News | School of Mathematical Sciences | University of Adelaide http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ Congratulations to Tony Roberts, Charles Pearce, Robert Elliot, Andrew Metcalfe and all their collaborators on their success in the current round of ARC grants. The projects are "Development of innovative technologies for oil production based on the advanced theory of suspension flows in porous media" (Tony Roberts et al.), "Perturbation and approximation methods for linear operators with applications to train control, water resource management and evolution of physical systems" (Charles Pearce et al.), "Risk Measures and Management in Finance and Actuarial Science Under Regime-Switching Models" (Robert Elliott et al.) and "A new flood design methodology for a variable and changing climate" (Andrew Metcalfe et al.) en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ Congratulations to Mr Sam Cohen, a PhD student within the School, who was awarded the B. H. Neumann Prize for the best student paper at the 2009 meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society for his talk on Dynamic Risk Measures and Nonlinear Expectations with Markov Chain noise. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ The School is currently seeking to appoint a Professor of Pure Mathematics. See the University's jobs website for full details, including the selection criteria. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ The School is currently seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the area of optimisation. See the University's jobs website for full details, including the selection criteria. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ Congratulations again to all of the 2008 School of Mathematical Sciences student prizewinners. A selection of photographs from the prizegiving evening at the Museum of South Australia is now available. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ The photograph shows, from left to right, Dr Rongmin Lu, Dr Raymond Vozzo, Dr Alys Clark, Dr and Dr Glenis Crane. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ The University of Adelaide, through the School of Mathematical Sciences, has recently become a full member of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. AMSI undertakes wide ranging activities to support the Mathematical Sciences within Australia. Full details of AMSI and their activities can be found on their website en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ On 25 September 2009, three distinguished visiting mathematicians will lecture at the University of Adelaide. Clay Lecturer Dr Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) speaks at 12:10 pm, Clay Lecturer Prof Danny Calegari (Caltech) at 1:40 pm, and Clay-Mahler Lecturer and Fields Medallist Prof Terrence Tao (UCLA) at 3:10 pm. The talks take place in Napier 102. For titles and abstracts, see the School events calendar. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/ The School of Mathematical Sciences is seeking to appoint three post-doctoral research associates. These positions have now closed. en-ushttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/