Academic Awards and Grants
This a list of prizes and awards won by Academics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research.Dr Richard Arnold
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2014 | Total Energy - Reducing Bias and Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making (AI with PI Andrew Curtis, University of Edinburgh; 2014-2017; GBP 385,000) |
2013 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science -- Invitation Fellowship Programme (with Yu Hayakawa; $23,000) |
2012 | Health Research Council - He Kainga Oranga/Community Housing and Health (AI with PI Philippa Howden-Chapman at Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2012-2015; $3.7M) |
2012 | Marsden Fund – Cluster Analysis for Ordinal Categorical Data (Co-PI with Ivy Liu and AI Shirley Pledger; March 2013 – March 2016; $600,000) |
2011 | University Research Fund - Cluster Analysis of Ordinal Data (AI with PI Ivy Liu and AI Shirley Pledger; $11500) |
2011 | University Research Fund - Pattern Detection Models (AI with PI Shirley Pledger; $10,000) |
2010 | Science Faculty Strategic Research Grant - Investigation of the capabilities of GPU processors for intensive programming (with Will Browne, ECS; $7000) |
2009 | University Research Fund - Reliability in Multi-component Systems ($10,000) |
2008 | SOFIE Health Extension: Analysis of the Survey of Family Income and Employment (AI with colleagues at Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences; $4.3M) |
2008 | Earthquake Commission - Estimation of focal mechanism parameters (with John Townend; $25,350) |
2008 | Earthquake Commission - Mapping crustal stress in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, as a benchmark for ongoing monitoring (AI with PI Stven Sherburn, GNS; $40,000) |
2006 | University Research Fund and Science Faculty Small Grants Fund - Earthquake Focal Mechanism Estimation (with John Townend; $6500 and $6000) |
2004 | SOFIE Health: Analysis of the Survey of Family Income and Employment (AI with colleagues at Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences; $1.4M) |
A/Prof Stefanka Chukova
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2009 | URF Grant NZ$10000, Failures in Multi-state systems, September |
2009 | VUW service grant NZ$3500, February |
2008 | URF Grant NZ $13000, Multidimensional Risk Processes with correlated arrivals, September |
2008 | VUW travel grant NZ$4200, January |
2005 | Grant of NZ$27000 from General Motors for studies on two-dimensional auto warranty, March |
Dr Adam Day
Awards
Year | Award |
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2012 | Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship |
2011 | Sacks Prize |
2011 | Miller Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley |
2011 | Royal Society of New Zealand Hatherton Award |
2009 | Postgraduate Research Excellence Award |
2009 | Best student paper at CATS (Computing Australasian Theory Symposium) |
2008 | Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship |
2007 | Victoria University Medal for Academic Excellence |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2013 | Marsden fast-start grant, Royal Society of New Zealand |
Dr Peter Donelan
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2010 | Maple TA: A Learning and Assessment Tool for Mathematics $25,882 |
2007 | NZ Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for Joint AMS/NZMS Meeting $7,500 |
2006 | University Research Fund for research database construction $7,000 |
Prof Rod Downey
Awards
Year | Award |
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2014 | European Association for Thoreretical Computer Science/International Symposium in Parameterized Complexity and Exact Computation Nerode Prize (joint with Bod- laender, Fellows, Hermelin) |
2013 | Elected Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society. |
2012 | Elected Fellow American Mathematical Society. (Inaugural intake, one of 3 New Zealand based) |
2012 | Fellow Newton Institute (Cambridge) for the Alan Turing Programme. |
2011 | Hector Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand. (New Zealand’s oldest research medal) |
2010 | Shoenfield Prize from the Association for Symbolic Logic |
2008 | Victoria University of Wellington Award for Research Excellence |
2008-2010 | James Cook Fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand |
2008 | Elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. (one of two New Zealanders) |
2007 | Elected Fellow of theNew Zealand Mathematics Society |
2005, 2011, 2014 | Member, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore |
2003 | Inaugural MacLaurin Fellow, New Zealand Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (Center of Research Excellence) |
2000 | Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence |
1996 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (NZ) |
1994 | New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal for the best New Zealand based scientist under 40 |
1992 | New Zealand Mathematical Society Award for Research |
1991 | Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications |
1990 | New Zealand Royal Society Hamilton Award for Science |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2014 | PI on Randomness and Computation programme, Institute for Mathematical Sci- ences, June 2014. ($S 125K)) |
2011 | PI on NSF Grant 1135626 with Charles Steinhorn for Travel Grants for 12 US based researchers to speak at the 12th Asian Logic Conference in Wellington, December, 2011. ($US 31K) |
2008-2010 | James Cook Fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand |
2005-2008 | AI on Noam Greenberg’s Marsden Grant |
Prof Rob Goldblatt
Awards
Year | Award |
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2012 | Jones Medal for lifetime achievement in the mathematical sciences, awarded by the Royal Society of NZ |
2007 | Victoria University Research Excellence Award |
2004 | Honorary Life Member, NZ Mathematical Society |
1991 | NZ Mathematical Society Research Award |
1990 | Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand |
1985 | Research Medal of the NZ Association of Scientists |
1985 | Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship, held at Stanford University |
