Centre meetings

• Special Session, Epidemic Modelling, 20th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013), Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, 1-6 December 2013 [details]
• Special Session, Modelling and Decision Making in Ecological Systems, 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia, 12-16 December 2011 [details]
• Special Session, Modelling and Control of Metapopulation Networks, 18th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM09), Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009 [report]
• Workshop on Stochastics and Special Functions, University of Queensland, 22nd May 2009 [report]
• Special Session, Statistical Methods for Natural Systems, 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007 [report]
• Workshop on Mathematics and Statistics in Genetics, University of Queensland, 21st April 2006 [report]
• Special Session, Management, Control and Decision Making for Ecological Systems, 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Melbourne, 12-15 December 2005 [report]
• Workshop on Markov Chains, University of Queensland, 4th April 2005 [report]
• One-day Symposium, Multi-Agent Systems and Machine Learning, University of Queensland, 26th November 2004 [report]
• Workshop on Metapopulations, University of Queensland, 2nd September 2004 [report]
• Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14th May 2004 [report]
• One-day Symposium, The Cross-Entropy Method: a New Approach to Rare Event Simulation and Randomized Optimization, University of Queensland, 22nd January 2004 [report]

Additionally, MASCOS Qld was a major sponsor of the following events:

• Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005 [photo]
  
• Winter School in Mathematics and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, 5-9 July 2004.

Weekly meetings   Research staff and students of MASCOS Queensland meet almost every week of the year in Room 641 of the Priestley (Mathematics) Building (67-641) on Mondays at 12:00pm.

Seminars   Periodically, we hold a special series of seminars highlighting research done by MASCOS Qld research staff and students. Topics range from mathematical modelling in ecology, genetics and finance, to theoretical stochastic processes and ergodic theory [2006|2004]

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Other conference organization

• Phil Pollett is serving on the Conference Programme Committee of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Flinders University, Adelaide, 28 September-1 October 2015
• Phil Pollett is serving on the Organizing Committee of the 4th Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Adelaide, 6-11 April 2015

• Phil Pollett is organizing a special session titled Probability in Biology at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Annual Meeting, Sydney, 7-11 July 2014

• Ross McVinish, Phil Pollett and Aminath Shausan organized a special session (with Geoff Mercer, ANU, and Joshua Ross, University of Adelaide) titled Epidemic Modelling at the 20th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013), Adelaide, Australia, 1-6 December 2013.
• Phil Pollett served on the Conference Programme Advisory Board of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Sydney, 30 September-3 October 2013
• Phil Pollett served on the Local Organizing Committee of the 3rd Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Queensland, 8-11 July 2013

• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the 21st Australian Statistical Conference (ASC2012), Adelaide, 9-12 July 2012

• Phil Pollett organized a special session (with Joshua Ross and and Nigel Bean, University of Adelaide, and Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne) titled Modelling and Decision Making in Ecological Systems at the 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Perth, Australia, 12-16 December 2011. [A selection of papers from this session appeared as a special issue of Ecological Modelling: Vol. 249 No.1, 2013.] They served on the Editorial Board of the published proceedings: Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2011 (ISBN: 978-0-9872143-1-7)
• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the 2011 AMSI Summer School, University of Adelaide, 10 January-4 February 2011

• Phil Pollett organized (with Jerzy Filar, University of South Australia) the special session Stochastic Processes and Modelling at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September 2010
• Phil Pollett chaired several sessions at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September 2010

• Phil Pollett chaired a session at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 28 September - 1 October 2009
• Fionnuala Buckley and Phil Pollett (with Sam Nicol, University of Queensland) organized a special session titled Modelling and Control of Metapopulation Networks at the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009. [A selection of papers from this session appeared in Ecological Modelling: Vol. 221 No.21, 2010.] They served on the Editorial Board of the published proceedings: Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8)

• Martin O'Hely chaired a session at the 43rd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference (ANZIAM07), Fremantle, Western Australia, 28 January - 1 February 2007
• Daniel Pagendam and Phil Pollett organized a special session titled Statistical Methods for Natural Systems at the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007. [Several papers from this session have appeared in Environmental Modeling & Assessment (Springer).] They served on the Editorial Board of the published proceedings: Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007 (ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7)
• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (Complex'07), Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 2-5 July 2007
• Phil Pollett served on the Organising Committee of the AMSI/MASCOS Industry Workshop & ICE-EM Short Course: The Mathematics of Electricity Supply and Pricing, Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 22-27 April 2007
• Phil Pollett chaired the session Computational Modelling for Biology and Chemistry at the 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (Complex'07), Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 2-5 July 2007
• David Sirl served on the Organising Committee of the 3rd Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of New South Wales, February 2007

• Joshua Ross served on the Organising Committee of the 2nd Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 12-15 February 2006
• Phil Pollett served on the Advisory Committee of the 2nd Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 12-15 February 2006
• Phil Pollett chaired a session at the 42nd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference (ANZIAM06), Mansfield, Victoria, 5-9 February 2006
• Phil Pollett served as co-chair of the 5th International Symposium on Probability and its Applications, IMS Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 July-4 August 2006

• Phil Pollett and Joshua Ross organized a special session titled Management, control and decision making for ecological systems at the 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Melbourne, 12-15 December 2005. [A selection of papers from this session appeared as a special issue of Ecological Modelling: Vol. 201 No.1, 2007.] They served on the Editorial Board of the published proceedings: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005 (ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9)
• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the Stochastic Modelling of Complex Systems Conference (SMOCS05), Daydream Island, 10-16 July 2005
• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the 30th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, University of California at Santa Barbara, 26 June-1 July 2005
• MASCOS PhD students organized the inaugural Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005 [website|photo]

• Thomas Taimre chaired a session titled The Cross-Entropy Method for Monte-Carlo Simulation at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, 24-27 October 2004
• Phil Pollett served on the Organizing Committee of the Workshop on Stochastics and their Applications, University of South Australia, 27 September-1 October 2004
• Phil Pollett organized a Special Session (with Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne) at Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2004) to celebrate the 65th birthday of Daryl Daley and to present him with a festschrift, Cairns, 11-16 July 2004
• Phil Pollett served on the Programme Committee of the 2nd International Conference in Applied Probability (IWAP 2004), 22-25 March 2004, University of Piraeus, Greece
• Ben Cairns chaired a session titled Applied Probability Models for Ecological Systems at the 2nd International Conference in Applied Probability (IWAP 2004), 22-25 March 2004, University of Piraeus, Greece

