| Sunday (3rd February) | |||||
| 2:00 pm — 5:00 pm | Conference Registration | ||||
| 6:00 pm | Conference Reception | ||||
| Monday (4th February) | |||||
| Newcastle Room | Mulubinba Room | Cummings Room | Hunter Room | Concert Hall | |
| 8:30 am | Conference Registration | ||||
| 8:45 am | Conference Opening | ||||
| 9:00 am | Keynote 1. Chairperson: Laureate Prof. Jon Borwein Dr Heinz Bauschke An Invitation to Modern Projection Methods | ||||
| Chairperson: | Roslyn Hickson | Simon Clarke | Boris Baeumer | Martin Savelsbergh | Mike Meylan | 
| 10:00 am | Mr Andrew Holder† Acid-mediated tumour growth | Prof. Larry Forbes Solitons in Combustion -- A Meeting of Two Old Flames | Dr Winston Sweatman Outcomes of Binary Scattering at High Energies | Prof. David Y Gao Unified Understanding for Complex Systems and NP-Hard Problems in Computational Mathematics and Sciences | Mr Nicholas Fewster-Young† Deceptive solutions to singular boundary value problems. | 
| 10:20 am | Mr Meksianis Zadrak Ndii† Dengue and mosquitoes: can we stop transmission? | A/Prof. Michael Page Some novel diffusion-driven flows | Dr Galyna Safonova Accurate solution to the scattering problem for arrays of infinitely long cylinders | Mr Stephen Maher† Solving the integrated airline recovery problem using column-and-row generation | Mr Jason Cosgrove† Large-scale atmospheric vortices | 
| 10:40 am | Dr Borislav Savkovic Mathematical modelling in anti-HIV gene therapy: estimating clinically relevant parameters and predicting likely clinical outcomes | Luke Sciberras† Propagation and stability of vortices in bounded nonlocal nonlinear media | Giang Nguyen Phase-Type Poisson distributions (like Poisson, but different) | Ms Reena Kapoor† Optimising Reclaimer Schedules | Mr David Horsley† Faraday waves in radial outflow | 
| 11:00 am | Morning Tea Monday | ||||
| 11:20 am | Keynote 2. Chairperson: Prof. Natashia Boland Prof. Matthias Ehrgott Bridging the gap between real world decision making and mathematics -- Multi-objective optimisation in action | ||||
| Chairperson: | Geoff Mercer | Robert McKibbin | Bob Anderssen | Mark Fackrell | Bishnu Lamichhane | 
| 12:20 pm | Dr James Gilmore Understanding first phase HIV decay dynamics through stage-dependent drug action | Mr Meng Cao† 3D modelling of suspended sediment transport in turbulent open channel fluids | A/Prof. Harvi Sidhu Travelling waves in a competitive reaction scheme | Isaac Donnelly† Pattern Formation on Networks with Reactions: A Continuous Time Random Walk Approach | Lisa Mayo† Numerical solutions for thin film flow down the outside and inside of a vertical cylinder | 
| 12:40 pm | Catherine Penington† Collective motion of dimers | Dr Collin Phillips Rapidly Rotating Anisotropic ${\boldsymbol\alpha}$-effect Dynamos | Mr Adam Ellery† Moments of action for diffusion-reaction-advection processes. | Mr Giles David Adams† Equilibria and Optimisation: An interesting approach from the study of selfish networks | Dr Michael Brideson The Bernoulli Equation in PDE form . modelling Interfacial Fluid Flows | 
| 1:00 pm | Mr David Khoury† Using models to uncover dynamical features of malaria infections that are difficult to measure | Ravindra Pethiyagoda† Accurate numerical simulations of three-dimensional ship wave patterns. | Mr Chen Chen† Multiscale modelling of diffusion in a material with microstructures | Dr Dion O'Neale Using network science to explore innovation | A/Prof. Annette Worthy Generation and Control of Solitons using Various Nematic Geometries and Regimes | 
| 1:20 pm | Lunch Monday | ||||
| 2:20 pm | Keynote 3. Chairperson: Prof. Larry Forbes Prof. Graeme Hocking Theory and practice of withdrawal from stratified reservoirs | ||||
| Chairperson: | Mick Roberts | Larry Forbes | Markus Hegland | Dion O'Neale | Annette Worthy | 
