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The excellence of our staff and their research has been acknowledged through key industry and science awards.
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2005 J B Douglas Postgraduate Award -
Ms Maree O’Sullivan
Ms Maree O’Sullivan was awarded equal second place in
the J B Douglas Postgraduate Award for Excellence in Statistics, from
the Statistical Society of Australia (NSW) for excellence in
postgraduate research.
Ms O'Sullivan was nominated by Macquarie University
(Statistics), where she was completing a Masters degree. The award was
for her work on whether differing microarray platforms produced
concordant results using data on paediatric acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia.
The award is given by the Statistical Society of
Australia, New South Wales Branch.
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2004 PE Publishing Award
CMIS
mathematicians
Union
Huynh and
Frank de Hoog, and colleagues Maria Cozijnsen and Dan Yuen of
Bluescope Steel, have been awarded the 2004 PE Publishing Award by
Professional
Engineering Publishers.
This prestigious award recognises two papers published last year in
the
Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science.
The papers deal with winding stresses in coils of materials such as
paper, plastic, fabric and metal that are wound into coils for transport
and storage. If a coil is wound too tightly, winding stresses can damage
the material in the coil. If a coil is too loose, the material may slip
or telescope causing surface scuffing, or the coil may slump and
collapse.
The research at CMIS and Bluescope Steel has led to an understanding
of how to calculate winding tension to achieve specified residual
winding stresses in coils, allowing materials to be wound in a way that
maximises stability of the coil and prevents damage to the material.
The papers:
"Predicting winding stresses for wound coils of linear
orthotropic material" by F R de Hoog, M Cozijnsen, W Y D Yuen & H-N
Huynh (published in vol. 218, issue C1, pp13-25).
"Predicting winding stresses for wound coils of non-linear
orthotropic material" by F R de Hoog, W Y D Yuen, M Cozijnsen & H-N
Huynh (published in vol. 218, issue C1, pp27-38).
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2005 Moyal Medal - Dr Bob Anderssen
Bob Anderssen has been awarded the 2005 Moyal Medal for his
distinguished contribution to mathematics.
The Medal, and its associated lecture series, honour Professor Jose
(Joe) Moyal, one of Australia’s most versatile mathematical scientists,
who made significant contributions to mathematics, physics and
statistics. Previous medallists include Joe Gani and Terry Speed.
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2004 Goerge Szekeres Medal - Dr Bob Anderssen
CMIS Chief Research Scientist, Dr Bob Anderssen has been awarded the
prestigious biennial
George Szekeres Medal for his outstanding research achievements. The
medal's namesake, Emeritus Professor Georges Szekeres, 93, presented the
award to Dr Anderssen at the Australian Mathematical Society Annual
Conference in Melbourne. Dr Anderssen has been involved in developing
many mathematical modelling solutions, including a breakthrough in
modelling the way Stuart & Sons pianos radiate sound.
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Mapping and Monitoring - CSIRO Chairman's medal
2004
Team Leader: Dr Peter A Caccetta
Team Members: Dr Norm Campbell, Dr Joanne Chia, Miss Suzanne Furby, Dr
Harri Kiiveri, Dr Donald McFarlane, Dr Gary Richards, Mr Jeremy Wallace,
Dr Xiaoliang Wu
Citation: The team has helped change the way remote sensing data is
used in Australia: from mapping of parts of individual scenes to
quantitative monitoring at a continental scale.
Their work is
positioning remote sensing as a key technology for addressing national
environmental issues.
They have developed technologies for transforming
large archives of data into environmentally-relevant information,
developed technology applications to address specific environmental
issues, and created systems to allow the methods to be applied
routinely.
The outcomes of this work are being used in national
environmental reporting systems and for policy development for
vegetation and land management. The group has formed partnerships which
are achieving significant outcomes in monitoring land-cover change,
salinity and rangeland health.