Refereed papers

1. ⁵ Cope, R.C., Lanyon, J.M, Seddon, J.M. and P.K. Pollett (2014) Development and testing of a genetic marker-based pedigree reconstruction system `PR-genie' incorporating size-class data. Molecular Ecology Resources 14, 857-870.
2. Froyland, G., Pollett, P.K. and R.M. Stuart (2014) A closing scheme for finding almost-invariant sets in open dynamical systems. Journal of Computational Dynamics 1, 135-162.
3. ¹ Jovanović, D. and P.K. Pollett (2014) Distributed fault diagnosis using consensus of unobservable Markov chains. In (Eds. Honglei Xu and Xiangyu Wang) Optimization and Control Methods in Industrial Engineering and Construction, Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, Vol. 72, pp. 85-105 (ISBN 978-94-017-8044-5).
4. ¹ McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2014) The limiting behaviour of Hanski's incidence function metapopulation model. Journal of Applied Probability 51, 297-316.
5. ¹ Smith, A., McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2014) A model for a spatially structured metapopulation accounting for within patch dynamics. Mathematical Biosciences 247, 69-79.
6. ² Weiss, C.H. and P.K. Pollett (2014) Binomial autoregressive processes with density dependent thinning. Journal of Time Series Analysis 35, 115-132.
7. ² Bean, N.G., Pollett, P.K., Ross, J.V. and P.G. Taylor (2013) Preface to "Modelling for Decision Making in Ecological Systems". Ecological Modelling 249, 1-2.
8. * McVinish, R., Mengersen, K., Nur, D., Rousseau, J. and C. Guihenneuc-Jouyaux (2013) Recentered importance sampling with applications to Bayesian model validation. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 22, 215-228.
9. * Nikolic. M., Jovanović, D.P., Lim, Y.L., Bertling, K., Taimre, T. and A.D. Rakic (2013) Approach to frequency estimation in self-mixing interferometry: multiple signal classification. Applied Optics 52, 3345-3350.
10. ² McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2013) The limiting behaviour of a stochastic patch occupancy model. Journal of Mathematical Biology 67, 693-716.
11. ¹ McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2013) The deterministic limit of a stochastic logistic model with individual variation. Mathematical Biosciences 241, 109-114.
12. ² McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2013) Interaction between habitat quality and an Allee-like effect in metapopulations. Ecological Modelling 249, 84-89.
13. ¹ Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2013) Optimal design of experimental epidemics. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 143, 563-572.
14. ¹ Van Doorn, E.A. and P.K. Pollett (2013) Quasi-stationary distributions for discrete-state models. Invited paper. European Journal of Operational Research 230, 1-14.
15. ¹ Barbour, A.D. and P.K. Pollett (2012) Total variation approximation for quasi-equilibrium distributions, II. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 122, 3740-3756.
16. ² Kravchuk, O.Y. and P.K. Pollett (2012) Hodges-Lehmann scale estimator for Cauchy distribution. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 41, 3621-3632.
17. McVinish, R. (2012) Improving ABC for quantile distributions. Statistics and Computing 22, 1199-1207.
18. ² McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2012) The limiting behaviour of a mainland-island metapopulation. Journal of Mathematical Biology 64, 775-801.
19. ² McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2012) A central limit theorem for a discrete-time SIS model with individual variation. Journal of Applied Probability 49, 521-530.
20. ² Weiss, C.H. and P.K. Pollett (2012) Chain binomial models and binomial autoregressive processes. Biometrics 68, 815-824.



21. Chadès, I., Martin, T.G., Nicol, S., Burgman, M.A, Possingham, H.P. and Y.M. Buckley (2011) General rules for managing and surveying networks of pests, diseases, and endangered species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108, 8323-8328.
22. ² Jovanović, D., McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2011) Fault modelling using a mixture of conditional Gaussian transitions. In (Ed. Argyrios Zolotas) Proceedings of the 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, IEEE, June 2011, pp. 473-478.
23. ² Jovanović, D. and P.K. Pollett (2011) Fault diagnosis using consensus of Markov chains. In (Eds. Georg Frey and Felix Felgner) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, IEEE, June 2011, pp. 65-71.
24. * Lee, J., McVinish, R. and K. Mengersen (2011) Population Monte Carlo algorithm in high dimensions. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 13, 369-389.
25. McDonald-Madden, E., Chadès, I., McCarthy, M.A., Linkie, M. and H.P. Possingham (2011) Allocating conservation resources between areas where persistence of a species is uncertain. Ecological Applications 21, 844-858.
26. ² McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2011) Interaction between habitat quality and an Allee-like effect in metapopulations. In (Eds. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S.) Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2011, pp. 2254-2260 (ISBN: 978-0-9872143-1-7).
27. Regan, T.J., Chadès, I. and H.P. Possingham (2011) Optimally managing under imperfect detection: a method for plant invasions. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 76-85.
28. Ridder, A. and T. Taimre (2011) State-dependent importance sampling schemes via minimum cross-entropy. Annals of Operations Research 189, 357-388.



29. Barbour, A.D. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Total variation approximation for quasi-equilibrium distributions. Journal of Applied Probability 47, 934-946.
30. Buckley, F.M. (2010) Analytical Methods for Stochastic Discrete-time Metapopulation Models, PhD Thesis, The University of Queensland.
31. Buckley, F.M., Nicol, S. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Preface to "Selected papers on Modelling and Control of Metapopulation Networks". Ecological Modelling 221, 2512-2514.
32. Buckley, F.M. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Limit theorems for discrete-time metapopulation models. Probability Surveys 7, 53-83.
33. Buckley, F.M. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Analytical methods for a stochastic mainland-island metapopulation model. Ecological Modelling 221, 2526-2530.
34. Chen, A., Pollett, P.K., Li, J. and H. Zhang (2010) Markovian bulk-arrival and bulk-service queues with state-dependent control. Queueing Systems 64, 267-304.
35. Chen, A., Pollett, P.K., Li, J. and H. Zhang (2010) Uniqueness, extinction and explosivity of generalised Markov branching processes with pairwise interaction. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 12, 511-531.
36. McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Limits of large metapopulations with patch dependent extinction probabilities. Advances in Applied Probability 42, 1172-1186.
37. Nicol, S., Chadès, I., Linke, S. and H.P. Possingham (2010) Conservation decision-making in large state spaces. Ecological Modelling 221, 2531-2536.
38. Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Locally optimal designs for the simple death process. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 140, 3096-3105.
39. Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Robust optimal observation of a metapopulation. Ecological Modelling 221, 2521-2525.
40. Pollett, P.K., Dooley, A.H. and J.V. Ross (2010) Modelling population processes with random initial conditions. Mathematical Biosciences 223, 142-150.
41. Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Simple rules for ranking and optimally managing metapopulations. Ecological Modelling 221, 2515-2520.



42. Buckley, F.M. and P.K. Pollett (2009) Analytical methods for a stochastic mainland-island metapopulation model. In (Eds. Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H.) Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 1767-1773.
43. Chan, D.C., Pollett, P.K. and M.C. Weinstein (2009) Quantitative risk stratification in Markov chains with limiting conditional distributions. Medical Decision Making 29, 532-540.
44. * Fentie, B., Pagendam, D. and D. Roberts (2009) Visual comparison of spatial patterns of annual suspended sediment loads estimated by two water quality modelling approaches. In (Eds. Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H.) Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 3315-3321.
45. * Hamilton, G., McVinish, R. and K. Mengersen (2009) Bayesian model averaging for harmful algal bloom prediction. Ecological Applications 19, 1805-1814.
46. Lesmono, D., Tonkes, E. and K. Burrage (2009) Opportunistic timing and manipulation in Australian Federal Elections. European Journal of Operational Research 192, 677-691.
47. * McVinish, R., Rousseau, J. and K. Mengersen (2009) Bayesian goodness-of-fit testing with mixtures of triangular distributions. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 36, 337-354.
48. Nicol, S., Chadès, I., Linke, S. and H.P. Possingham (2009) Conservation decision-making in large state spaces. In (Eds. Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H.) Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 1774-1780.
49. * Nur, D., Allingham, D., Rousseau, J., Mengersen, K. and R. McVinish (2009) Bayesian Hidden Markov model for DNA sequence segmentation: A prior sensitivity analysis. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53, 1873-1882.
50. Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2009) Optimal sampling and problematic likelihood functions in a simple population model. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 14, 759-767.
51. Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2009) Robust optimal observation of a metapopulation. In (Eds. Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H.) Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 1781-1787.
52. Pollett, P.K. (2009) Optimal capacity assignment in general queueing networks. In (Eds. Charles Pearce and Emma Hunt) Optimization: Structure and Applications, Springer Optimization and its Applications Series, Vol. 32, pp. 261-272 (ISBN: 978-0-387-98095-9 (Print) 978-0-387-98096-6 (Online)).
53. Pollett, P.K. (2009) Ensemble behaviour in population processes with applications to ecological systems. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 14, 545-553.
54. Ross, J.V., Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2009) On parameter estimation in population models II: multi-dimensional processes and transient dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology 75, 123-132.
55. Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2009) Rules of thumb for metapopulation management. In (Eds. Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H.) Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 1795-1801.
56. Van Doorn, E.A and P.K. Pollett (2009) Quasi-stationary distributions for reducible absorbing Markov chains in discrete time. Markov Processes and Related Fields 12, 191-204.



