UK Nonlinear News, August 2000
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The 44th meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society took place
at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia from the
2nd to 5th of July this year.
It was organised by members of staff from the Mathematics
Department of the University
of Queensland and attracted
approximately 100 talks which were primarily divided into the following
special sessions:
There were eight plenary speakers and a public lecture presented by Professor Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland) who gave a thought provoking talk entitled ``Quantum computation... not the next step but a whole new journey''.
The session that interested me most was Mathematics of Combustion. The following seven talks were presented during this special session:
| T.R. Marchant | University of Wollongong, Australia. |
| Semi-analytical solutions describing cubic autocatalytic reaction-diffusion equations. | |
| G.N. Mercer | University College, Australian Defence Force Academy. |
| Twin flame extinction. | |
| M.I. Nelson | University College, Australian Defence Force Academy. |
| Heterogeneously catalysed combustion in a continuously stirred tank reactor. | |
| W.I. Reed | University of Victoria, Canada. |
| Reconstructing forest-fire history from stand-age data. | |
| M.J. Sexton | University of Sydney, Australia. |
| The burning question: value adding and loss prevention for bagasse piles. | |
| H.S. Sidhu | University College, Australian Defence Force Academy. |
| Nonlinear behaviour in combustion: investigation of exothermic reactions in two types of reactors. | |
| J.E.J. Staggs | University of Leeds, United Kingdom. |
| Ignition of char-forming polymers at a critical mass flux. | |
Overall the meeting was a huge success. The organising committee must be commended for the success of this conference. Next year the meeting will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra.