WIMSIG Conference 2024

WIMSIG Conference 2024 will celebrate the achievements of women, trans and gender diverse people in the mathematical sciences, with plenary speakers and special sessions spanning pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, and mathematics in industry.

Tuesday 1 - Wednesday 2 October 2024, Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI), the University of Sydney.

Late registration is available until 20 September 2024. REGISTER NOW!

Late Full: $300 AUD
Late Student or Unwaged: $180 AUD
Earlybird Full (until 2 September): $250 AUD
Earlybird Student or Unwaged (until 2 September): $150 AUD

See “Program and Events” below for some information about the Welcome Reception, Conference Dinner and LGBTQI+ lunch (you will be asked whether you'd like to attend these events when you register).

Important dates

1 May 2024 - Earlybird registrations open, abstract submissions open
1 June 2024 - Travel award scheme opens (see below)
16 August 2024 - Travel award scheme closes
2 September 2024 - Earlybird registrations close
3 September 2024 - Late registrations open
8 September 2024 - Abstract submissions close
20 September 2024 - Late registrations close
26 September 2024 - final day to edit abstracts

You can submit an abstract when you register, or register first and submit your abstract later.

Please note, for anyone who doesn’t have regular childcare, we will also be organising one or two carers for children of participants who need it - you will be asked whether you need this service when you register.

Accommodation

If you wish to stay relatively close to the University of Sydney campus, three local hotels are kindly offering a conference rate for WIMSIG2024 participants. Click here for more information.

Plenary speakers

Grace Chung (Director, Google Research Australia) - TBA

Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Colombia) - Mathematical modelling applied to women's health

Antonietta Mira (Università della Svizzera italiana) - From noise to insight: unveiling hidden patterns by estimating the data intrinsic dimension

Valentina Wheeler (University of Wollongong) - Geometric flows and partial differential equations: the mathematics of bushfires and blood cells

Program and Events

Monday 30 September: Welcome Reception, 5pm - 7pm, The Women's College, 15 Carillon Avenue, Newtown (light refreshments).

Tuesday 1 October: Conference Dinner at the Darling Rooms, Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, from 6:30pm. Professor Bronwyn Fox (UNSW DVC Research and Enterprise) will join us at the dinner and give a short address.

NB: For participants, the Conference Dinner is included in the registration fee. Guest tickets now available ($110 per person).

Wednesday 2 October: LGBTQI+ and Allies Lunch.

When you register, please indicate whether you plan to attend these events (no additional charge). We will provide morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea for all conference participants on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Satellite Event: AustMS-WIMSIG Early Career Workshop (ECW)

The AustMS-WIMSIG Early-Career workshop (ECW) will be held at the University of Sydney on Monday 30 September 2024, the day before WIMSIG Conference 2024. All higher-degree research students and early career mathematicians (up to roughly 5 years post-PhD, excluding career interruptions) are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The ECW aims to provide opportunities to develop community amongst other early career researchers and discuss topics relevant to this early stage of your career, with four interactive sessions throughout the day.

You can now register for the Early Career workshop through the registration process for WIMSIG Conference 2024: either by adding this as an event (if you're already registered for WIMSIG Conference 2024), or by choosing the ECW-only registration category (if you will not be attending WIMSIG Conference 2024).

Travel awards for early career researchers and students

The WIMSIG Conference 2024 Travel Award Scheme for ECRs is now closed. Thank you for your applications.

WIMSIG members who are not eligible for this ECR Travel Award Scheme may wish to apply for the AustMS-WIMSIG Cheryl E Praeger Travel Award. The next round closes on 1 October 2024.

Special sessions

A matter of scale: mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics at the population, people and pathogen levels

Organisers: Alexandra Hogan (UNSW), Patricia Campbell (Melbourne) and Eva Stadler (Kirby Institute, UNSW)

Algebra and Mathematical Physics

Organisers: Asilata Bapat (ANU), Justine Fasquel (Melbourne), Bregje Pauwels (Macquarie) and Milena Radnovic (Sydney)

Building confidence in mathematics of secondary and tertiary students

Organisers: Kerri Morgan (RMIT), Ingeborg Koch (RMIT) and Stella Stylianou (RMIT)

Geometric and analytic properties of partial differential equations

Organisers: Serena Dipierro (UWA) and Valentina Wheeler (Wollongong)

Hybrid modelling: Leveraging the nexus between domain-based modelling and machine learning

Organisers: Rachael Quill (Dept of Energy, Environment and Climate Action), Melissa Humphries (Adelaide), Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi (Data61) and Ainura Tursunalieva (Data61)

Mathematical Histories

Organiser: Rowena Ball (ANU)

Modelling for decision making

Organisers: Isobel Abell (Melbourne) and Lucinda Harrison (Melbourne)

Modelling the immune response to diseases

Organisers: Punya Alahakoon (UNSW) and Claire Miller (Auckland)

Recent Advances in Statistics and Biostatistics

Organisers: Shila Ghazanfar (Sydney) and Rachel Wang (Sydney)

Shiny Math Bio: Non-traditional approaches to mathematical biology

Organisers: Angese Barbensi (UQ), Adriana Zanca (Melbourne) and Meagan Carney (UQ)

Topology

Organisers: Jessica Purcell (Monash) and Zsuzsanna Dancso (Sydney)

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) for Mathematics and Statistics

Organisers: Geetika Verma (RMIT) and Asha Rao (RMIT)

There will also be at least one session of contributed talks.

Every talk in the special sessions or contributed talks session will have up to 25 minutes (including time for questions), allowing 5 minutes for people to change rooms between talks.

Organising committee

Harini Desiraju (SMRI)

Kate Doyle (SMRI)

Catherine Greenhill (UNSW Sydney) - Chair

Xiaoping Lu (University of Wollongong)

Catherine Penington (Macquarie University)

Rachel Wang (University of Sydney)

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