57. Chadès, I., McDonald-Madden, E., McCarthy, M.A., Wintle, B., Linkie, M. and H.P. Possingham (2008) When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 13936-13940 [Featured in The Australian, ABC Science and TREE by MacKenzie, D.I. (2009) Getting the biggest bang for our conservation buck. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, 175-177]
58. Flegg, M.B., Pollett, P.K. and D.K. Gramotnev (2008) Ehrenfest model for the condensation and evaporation processes in degrading aggregates with multiple bonds. Physical Review E 78, 031117. [Also appeared in Volume 18, Issue 12 of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.]
59. Kravchuk, O.Y. and J. Hu (2008) Tail-adaptive location rank test of the generalized secant hyperbolic distribution. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 37, 1052-1063.
60. Lesmono, D., Pollett, P.K., Tonkes, E.J. and K. Burrage (2008) A note on the existence and uniqueness of a bounded mean-reverting process. Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society 14, 83-93.
61. Liu, Y., Zhang, H. and Y. Zhao (2008) Computable strongly ergodic rates of convergence for continuous-time Markov chains. ANZIAM Journal 49, 463-478.
62. Ross, J.V., Sirl, D.J., Pollett, P.K. and H.P. Possingham (2008) Metapopulation persistence in a dynamic landscape: more habitat or better stewardship? Ecological Applications 18, 590-598.
63. Van Doorn, E.A. and P.K. Pollett (2008) Survival in a quasi-death process. Linear Algebra and its Applications 429, 776-791.



64. Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P. and T. Taimre (2007) Generalized cross entropy methods with applications to rare event simulation and optimization Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 83, 785-806.
65. Cairns, B.J., Ross, J.V. and T. Taimre (2007) A comparison of models for predicting population persistence. Ecological Modelling 201, 19-26.
66. Chen, A., Pollett, P.K., Li, J. and H. Zhang (2007) A remark on the uniqueness of weighted Markov branching processes. Journal of Applied Probability 44, 279-283.
67. Kroese, D.P, Rubinstein, R.Y. and T. Taimre (2007) Application of the Cross-Entropy Method to clustering and vector quantization. Journal of Global Optimization 37, 137-157.
68. O'Hely, M. (2007) A diffusion model for the fate of tandem gene duplicates in diploids. Theoretical Population Biology 71, 491-501.
69. O'Hely, M. and L. Wockner (2007) Models for loosely-linked gene duplicates suggest lengthy persistence of both copies. Journal of Theoretical Biology 246, 636-645.
70. Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2007) Optimal sampling and problematic likelihood functions in a simple population model. In (Eds. Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D.) Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 2946-2952.
71. Pollett, P.K. (2007) Ensemble behaviour in population processes with applications to ecological systems. In (Eds. Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D.) Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 2903-2909.
72. Pollett, P.K. and Ross, J.V. (2007) Preface to "Management, Control and Decision Making for Ecological Systems", Ecological Modelling 201, 1.
73. Pollett, P.K., Zhang, H. and B.J. Cairns (2007) A note on extinction times for the general birth, death and catastrophe process. Journal of Applied Probability 44, 565-569.
74. Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2007) On costs and decisions in population management. Ecological Modelling 201, 60-66.
75. Ross, J.V., Taimre, T. and P.K. Pollett (2007) Estimation for queues from queue length data. Queueing Systems 55, 131-138.
76. Ross, J.V. and T. Taimre (2007) On the analysis of hospital infection data using Markov models. In (Eds. Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D.) Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 2939-2945.
77. Sani, A., Kroese, D.P. and P.K. Pollett (2007) Stochastic models for the spread of HIV in a mobile heterosexual population. Mathematical Biosciences 208, 98-124.
78. Sirl, D., Zhang, H. and P.K. Pollett (2007) Computable bounds for the decay parameter of a birth-death process. Journal of Applied Probability 44, 476-491.
79. Stace, A.W. (2007) A moment matching approach to the valuation of a volume weighted average price option. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance 10, 95-110.
80. Vuilleumier, S., Wilcox, C., Cairns, B.J. and H.P. Possingham (2007) How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence. Theoretical Population Biology 72, 77-85.
81. Wagner, L.D., Ross, J.V. and H.P. Possingham (2007) Catastrophe management and inter-reserve distance for marine reserve networks. Ecological Modelling 201, 82-88.



82. Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P. and T. Taimre (2006) Generalized cross-entropy methods for rare events and optimization, Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2006), Bamberg, Germany 8-10 October 2006, pp. 1-30.
83. Kravchuk, O.Y. (2006) R-estimator of location of the generalized secant hyperbolic distribution. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation 35, 1-18.
    
84. Kravchuk, O.Y. (2006) Two-sample scale rank procedures optimal for the generalized secant hyperbolic distribution. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 16-18 January 2006, pp. 1092-1102.
85. Lesmono, D. and E. Tonkes (2006) Stochastic dynamic programming for election timing: a game theory approach. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 23, 287-309.
86. O'Hely, M. (2006) A diffusion approach to approximating preservation probabilities for gene duplicates. Journal of Mathematical Biology 53, 215-230.
87. Ross, J.V. (2006) Comment on "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" II [Sibly et al., Science 309, 607 (2005)]. Science 311, 1100.
88. Ross, J.V. (2006) A stochastic metapopulation model accounting for habitat dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Biology 52, 788-806.
89. Ross, J.V. (2006) Stochastic models for mainland-island metapopulations in static and dynamic landscapes. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68, 417-449.
90. Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2006) Extinction times for a birth-death process with two phases. Mathematical Biosciences 202, 310-322.
91. Ross, J.V., Taimre, T. and P.K. Pollett (2006) On parameter estimation in population models. Theoretical Population Biology 70, 498-510.
92. Wilcox, C., Cairns, B.J. and H.P. Possingham (2006) The role of habitat disturbance and recovery in metapopulation persistence. Ecology 87, 855-863.



93. Cairns, B.J. and P.K. Pollett (2005) Approximating measures of persistence in a general class of population processes. Theoretical Population Biology 68, 77-90.
94. Cairns, B.J., Ross, J.V. and T. Taimre (2005) Models for predicting extinction times: shall we dance (or walk or jump)? In (Eds. Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M.) Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 2061-2067 (ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9).
95. Chen, A., Pollett, P.K., Zhang, H. and B.J. Cairns (2005) Uniqueness criteria for continuous-time Markov chains with general transition structures. Advances in Applied Probability 37, 1056-1074.
96. ³ Gray, B., Pollett, P.K. and H. Zhang (2005) On the existence of uni-instantaneous Q-processes with a given finite m-invariant measure. Journal of Applied Probability 42, 713-725.
97. Hou, Z., Liu, Y. and H. Zhang (2005) Subgeometric rates of convergence for a class of continuous time Markov processes. Journal of Applied Probability 42, 698-712.
98. Kravchuk, O.Y. (2005) Rank test of location optimal for the hyperbolic secant distribution. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 34, 1617-1630.
99. Lesmono, D. and E.J. Tonkes (2005) Optimal strategies in political elections. ANZIAM Journal 46(E), C764-C785.
100. Lesmono, D., Tonkes, E. and K. Burrage (2005) A continuous time model for election timing. Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 32, 329-338.
101. Loch, B., Stace, A.W. and E. Tonkes (2005) An innovative learning model for computation in first year mathematics. In (Ed. Bulmer, M.R.) Proceedings of the 5th Southern Hemisphere Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Teaching and Learning (Delta'05), Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, 22-26 November 2005 (available in electronic form at USQ ePrints).
102. Loch, B.I., Tonkes, E.J. and A.W. Stace (2005) An innovative learning model for computation in first year mathematics. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 36, 751-759.
103. Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2005) Multiplicity results for second-order two-point boundary value problems with superlinear and sublinear nonlinearities. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 303, 726-735.
104. Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2005) Multiplicity results for second-order two-point boundary value problems with nonlinearities across several eigenvalues. Applied Mathematics Letters 18, 587-595.
105. Ma, M. and D. O'Regan (2005) Solvability of singular second order m-point boundary value problems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 301, 124-134.
106. Pollett, P.K. and J.V. Ross (2005) Costs and decisions in population management: koalas on Kangaroo Island. In (Eds. Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M.) Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 2082-2088 (ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9).
107. Skellett, B., Cairns, B.J., Geard, N., Tonkes, B., and J. Wiles (2005) Maximally rugged NK landscapes contain the highest peaks. In (Ed. H. Breyer) Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 1, ACM Press, New York, USA, pp. 579-584.



