PLENARY AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Plenary speakers
Professor Natashia Boland, University of Newcastle, Australia
Natashia Boland is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Newcastle, a position she took up in 2008 after 13 years at the University of Melbourne. Professor Boland has research interests in integer programming, column generation, constrained shortest paths and transportation and logistics. Her applications are wide ranging including open-pit mine scheduling, airline planning, and international shipping. She has research collaborations with BHP-Billiton and CTI Pty Ltd.
Professor Jon Chapman, Oxford University
Jon Chapman held positions at Stanford and Oxford, before becoming a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 1995 and the Oxford Professor of Mathematics and its Applications in 1999. His research interests centre on mathematical modelling and asymptotic analysis for applications in industry and the physical and biological sciences. He has been awarded the SIAM Richard C. DiPrima prize, the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society, and the inaugural SIAM Julian Cole Prize.
Dr Frank de Hoog, CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences
Frank de Hoog is a mathematical scientist with extensive research and teaching experience. He has contributed to topics in the numerical solution of differential and integral equations, numerical transform techniques, computational linear algebra, solid mechanics, vibration of structures, stress analysis and rheology. A key feature of Frank’s work is that it has involved extensive collaboration within university and industry sectors including Geologics, BHP, Comalco, Bluescope Steel, James Hardie, Caltech, and TU Eindhoven.
Professor George Hornberger, University of Virginia
George Hornberger is Ernst H Ern Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research focuses on understanding how hydrological and geochemical processes combine to produce observed stream dynamics. His current research on dissolved organic carbon dynamics extends modelling from individual catchments to regional scales.
Professor Terry Mills, La Trobe University, Bendigo
In 1975, Terry Mills was appointed to Bendigo Institute of Technology as a Lecturer after completing a PhD at the University of Florida. He was promoted to Professor of Mathematics at La Trobe University in 1993 and is now an Emeritus Professor. Since 1998 he has been an honorary Senior Research Fellow at Collaborative Health Education and Research Centre at Bendigo Health. In July 2008, he was appointed as Senior Cancer Data Analyst at Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service, Bendigo Health.Keynote speakers
Economic and Financial Systems
Professor Cheng Hsiao, University of Southern California
Professor Cheng Hsiao is Editor of the prestigious Journal of
Econometrics, a world leader in econometrics, and pre-eminent in the
econometric analysis of panel data models.
Participatory Decision Making and Modelling Social Systems
Dr Pascal Perez, Australian National University
Biological Systems: to be confirmed
Computational and Applied Mathematics: to be confirmed
Computer Sciences: to be confirmed
Engineering and Applications: to be confirmed
Environment and Ecology: to be confirmed
Global Change: to be confirmed
Water resources: to be confirmed