2007 Funding news

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2 October 2007 Mike Thomas has just heard that he has been successful in the TLRI funding round with a 2-year $180k research project. Many congratulations Mike.

25 September 2007 Congratulations to Marston Conder, Eamonn O’Brien, and Jianbei An and to James Sneyd and Vivien Kirk on their successful Marsden Fund bids.

10 September 2007 UoA and Faculty of Science grants

  • Mike Thomas UoA Staff Research Fund April 2007
  • Arkadii Slinko UoA Staff Research Fund April 2007
  • Alison Kohout UoA Graduate Research Fund May 2007
  • Tom ter Elst Faculty Research Development Fund August 2007
  • Arkadii Slinko Faculty Research Development Fund August 2007
  • Shayne Waldron Faculty Research Development Fund August 2007

July 2007

  • James Sneyd (with Allan Herbison of University of Otago) won an HRC grant that will support a PhD student.
  • James also has also, with 5 international collaborators, won an NIH grant which will also fund a PhD student at least.

April 2007

  • Eamonn O’Brien has been awarded a Maclaurin Fellowship for 2008. This is a one-year research Fellowship awarded by NZIMA.

David Bryant has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship.

  • Mike Thomas has been awarded a University of Auckland Research Fund Grant for the amount of $16,000 for a project entitled “The neuropsychological basis of mathematical thinking: the roles of representation, gesture and anxiety”.

March 2007

  • Paul Bonnington received the Faculty of Science Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and was awarded a further $500,000 for the BeSTGrid Project.
  • Eamonn O'Brien was awarded a one-month membership at the 2008 MSRI Program on "Representation Theory of Finite Groups".

February 2007

  • Eamonn O'Brien was awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the London Mathematical Society to cover costs associated with visits to the UK later this year.

Recent research grants include: a grant to the department (thanks to the effort of Eamonn O’Brien) from Seelye Charitable Trust to enable Ian Stewart to make an extended visit this year.

January 2007

  • James Sneyd was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship for research entitled “Modelling airway smooth muscle: from mathematics to asthma”
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