ICE-EM/AMSI SUMMER SCHOOL 2003
The 1st annual ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School was hosted by the University of Melbourne from 21 January to 21 February 2003.
A total of 107 participants attended from member universities around Australia and industry took part in the summer school. Of the attendees 47 were Honours students, 35 PhD students, 15 Masters students and 4 from industry.
Feedback was enthusiastic, commending the high standard of the teaching and subject matter, which provided challenging material sometimes not available at their home institutions.
COURSES
KNOT THEORY
Raymond Lickorish, University of Cambridge
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Paul Norbury, The University of Melbourne
MEASURE THEORY
Marty Ross, Monash University
RANDOM MATRIX THEORY
Nicholas Witte, The University of Melbourne
MATHEMATICS OF FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES
Omar Foda, The University of Melbourne
and
Kais Hamza, Monash University
BAYESIAN INFERENCE AND MARKOV CHAINS
Robert Kohn, University of New South Wale
ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL METHODS
Barry Hughes and Kerry Landman, The University of Melbourne
ENUMERATIVE COMBINATORICS
Richard Brak, The University of Melbourne
DATA MINING
Markus Hegland, Australian National University