Activities at the University of
Queensland
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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Phil Pollett chaired several sessions at the 54th Annual Meeting of
the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia, 27-30 September 2010
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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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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2 Weiss, C.H.
and P.K. Pollett (2014)
Binomial
autoregressive processes with density dependent thinning.
Journal of Time Series Analysis 35, 115-132.
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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2 McVinish, R.
and P.K. Pollett (2013)
The limiting
behaviour of a stochastic patch occupancy model.
Journal of Mathematical Biology 67, 693-716.
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1 McVinish, R. and
P.K. Pollett (2013)
The
deterministic limit of a stochastic logistic model with individual
variation.
Mathematical Biosciences 241, 109-114.
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2 McVinish, R.
and P.K. Pollett (2013)
Interaction
between habitat quality and an Allee-like effect in metapopulations.
Ecological Modelling 249, 84-89.
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1 Pagendam, D.E. and
P.K. Pollett (2013)
Optimal
design of experimental epidemics.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 143, 563-572.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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McVinish, R. (2012)
Improving
ABC for quantile distributions.
Statistics and Computing 22, 1199-1207.
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2 McVinish, R.
and P.K. Pollett (2012)
The limiting
behaviour of a mainland-island metapopulation.
Journal of Mathematical Biology 64, 775-801.
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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.
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2 Weiss, C.H.
and P.K. Pollett (2012)
Chain binomial
models and binomial autoregressive processes.
Biometrics 68, 815-824.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* Lee, J.,
McVinish, R. and K. Mengersen (2011)
Population
Monte Carlo algorithm in high dimensions.
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 13, 369-389.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Ridder, A. and T. Taimre (2011)
State-dependent
importance sampling schemes via minimum cross-entropy.
Annals of Operations Research 189, 357-388.
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Barbour, A.D. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Total variation approximation
for quasi-equilibrium distributions.
Journal of Applied Probability 47, 934-946.
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Buckley, F.M. (2010)
Analytical Methods for Stochastic
Discrete-time Metapopulation Models, PhD Thesis,
The University of Queensland.
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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.
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Buckley, F.M. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Limit theorems
for discrete-time metapopulation models.
Probability Surveys 7, 53-83.
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Buckley, F.M. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Analytical methods
for a stochastic mainland-island metapopulation model.
Ecological Modelling 221, 2526-2530.
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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.
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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.
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McVinish, R. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Limits of large metapopulations
with patch dependent extinction probabilities.
Advances in Applied Probability 42, 1172-1186.
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Nicol, S., Chadès, I., Linke, S. and H.P. Possingham (2010)
Conservation decision-making in large state spaces.
Ecological Modelling 221, 2531-2536.
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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.
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Pagendam, D.E. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Robust
optimal observation of a metapopulation.
Ecological Modelling 221, 2521-2525.
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Pollett, P.K., Dooley, A.H. and J.V. Ross (2010)
Modelling
population processes with random initial conditions.
Mathematical Biosciences 223, 142-150.
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Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2010)
Simple rules
for ranking and optimally managing metapopulations.
Ecological Modelling 221, 2515-2520.
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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.
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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.
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* 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.
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* Hamilton, G., McVinish, R. and
K. Mengersen (2009)
Bayesian model averaging for harmful algal bloom prediction.
Ecological Applications 19, 1805-1814.
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Lesmono, D., Tonkes, E. and K. Burrage (2009)
Opportunistic
timing and manipulation in Australian Federal Elections.
European Journal of Operational Research 192, 677-691.
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* 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.
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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)).
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Pollett, P.K. (2009)
Ensemble
behaviour in population processes with applications to ecological
systems.
Environmental Modeling & Assessment 14, 545-553.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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.]
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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.
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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.
-
Liu, Y., Zhang, H. and Y. Zhao (2008)
Computable strongly ergodic rates of convergence for
continuous-time Markov chains.
ANZIAM Journal 49, 463-478.
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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.
-
Van Doorn, E.A. and P.K. Pollett (2008)
Survival
in a quasi-death process.
Linear Algebra and its Applications 429, 776-791.
-
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.
- Cairns, B.J., Ross, J.V. and T. Taimre
(2007) A
comparison of models for predicting population persistence. Ecological
Modelling 201, 19-26.
- 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.
- 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.
- O'Hely, M. (2007) A diffusion
model for the fate of tandem gene duplicates in diploids.