1977 | Nuffield Foundation Fellowship, held at Oxford University |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2006 | Marsden Fund grant of $465,000 (jointly with Ed Mares) for the project Semantic Analysis of Substructural Logics |
2003 | NZ Institute of Mathematics and its Applications grant of $355,000 for a Logic and Computation research programme |
A/Prof Noam Greenberg
Awards
Year | Award |
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2013 | Research medal, New Zealand Association of Scientists |
2010 | Research award, Victoria University of Wellington |
2009 | Hamilton Prize, for best scientific work by young NZ scientist, Royal Society of New Zealand |
2007 | Early Career Research Award, New Zealand Mathematical Society |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2013 | Marsden grant, Royal Society of New Zealand (600,000 NZD), co-PI |
2012 | Turing research fellowship, John Templeton Foundation (75,000 GBP) |
2012 | US National Science Foundation Grant, co-PI, 40,000 USD for funding a special semester on com- putability in Argentina |
2011 | Rutherford discovery fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand (880,000 NZD) |
2010 | Marsden grant, Royal Society of New Zealand (575,000 NZD) |
2008 | Exploring the infinite, co-PI, John Templeton foundation (100,000 USD) |
2008 | Fast-start Marsden grant, Royal Society of New Zealand (170,000 NZD) |
Dr Ivy Liu
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2014 | University Research Fund (with Prof Mengiie Zhang) – Statistical Grouping and Evolutionary Algorithms for Large Scale Classification |
2012 | Marsden Fund – Cluster Analysis for Ordinal Categorical Data (from March 2013 – March 2016, $600,000 funded) |
2011 | University Research Fund – Cluster Analysis for Ordinal Data, $11,500 |
2010 | ISAT linage Fund – Ordinal Data Analysis in Biostatistics |
2010 | University Research Fund – Longitudinal data analysis for ordinal responses), $12,500 |
2009 | Faculty Strategic Research Grant – Ordinal Models in Survival Analysis $3,000 |
2009 | University Research Fund – Ordinal Data Challenges in Medical Sciences $16,400 |
2008 | Faculty Research Grant – Graphical Diagnostics $4,500 |
2008 | University Research Fund – Analysis of Matched Case – Control Study Using Ordinal Models $23,000 |
2006 | Faculty Research Grant – Repeated Multiple Response Data Analysis and Influence Diagnostics $6,000 |
2004 | University Research Fund – Modelling Repeated Multiple Responses $10,500 |
A/Prof Mark McGuinness
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2010-2014 | Associate investigator on the 2010 Science Foundation Ireland Award with principal investigator Stokes Professor Andrew Fowler. The grant amount is 448,000 euros, for Mathematical modelling of bioremediation, over four years. This grant is currently in the process of being renewed for a further four years. |
2009 | Travel support awarded by the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, to attend the 68th ESGI held at the University of Southampton in 2009. |
2009 | Travel support granted by the University of Limerick for travel from Ireland to attend the 67th ESGI held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2009. |
2008 | Invited to the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada, as a Scientific Researcher, for the Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop, Aug 11-15, 2008. Support was provided towards travel and accommodation by the Fields Institute. |
2002-2005 | Associate Investigator in the successful $300,000 Marsden Grant The freezing of land-fast sea ice during the Antarctic winter with PI Dr. P. Langhorne from the Physics Department at the University of Otago, 2002-2005. |
Victoria University Research Funding:
Year | Grant |
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2013 | Modelling Groundwater Contaminant Flow. $9,000 awarded. |
2012 | Groundwater Contamination. $6,500 awarded. |
2011 | Faculty Research Grant: Clean Water II. $6,671 awarded. |
2010 | Groundwater contamination in New Zealand. $6,500 awarded. |
2008 | Probing the puzzle of platelet ice in Antarctica. $7,174.40 awarded. |
2007 | Batteries and Boundary Layers. $6395.50 awarded. |
2006 | In a Heartbeat - blood pressure control modelling. $7000 awarded. |
2005 | Mathematical Modelling of Cardioventilatory coupling. $5200 awarded. |
Dr Dillon Mayhew
Awards
Year | Award |
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2013 | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand |
2013 | Bevan Werry Speakership, New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers |
2011 | Early Career Research Award, Victoria University of Wellington |
2006 | FRST NZ Science & Technology Post-doctoral Fellowship |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2010 | Associate investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant |
2009 | Principal investigator, Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant |
2009 | International Science and Technology Linkages grant |
Dr Dimitrios Mitsotakis
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2014 | Principal investigator, Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant |
Dr Hung Pham
Awards
Year | Award |
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2009 | Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship |
2007 | Honorary PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2011-2013 | Fast Start Marsden Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand |
Prof Matt Visser
Awards
Year | Award |
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2013 | Dan Walls Medal of the NZIP |
2011 | Fellow of the NZ Institute of Physics |
2011 | James Cook Research Fellow |
2009 | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
2008 | APS Outstanding Referee Award |
2007 | Member FQXi (foundational questions institute) |
Prof Geoff Whittle
Awards
Year | Award |
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2015 | James Cook Research Fellow |
2009 | Victoria University research excellence award |
2007 | New Zealand Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Maclaurin Fellowship |
Grants
Year | Grant |
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2011-2013 | Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council grant, PI Gordon Royle |