Travel grants
The Simons Foundation recently began a new funding scheme in the United States that I think is a model for turning dollars into research as efficiently as possible. As I understand it, the Foundation...
View ArticleDesigning the ideal PhD program
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the decadal strategy for Mathematics in Australia. I make my comments from my own experiences as: A PhD graduate from a Go8 university (which has had an...
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One of the ways to ensure visibility of a country in the mathematical sciences is through its journals. Unfortunately, the main Australian journals (Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society and...
View ArticlePure & Applied Mathematics
I only arrived in Australia 2 years ago so I probably do not have a proper vision of the country’s mathematical community. It seems to me, however, that pure & applied mathematics are quite...
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