| 3:20 pm | Miss Nurul Syaza Abdul Latif† Modelling induced resistance to plant disease using dynamical systems | Prof. John Harper Bubble electrophoresis with four univalent ion species | Dr Mike Meylan Modelling Wave Attenuation in the Marginal Ice Zone | Mr Philip Howes† Living on the edge of chaos: Painlevé equations through geometry | Mr Erwin Lobo† Pathways of Carcinogenesis: Tumour Progression and Treatments | 
| 3:40 pm | Dr Robert Smith? A mathematical model of Bieber Fever: The most infectious disease of our time? | Miss Ying Wan Yap† Numerical study of oscillatory Couette flow in rarefied gas | Martin Seydenschwanz† An Implicit Discretization Scheme for Linear-Quadratic Control Problems with Bang-Bang Solutions | Andreas Loehne Linear vector optimization -- algorithms and applications | Mr Michael Lachut† Buckling of a cantilever plate uniformly loaded in its plane with applications to surface stress and thermal loads | 
| 4:00 pm | A/Prof. Geoffry Mercer Complex behavior in a dengue model with a seasonally varying vector population | Sue Ann Chen† Motion of a clean bubble past a surface | Mr Peter Cudmore† Synchronisation and amplitude death in Nanomechanical Oscillators | Matthias Wong† The sparse grid combination technique for multi-dimensional problems | Dr Yalcin Kaya Constructing Interpolating Curves via Optimal Control | 
| 4:20 pm | Afternoon Tea Monday | ||||
| Chairperson: | Stan Miklavcic | John Harper | Yalcin Kaya | Masoud Talebian | Natashia Boland | 
| 4:40 pm | Mr Alexander Chalmers† Mathematical Modelling of Atherosclerosis: A disease of boundary conditions | Mr Muteb Alharthi† Feedback control for reaction-diffusion-delay equations: semi-analytical solutions | Prof. Markus Hegland On the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations | Prof. Peter Taylor A Microeconomic Model for Journal Revenue Sourcing | Ms Chaitanya Shettigara† Challenges in Numerical Relativity | 
| 5:00 pm | Prof. Nigel Bean Health benefits: Do they add up? | Quoc Thong Le Gia Multiscale methods for the Stokes problem on bounded domains | Ms Robyn Stuart† Metastability in Dynamical Systems | Benjamin Weißing† Set-valued Average Value at Risk | Mr Bennett Gardiner† Saffman-Taylor fingers in a wedge geometry | 
| 5:20 pm | Catheryn Gray† Local Sensitivity Analysis of Glucose Transporter Translocation in Response to Insulin | Mr Hayden Tronnolone† Complex-variable methods for surface-tension-driven viscous flows in two-dimensional multiply-connected domains | Dr Bronwyn Hajek Heat conduction in a heterogeneous cooling fin -- some interesting non-classical symmetry solutions | Mr Alex Badran† Consistent Modelling of VIX and Equity Derivatives Using a 3/2 Plus Jumps Model | Dr Paul Leopardi Alignment-free comparison of biological sequences | 
| 5:40 pm — 6:00 pm | Dr Joshua Ross How big is an outbreak likely to be? | Prof. Darren Crowdy Stokes flows in confined domains | Kathryn Deutscher† Unstable Klein-Gordon Modes in an accelerating universe | Mr Yang Shen† Pricing bond options under a Markovian regime-switching Hull.White model | Mr Martin Paesold† Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of folding in geomaterials | 
| Tuesday (5th February) | |||||
| Newcastle Room | Mulubinba Room | Cummings Room | Hunter Room | ||
| 8:30 am | Conference Registration | ||||
| 9:00 am | Keynote 4. Chairperson: A/Prof. Carlo Laing Prof. G. Bard Ermentrout When Noise is the Signal: Stochastic Synchrony | ||||
| Chairperson: | Nigel Bean | Frank de Hoog | Winston Sweatman | Frances Kuo | |
| 10:00 am | A/Prof. John Murray Operations research extracting response to antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus envelope sequences | Mr Michael Dallaston† Nongeneric bubble extinction in a Hele--Shaw cell | Laura Hattam† Modulation Theory for the Steady fKdVB Equation- Constructing Periodic Solutions | Mr David Farmer† Chebychev-collocation method for non-linear time-stepping problems | |
