleep, the waste created during the day. I will show some simplified models that involve interface interactions between flow and deformation of porous structures, their mathematical structure, and explain why - even in this reduced complexity - they are difficult to solve numerically in an efficient manner.
Dr Rebecca Chisholm (La Trobe University)
Bio: Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University. She has a PhD in mathematical biology from the University of Melbourne, and held postdoctoral appointments at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research is collaborative and interdisciplinary, and most recently involves the development and use of mathematical models to investigate infectious disease transmission and control.
Title: A short history of an average academic with emerging research trends
Abstract: In this presentation, I will begin with a short history of how I secured a continuing T&R position with a diverse research portfolio in mathematical biology. I will discuss how this research portfolio did not result from a grand master plan, but rather a series of happy accidents. I will then describe in more detail two projects related to my work developing transmission models of multi-strain pathogens (Streptococcus pyogenes and Onchocerca volvulus) for the purpose of better understanding the mechanisms underlying observations of infectious diseases and how to improve control.
Dr Manoj Gambhir (MSD biopharmaceuticals)
Bio: I am a theoretical physicist by training and temperament. I grew up, studied and watched a lot of science and scifi television in the UK. After my studies I wanted to work on hard important problems with interesting people, and I have spent significant time in economics, epidemiology and ML of natural language.
Title: A mathematical working life, draft version
Abstract: I am currently a Principal Scientist in Health Economics and Outcomes Research at the pharmaceutical company MSD. I will talk about my career path over the past 25 years on three continents and in quite a few industries. The common denominator has been Mathematics. Well, Microsoft Office and Mathematics to be completely honest.
Location and timetable
All events take place on Level 7 of RMIT Building 80 (Swanston Academic Building), 445 Swanston Street VIC 3000.
| Time | Event | Location |
| 8.40-9.10 | Arrival and Registration | Building 80, level 7 |
| 9.10-9.15 | Introduction | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 9.15-10.00 | plenary 1: Tartaglia | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 10.00-10.45 | plenary 2: Gambhir | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 10.45-11.10 | morning tea | Level 7 Break out space |
| 11.10-11.50 | lightning round 1 | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 11.50-12.30 | poster session 1 | Level 7 Break out space |
| 12.30-13.20 | lunch | Level 7 Break out space |
| 13.20-14.05 | plenary 3: Ruiz-Baier | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 14.05-14.45 | lightning round 2 | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 14.45-15.25 | poster session 2 | Level 7 Break out space |
| 15.25-15.50 | afternoon tea | Level 7 Break out space |
| 15.50-16.35 | plenary 4: Chisholm | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 16.35-16.45 | prizes and closing remarks | Level 7 Lecture Theatre 1 |
Contact and queries
If you have any questions, please email Ed Hinton (ehinton -at- unimelb.edu.au).