School Prize Giving Ceremony
Published on the 03 Jun 2014
A prize giving ceremony for exceptional mathematics and statistics students was hosted in the Staff Common Room on Friday 30th May.
An informal lunch, attended by award recipients and School staff members, was also held.
16 prizes were conferred to students for their outstanding academic performance during 2013. Deputy Head of School John Roberts delivered a welcome address, and commended the students for their hard work and academic excellence.
The ceremony was also attended by Josh Fisher of Weatherzone, which sponsors two of the prizes. He presented these prizes to awardees Tomas Beuzen and Tristan Meyers.
Standout students in 2013 were Wen Jia Liu and Edward McDonald, who each won three prizes. Both were also prize winners last year.
Prize recipients who were unable to attend the ceremony were also ackowledged, with A/Prof Roberts reading out their names and corresponding awards.
Congratulations to all of the prize winners!
An album of photos from the ceremony can be found on the School's Facebook page.
Full list of 2013 prize winners
| Daniel Altman | School of Mathematics and Statistics Prize for the best performance in First Year Mathematics |
| Chun Ho Yiu | School of Mathematics and Statistics Prize for the best performance in First Year Actuarial Mathematics |
| Wen Jia Liu |
Head of School's Prize - for excellence in Undergraduate Maths The C.H. Peck Prize – for best performance in Year 2 Mathematics by a student proceeding to Year 3 in the School of Mathematics and Statistics Westpac Banking Corporation Prize for the best performance in MATH2831 OR MATH2931 |
| Alfred Chu | J.R. Holmes Prize – for excellence in pass-level Pure Mathematics Level 3 Units in a Bachelor of Science Program |
| Edward McDonald |
J.R. Holmes Prize – for excellence in Level 3 Pure Mathematics courses in a Bachelor of Science Program Applied Mathematics Prize - for excellence in Level 3 Applied Mathematics courses in a Bachelor Program The George Szekeres Award for the best performance leading into the Honours Year in |
| Geoffrey Liu | The SAS Institute Australia Prize – for the best performance in MATH2871 Data Management for Statistical Analysis |
| Tomas Beuzen | The Weatherzone Prize - for the best performance in MATH2241 Introduction to Atmospheric and Ocean Dynamics |
| Tristan Meyers | The Weatherzone Prize - for the best performance in MATH3261 Fluids, Oceans and Climate |
| Joel Larish | The Jim and Alma Douglas Prize for Statistics for the best performance in Statistics courses in the School of Mathematics and Statistics |
| Adam Gray | Buchwald Award for the best performance leading into the Honours Year in Applied Mathematics |
| Victor Chan | The Michael Mihailavitch Erihman Award - for the best performance in examinations in a mathematics/statistics major offered by the School of Mathematics and Statistics in any one year |