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2004 CSIRO Medal - The Supercapapcitor Team
High Power Supercapacitor Team
Team Leaders: Dr Tony Vassallo (1993-2000) ex CSIRO Energy
Technology (CET) and Dr Calum Drummond (2001-2004) CSIRO Molecular
Science (CMS);
Other Seminal Contributors: Dr Tony Pandolfo (CET), Mr Claude
Sacchetta (CET);
Significant Contributors: Dr Richard Jarrett (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (CMIS)), Dr Doug Shaw (CMIS) and Dr Trevor
Smith (ex CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (CTIP); now
CAP-XX);
Contributors: Dr Rob Eldridge (ex CMS; now CAP-XX), Andrew Palmisano
(ex CET), Oleg Skrybin (ex CET), Dr Thomas Gengenbach (CMS), Dr Don
Chase (DET), Dr Brian Ricketts (CTIP), Dr Tony Hollenkamp (CET), Norman
Becker (CMS), Ngoc Le (CMS), Dr Patrick Hartley (CMS), Dr Celesta Fong
(CMS), Oddvar Johanssen (ex CMS), Maree O’Sullivan (CMIS), Ross
Sparks (CMIS), Phil Casey (Manufacturing and Infrastructure
Technology (CMIT)) and Daniel Bell (CMIT); Minor Contributors: Mark
Greaves (CSIRO Forest Products), Elizabeth Gawronski (CET), Dr Sunil
Sharma (CET), Jeanette Lucas (CET), Richard Harris (CMIT), Hans Jaeger (CMIT),
Dr Anita Hill (CMIT) and Dr Tim Bastow (CMIT).
Australia has become a world leader in supercapacitor technology
through a CSIRO initiated research program that began in early 1992.
CSIRO has worked closely with Plessey Ducon Pty Ltd and later start-up
company CAP-XX Pty Ltd to first develop and then commercialise advanced
high power small form factor supercapacitors. These supercapacitors are
being used globally to improve the performance of GPRS mobile stations.
The ultra-high performance of the existing CAP-XX supercapacitors has
been enabled through over a decade of leading-edge research and
development that has resulted in a product that gains a clear
competitive advantage through the tailored use of nano-structured
materials and nano-scale processes.
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2003 Mitchell Prize - Phil
Brown
Phil's paper, Wavelet-Based Nonparametric Modeling of Hierarchical
Function in Colon Carcinogenesis J. Morris, M. Vanucci, P.J.
Brown and R. Carroll JASA 2003 (to appear) was unanimously selected
as the winner of the 2003 Mitchell Prize. The Mitchell Prize is awarded
in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian
analysis has solved an important applied problem. The Prize includes an
award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque. The Committee were impressed
with this well-written application of a novel Bayesian model to an
important applied problem.
This award is generally presented at the Bayesian section meeting at
the JSM, which is on Aug 5 at 5:30 in San Francisco.
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Certificate of Air Safety - Neale Fulton
"For extensive research and evaluation of airspace standards
including the principles and philosophy that underpins aircraft
separation and segregation within airspace. Neale Fulton's extensive
study supported by solid mathematical foundation has broken new ground
internationally in these areas suggesting revolutionary airspace design
to enhance air safety. His thesis has created considerable comment and
discussion and has been applauded for its thoroughness and
ingenuity."
The nomination was put forward by a leading consultant in the air
transport industry and the UNSW, and is considered a prestigious
national recognition for work achieved. This award is Neale's third for
2002, the first being an international prize from the Capt. A. G. Vette
Flight Safety Research Trust and the second The Royal Aeronautical
Society Canberra's Graduand Medal for Aeronautical Sciences at the
Australian Defence Force Academy.
Neale was presented the Certificate of Air Safety by Lady
Bird-Walton, one of Australia's first aviators and Patron of the
Aviation Safety Foundation of Australia.