108. ³ Cairns, B.J. and P.K. Pollett (2004) Extinction times for a general birth, death and catastrophe process. Journal of Applied Probability 41, 1211-1218.
109. ³ Chen, A., Pollett, P.K., Zhang, H. and J. Li (2004) The collision branching process. Journal of Applied Probability 41, 1033-1048.
110. ³ Chen, A., Zhang, H., Liu, K. and K. Rennolls (2004) Birth-death processes with disaster and instantaneous resurrection. Advances in Applied Probability 36, 267-292.
111. Gladwin, B.A. and T. Huber (2004) Long time scale molecular dynamics using least action. ANZIAM Journal 45(E) C534-C550.
112. Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2004) Positive solutions for nonlinear m-point eigenvalue problems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 297, 24-37.
113. Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2004) Nodal solutions for nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Nonlinear Analysis 59, 707-718.
114. Pollett, P.K. and P.G. Taylor (2004) Forward to "Festschrift in Honour of Daryl Daley", Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 46, 3.
115. Pollett, P.K. and H. Zhang (2004) Existence and uniqueness of Q-processes with a given finite m-invariant measure. In (Eds. Philip K. Pollett and Peter G. Taylor) Festschrift in Honour of Daryl Daley, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 46, 113-120.



116. ⁴ Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and I. Ziedins (2003) Product form approximations for highly linear loss networks with trunk reservation. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 38, 1147-1156.
117. Boland, J., Kravchuk, O.Y., Saman, W. and R. Kilsby (2003) Estimation of the thermal sensitivity of a dwelling to variations in architectural and behavioural parameters. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 8, 101-113.
118. ³ Cairns, B.J. and P.K. Pollett (2003) Evaluating persistence times in populations that are subject to local catastrophes. In (Ed. David A. Post) Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 2, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Townsville, Australia, pp. 747-752.
119. ³ Clancy, D. and P.K. Pollett (2003) A note on quasi-stationary distributions of birth-death processes and the SIS logistic epidemic. Journal of Applied Probability 40, 821-825.
120. ³ Pollett, P.K. (2003) Integrals for continuous-time Markov chains. Mathematical Biosciences 182, 213-225.
121. ³ Pollett, P.K. and V.T. Stefanov (2003) A method for evaluating the distribution of the total cost of a random process over its lifetime. In (Ed. David A. Post) Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 4, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Townsville, Australia, pp. 1863-1867.
122. ³ Pollett, P.K. and M.R. Thompson (2003) A new method for analysing the equilibrium and time-dependent behaviour of Markovian models. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 38, 1409-1418.
123. ⁴ Thompson, M.R. and P.K. Pollett (2003) A reduced load approximation accounting for link interactions in a loss network. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences 7, 229-248.

Refereed papers in press

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Books

1. Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T., Botev, Z.I. and R.Y. Rubinstein (2007) Solutions Manual to Accompany Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method, 2nd Edition, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, Wiley (ISBN: 978-0-470-25879-8).

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Edited volumes

1. Bean, N.G., Pollett, P.K., Ross, J.V. and P.G. Taylor (2013) Modelling for Decision Making in Ecological Systems. Ecological Modelling 249 (1) (ISSN: 0304-3800 (Print)).
2. Buckley, F.M., Nicol, S. and P.K. Pollett (2010) Selected papers on Modelling and Control of Metapopulation Networks. Ecological Modelling 221 (21) (ISSN: 0304-3800 (Print)).
3. Pollett, P.K. and J.V. Ross (2007) Management, Control and Decision Making for Ecological systems. Ecological Modelling 201 (1) (ISSN: 0304-3800 (Print)).
4. Pollett, P.K. and P.G. Taylor (2004) Festschrift in Honour of Daryl Daley. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Zealand Journal of Statistics 46 (1) (ISSN: 1369-1473 (Print) 1467-842X (Online).

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Submitted or under revision

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Schools magazine articles

1. Ross, J.V. (2006) Protect or create?, Infinity 21.
2. Garton, A. (2006) Music, the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Section, Infinity 20.
3. Pollett, P.K. (2003) Complex systems, Infinity 15.
4. Pollett, P.K. (2003) Life's games, Infinity 15.

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Invited conference talks

• Laub, P. Teletraffic Theory: Practical Loss Networks, CSIRO Big Day In, Macquarie University, Sydney, 12-13 February 2013

• Pollett, P.K. The limiting behaviour of a patch occupancy model, Workshop on Stochastic Networks, University of Auckland, 12-13 April 2012 [abstract and talk]

• Chan, J. Modelling the stochastic growth of Ornate Rock Lobster (Panulirus Ornatus), CSIRO Big Day In, Macquarie University, Sydney, 10-11 February 2011 [photo]
• Pollett, P.K. Point processes and patch survival in metapopulations, 3rd Wellington Workshop in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 28-29 November 2011 [abstract, talk and photo]
• Pollett, P.K. Limit theorems for chain-binomial population models, Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Probability in Networks and Population Biology, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 9-13 May 2011 [abstract, talk and photo]
• Pollett, P.K. Point processes and patch survival in metapopulations, 3rd Wellington Workshop in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 28-29 November 2011 [abstract, talk and photo]
• Spears, T. Probability with martingales for economics and finance, CSIRO Big Day In, Macquarie University, Sydney, 10-11 February 2011 [photo]

• Chadès, I. Can sea otters and abalone coexist at "not at risk" levels? Optimal management of strongly interacting endangered species, 1st International Conference on Computational Sustainability (CompSust09), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 8-11 June 2009
• Chadès, I., Can sea otter and northern abalone co-exist at not at risk levels? Optimal management of strongly interacting endangered species, 10th International Congress of Ecology, Brisbane, 17-21 August 2009

• Pollett, P.K. Stochastic models for population networks, Invited Short Course, School on Information and Randomness (IR2008), Center for Mathematical Modelling, University of Chile, 15-19 December 2008: Lectures [1|2|3]
• Pollett, P.K. Stochastic models for population networks, International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (IWCSN08), Australian National University, 1-3 October 2008 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Ensemble behaviour in population processes [Keynote address], 4th AMSI Australian Postgraduate Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling (APWSPM08), University of Adelaide, 10-13 February 2008 [talk]

• O'Hely, M. Importance sampling strategies for forwards and backwards processes in population genetics of gene duplication processes [Keynote address], 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (Complex'07), Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 2-5 July 2007
• Taimre, T. Likelihood ratio degeneracy in the Cross-Entropy Method (Part II), AMSI/MASCOS Mini-Symposium "Entropy Methods in Operations Research", University of Melbourne, 10 December 2007

• O'Hely, M.  Models of gene duplication processes, MASCOS Research Workshop, MASCOS Melbourne, 20-21 February 2006
• Palmer, J. Network models for seismicity, CSIRO Big Day In, CSIRO Industrial Physics, Lindfield, New South Wales, 16-17 February 2006
• Pollett, P.K. Stochastic models and their deterministic analogues [Keynote address], 2nd AMSI/MASCOS Australian Postgraduate Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 12-15 February 2006 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Modelling the long-term behaviour of evanescent processes [Keynote address], 42nd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference (ANZIAM06), Mansfield, Victoria, 5-9 February 2006 [talk]
• Zhang, H.  Computable strong ergodic convergence rates for continuous-time Markov chains, MASCOS Research Workshop, MASCOS Melbourne, 20-21 February 2006

• Pollett, P.K. Which Markov chains have a given invariant measure?, Workshop on Markov Chains, University of Queensland, 4 April 2005 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Quasi-stationary distributions [Keynote address], Fields Institute Workshop on Large Deviations and Rare Events in Networks, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 4-5 July 2005 [talk]
• Sirl, D.J. Markov chains: an introduction/review, Workshop on Markov Chains, University of Queensland, 4 April 2005 [talk]
• Zhang, H. Quasi-stationary distributions and the decay parameter, Workshop on Markov Chains, University of Queensland, 4 April 2005 [talk]

