Department of Mathematics

Enrolment information

• Enrolments 2010
• Getting advice
• Summer School 2010
• 2010 Mathematics Undergraduate Handbook
• Undergraduate Studies Notices
• Postgraduate Studies Notices

See above link for the Semester 1 postgraduate timetable

Superstart 2010

• Superstart is a refresher course for students enrolling in MATHS 108, MATHS 150 and ENGSCI 111 who do not have a strong background in Mathematics with Calculus.
• 10 day course from 15 to 26 February; 7 day course from 18 to 26 February

MAX 2010

• MAX (Mathematics Acceleration and extension for high school students) is aimed at students who are willing to be challenged in mathematics in Year 13.

Maths in the media

• Celebrated mathematician/magician Persi Diaconis tells Catherine Masters (NZ Herald) that "maths is not only beautiful, it's useful too."
• Calcium, Lung Function and Asthma
  For the past 20 years James Sneyd has studied calcium and what drives its concentration in cells. Here he talks with Radio New Zealand's Alison Ballance about how mathematical modelling helps us understand the role of calcium in lung function and saliva secretion.
• Claire Postlethwaite meets Scott Flansburg on Close Up
• Using Mathematics to understand flu pandemic

Former Senior Lecturer Dr Catherine Macken (now a Los Alamos researcher) models the the spread of swine flu

• On the necessity of Science and Mathematics

USA President Barack Obama's address at the National Academy of Sciences

News

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• Honours student Michael Smith wins Aitken Prize prize for best talk 11 Dec 2009
  

• Funding Success for Mathematics Education Project 10 Dec 2009
  

• Margaret Woolgrove Wins Excellence Award 26 Nov 2009

• Astronomy workshop for Ramarama Primary 18 Nov 2009
  

• Community for Undergraduate Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS) inauguration 13 Nov 2009

• RSNZ fellowship for Eamonn O'Brien 11 Nov 2009
  

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Seminars

• 10 February: Localised patterns of lattice equations, by Alan Champneys
• 16 February: What is Quantum Field Theory?, by David Brydges
• 17 February: What is mathematical biology and how useful is it?, by Avner Friedman
• 18 February: A continuation method for computing global isochrons, by Hinke Osinga
• 25 February: The mystery of chaos in the Lorenz equations, by Bernd Krauskopf

Events

• 15 February, Algebraic, Topological and Complexity Aspects of Graph Covers - Auckland 15-19 February.
  This research workshop will focus on graph coverings and their applications in different areas of mathematics
• 18 February, Algorithmic Aspects of Game Theory and Social Choice - 18.02-20.02.2010. For information please contact Arkadii Slinko

• Public lectures

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