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46 Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter with the aim of promoting research in mathematical sciences throughout Japan. It has a tenured faculty, assistant professors, post-doctoral fellows, supporting staff, and graduate students. Current research staff (professors, associate professors, lecturers — about 26 in all) and approximately twelve assistant professors are working in various fields of mathematical sciences. RIMS also employs approximately forty supporting staff members, as well as 10 to 14 postdoctoral fellows, and runs an education programme for the graduate students. Domestically, RIMS functions as a focal point for joint research among researchers from all over Japan in mathematical sciences. In this capacity, RIMS hosts numerous short- and long-term domestic visitors, and frequently serves as a site for research conferences. In addition, RIMS is an active centre of international joint research, and, as such, plays host to a steady stream of long-term foreign visitors. For the convenience of its foreign visitors, RIMS has established the International Research Support Office, which provides foreign guests with various services. The history of RIMS is concisely presented by Allyn Jackson in her article in Notices of the American Mathematical Society: RIMS, an Institute for Japan and the World (URL http://www.ams.org/ notices/200402/fea-rims.pdf) News from New Zealand Winner of the 2012 ANZIAM Medal The ANZIAM Medal is the premier award offered by ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics). It is presented biennially. The ANZIAM medal is awarded on the basis of a combination of research achievements, activities enhancing applied or industrial mathematics or both, Robert McKibbin and contributions to ANZIAM. This year, it was bestowed upon Robert McKibbin, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, on the Auckland campus in New Zealand. Robert was born in New Zealand and did his first degree in mathematics, up to the Masters degree, at the University of Canterbury. After teaching for some April 2012, Volume 2 No 2 time in Papua New Guinea, he then completed his PhD in 1982 in the area of geothermal modelling in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (now the Department of Engineering Science) at the University of Auckland, where he subsequently became Senior Lecturer. Robert moved to Massey University in 1991, first to Palmerston North, and later transferring to Massey University’s expanding Auckland campus in 2001. He was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics in 1996. Over the past two decades, Robert has been one of the pre-eminent applied mathematicians in New Zealand, with a particular focus on geophysical, geothermal and industrial applications. His mathematical work ranges from geothermal fluid dynamics and hydrothermal eruptions, to the modelling of ground subsidence and aluminium smelting cells. He is highly regarded for his early work, in the 1980s, in hydrothermal eruptions which appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research and was presented in a way that made his research accessible to practitioners. His work has attracted significant funding, and national and international recognition through numerous invitations to speak at international applied mathematics conferences. He has made significant impact in the modelling of the distribution of volcanic dust from eruptions, and has several Japanese research collaborators. He has visited Japan on many occasions including in 2007 as part of the New Zealand–Japanese Scientist Exchange Programme. His work in this area is based on accurately modelling the fundamental physical processes with novel and original uses of the advection-diffusion equation. The same modelling arises from other industrially-based problems, such as pollen distribution and spray drift and its capture by shelter belts. The practical impact of his research can be seen in many of the reports from the Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group meetings. He has also been extremely active in extending the Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group activities to other countries in South East Asia, notably Indonesia and Thailand. Robert has supervised more than 20 PhD and MSc students, in many diverse areas of applied mathematics, all with a strong industrial applied mathematics focus. He has also supervised a large number of undergraduate industrial projects to inspire a whole generation of New Zealand applied mathematics students. He is an extremely supportive mentor, and very much a team
player in collaborative activities. Throughout Australia and New Zealand, there are many active applied mathematicians who attest to have been strongly influenced by Robert. He has been a leader in ANZIAM for many years and was Chair from 2004 to 2006, and his commitment to both ANZIAM and the Royal Society of New Zealand is seen through the large amount of his time that he devotes to these organisations. His participation in the Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group meetings is one of the central reasons that they have been so successful. He has been the Director of the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and the Centre for Mathematics in Industry at Massey University for a total of 12 years and one of the major forces that have steered New Zealand applied mathematics towards industrial applications. There are few other applied mathematicians in New Zealand who have shown more devotion and service to the field than has Robert. Through his enthusiasm, energy and sustained achievement, he has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to the applied and industrial mathematics profession, to the extent that he well and truly meets the criteria for this award. The selection panel unanimously recommends that Professor Robert McKibbin be awarded the ANZIAM Medal for 2012. The 2012 ANZIAM Medal Selection Committee consisted of James Hill, Graeme Wake and Bob Anderssen. News from Philippines 6th Jagna International Workshop: Mathematical Analysis, Modelling, and Simulation in Interdisciplinary Sciences Christopher C Bernido and M Victoria Carpio-Bernido The rapid accumulation of experimental data and observations at the interface between different disciplines continues to pose challenges to our theoretical understanding of many natural phenomena. Topics as diverse as neuronal dynamics and competitions in industry, therefore, are being analysed, modelled, and simulated using tools and techniques predominantly used by physicists and mathematicians. In view of this, the Research Centre for Theoretical Physics (RCTP), Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter Central Visayan Institute Foundation, organised the 6th Jagna International Workshop: Mathematical Analysis, Modelling, and Simulation in Interdisciplinary Sciences on January 4–7, 2012. The site of the Workshop was the coastal town of Jagna in the southern part of the island province of Bohol, Philippines. The Workshop is the 6th in a series organised by the Research Centre for Theoretical Physics which is celebrating its 20th year in 2012. The Workshop aimed to: (a) investigate novel methods applicable to varied physical situations; (b) identify essential new ideas and underlying principles; and (c) discuss recent breakthroughs and open questions in interdisciplinary sciences. With 53 participants from 10 countries, the informal nature of the Workshop encouraged graduate students and young PhDs to learn as much as they can from invited lecturers so that research directions can be clearly defined. Aside from research level talks, a tutorial lecture and roundtable discussion were held. The major areas tackled were: Neuroscience with talks by Alfonso Albano (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Vincent Daria (Australian National University), and M V Carpio-Bernido (RCTP); Biological systems with talks by Jenneke Klein-Nulend (VU University of Amsterdam), Ludwig Streit (Univesity of Madeira/ Universität Bielefeld), Laksana Tri Handoko (Indonesian Institute of Sciences), and Rommel Bacabac (University of San Carlos, Philippines); Nanoscience with talks by Eduardo Mendoza (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany), and Ryan Balili (MSU- Iligan Institute of Technology). Complex Social Systems and Industry Dynamics were discussed by Josef Fröhlich (Austrian Institute of Technology), Frederik Wiegel (University of Amsterdam), Matthew George Escobido (Asian Institute of Management), and Christopher C Bernido (RCTP). A lecture on the Bose– Einstein condensation was also given by Hiroshi Ezawa (Gakushuin University, Japan) and talks on mathematical foundations were delivered by Toru Nakamura (Gakushuin University, Japan), Tobias Kuna (University of Reading, UK), Maria João Oliveira (University of Lisbon), and José Luís da Silva (University of Madeira). Contributed papers along the main areas were also presented by graduate students and young PhDs. To allow a wider audience to benefit from the Workshop, the World Scientific Publishing Co is publishing April 2012, Volume 2 No 2 47
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