ARC Discovery Grants success

The School has again been successful in the new round of ARC Discovery grants. Results for 2006 and beyond are:

Prof MG Cowling and Mr BT Warhurst
Geometry on Nilpotent Groups
2006 : $93,000
2007 : $81,000
2008 : $81,000

Dr J Du
Algebras with Frobenius morphisms and quantum groups
2006 : $78,000
2007 : $65,000
2008 : $67,000

A/Prof MH England; Dr A Müller
Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Change: The Role Of The Southern Ocean Thermohaline Circulation
2006 : $85,000
2007 : $90,000
2008 : $95,000


Dr J Franklin; Dr CW Legg
Restraint: Recovering the Virtue of Self-Control or Temperance to Strengthen the Australian Social Fabric
2006 : $31,000
2007 : $55,000
2008 : $60,000

Dr Y Fan and Dr SA Sisson
Trans-dimensional and Approximate Bayesian Computation
2006 : $69,657
2007 : $25,000
2008 : $25,000

Dr B Goldys and Prof Dr MG Roeckner
Large Time Behavior of Solutions to Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
2006 : $93,000
2007 : $83,000
2008 : $85,000

A/Prof BI Henry and Dr SL Wearne
Mathematical measurement and modelling of neuronal degeneration
2006 : $103,000
2007 : $93,000
2008 : $95,000

Prof RJ Kohn; Dr DJ Nott
Efficient Estimation of Statistical Models with Many Parameters
2006 : $110,000
2007 : $100,000
2008 : $106,000

Earlier, Prof William Dunsmuir was one of a team awarded an NHMRC grant of $583,000 to investigate the safety and effectiveness of hospital e-prescribing systems.

UNSW Goldstar grants of $40,000 each have been awarded to:

BI McNeil
The role of the Southern Hemisphere ocean in controlling atmospheric CO2

WP Sijp
What controls the transition from a hot house climate to a cold house climate: the Eocene/ Oligocene climate transition