Theoretical Population Biology 71,
491-501.
- 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.
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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.
-
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.
-
Pollett, P.K. and Ross, J.V. (2007)
Preface to
"Management, Control
and Decision Making for Ecological Systems", Ecological
Modelling 201, 1.
-
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.
-
Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2007)
On
costs and decisions in population management. Ecological
Modelling 201, 60-66.
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Ross, J.V., Taimre, T. and P.K. Pollett (2007) Estimation
for queues from queue length data.
Queueing Systems 55, 131-138.
-
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.
- 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.
-
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
-
Kravchuk, O.Y. (2006) R-estimator
of location of the
generalized secant hyperbolic distribution. Communications in
Statistics: Simulation and Computation 35, 1-18.
- 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.
- 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.
- O'Hely, M. (2006) A
diffusion approach to approximating preservation probabilities for gene
duplicates. Journal of Mathematical Biology 53,
215-230.
- 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.
- Ross, J.V. (2006)
A
stochastic
metapopulation model accounting for habitat dynamics. Journal
of Mathematical Biology 52, 788-806.
- Ross, J.V. (2006) Stochastic
models
for mainland-island metapopulations in static and dynamic landscapes.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68,
417-449.
- Ross, J.V. and P.K. Pollett (2006) Extinction
times for a birth-death process with two phases. Mathematical
Biosciences
202, 310-322.
- Ross, J.V., Taimre, T. and P.K. Pollett
(2006) On
parameter
estimation in population models. Theoretical Population Biology
70, 498-510.
- Wilcox, C., Cairns, B.J. and H.P. Possingham
(2006)
The role of habitat
disturbance and recovery in metapopulation persistence. Ecology 87,
855-863.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
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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.
- 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.
- Kravchuk, O.Y. (2005) Rank
test of location optimal for the hyperbolic secant distribution. Communications
in Statistics: Theory and Methods 34,
1617-1630.
- Lesmono, D. and E.J. Tonkes (2005) Optimal
strategies in political elections.
ANZIAM Journal 46(E), C764-C785.
- Lesmono, D., Tonkes, E. and K. Burrage (2005) A
continuous time model for election timing. Australian
Mathematical Society Gazette 32,
329-338.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
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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.
- 3 Chen, A., Pollett, P.K.,
Zhang, H. and J. Li (2004) The
collision branching process. Journal of Applied Probability 41,
1033-1048.
- 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.
- Gladwin, B.A. and T. Huber (2004) Long
time scale molecular dynamics using least action.
ANZIAM Journal 45(E) C534-C550.
- Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2004)
Positive solutions for nonlinear m-point eigenvalue problems.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 297,
24-37.
- Ma, R. and B. Thompson (2004)
Nodal solutions for nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Nonlinear
Analysis 59,
707-718.
-
Pollett, P.K. and P.G. Taylor (2004) Forward to "Festschrift in Honour of Daryl Daley",
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 46, 3.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 3 Pollett, P.K. (2003) Integrals
for continuous-time Markov chains. Mathematical Biosciences 182,
213-225.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
* Publications arising from work supported from
sources other than MASCOS.
1 Reported in connection with ARC Discovery
Grant DP120102398 "Random Network Models with Applications in Biology".
2 Reported in connection with ARC Discovery
Grant DP110101929 "New Methods for Improving Active Adaptive Management in
Biological Systems".
3 Reported in connection with ARC Discovery
Grant DP0209060 "Analytical and Computational Methods for Studying
Explosive Random Processes".
4 Reported in connection with ARC
Discovery Grant DP0209921 "Operator-Analytic Methods in Telecommunication
Systems".
5 Reported in connection with ARC
Linkage Grant LP0882316 "Animal Movement Between Populations Deduced From
Family Trees - A Test Case on Dugongs in Southern Queensland".
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Refereed papers in press
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Books
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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
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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)).
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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)).
- Pollett, P.K. and J.V. Ross (2007)
Management,
Control and Decision Making for Ecological systems.
Ecological Modelling 201 (1)
(ISSN: 0304-3800 (Print)).
- 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
- Ross, J.V. (2006) Protect
or create?,
Infinity 21.
- Garton, A. (2006) Music, the Fibonacci Sequence and
the Golden Section, Infinity 20.
- Pollett, P.K. (2003) Complex
systems, Infinity 15.
- 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:
- 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]
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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)
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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
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