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Honour for mathematical scientist, Dr Noel
Barton
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Dr Noel Barton, appointed a Member (AM) in the General Division of
the Order of Australia for service to the mathematical sciences. |
Dr Noel Barton from CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (CMIS) has been appointed a Member (AM) in the
General Division of the Order of Australia for service to the
mathematical sciences.
"I am very honoured to have my work
recognised in this way," says Dr Barton.
Part of Dr Barton's research contributed to the
development of the CSIRO software package Fastflo.
Fastflo has many applications in industry – it
has been used to model diverse applications such as flow through
chromatography beds, geological processes and the pricing of financial
options.
"Mathematical systems known as partial
differential equations (PDEs) are the basis for these and hundreds of
other applications in science, engineering and industry."
"These include chemistry, fluid dynamics,
electromagnetics and structures. They are even useful in the complex
world of finance."
"I'm really pleased to have been the vehicle
through which a lot of energy flowed for the benefit of Australia and
the mathematical sciences," Dr Barton says.
Dr Barton says that the mathematical sciences are
critical to Australia's economic competitiveness and quality of life,
and will become more so.
"The mathematical sciences are generic and
enabling technologies. They are essential to the prosperity of many
value-adding industries in Australia."
Minerals and metals production provide an
excellent example, Dr Barton says.
"Mathematical work underpins every stage of
the industry: from prospecting, ore body estimation, production
planning, ore beneficiation, smelting, and then right through to
elaborately transformed manufactures. Every one of those stages needs
mathematical and computational work."
Dr Noel Barton was educated at the University of
Western Australia, graduating with a PhD in applied mathematics in 1973.
His current employment is in CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics , where, amongst other duties, he is involved in
transfer of mathematical intellectual property to industrial users.
He was Chair of ANZIAM from 1993-94, President of
the Australian Mathematical Sciences Council from 1996-97, Editor
(1994-95) of a Strategic Review of the Mathematical Sciences in
Australia, Director of the (Australian) Mathematics-in-Industry Study
Group from 1985 to 1993, and member of the International Council for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics since 1995. He is also on the
Editorial Boards of four international journals.
Dr Barton is Director of the 5th International
Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), which is the
major meeting in the field, worldwide, during the current four-year
period. ICIAM 2003 is to be held in Sydney in July 2003.
"We are very proud of Noel's achievements and
we are delighted that they have been recognised in this way," says
CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Geoff Garrett.
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"The Most Distinguished Australian Doctoral Dissertation in
Computer Science in Australia"
The Computer Science Association has awarded "The Most
Distinguished Australian Doctoral Dissertation in Computer Science in
Australia", to Einat Amitay for her PhD thesis, "What lays in
the layout: Using anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions
of web documents".
Einat’s studies at Macquarie University were partly funded by CSIRO
and she was co-supervised by Cécile Paris of CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics . Einat recently took a job at the IBM Research
Center in Israel.
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2001 CSIRO Chairman's Gold Medal awarded to the SilviScan Team
Image of wood is analysed for its quality using
SilviScan.
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SilviScan – a world-first instrument for the rapid
and non-destructive assessment of wood quality in trees.
SilviScan measures the key wood and fibre properties
used for predicting paper and sawn timber properties. It can be used in
breeding trees for special industrial uses, and for the speedy
assessment of forest resources.
SilviScan embodies a range of analytical technologies
including optical microscopy, x-ray diffractometry, x-ray densitometry, image
analysis, applied mathematics and analysis of large data sets.
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CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
- Leanne Bischof,
- John van der Touw
- Ronald Jones
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CSIRO Forestry
and Forest Products
- Rob Evans,
- Malcom Boyd,
- Geoff Downes,
- Murray Hughes,
- Tim Gureyev,
- Chris Kohle,
- Laurie Schimleck,
- David Menz,
- Sharee Stringer,
- Sue-Anne Stuart
- Kirsty Surridge
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Gold medal to forest products researchers Press
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Better Spectacle Lens Designs
2000 Sir Ian McLennan Achievement for Industry Award
For Dr Tony Miller
Dr Miller's work with SOLA International, a world-leading spectacle lens
company, has led to clearer vision for the millions of people worldwide
who wear progressive lenses and contributed to nearly $1 billion worth
of lens sales a year for SOLA.
