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Why maths’ bad reputation doesn’t add up

Associate Professor Adam Piggott: mathematical ideas can transform our world

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    Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

    Associate Professor Adam Piggott knows how mathematical ideas can transform our world, and he wishes more people were in on the secret.

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    Thursday, 15 Dec 2022

    Read about Himani's journey to MSI, the main highlights and challenges she had to overcome and her plans for the future.

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    Monday, 14 Nov 2022

    “Faster, more efficient software,” “speedups and code profiling,” and “parallel programming” – these were the central takeaways from the two-week National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) HPC-AI Hackathon hosted in partnership with NVIDIA, and the OpenACC organisation from 24 October to 4 November.

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    Why maths’ bad reputation doesn’t add up

    Associate Professor Adam Piggott knows how mathematical ideas can transform our world, and he wishes more people were in on the secret.
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    ANU researchers speed up earthquake simulation software

    “Faster, more efficient software,” “speedups and code profiling,” and “parallel programming” – these were the central takeaways from the two-week…
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    ANU scientists win nation’s top funding award

    Two ANU researchers helping to develop faster and more powerful supercomputers and software that will power the technologies of tomorrow, have been…
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    31 May 2023 | 5 - 8pm

    MSI Movie Night: The Imitation Game

    The MSI will be hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed film "The imitation game".
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    1 Jun 2023 | 4 - 5pm

    Random walk on a quadrant: mapping to a one-dimensional level-dependent Quasi-Birth-and-Death process (LD-QBD).

    MSI Colloquium, where the school comes together for afternoon tea before one speaker gives an accessible talk on their subject
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    2 Jun 2023 | 3 - 4pm

    MSI Graduate Student Colloquium

    Interested in meeting your fellow graduate students and learning about their research? We’re starting an informal colloquium for graduate HDR students to share interesting topics they’ve come across during their studies.
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