Draft program

Program - Very Near Final as at 5 February 2007

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Day 1 - February 15 2007
10.00	Welcome	Dr Murray Cameron, Chief, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences (CMIS) Prof Philip Broadbridge, Director, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
10.10	So you want to be a Scientist	Chris Krishna-Pillay, CSIRO Science Education
10.30	Science Panel Discussion	moderated by Chris Krishna-Pillay
	Dr David Lovell, Leader, Statistical Bioinformatics-Agribusiness, CSIRO CMIS	Dr Zili Zhu, Research Scientist, Quantitative Risk Management, CSIRO CMIS
	Dr Marcus Zipper, Strategic Business Development and Marketing Manager, CSIRO Minerals	Andrew Lampert, Research Engineer, Information Engineering Laboratory CSIRO ICT Centre
	Assoc Prof Mick Withford, Macquarie Node Director, Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Macquarie University	Dr Emma Mitchell, Research Scientist, Applied Superconductivity Group, CSIRO Industrial Physics
12.30	Lunch
1.30	Parallel sessions commence

Room 1 Chair: John Donnelly, CSIRO CMIS	Room 2 Chair: Peter Bailey, CSIRO ICT Centre	Room 3 Chair: Michael Cowling UNSW	Room 4 Chair: Zili Zhu CSIRO CMIS
Tilman Davies Real-time Monitoring of Water Quality	Nina Phan Adaptive Information Retrieval Evaluation	Michael Donovan Minimal permutation degrees of finite groups	Joel Ang Real options approach to evaluating capital investment decisions
1.55 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Elizabeth Skippington Comparative genomics and microarray	Ngoc Thuy Than Weather station, wireless sensor network and semantic programming	Catheryn Gray Ontologies in Biomedicine	Melicia Mah Estimating Risk of Australian Financial Markets
2.20 Parallel sessions continue
Nick Miller Counting cars with computers: Statistical Software for Traffic Analysis	David Kent Ontology extraction and modularisation tool	Edward Ross Real Shabat Polynomials	Delia Negrea Extreme Value Theory in Risk Management
2.45 Parallel sessions continue
Fiona Skerman Recursive partitioning as a way to classify large data sets	Huy Dinh Dang Improvement of security SQUID‘s performance by applying pre-magnetization process	Katharine Turner Modular Surfaces	Lincoln Grant Statistical analysis of financial time series and their applications
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Room 1 Chair: Matthew Sinnott CSIRO CMIS	Room 2 Chair: Simon Lam, CSIRO Industrial Physics	Room 3 Chair: Ruibin Zhang University of Sydney	Room 4 Chair: Alasdair McAndrew, Victoria University
Balaji Varatharaju Development of a System Dynamics Model of ED using VEMD	Hilda Wiogo Fabrication of nanoSQUID: preparation of molecules attachment and spin measurement	Stephen Maher A mathematical investigation into the formation and excitation of a carbon nanotorus orbiter	Nathan Bock A sensitivity analysis of the ordinary lease squares slope vector
3.55 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Thi Hong Thu Phan Watershed Pattern Metrics as Indicators of Stream Condition - Does spatial extent matter?	John Yeh Truong Senseless SR Motor	James Saunderson A special Fuchsian differential equation	Laurie Field Plane geometry over an arbitrary quadratic form
4.20 Parallel sessions continue
Adam Marsh Energy dissipation with sloshing for absorber design	Chris Nugroho Measuring fluctuations in the josephson junction critical current	Matthew Kotros Tropical Geometry	Ognjen Stancevic Modelling Evolution of Small Populations
4.45 Parallel sessions continue
Dave Lee Numerical Model of Leukocyte to Endothelium Adhesion	Ian Laird Maximum Power Point Tracker for a Thermoelectric Generator	Lydia Byrne Basic Representations of the General Linear Algebra	Wendy Baratta Integral Transforms
5.15 - 6.15 Review of Day One, group photos and Comedy Debate,		'On average, Statisticians are Sexier than Mathematicians'	Chris Krishna-Pillay and the Debating Teams from CMIS
		Bronwyn Harch	Ida-Maria Sintorn
		Glenn Stone	David Lovell
		David Clifford	Matthew Sinnott
7.30 Dinner		*Inferno* Macquarie Centre, Herring Road, North Ryde
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Day 2 - February 16 2007
8.30	Coffee on arrival
9.00	Day Two Opening Remarks	Dr Alex Zelinsky Director, CSIRO ICT Centre
9.10	Parallel sessions commence