• Cairns, B.J. Extinction and invasion of metapopulations in stochastic environments, International Conference in Applied Probability (IWAP 2004), University of Piraeus, Greece, 22-25 March 2004 [talk]
• Cairns, B.J. Extinction in metapopulations with environmental stochasticity driven by catastrophes a birth-death process, 1st MASCOS Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14 May 2004 [talk]
• Cairns, B.J. Evaluating persistence times in populations that are subject to catastrophes, Winter School in Mathematics and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, 5-9 July 2004 [talk|video]
• Cairns, B.J. Limit theorems for metapopulation processes subject to catastrophes, Workshop on Metapopulation Modelling, University of Queensland, 2 September 2004 [talk]
• Cairns, B.J. Metapopulation processes in stochastic environments, Special Session on Complex Systems, 48th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, RMIT University, Melbourne, 28 September-1 October 2004 [talk]
• Cairns, B.J. The role of population ceilings in persistence, Annual conference of the Ecological Society of Australia, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 7-10 December 2004
• Gladwin, B.A. Long time-frame path computation using least action, 1st MASCOS Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14 May 2004 [ppt|avi]
• Kravchuk, O.Y. Brownian Bridge, the Cramer-von Mises test and the trigonometric score rank test of location, 1st MASCOS Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14 May 2004 [ppt]
• O'Hely, M. On priors in a bayesian framework with examples from estimating admixture and drift, European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop "Archaeology and Genetics: towards (integrated) archaeogenetics", Seix, France, 2-5 June 2004.
• Pollett, P.K. Evaluating the total cost of a random process over its lifetime, Winter School in Mathematics and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, 5-9 July 2004 [talk|video]
• Pollett, P.K. Limiting conditional distributions for stochastic metapopulation models, Workshop on Metapopulation Modelling, University of Queensland, 2 September 2004 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. and Ross, J.V. Costs and decisions in population models, Workshop on Stochastics and their Applications, University of South Australia, 27 September-1 October 2004 [talk]
• Ross, J.V. Diffusion approximation for a metapopulation model with habitat dynamics, 1st MASCOS Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14 May 2004 [talk]
• Ross, J.V. On the costs and decisions of controlling a population, Winter School in Mathematics and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, 5-9 July 2004 [talk|video]
• Ross, J.V. Diffusion approximation for a spatially realistic structured metapopulation model, Workshop on Metapopulation Modelling, University of Queensland, 2 September 2004 [talk]
• Sirl, D.J. Quasi-stationary distributions for continuous-time Markov chains, 1st MASCOS Workshop on Probability and its Applications, University of Melbourne, 14 May 2004 [talk]
• Taimre, T. Application of the Cross-Entropy Method to clustering and vector quantization MASCOS One-day Symposium on Multi-Agent Systems and Machine Learning University of Queensland, 26th November 2004
• Zhang, H. The decay parameter and the smallest Dirichlet eigenvalue of a birth-death process, Special Session on Complex Systems, 48th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, RMIT University, Melbourne, 28 September-1 October 2004 [talk]

• Pollett, P.K. Identifying Markov chains with a given invariant measure, Oberwolfach Applied Probability Meeting, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, 30 November-6 December 2003 [abstract|talk|photo]

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Contributed conference talks

• McVinish, R. The behaviour of large metapopulations, 3rd Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Queensland, 8-11 July 2013
• Shausan, A. Spread of an SIS epidemic in a network, 3rd Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Queensland, 8-11 July 2013
• Smith, A. A metapopulation model with environmental influence, 3rd Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Queensland, 8-11 July 2013 [Awarded second prize for the best student talk]

• Shausan, A. Spread of an SIS Epidemic in a Network, QANZIAM Conference, Ivory Palms Resort, Noosaville, Queensland, Australia, 27-28 October 2012 [Awarded a prize for the best student talk]
• Smith, A. Diffusion approximations for metapopulation models, 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando, USA, 1-5 July 2012

• Jovanović, D. Fault diagnosis using consensus on Markov chains, 3rd International Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany, 15-17 June 2011
• Jovanović, D. Fault modelling using a mixture of conditional Gaussian transitions, 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Corfu, Greece, 20-23 June 2011
• Pollett, P.K. Interaction between habitat quality and an Allee-like effect in metapopulations, 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Perth, Australia, 12-16 December 2011 [abstract, talk and paper]
• Smith, A.G. Models for spatially structured metapopulations, The ANZIAM Conference, Stamford Grand Hotel, Adelaide, 31 January–3 February 2011

• Jovanović, D. Fault detection in complex and distributed systems, MASCOS Workshop on Complex Networks, University of New South Wales, 05 August 2010
• Kravchuk, O.Y. and P.K. Pollett About scale estimators for the Cauchy distribution, Australasian Statistical Conference, Fremantle, Australia, 6-10 December 2010 [talk]
• McVinish, R. Estimating equations for queue length data, Statistical Modelling and Inference Conference Celebrating Murray Aitkin's 70th birthday, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 1-4 February 2010
• McVinish, R. The limits of a mainland-island metapopulation model, 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September 2010
• McVinish, R. New title, MASCOS Annual Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1-2 October 2010
• McVinish, R. Bayesian testing for decreasing probability density functions, Australasian Statistical Conference, Fremantle, Australia, 6-10 December 2010
• Pagendam, D. Use of stochastic differential equations for estimation in hydrology, Australasian Statistical Conference, Fremantle, Australia, 6-10 December 2010
• Pollett, P.K. Limits theorems for population networks with patch dependent extinction probabilities, MASCOS Workshop on Complex Networks, University of New South Wales, 05 August 2010 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Estimating extinction risk in population models, MASCOS Workshop on Risk Analysis, University of New South Wales, 06 August 2010 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Limits of large metapopulations with patch dependent extinction probabilities, 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September 2010 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Infinite-patch metapopulation models: branching, convergence and chaos, MASCOS Annual Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1-2 October 2010

• Buckley, F.M. Analytical methods for metapopulation networks, MASCOS Workshop on Complex Networks, University of Melbourne, 26 June 2009
• Buckley, F.M. Analytical methods for a stochastic mainland-island metapopulation model, 18th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM09), Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009
• Pagendam, D.E. Robust optimal observation of a metapopulation, 18th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM09), Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009
• Pollett, P.K. Metapopulations: from network models to patch occupancy models, MASCOS Workshop on Complex Networks, University of Melbourne, 26 June 2009 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Rules of thumb for metapopulation management, 18th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM09), Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Limit theorems for discrete-time metapopulation models, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, Australia, 28 September-1 October 2009 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Complex Networks at UQ, MASCOS Annual Conference, University of South Australia, Adealide, Australia, 2-3 October 2009 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Risk Analysis at UQ, MASCOS Annual Conference, University of South Australia, Adealide, Australia, 2-3 October 2009 [talk]

• Buckley, F.M. Discrete-time metapopulation models, 4th AMSI Australian Postgraduate Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling (APWSPM08), University of Adelaide, 10-13 February 2008
• Buckley, F.M. Stochastic discrete-time metapopulation models, MASCOS Annual Conference, Beechworth, 9-11 July 2008
• Pagendam, D.E. Optimal design for the SIS Epidemic, XXIVth International Biometric Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, 13-18 July 2008
• Pollett, P.K. Complex Networks, MASCOS Annual Conference, La Trobe at Beechworth Conference Centre, Beechworth, Australia, 9-11 July 2008 [talk]
• Taimre, T. State-dependent importance sampling schemes via minimum cross-entropy, Efficient Monte Carlo: From Variance Reduction to Combinatorial Optimization, A Conference on the Occasion of R.Y. Rubinstein's 70th Birthday, Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark 14-18 July 2008.

