newsletter - New Zealand Mathematical Society

European countries in the 1990s and a NZ connection.
Caroline Roughneen, Trinity College, Dublin: "Study of Engineering as a Career Choice.
Mark Weatherall, Wellington School of Medicine and Health "Sciences: Prevention of falls and
fall related fractures in community dwelling older adults: A meta-analysis of estimates of
effectiveness based on recent guidelines.
Leigh Bull, DOC: "Sizing up shearwaters: morphological variation in the genus Puffinus.
Chris Francis, NIWA: "Simultaneous testing for mean and variance differences with nasty data.
Srinivas Chakravarthy, Kettering University, USA: "Impact of worker cross-training in service
systems.
The next two WSG meetings will be addressed by Shirley Pledger on 25 March, and Jim Liu on 29 April.
Shirley will be talking on "Using finite mixtures to model heterogeneity in capture-recapture models,"
while Jim will tell us about "Dynamics of interpersonal political environment and party identification:
Longitudinal studies of voting in Japan and NZ." Anyone who does not presently receive WSG
announcements and who wishes to be informed of future events is welcome to contact the WSG
Convenor, John Haywood: John.Haywood@mcs.vuw.ac.nz.
Seminars
Bill Caelli (QUT), "Grand challenges in information security: Views from the CRA Conference
November 2003.
Alex Potanin, "Snapshot query-based debugging.
Robin Tucker (Lancaster University), "The energy-momentum density of gravitational plane waves.
Dr Neal Glew (Intel), "LIL: An architecture-neutral language for virtual-machine stubs.
Professor Miklos Szilagyi (University of Arizona), "Computer simulation of multi-person prisoners'
dilemmas.
Larry Constantine, "Abstract prototyping: user interface design using canonical abstract components.
Eric Grinberg (University of New Hampshire; UNH), "Integral geometry over finite fields. "
Dr Ray Hoare (HRS Ltd), "STATISTICA for research and teaching. "
Jerzy Filar (University of South Australia), "Sustainable production systems. "
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA and NZIMA), "Stochastic demography of a
threatened floodplain plant".
Frank Maurer (University of Calgary), "What is the fuss about agile methods?
Andreas Bogk, Keith Bauer, Gabor Greif, Bruce Hoult, and Alex Potanin, "Rapid prototyping in
Dylan and ICFP".
Graham Farr (Monash University), "Graph polynomials from the game of go."
Stewart Fotheringham (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), "Geographically weighted regression.
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Kenneth P. Burnham (Colorado State University, USA), "Model selection: AIC, BIC and multimodel
inference. "
Moshe Vardi (Rice University), "Constraints, graphs, algebra, logic, and complexity," "And logic begat
computer science: when giants roamed the Earth (on the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer
science)" and "Automated verification = graphs, automata, and logic."
Hugh Anderson (National University of Singapore), "Affine-based size-change termination. "
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