Computational Mathematics Program

The Computational Mathematics Program in the Mathematical Sciences Institute is coordinated by Professor Richard Brent.

Our research ranges from the theoretical analysis of computational algorithms in areas such as numerical linear algebra, number theory, multi-dimensional approximation theory, optimisation, partial differential equations and data smoothing, to application of these ideas to Biological modelling, Geophysical and Environmental modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics to Data Mining. Honours and PhD supervision and projects are available in these research areas. For some specific projects, check out our current research page for a range of possibilities.

Bogong Cluster Computer

We have a small Beowulf parallel computer consisting of 16 processors connected by a very low latency network. The peak speed of our system is 58 Gigaflops measured on the Linpack benchmark. The system can be used by students associated with the group. Follow this link to obtain details on using the system

Honours and Graduate Courses

We are involved in undergraduate, post graduate and post doctoral education. The program provides at least one 4th year honours course. The following courses are available:

• In Semester 1, 2007, Markus Hegland is presenting a course on Wavelets.
• In Semester 1, 2007, Richard Brent is presenting a course on Analytic Number theory
• In semester 2, 2007, John Maindonald and Graham Williams is presenting  a course MATH3345 in Data mining (Course resources).

Computational Mathematics Seminar

An Computational Mathematics seminar is scheduled for 11am on Mondays. Check out the MSI's weekly seminar notice for information on the computational modelling seminar and other MSI seminars.

Bachelor of Computational Science

The Mathematical Sciences Institute, and the Computational Mathematics program is closely associated with the new undergraduate degree of Computational Science, a multidisciplinary degree that strives to produce graduates with the modelling and computer skills to undertake simulation and modelling of real world processes as found in a wide variety of application areas.

Conferences/Workshop

• CTAC2008 will be held at the ANU, 13th -16th  July 2008.

Mailing Lists

We maintain two mailing lists:

• The advcom mailing list to announce news which is relevant to computational scientists in the Canberra area.
• The anziam mailing list is for more applied mathematics announcements.

To join either of these list, goto http://yin.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo and follow the links to the advcom and anziam lists.

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