• O'Hely, M. and P. Pollett Markov models for genome evolution, 43rd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference (ANZIAM07), Fremantle, Western Australia, 28 January - 1 February 2007
• Pagendam, D.E. Optimal sampling and problematic likelihood functions in a simple population model, 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007
• Pollett, P.K. Modelling population processes with random initial conditions, 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (Complex'07), Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 2-5 July 2007 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Risk modelling at the University of Queensland, MASCOS Workshop on Risk Modelling, University of Melbourne, 24 September 2007
• Pollett, P.K. Modelling population networks, MASCOS Workshop on Complex Networks, La Trobe University, 28 September 2007
• Pollett, P.K. Ensemble behaviour in population processes with applications to ecological systems, 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007 [talk]
• Sirl, D.J. Bounds for the decay parameter of a birth-death process, 3rd Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of New South Wales, 11-14 February 2007
• Taimre, T., Botev, Z.I. and D.P. Kroese A Generalized cross-entropy method: discrete state spaces, 14th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 9-11 July 2007
• Taimre, T. State-dependent importance sampling schemes via minimum cross-entropy, 51st Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, La Trobe University, 25-28 September 2007

• Kravchuk, O.Y. Two-sample scale rank procedures optimal for the generalized secant hyperbolic distribution, 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 16-18 January 2006
• Lesmono, D. A term structured volatility model of poll data and its application to election timing, International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computation, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, 5-8 June 2006
• Ross, J.V. Parameter estimation for Markov processes, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 13-15 February 2006
• Ross, J.V. Parameter estimation for Markov processes, Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Meeting, Alzburg Inn Resort, Mansfield, Victoria, 5-9 February 2006
• Sirl, D.J. Bounds for the decay parameter of a birth-death process, Markov Processes and Related Topics (Conference in honour of Tom Kurtz on his 65th birthday), University of Wisconsin -Madison, 10th-13th July 2006
• Sirl, D.J. Bounds for the decay parameter of a general birth-death process, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 13-15 February 2006
• Taimre, T. Dealing with degeneracy, 3rd International Conference in Applied Probability (IWAP 2006), University of Connecticut, USA, 15-18 May 2006

• Cairns, B. Approximating hitting times in a general class of population processes, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Gladwin, B. Final times, first passage times and long time scale least action, 7th Congress of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC 2005), Cape Town, South Africa, 16-21 January 2005
• Gladwin, B. First-passage times and long time scale molecular dynamics, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Kravchuk, O.Y. Adaptive rank procedures for the generalized secant hyperbolic distribution, Queensland Branch Miniconference, Statistical Society of Australia, 27 September 2005
• Lesmono, D. A game theory approach for political elections, 41st Annual ANZIAM Conference, War Memorial Conference Centre, Napier, New Zealand, 30 January-3 February 2005
• Lesmono, D. A Mean reverting stochastic differential equation for polls data and its application in election timing, International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE05), Nagoya, Japan, 23-27 May 2005
• Lesmono, D. Election timing: a continuous-time model, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Lesmono, D. A Mathematical model for opportunistic timing and manipulation in Australian federal elections, Stochastic Modelling of Complex Systems Conference (SMOCS05), Daydream Island, Australia, 10-16 July 2005
• Lesmono, D. Game theory in Australian politics, QANZIAM Conference, Novotel Hotel, Brisbane, Australia, 12 November 2005
• O'Hely, M. Diffusion models for the preservation of duplicate genes, European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Dresden, Germany, 18-22 July 2005
• Ross, J.V. Costs and decisions in population models, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Ross, J.V. Diffusion approximations and model fitting for ecological systems, ICE-EM Australian Graduate School in Mathematics, University of Queensland, 4-22 July 2005
• Ross, J.V. Costs and decisions in population management: koalas on Kangaroo Island, Ecological Society of Australia Meeting, University of Queensland, 29 November-2 December 2005
• Ross, J.V. Costs and decisions in population management: koalas on Kangaroo Island, 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Melbourne, 12-15 December 2005
• Ross, J.V. Models for predicting extinction times: shall we dance (or walk or jump)?, 16th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Melbourne, 12-15 December 2005
• Seeto, M. A branching process, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Sirl, D.J. Quasi-stationary distributions for continuous-time Markov chains, Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005
• Zhang, H. Existence of quasi-stationary distributions, 49th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Western Australia, 27-30 September 2005

• Kravchuk, O.Y. Asymptotic optimality of rank tests of location and the Brownian Bridge, 22nd International Biometric Conference (IBC 2004), Cairns, 11-16 July 2004 [ppt]
• O'Hely, M. Markov chain Monte-Carlo estimation of population hybridization parameters, 48th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, RMIT University, Melbourne, 28 September-1 October 2004
• Sirl, D.J. Quasi-stationary distributions for a class of autocatalytic chemical reactions, 8th Brazilian School of Probability, Ubatuba, Brazil, 1-7 August 2004 [talk]
• Taimre., T. Application of the Cross-Entropy Method to clustering and vector quantization, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, 24-27 October 2004 [talk]

• Cairns, B.J. Evaluating persistence times in populations that are subject to local catastrophes, the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2003), Townsville, 14-17 July 2003 [ppt]
• Kravchuk, O.Y. A simple linear rank test optimal for the hyperbolic secant distribution, 1st Queensland Statistics Conference, Toowoomba, 1-3 October 2003
• Pollett, P.K. A method for evaluating the distribution of the total cost of a random process over its lifetime, the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2003), Townsville, 14-17 July 2003 [abstract|talk]
• Pollett, P.K. A method for analysing complex Markovian models, ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, Melbourne, 13 November, 2003 [talk]
• Stace, A.W. Volume Weighted Asian Option, QANZIAM Conference, Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia, 6-7 September 2003

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Conference posters

• Shausan, A. Spread of an SIS epidemic in a network, Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases Conference, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 23-24 May 2012

• Cope, R. Reconstructing family trees for free-ranging dugongs in southern Queensland, Australia, 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Tampa, USA, 27 November-2 December 2011 [poster]

• Pagendam, D.E. Optimal design for the SIS Epidemic, Workshop on Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA2008) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 11-15 August 2008

• Chan, D.C., Pollett, P.K. and M.C. Weinstein Quantitative risk stratification in Markov chains with quasi-stationary distributions, 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Pittsburgh, USA, 20-24 October 2007 [poster]
• Sirl, D.J. Approximating extinction times and probabilities for absorbing birth-death process, 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (Complex'07), Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 2-5 July 2007

• Cope, R. and M. O'Hely Importance sampling strategies for assigning hybrid alleles to parental populations, Advanced Study Program in Science Undergraduate Research Conference 2006, Brisbane, 7 October 2006 [poster]
• Hu, J. and O.Y. Kravchuk Tail-adaptive financial modelling with the generalised secant hyperbolic distribution, 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Canada, 16-21 July 2006 [poster]
• Kravchuk, O.Y. and P.K. Pollett A Lepage-type test for the generalised secant hyperbolic distribution, 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Canada, 16-21 July 2006 [poster]
• Lesmono, D. A mathematical model for surfing and manipulation in politics, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain, 22-30 August 2006
• O'Hely, M. The frequency of a segregating duplicate gene, 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris, 17-21 July 2006 [poster]
• Ross, J.V., Taimre, T. and P.K. Pollett Parameter estimation for Markov processes, 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris, 17-21 July 2006 [poster]
• Sirl, D.J. Bounds for the decay parameter of an absorbing birth-death process, 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris, 17-21 July 2006 [poster]
• Zhang, H.J. Bounds for the decay parameter of an absorbing birth-death process, 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris, 17-21 July 2006

• Kravchuk, O.Y. One-way nonparametric ANOVA with trigonometric scores (poster), 22nd International Biometric Conference (IBC 2004), Cairns, 11-16 July 2004 [poster|supporting materials]
• Ross, J.V. Diffusion approximation for a metapopulation model with habitat dynamics (poster), 6th joint meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, Barcelona, July 26-31, 2004 [poster]

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Other conference participation

