Program Extras
In addition to lectures, the AMSI Winter School program includes a range of social and extra-curricular activities to share ideas and help you see your research in a new light, build your networks and get the most out of your experience in Brisbane.
Registration and Opening Ceremony
Monday 24 June – Science Learning Centre, Priestley Buildinng (67), UQ St Lucia campus
Registration: 9.30am – 10.00am AEST
Opening Ceremony: 10.00am – 11.00am AEST
Once you arrive on the UQ St Lucia campus, come and introduce yourself and meet the Winter School team who will be your hosts for the next two weeks. You’ll have some time to collect your name badge and event swag (water bottle, notepad with pen, pocket program) before we officially open the 2024 Winter School on Mathematics for Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
APR.Intern Presentation
Monday 24 June – Science Learning Centre, Priestley Building (67), UQ, St Lucia campus
Time: 11.00am – 11.30am AEST
Looking for some practical experience in a professional research environment? Join the team from APR.Intern to learn how you can engage in a short-term paid placement with industry, and get a head start on your career.
Campus Tour
Monday 24 June – Science Learning Centre, Priestley Building (67), UQ, St Lucia campus
Campus Tour: 11.30am – 12.00pm
After the formalities of the Opening Ceremony, go on a campus tour to get your bearings and explore UQ’s sprawling St Lucia campus.
Public Lecture
Monday 24 June
Refreshments: 5.00pm, Atrium, Steele Building (03), UQ, St Lucia campus
Lecture: 6pm, Room 206, Steele Building (03)
In this lecture, Distinguished Professor, Kerrie Mengersen will consider two different models that allow statisticians to use datasets without compromising privacy conditions that can be attached to them.
Participant Talks – Round 1
Sponsored by Optiver
Tuesday 25 June – Room TBA
9.30am – 12.30pm AEST
Share your work with peers around the country, build networks and be in the running to win up to $400 in prizes!
Special Lecture: A.N. Kolmogorov: A Biographical Sketch
Presented by Professor Konstantin Borovkov
Tuesday 25 June – Forgan Smith (Building 01), E109, UQ St Lucia
3.00pm – 4.00pm AEST
This presentation is an attempt to outline the life path of one of the most prominent mathematicians of the 20th century, Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov. One of the founders of modern probability theory, he obtained fundamental results in topology, geometry, mathematical logic, classical mechanics, turbulence theory, algorithm complexity theory, information theory, function theory, trigonometric series theory, measure theory, function approximation theory, set theory, differential equations, theory of dynamical systems, functional analysis and in a number of other areas of mathematics and its applications.
“Kolmogorov occupies a unique place in modern mathematics and in the scientific world. By the diversity and breadth of his scientific interest, he recalls the classical natural scientists of past centuries.” – N.N Bogolyubov et al. (1983)
Professor Konstantin Borokov
Konstantin Borovkov is a professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Mathematics & Statistics. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University and got his Ph.D. and Dr.Sci. degrees from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow, where he worked as a research fellow until moving to Melbourne in 1995. K. Borovkov published about 100 research papers and authored and co-authored several books. His main research areas are limit theorems for stochastic processes and their applications.
Special Lecture: Using data science to decrease the environmental impact of travellers millions of trips at a time
Presented by Dr Maithili Mehta, The University of Queensland
Friday 28 June – Forgan Smith (Building 01), E109, UQ St Lucia
2.30pm – 3.30pm AEST
Abstract forthcoming
Dr Maithili Mehta
Mathematician and software engineer by day, yoga teacher by night. Maithili Mehta completed her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at the University of Queensland in 2003. She went on to a career in software engineering, specialising in optimisation algorithms. She is currently the lead of software engineering and innovation at You.Smart.Thing. When she isn’t solving complex journey planning problems, you can find her hanging out with her kids, reading, singing or yoga-ing!
Careers Session
Friday 28 June – Science Learning Centre
3.30pm – 5.00pm AEST
Explore diverse careers pathways in mathematics by talking to others who are in the field. Ask questions and find out about post-university jobs for mathematicians.
Friday Night Social
Friday 28 June – Saint Lucy’s Caffe e Cucina, Blair Drive, St Lucia
At the end of the first week of the program, sit back and relax over an informal dinner with your new friends before settling into the weekend in Brisbane!
Queensland Brain Institute
Monday 1 July
Lecture: 1.00pm, Room E109, Forgan Smith Building (01), UQ, St Lucia campus | Tour: 2.00pm – 4.00pm (limited spaces available)
Learn about the some of the new innovations and ground-breaking projects being run by the Queensland Brain Institute.
Participant Talks – Final
Sponsored by Optiver
Wednesday 3 July – Room E109, Forgan Smith Building (Building 01), UQ St Lucia campus
3.00pm – 4.30pm AEST
Share your work with peers around the country, build networks and be in the running to win up to $400 in prizes!
Diversity in STEM Event
Wednesday 3 July – Science Learning Centre, Priiestley Building (67), UQ St Lucia campus
Refreshments from 4.30pm | Event to begin 5.00pm AEST
Join us to celebrate diversity in out STEM community.
This is an in-person event only. It will not be recorded or live broadcast.
Special Lecture
Presented by Dr Matthew Mason
Monday 24 June – Forgan Smith (Building 01), E109, UQ St Lucia campus
4.00pm – 5.00pm AEST
Abstract forthcoming
Dr Matthew Mason
Dr Mason began at The University of Queensland in late 2014 after holding academic positions at The University of Sydney and Queensland University of Technology. Prior to joining The University of Queensland he also worked as a catastrophe risk researcher for the industry-focused research centre, Risk Frontiers at Macquarie University. Matthew’s key areas of interest and expertise lie in the fields of:
- Wind Engineering
- Stochastic modelling of hazards, including convective storms and tropical cyclones
- Probabilistic modelling of structural and infrastructure vulnerability to wind, water and hail
- Catastrophe loss modelling for natural hazards
- Modelling and observation of the atmospheric boundary layer
- Wind tunnel testing and analysis
- Disaster insurance