| 10:20 am | Mr John Mitry† Ducks on Drugs: Folded saddle canards in a model of propofol anaesthesia | A/Prof. Sergey Suslov Thermomagnetic and sedimentation effects on convection in ferrofluid: theory and experiment | Dr Boris Baeumer Stable Processes with Boundary Constraints and Fractional Cauchy Problems | Mr Andrew Stephan† Generalised Compact Finite Difference Methods | |
| 10:40 am | Dr James McCaw Intriguing nonlinearity in a SIRS model of disease transmission with immune boosting | Mr Daniel Ladiges† A Modified DSMC Method for Simulating Unsteady Flows | Mrs Hala Hejazi† A second-order accurate finite volume method for solving the two-sided space fractional diffusion equation | Mrs Lucy Leigh† What to do when scheduling is not followed - the issue of unbalanced longitudinal data | |
| 11:00 am | Morning Tea Tuesday | ||||
| 11:20 am | Keynote 5. Chairperson: Laureate Prof. Jon Borwein Prof. Keith Devlin A uniform mathematical view of the modern battlefield | ||||
| Chairperson: | Joshua Ross | Darren Crowdy | Michael Page | Phil Broadbridge | |
| 12:20 pm | Prof. Mick Roberts How epidemiology interacts with ecology | Mr Julian Back† Finite-time blow-up of one- and two- dimensional Stefan problems | Dr David Ivers Dynamos in Spheroidal and Ellipsoidal Geometries | Dr Dirk Nuyens A multilevel algorithm for box integrals on string generated Cantor sets | |
| 12:40 pm | Dr Timothy Schaerf Rules of attraction, repulsion, orientation and streaking . a model for the guidance and motion of honey bee swarms | Dr Yvonne Stokes Thin-film flow in helically-wound channels with small torsion. | Mr David Lee† Envelope Solitons in Barotropic and Baroclinic Flows | Mr Darren Engwirda† Algorithms for Dynamic Quadrilateral-Dominant Tessellation | |
| 1:00 pm | A/Prof. Mary Myerscough Brood, food and collapse: A delay differential equation model for honey bee demography. | Dr Debadi Chakraborty Extensional acoustic vibrations of axisymmetric nanoparticles immersed in viscous fluids | Mr Brendan Florio† The interaction of convection modes in a box of a porous medium | Christopher Schneider† $L^1$-Regularization of Linear-Quadratic Control Problems | |
| 1:20 pm | Lunch Tuesday | ||||
| 2:00 pm | Organised Tours | ||||
| Wednesday (6th February) | |||||
| Newcastle Room | Mulubinba Room | Cummings Room | Hunter Room | ||
| 8:30 am | Conference Registration | ||||
| 9:00 am | Keynote 6. Chairperson: A/Prof. Geoffry Mercer Prof. Hanna Kokko Is Mother Nature shortsighted? Evolutionary processes do not maximize population performance | ||||
| Chairperson: | John Murray | John Boland | Thanh Tran | Peter Taylor | |
| 10:00 am | Mrs Majda Idlango† Transition Analysis of a Single Species Logistic Model Exhibiting an Allee Effect in a Slow Variation | Dr Reiichiro Kawai On weak approximation of stochastic differential equations through hard bounds by mathematical programming | Dr Petrus van Heijster Travelling spots in a three-component FitzHugh-Nagumo equation | Mr Mohsen Reisi† Demand Driven Throughput Assessment for Hunter Valley Coal Chain | |
| 10:20 am | Prof. Graeme Wake A model of asymmetric cell division: implications for tumour biology and some new non-local calculus | Dr Narin Petrot Generalized Distance and fuzzy Concepts for Fixed Point Problems in metric spaces | Miss Lisa Schultz† Modelling South Australian Motor Vehicle Emissions and Exposure Risk Analysis | Christoph Kowitz† An optimized combination technique for the gyrokinetic eigenvalue problem | |
| 10:40 am | Bob (Robert) Anderssen Modelling Microbial Growth in a Closed Environment | Miss Mingmei Teo† Markov chains with interval transition probabilities | Dr Federico Frascoli Anti-tumor immunity and growing cancers: a dynamical system approach | Ms Simranjit Kaur† Scheduling unit processing time arc shutdown jobs to maximize network flow over time | |
| 11:00 am | Morning Tea Wednesday | ||||