In a 14 year collaboration, CSIRO and SOLA developed unique
mathematical tools for designing spectacle lenses. The new tools mean
that SOLA can continually work towards optimising lens design and
performance, reducing the product design cycle time.
SOLA has used the tools to develop and refine progressive lens
designs and to create unique new products such as wrap-around
prescription sunglasses. At the same time, SOLA's market share has grown
to near a quarter of the world spectacle lens market.
More Information:
Faster To Market
Press
Release
Tony Miller's staff page
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2000 CSIRO Chairman's Medal
For the Low Emission Vehicle Team
The team developed complete power-trains for two low-emission cars:
Holden's ECOmmodore and the aXcessaustralia Low Emission Vehicle concept
car.
This visionary project has demonstrated to the global automotive
industry the technological advances and manufacturing capabilities of
CSIRO and Australian industry working together.
The powertrains integrated several innovative technologies, including
electric motors and generators, supercapacitors, high performance
batteries, power and control electronics, and integrated power
management systems.
The CMIS contribution was to model the complex powertrains to find
the best way to operate the cars. The model served as a test bed to
design the cars' power management systems and provide design
specifications in the early stages of development.
Team Leaders - Mr David Lamb, Dr Michael Brothers, *Dr
David Gates , Dr Howard Lovatt, Dr Peter Manins, Dr David Rand, Dr
Warren Thorpe, Dr Tony Vassallo, *Dr
Mark Westcott.
Team Members - Dr Tom Beer, Mr Colin Bilson, Mr Vic Buriak, Mr
Lindsay Burke, Mr Chris Cantrall, Mr Brad Cowley, Mr Peter Cusack, Mr
Tom Davis, Mr Vivian D'Offay, Dr John Dunlop, Mr Quentin Fletcher, Mr
Paul Gwan, Dr Peter Hurley, Dr *Houyuan
Jiang, Mr Bruce Kalan, Dr Lan Lam, Mr Bruce Lanham, Dr Russell
Newnham, Ms Hilkat Ozgun, Dr Tony Pandolfo, Mr Glen Prout, Prof. Vic
Ramsden, Mr Greg Redden, Mr Randy Rhoads, Mr Claude Sacchetta, Mr Chris
Sharman, Dr Nariida Smith, Mr Trevor Smith, Mr Werner Strecker, Dr
Gerardo Trinidad, *Dr Palitha Welgama, Dr Wei Wu.
* - CMIS staff
More Information
Intelligent Power Management for High-tech Car
Press
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2000 Australian Mathematical Society Medal
For Dr Christine O'Keefe
Information security is a major issue in today's digital
telecommunications environment. As businesses gather information and
understanding about the marketplace, they need to protect it from
competitors.
Dr O'Keefe's research has provided highly efficient techniques to
control access to important documents and information. The techniques
provide very high levels of security.
Dr O'Keefe carried out the basic research which led to the award
while at the University of Adelaide. She joined CSIRO's Business
Intelligence Group in early 2000 to use the research to add information
security features to the Group's technologies for inferring and
integrating important business information.
More Information
The Business Intelligence
Group
Press
Release
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For the RoadCrack team, several awards:
1999 CSIRO Medal
1999 Institution of Engineers, Sydney Div., Engineering Excellence Award
for Engineering R&D and a Special Commendation for Asset Management
1999 AusIndustry Award for Innovation
1998 Australian Road Research Board, Transport Research Director's Prize
for Application of Research into Practice
Road cracking - a primary indication of the health of our roads - can be
accurately and efficiently detected with this medal-winning technology.
The RoadCrack technology uses a unique approach to detecting cracking
which relies on several innovations in vision technology. A 'camera'
mounted underneath a vehicle collects digital images of the road surface
at speeds of up to 105 km/h. Road cracks are automatically detected and
classified from the images.
