“IT WAS REALLY HELPFUL TO BE SURROUNDED BY OTHER STUDENTS IN SIMILAR POSITIONS TO MY OWN, I.E. PASSIONATE ABOUT MATHS, AND INTERESTED IN HAVING A MATHEMATICAL CAREER. THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN.”
Mabel Chen, RMIT University
Courses and Lecturers
The AMSI Summer School 2020 program enables students to take up to 2 intensive honours-level subjects during the four-week residential school; however, students can only nominate one course for credit/assessment (at the time of application).
AMSI and La Trobe University are pleased to offer the following eight subjects. Click on the topics below to find out more about the course overviews, pre-requisites, assessments, resources and pre-course quizzes.
Please note: When choosing courses, please consult the Timetable to see which course combinations are possible. Join our mailing list and be the first to know when the timetable is released.
| Course | Lecturer/s |
|---|---|
| Differential Geometry & Symmetry | Dr Romina Arroyo & Dr Ramiro Lafuente, The University of Queensland |
| Geometric Group Theory | Dr Alejandra Garrido Angulo, The University of Newcastle Associate Professor Murray Elder, University of Technology, Sydney Dr Lawrence Reeves, The University of Melbourne |
| Applied Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations | Professor Philip Broadbridge & Dr Dimetre Triadis, La Trobe University |
| Dynamic Processes Spreading on Networks | Dr Joel Miller, La Trobe University |
| Effective Teaching, Effective Learning in Quantitative Disciplines | Associate Professor Katherine Seaton, La Trobe University |
| The Finite Element Method | Dr Bishnu Lamichhane, The University of Newcastle |
| Random Fields: Mathematical Theory and Spatial Statistics Applications | Associate Professor Andriy Olenko, La Trobe University |
| Markov Chains with Applications | Professor Malwina Luczak, The University of Melbourne |
Summer School Subjects for Credit
Did you know you could sit your Summer School topic for credit and have it count towards your degree?