| 11:20 am | Keynote 7. Chairperson: Prof. Irene Hudson Prof. Chris Glasbey Dynamic programming versus graph cut algorithms for phenotyping by image analysis | ||||
| Chairperson: | Graeme Wake | Xianfu Wang | Robert Smith? | Regina Burachik | |
| 12:20 pm | Mr Aidin Jalilzadeh† Modelling Tissue Inflammatory Response: Chemotaxis-Reaction-Diffusion Equations (CRDEs) | Miss Katrina Treloar† Velocity-jump processes with proliferation | Dr Andrew Black Mixing times in evolutionary game dynamics | Mr James Foster† Optimal approximation for nonconvex quadratic optimization | |
| 12:40 pm | Mr Theodore Vo† Combining Mathematics and Electrophysiology to Understand Bursting in Pituitary Cells | Wiyada Kumam† The Linear Regression and Fuzzy Linear Regression based Medical Service Value Models for Informal Workers in Thailand | Dr Mike Plank So long and thanks for all the fish | Mr Hadi Charkhgard† Optimising Order Batching | |
| 1:00 pm | Prof. Irene Hudson Drug-likeness: statistical tools, chemico-biology space, cartesian planes, drug databases: a case study | Mr Brendan Harding† A stochastic model for effect of hardware faults on supercomputers | Mr Josh Chopin† Mathematical and Computational Modelling for the Phenotypic Analysis of Cereal Plants | Mr Sanjoy Kumar Paul† A Production-Inventory System with Disruption and Reliability Considerations | |
| 1:20 pm | Lunch Wednesday | ||||
| 2:10 pm | Keynote 8. Chairperson: Dr Frances Kuo Dr Matthew Simpson Collective cell behaviour with clustering | ||||
| Chairperson: | Mary Myerscough | Andrew Black | Dirk Nuyens | David Y Gao | |
| 2:40 pm | Kristen Harley† Shock-fronted travelling wave solutions arising in a model of tumour invasion | Mr Duy Tran† Geographically clustering New Zealand electorates in the 1893 general election using data describing gender and voter turnout; an application of the Aggregate Association Index | Dr Jerome Droniou Gradient schemes for diffusion equations | Sherin Ahamed† Modelling rainfall on various time scales | |
| 3:00 pm | Miss Rachelle Binny† Mathematical Modelling of Cell Invasion | Ms Sidra Zafar† An overview of estimation for ordinal log-linear models | Dr Simon Clarke Symmetric solutions to the forced extended Korteweg-de Vries equation | Ms Rachel Bunder† An Integer Programming Approach to Picking Items for Experimental Sets | |
| 3:20 pm | Mr Fehaid Alshammari† Corneal Epithelium Wound Healing | Mr Salman Cheema† On issues concerning the assessment of information contained in aggregate data using the F-test | Mrs Syeda Laila Naqvi† Adaptive radial basis function for time-dependent partial differential equations by reconstruction through cubic splines | ||
| 3:40 pm | Ms Sangeeta Bhatia† Group theoretic formalization of double-cut-and-join model of chromosomal rearrangement | Valeriy Khakhutskyy† Parallel Solution of Regression Problems Using Sparse Grids and Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers | Minh Tran† A New Parallel Algorithm for Solving Tri-diagonal Systems | A/Prof. Regina Burachik The Exact Penalty Map for Nonsmooth Optimization | |
| 4:00 pm | Afternoon Tea Wednesday | ||||
| Chairperson: | Matthew Simpson | Mike Plank | Jerome Droniou | ||
| 4:20 pm | Prof. Stan Miklavcic Mathematical modelling of salt and water uptake and transport in plant roots | Mr Michael Rose† Expectations on Fractal Sets | Mr Kale Davies† Continuum modelling and the assumption of homogenous mixing: The importance of being spatially aware | ||
| 4:40 pm | A/Prof. Scott McCue Multiscale modelling of sausage-shaped cell migration leads to a continuum description with degenerate diffusion | Dr Gobert Lee Statistical Inference and Medical Image Segmentation | Prof. Tony Roberts A new approach supports slowly varying and thin layer PDE models | ||
| 5:00 pm | Dr Shawn Means Mitochondrial Calcium Handling and the Interstitial Cells of Cajal | Prof. John Boland Statistical Analysis in Energy Meteorology | A/Prof. Thanh Tran Solving geodesic problems on a sphere with spherical splines | ||
