Jonathan Borwein CARMA director, was among roughly 60 new Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS): he was cited "For contributions to nonsmooth analysis and classical analysis as well as experimental mathematics and visualization of mathematics."

See the AMS Fellows pages for: Full details.

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce the co-recipients of the 2014 G. de B. Robinson Award. Jonathan M. Borwein (Newcastle, NSW), Armin Straub (Illinois), James Wan (Newcastle, NSW), and Wadim Zudilin (Newcastle, NSW) are being honoured for their paper “Densities of Short Uniform Random Walks” (with an appendix by Don Zagier), Canadian Journal of Mathematics (CJM), 64:5 2012, pp. 961-990. At the same time, J. Nekovář (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) for his paper “Level Raising and Anticyclotomic Selmer Groups for Hilbert Modular Forms of Weight Two" CJM, 64:3 2012, pp. 588-649. "These are wonderful and engaging research papers” said Karl Dilcher, Chair, CMS Publications Committee “They reflect a quality and discipline well-deserving of honour for the contribution they make to mathematical sciences research.” “This is a wonderful article that is written in an engaging style and brings a heroic project to a triumphant conclusion,” noted Robert McCann, Editor-in-Chief.

Macquarie University has awarded the Moyal Medal for 2014 to Professor Richard Brent. See the medallists page for a list of previous winners and the 2014 Moyal Lecture page for details about the lecture. The slides from the talk can be obtained from Richard's talks page.

CARMA welcomes Dr Ohad Giladi (Functional Analysis) and Dr Paul Vrbik (Computer Algebra) who have recently taken two year Research Associate posts.

http://vrs.amsi.org.au/about/ Get funding to complete a six-week summer research project under the guidance of a (CARMA) supervisor! Scholarships: Australia wide $450/week for six-weeks Present at the "Big Day In" Fully funded travel & accommodation Open to (3rd year students) intending honours and masters students Applications close 8 September

Fran Aragon, former CARMA postdoc and current member, has won a "Ramón y Cajal" fellowship. This is a highly-competitive Spanish tenure-track postdoctoral grant scheme, for individuals who got a PhD within the last 10 years (similar to the Future Fellowship scheme in Oz). It entails a 5-year contract with a tenure-track commitment, with freedom of area of research. He will return to Alicante in October to take up his fellowship. There were 175 awarded in all subjects and only 5 were awarded in mathematics.
Congratulations Fran!

The article "Storm-induced sea-ice breakup and the implications for ice extent" by AL Kohout,MJM Williams, SM Dean and MH Meylan was published online today. The authors show that the propagation of large waves through sea-ice around Antarctica extends much further than previously thought, and demonstrate the relationship between the location of the sea-ice edge and wave height over more than a decade.
Congratulations on a fine paper!

CARMA Deputy Director George Willis is one of 20 new Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science -- announced a few minutes ago, see the FAA website.

The FAA is the highest Australian scientific honour one can attain. There are now roughly 475 members over all scientific fields and less than 25 mathematicians of whom three are now CARMA members. See list.

This election is a fitting acknowledgement of the sustained depth of George's contributions to mathematics. George's citation reads:

Professor George Willis FAA School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle Elected for his innovation in diverse fields of mathematics, including insights into locally compact groups and fundamental concepts such as the scale function and flatness.

Jonathan Borwein, CARMA Director