Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
New Zealand has amazing birdlife: nocturnal parrots, birds that can’t fly, unique and beguiling birdsong, and varieties that turn up 50 years of being thought extinct. Unfortunately, many native species require wildlife management programmes and their clever camouflage often makes them hard to monitor.
The Royal Society Te Apārangi has this week named 18 new fellows, four of them from Victoria University of Wellington, for their distinction in research and the advancement of science, technology or the humanities.
Researcher Dr Nick Brettell will be joining the University’s School of Mathematics and Statistics to undertake research on mathematical structures called matroids, supported by a Rutherford Foundation Fellowship. Dr Brettell is currently at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
A collaboration led by Victoria University of Wellington has received $13 million in funding to help New Zealand transition to a zero-carbon society by applying data science to the aquaculture industry.
Using data adds to your carbon footprint. So how can we keep it under control?