| 5:20 pm — 5:40 pm | Dr Jeremy Sumner Lie Markov Models and why they matter to phylogenetics | Dr Frank de Hoog Approximating the Intensity of a Point Process | Dr Sheehan Olver Sparse and stable spectral methods | ||
| 7:00 pm | ANZIAM Annual Award Ceremony and Conference Dinner | ||||
| Thursday (7th February) | |||||
| Newcastle Room | Mulubinba Room | Cummings Room | Hunter Room | ||
| 8:30 am | Conference Registration | ||||
| 9:00 am | Keynote 9. Chairperson: Dr Bob Anderssen Prof. Robert McKibbin Geofizz Unfazed | ||||
| Chairperson: | Gary Froyland | Carlo Laing | Tony Roberts | Matthias Ehrgott | |
| 10:00 am | Dr Jason Sharples Modelling dynamic fire spread mechanisms | Dr Michael Deakin The Ellipsing Pendulum | Prof. Dr. Somyot Plubtieng Existence theorems for the n-vectorial saddle point problems | Prof. Andrew Eberhard An interpretation of a feasiblity algorithm in Integer programming | |
| 10:20 am | Dr Ngamta Thamwattana Using calculus of variations to model polymer chains with non-circular cross sections | A/Prof. Martin Wechselberger Canards and Excitability | Dr Shuaian Wang Global Optimization Methods for the Discrete Network Design Problem | Prof. Martin Savelsbergh A new algorithm for solving bi-objective 0-1 integer programs | |
| 10:40 am | Dr Mark Nelson The biological treatment of wastewater: modelling a sludge disintegration unit | Dr Robert Marangell The Morse and Maslov Indices for Periodic Problems | Tarek Elgindy Electricity Generation and Transmission Network Design Considering Intermittent Supply | John MIP models for optimisation of locations for prescribed burning | |
| 11:00 am | Dr Sharleen Harper Modelling the Performance of Raingardens as Stormwater Treatment Devices | Dr Alona Ben-Tal Coarse-graining and simplification of bursting dynamics | Dr Poom Kumam The best proximity point theorems for generalized proximal contraction mappings | Dr Tony P Roberts Topology optimization for bone implants and high strength to weight ratio cellular materials | |
| 11:20 am | Morning Tea Thursday | ||||
| Chairperson: | Petrus van Heijster | Martin Wechselberger | Hanna Kokko | Andreas Loehne | |
| 11:40 am | Prof. Bill Blyth Introduction to Computer Aided Assessment of Advanced Questions using MapleTA | Carlo Laing Managing heterogeneity in the study of neural oscillator dynamics | Prof. Joerg Fliege Reformulations of multiobjective bilevel problems | Dr Xianfu Wang Restricted normal cones and the method of alternating projections | |
| 12:00 pm | Christian Gerhards Multiscale Methods for Geomagnetic Modeling | Gary Froyland Finite-time entropy: A probabilistic approach for measuring nonlinear stretching in dynamical systems | Dr Bishnu Lamichhane A mixed finite element method for the biharmonic problem using biorthogonal or quasi-biorthogonal systems | Prof. Natashia Boland On the Augmented Lagrangian Dual for Integer Programming | |
| 12:20 pm | Prof. Phil Broadbridge Ponding Time Under Irrigation: Where Approximate Becomes Exact | Dr Frances Kuo Multi-level quasi-Monte Carlo finite element methods for a class of elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients | Dr Kasamsuk Ungchittrakool An iterative shrinking metric $f$-projection method for finding a common fixed point of a quasi strict $f$-pseudo-contraction and a countable family of firmly nonexpansive mappings and applications in Hilbert spaces | Dr Mark Fackrell Car Allocation in a Vertical Rotary Car Park | |
| 12:40 pm | A/Prof. Troy Farrell Modelling of Large Scale Bagasse Stockpiles | Dr Roslyn Hickson How population heterogeneity influences epidemic dynamics | Dr Michael Haythorpe Snakes and Ladders Heuristic for the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem | Masoud Talebian Pricing to Accelerate Demand Learning in Dynamic Assortment Planning | |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch Thursday | ||||