• Andrew Smith attended the Summer School for Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Epidemiology at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA, 11-22 June 2012
• Aminath Shausan attended the inaugural Biarri Applied Mathematics Conference, University of Queensland, 20 February 2012

• Ross McVinish attended the Workshop on Modern Spatial Statistics: In honour of Professor Julian Besag, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 11-12 May 2011

• Robert Cope, Dejan Jovanović, Aminath Shausan and Andrew Smith attended the 54th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September 2010
• Robert Cope, Dejan Jovanović, Aminath Shausan and Andrew Smith attended the MASCOS Annual Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1-2 October 2010

• Iadine Chadès attended the Fenner Conference on the Environment, Canberra, 10-12 March 2009

• Robert Cope attended the 38th International Probability Summer School Saint-Flour, France, 6-19 July 2008

• Phil Pollett attended the 51st Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, La Trobe University, 25-28 September 2007
• Daniel Pagendam attended the MASCOS Workshop on Risk Modelling, University of Melbourne, 24 September 2007

• Martin O'Hely attended the Bath Institute for Complex Systems Summer School: Modelling Across the Scales, University of Bath, 26-30 June 2006
• Several MASCOS Qld staff and students attended a Centre meeting in Melbourne on 21 September 2006 and presented posters:
  • Olena Kravchuk and Phil Pollett, A Lepage-type test for the generalised secant hyperbolic distribution
  • Martin O'Hely, The frequency of a segregating duplicate gene
  • Joshua Ross, Thomas Taimre and Phil Pollett, On parameter estimation for Markov processes
    

• Dharma Lesmono attended the APAC Summer School, The Australian National University, 10-21 January 2005
• Dharma Lesmono attended the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE05), Nagoya, Japan, 23-27 May 2005
• Martin O'Hely attended the 10th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Krakow, Poland, 15-20 August 2005
• Phil Pollett attended the 13th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 6-8 July 2005
• Phil Pollett attended the Stochastic Modelling of Complex Systems Conference (SMOCS05), Daydream Island, 10-16 July 2005
• Thomas Taimre attended the Machine Learning Summer School, The Australian National University, 23 January-5 February 2005
• Thomas Taimre attended the Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Queensland, 7-11 February 2005

• Dharma Lesmono attended the CMA National Research Symposium "A Celebration of Modeling & Applied Probability in honor of Joe Gani's 80th Birthday", The Australian National University, 14-15 December 2004
• Dharma Lesmono and Antony Stace attended the Quantitative Methods in Finance 2004 Conference, Sydney, 15-18 December 2004
• Thomas Taimre attended the MASCOS One-day Symposium "The Cross-Entropy Method: a New Approach to Rare Event Simulation and Randomized Optimization", University of Queensland, 22nd January 2004
• Thomas Taimre attended the MASCOS Workshop on Metapopulations, University of Queensland, 2nd September 2004

• Antony Stace attended the 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the embedded mini symposium "2nd National Symposium on Financial Mathematics", Sydney, 7-11 July 2003
• Antony Stace attended the Quantitative Methods in Finance 2003 Conference Sydney, December 2003

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Invited seminars

• Pollett, P.K. Limit theorems for discrete-time metapopulation models, Institut de Mathématiques, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 22 June 2010 [talk]
• Pollett, P.K. Modelling the long-term behaviour of population processes, Laboratoire d'Architecture et d'Analyse des Systèmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France, 29 June 2010 [talk]

• Pagendam, D.E. Optimal design for birth death processes, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, 23 July 2008

• Pollett, P.K. Limiting conditional distributions for reducible Markov chains, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Zurich, 25 April 2007
• Pollett, P.K. Limiting conditional distributions for reducible Markov chains, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, 21 May 2007
• Pollett, P.K. Limiting conditional distributions for reducible Markov chains, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, 23 May 2007

• Pollett, P. Modelling the long-term behaviour of evanescent processes, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, 27 September 2006 [abstract, talk and bibliography]
• Sirl, D. Quasistationary distributions for continuous-time Markov chains and bounds for the decay parameter of a birth-death process, Department of Mathematical Sciences Statistics Seminar, Durham University, 7th April 2006
• Sirl, D. Absorbing Markov chains governed by X<->2X, X->0, and similar schemes: quasistationary distributions and the decay parameter, Probability Seminar, Department of Higher Mathematics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 19 May 2006

• O'Hely, M. Diffusion models for the preservation of duplicate genes, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, 7 March 2005
• O'Hely, M. Diffusion models for the preservation of duplicate genes, Complex Systems Seminar, MASCOS Melbourne, 11 March 2005
• O'Hely, M. Diffusion models for the preservation of duplicate genes, Evolutionary Biology group at the University of Konstanz, Germany, 26 July 2005

• Sirl, D.J. Quasi-stationary distributions for continuous-time Markov chains, Centro de Modelamiento Matematico, Universidad de Chile, 9 August 2004 [pdf]
• O'Hely, M. Estimation des paramètres d'admixture, Petit Pois Déridé, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, August 2004
• O'Hely, M. Estimation des paramètres d'admixture, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, September 2004

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Other academic visits

• Trent Spears undertook a Summer Internship with Goldman Sachs (Melbourne), November 2011-February 2012

• Phil Pollett visited the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, April 2007
• Thomas Taimre visited Ad Ridder at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July-August 2007

• Martin O'Hely visited Lounès Chikhi at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006
• Thomas Taimre visited Reuven Rubinstein in New York and David Wolpert at Stanford, May-June 2006

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Awards

• Phil Pollett was awarded $384,000 for a project titled "Understanding the Effects of Individual Variation on Population Dynamics" under the ARC Discovery Project Scheme (2014-2016)
• Vacation scholar Ryan Heneghan was awarded an AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship for a project titled "Exploring Vaccination Methods for an SIR Epidemic on a Random Population Network with Household Structure and Varying Rates of Infectivity and Severity" (November 2013)
• Vacation scholar Patrick Laub was awarded a 2013-14 Google Internship (October 2013)
• PhD student Andrew Smith was awarded second prize for the best student talk at the 3rd Australia and New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop, University of Queensland (July 2013)

• Vacation scholar Patrick Laub was awarded an AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship for a project titled "Fixed Point Methods for Loss Networks" (November 2012)
• PhD student Jessica Chan received a UQ School of Mathematics and Physics Outstanding Tutor Award (October 2012)
• PhD student Aminath Shausan was awarded a prize for the best student talk at the 2012 QANZIAM Conference (October 2012)
• PhD student Jessica Chan was a Faculty of Science finalist in the Three Minute Thesis Competition (August 2012)
• PhD student Jessica Chan was awarded The University Medal (April 2012)
• PhD student Jessica Chan was awarded a UQ Advantage Top-Up Scholarship (February 2012). These are awarded to only the most outstanding research-higher-degree students. Jessica's was the only award made in the School of Mathematics and Physics.

• PhD student Robert Cope won the 2011 Frederic Fairfield Memorial Award (Society for Marine Mammalogy). This award is made to a student who presents at the Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals for conducting the most innovative research in the field of marine mammal biology. It recognizes and supports scientists who have developed or applied pioneering techniques or research tools to study marine mammals [poster|photo]
• Phil Pollett (with Kostya Borovkov, Andrew Barbour and Aihua Xia, The University of Melbourne, Alexander Novikov, University of Technology, Sydney, Malwina Luczak, University of Sheffield, and Gesine Reinert, Oxford University) was awarded $300,000 for a project titled "Random network models with applications in biology" under the ARC Discovery Project Scheme (2012-2014)
• PhD student Aminath Shausan was awarded first prize at School Poster Day for her poster titled Spread of an SIS Epidemic in a Network (September 2011) [poster]
• Honours students Jessica Chan and Trent Spears received (the only) UQ School of Mathematics and Physics Outstanding Tutor Awards (October 2011).
• Honours student Jessica Chan was awarded an International Biometric Society (IBS) Honours Scholarship (January 2011)

