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Why maths’ bad reputation doesn’t add up

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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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    25 Sep 2023 | 2 - 3pm

    Low-regularity well-posedness for the modified KdV equation

    This presentation will discuss the low-regularity well-posedness for the modified KdV equation.
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    26 Sep 2023 | 2 - 3pm

    Generic regularity of the free boundary in the Alt-Caffarelli-Phillips problem

    The Alt-Caffarelli problem and the Alt-Phillips problem are among the most well-studied elliptic free boundary problems
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    27 Sep 2023 | 10:30 - 11:30am

    An uncertainty principle for operators acting on Fock spaces

    The PDE & Analysis seminar covers topics in PDE and analysis.
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