Cracks as thin as 1 millimetre are detected, allowing cracking to be
treated at an early stage when lower cost treatments can be used. This
makes more effective use of available maintenance funding.
Conventional detection methods are manual, slow and subjective.
RoadCrack allows vast distances of road to be efficiently monitored and
is now used for annual surveys of road conditions in New South Wales and
three other states.
The Team: Mr Glen Auty, *Dr
Mark Berman, Mr Michael Best, *Dr Edmond Breen, *Dr
Michael Buckley, Mr Ashley Dreier, Dr Paul Dunn, Mr Ron Ferguson, Mr
Chris Freund, Dr Jim Gardner, *Dr Ronald Jones, Dr Patrick Kearney, Mr
Ian Macintyre, Mr Daniel Moore, Dr Bob Oreb, Mr David Pratt, Mr Paul
Turtle and Dr Chris Walsh
(From the CSIRO Divisions of Manufacturing Science & Technology,
*Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics , Telecommunications &
Industrial Physics and the NSW Roads & Traffic Authority)
More Information
Image
Analysis for Detecting Road Cracks
Press
Release
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1996 CSIRO Medal
For the SIRO-DBMS Team
The team developed what was, at the time, a radically different
approach to managing spatial (map-based) data. It enabled new types of
applications across the infrastructure and services industries by
combining spatial data with other corporate data resources.
The entrenched view had been that spatial data was special and
required separate treatment and storage. Other uses of the data, and
combining it with operations and planning information held elsewhere in
the organisation, were essentially not possible.
The team's work, carried out from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s,
changed this. They developed innovative core technology that made it
possible to rapidly retrieve data from millions of records held in very
large databases. They also developed a set of building blocks to
successfully integrate spatial data with ordinary databases, making
spatial information systems, for the first time, an integral part of
corporate information systems.
The technology, SIRO-DBMS, was licensed to industry in 1991. The
return to Australia from CSIRO's research investment in this work is
estimated at 100 to 1.
The Team: Dr
Dave Abel , Mr Ross
Ackland , Mr
Mark Cameron, Mr David Campbell, Mr Hong Lei, Mr Ross Payne, Mr
Robert Power, Mr Lloyd Simons, Ms Dione Smith, Dr
John Smith , Mr Barry Steele, Mr Tai Tran, Mr
Gavin Walker and Dr Sue-Ken Yap, all of the Division of Information
Technology (now CMIS).
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Our expertise in handling spatial data has continued with the Spatial
Information Systems Group.
We have also continued to tackle the problem of information integration
- see Internet Marketplaces
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1995 CSIRO Medal
For Dr Nicholas Stokes, Dr Chin-Hsien Li, Dr Xiao-Lin Luo, Dr John
Mooney, Dr Zili Zhu and Dr Noel Barton
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help solve common problems in the mineral processing and manufacturing
industries, this award winning team created computer software called Fastflo.
Fastflo is a mathematical software package for scientists and
engineers. It has been used to predict the behaviour of molten metal
flowing into a vessel, flames in a combustion chamber and used to model
the airflow over a car - to name just a few applications.
As a generic partial differential equation (PDE) solver, Fastflo's
strength is in the vast range of PDEs which can be easily specified and
solved. These are the fundamental equations which underpin many
industrial processes, so the number of applications are immense,
including the study of vibrations, heat conduction, elasticity,
electromagnetism and fluid mechanics.
Fastflo was launched commercially in 1996 and released on the
world market two years later. By 2000, it was already being used in over
XX countries.
More Information
Fastflo Web Site
Recently, Fastflo was found to have applications in pricing
complex financial options, spawning a new product - Reditus
- for the finance industry.
Staff Pages: Nick
Stokes, Chin-Hsien
Li, Xiao-Lin Luo,
Zili Zhu and Noel
Barton.
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