Room 1 Chair: Chris Barton CSIRO Industrial Physics	Room 2 Chair: Andrew Lampert CSIRO ICT Centre	Room 3 Chair: Frank deHoog CSIRO CMIS	Room 4 Chair: Alasdair McAndrew, Victoria University
Simon Ellis The eTongue Hydrocarbon Sensor	Gillian Hunt Solution Methods in Computational Electromagnetics and H-matrices	Michelle Dunbar Nonlinear Optimisation in classification	James Caffrey 3D models from x-ray and neutron scattering experiments: Beyond spheres, disks and cylinders
9.35 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Luke Kavenagh Making waves in oil exploration with OceanMAG	George Lam Adaptive MIMO Wireless Detector	Jessica Dunn Individual Based Modelling of the Endangered South African Black Rhino	Sean Wilson Elliptic Curves
10.00 Parallel sessions continue
Monique Meerkotter Adventures in Molecular Electronics	Rajan Rengasamy Ad Hoc Protocol for Cooperative Localisation	Hua Min Situ Aircraft Responses to Gusts	Ryan Deslandes Category Theory
10.25 Morning Tea
10.55 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Room 1 Chair: Rodolfo Garcia-Flores CSIRO CMIS	Room 2 Chair: Colin Murphy CSIRO ICT Centre	Room 3 Chair: tba	Room 4 Chair: Scott Martin CSIRO Industrial Physics
Lauren O'Connor Solving Multi-Commodity Network Flow Problems using Software Agents	Anjali Nath NeuroImage Labelling and Visualisation	Martin Kozlov General Investigations into the Structure of 3+1 Dimensional Space Times	Jonathan Brailey Testing for and Estimating the time Change of a Brownian Motion
11.20 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Ronnie Wong A Trainload of Trouble	Peter Lobley A Multi-Resolution Anisotropic Diffusion Filter for Medical Imaging	David Hartley Conformal Immersions using a Spinor Representation	Sam Sedgman Acoustic wave propagation in gusty environments
11.45 Parallel sessions continue
Ben Porter Scheduling with Inter-Processor Communica-tion Delay	Ashley Stacey A Framework to Convert Laser Scans into 3D Models	Alex Lee Markov Decision Processes and the Cutting Problem	Natalie Aisbett Feature extraction methods used in biometrics
12.10 Parallel sessions continue
Zuiena Hussein Development of Intelligent Agents for the Optimisation of Market Strategies	David Haddon Evaluation of Open-Source Micro-Kernal Operating Systems	James Nicholson Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares	Joshua Camm Applying variational principles to the modelling of the film blowing process
12.25 Lunch
1.30 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Room 1 Chair: Jan Herrmann, CSIRO Industrial Physics	Room 2 Chair: Scott Martin CSIRO Industrial Physics	Room 3 Chair: Alasdair McAndrew, Victoria University	Room 4 Chair: Gerry Myerson Macquarie University
Jack Wang HCA-Vision.Web: Mobilizing Research	Wilson Leung LabBot: An open-source based software package to manage and control laboratory equipment	James Villinger Random Number Generation: Implementation and Analysis	Jacky Poon Incongruent Restricted Disjoint Covering Systems
1.55 Parallel sessions continue			^top
Phuong Nguyen Journey to the Centre of Molecular Electronics	Jan-Reinier Cruz Virtual Media Office	Simon James Aggregate functions: properties and their visualisations	Ivan Miljenovic Constructing a special class of Partial Latin Square
2.20 Parallel sessions continue
Alex Kurusingal HCA-Vision.Bio: Cell Detection	Jennifer Thompson Measuring the measurers' errors; a setup to assess random and systematic errors in three precipitation-measuring instruments	Daniel Sutherland Network Dynamics: The Groupoid Formalism	Paul Bryan Grayson's Theorem: The Curve Shortening Flow
2.45 Parallel sessions continue
Christopher Hopper Spherical Point Processes with application to the distribution of gamma ray bursts	Jaleel Shaheen Secure Broadcast in wireless sensor networks	Julian Gibbons Knots and 4-Manifolds	Simon Kitson Spin Geometry
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Closing Remarks of Big Day In 2007		tba

4.00 Bus departs for airport			^top