• Vacation scholar Trent Spears was awarded an AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship for a project titled "Probability with Martingales for Economics and Finance" (November 2010) [Story]
• Phil Pollett (with Nigel Bean and Joshua Ross, The University of Adelaide, and Peter Taylor, The University of Melbourne) was awarded $255,000 for a project titled "New methods for improving active adaptive management in biological systems" under the ARC Discovery Project Scheme (2011-2013)
• Honours student Alex Ridley was awarded the University Medal (April 2010)
• PhD student Andrew Smith was a Faculty of Science finalist in the Three Minute Thesis Competition (August 2010)

• Research Fellow Iadine Chadès (with Tara Martin, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) was awarded a grant of CAD$13,000 from the World Wildlife Fund Canada Endangered Species Recovery Fund for a project titled "Can sea otter and abalone co-exist at not at risk levels?" (2008-2009)
• Research Fellow Iadine Chadès was awarded a grant of €4,000 from Réseau National des Systèmes Complexes to build collaborations on the theme of spatial POMDP (2008-2010)
• Visiting Fellow Jean Bernard Lasserre won the 2009 Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization for his article "A sum of squares approximation of nonnegative polynomials" SIAM Journal on Optimization 16 (2006), 751-765.
• Research Fellow Ross McVinish was awarded a grant of $11,910 under the UQ New Staff Research Start-up Fund Scheme for a project titled "Bayesian nonparametric methods for system identification" (May 2009)
• Honours student Alex Ridley was awarded the Kate McNaughton of Roma Scholarship (May 2009)

• Honours student Robert Cope was awarded a travel scholarship from Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, to attend the 38th International Probability Summer School (Saint-Flour, France, 6-19 July 2008)
• Phil Pollett (with Hugh Possingham, The Ecology Centre, The University
• PhD student Dan Pagendam was awarded a travel scholarship from the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to attend the workshop "Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications" (Cambridge, UK, 11-14 August 2008)
• PhD student Dan Pagendam was awarded the International Biometric Society (IBS) Australasian Regional Travel Award to attend the International Biometric Conference (Dublin, Ireland, 13-18 July 2008)
• Phil Pollett (with Hugh Possingham, The Ecology Centre, The University of Queensland) was awarded $71,346 from the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA) for a project titled "Strategies for managing invasive species in space: deciding whether to eradicate, contain or control" (2008-2009)

• PhD student Dan Pagendam received a Student Commendation for his paper titled Optimal sampling and problematic likelihood functions in a simple population model presented at the 17th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM07), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007
• Phil Pollett (with Janet Lanyon, School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland) was awarded $225,000 for a project titled "Animal movement between populations deduced from family trees: a test case on dugongs in southern Queensland" under the ARC Linkage Grant Scheme (2008-2010). Collaborating organizations: Consolidated Rutile Ltd and Sea World
• Phil Pollett held the 2007 Alan David Richards Visiting Fellowship in Mathematics, Grey College Durham (UK)

• Research Fellow Martin O’Hely was awarded a University of Queensland ResTeach Fellowship ($56,982 for 2006-08)
• Phil Pollett (with Anyue Chen, University of Hong Kong, and Eric Renshaw, University of Strathclyde) was awarded HK$250,000 for a project titled "Stochastic Modelling of Interacting Branching Systems" under the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Earmarked Research Grant Scheme
• PhD student Joshua Ross was awarded 1st Prize in the MASCOS Press Release Competition for his article titled "Tools for Choosing a Koala Control Strategy" (January 2006)
• PhD student Joshua Ross was awarded an AMSI/MASCOS Travel Award to attend the Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 13-15 February 2006
• PhD student David Sirl was awarded an AMSI/MASCOS Travel Award to attend the Australian PG Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Modelling, University of Melbourne, 13-15 February 2006
• PhD student David Sirl was awarded a University of Queensland Graduate School Research Travel Award to visit Durham University and Bauman Moscow State Technical University in April-June 2006
• PhD student Antony Stace was awarded 2nd Prize in the MASCOS Press Release Competition for his article titled "Volume Weighted Average Price Options" (January 2006)
• PhD student Thomas Taimre received a IWAP06 Travel Award to attend the 3rd International Conference in Applied Probability (IWAP 2006), University of Connecticut, USA, 15-18 May 2006

• PhD student Dharma Lesmono was awarded a scholarship from APAC (Australian Partnership on Advanced Computing) to attend APAC Summer School, The Australian National University, 10-21 January 2005
• PhD student Dharma Lesmono was awarded a scholarship from FIRN (Financial Integrity Research Network) to attend the Stochastic Modelling of Complex Systems Conference (SMOCS05), Daydream Island, 10-16 July 2005
• Research Fellow Martin O'Hely was awarded a grant of $11,776 under the UQ New Staff Research Start-up Fund Scheme for a project titled "Detecting Hybridization from Unrepresented Parental Populations by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods" (June 2005)
• PhD student Joshua Ross was awarded a University of Queensland Graduate School Research Travel Award to visit MASCOS Melbourne in September 2005 to work with Peter Taylor
• PhD student David Sirl was awarded an Australian Bicentennial Scholarship to visit Dr Pauline Coolen-Schrijner's group at the University of Durham (December 2005)
• PhD student Antony Stace was awarded first prize at School Poster Day for his poster titled A Moment Matching Approximation to the price of the VWAP Option
• PhD student Thomas Taimre won the Thomas Morrow Prize 2004. This prize is awarded to the undergraduate student who, as part of his or her course of study, writes the best essay on a topic of Scientific Enquiry in Australia
• Research Fellow Hanjun Zhang was awarded a grant of $12,000 under the UQ New Staff Research Start-up Fund Scheme for a project titled "Convergence Rates for Ergodic Markov Chains" (October 2005)

• PhD student Joshua Ross was awarded an Institute of Mathematical Statistics Laha Travel Award to attend the IMS Annual Meeting (Barcelona, Spain, July 26-31, 2004) The Laha Award recipients were welcomed and honored at a Presidential Address [photo]
• The title of "ARC Centre Fellow" (ACF) was conferred on Research Fellow Hanjun Zhang by the ARC, June 2004 [the ARC acknowledges the most outstanding ARC Centre Research Fellows through the award of ACFs]
• PhD student Joshua Ross was awarded an AMSI travel scholarship to attend the Workshop on Stochastics and their Applications, University of South Australia, 27 September-1 October 2004
• PhD student Dharma Lesmono was awarded an ICE-EM travel scholarship to attend BioInfoSummer04, The Australian National University, 6-10 December 2004
• PhD student Dharma Lesmono was awarded a scholarship from FIRN (Financial Integrity Research Network) to attend Quantitative Methods in Finance 2004 Conference, Sydney, 15-18 December 2004

• PhD student Ben Cairns received a Student Commendation for his paper titled Evaluating persistence times in populations that are subject to local catastrophes presented at the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2003), Townsville, 14-17 July 2003
• Honours student Caitlin James was awarded the 2003 Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Prize
• PhD student Antony Stace was awarded an AMSI travel scholarship to attend the 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the embedded mini symposium "2nd National Symposium on Financial Mathematics", Sydney, 7-11 July 2003

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Service/Outreach

• Phil Pollett was appointed to the ARC College of Experts (November 2012)
• Phil Pollett is involved in the (CSIRO) Mathematicians in Schools Programme
• Phil Pollett served as a member of the Australian Research Council Cluster-5 (Mathematical, Information and Computing Sciences) Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2010 Research Evaluation Committee.
• Ben Cairns and Ben Gladwin participated as presenters at the University of Queensland's 2004 and 2005 Experience Science, a series of workshops for Year 11 and 12 students interested in enrolling in a science degree, and also presented a workshop at the 2004 and 2005 Siemens Science Experience (a similar kind of event for Year 9 students)
• David Sirl spoke at the 2005 NSW State Conference of the Isolated Children's Parents' Association (ICPA) about his educational experiences. The event was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson [photo]
• Ben Gladwin organised the Mathematics Department Booth at National Science Week "Science in the City" Exhibition, 20-22 August 2005, Queensland Museum. Photos [1|2|3|4|5|6|7]

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