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
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
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
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
2013

Marsden fast-start grant, Royal Society of New Zealand

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Dr Peter Donelan

Grants

Year Grant
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
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Prof Rod Downey

Awards

Year Award
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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Dr Ivy Liu

Grants

Year Grant
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
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
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
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
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
2014 Principal investigator, Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant
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Dr Hung Pham

Awards

Year Award
2009 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 Honorary PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Grants

Year Grant
2011-2013 Fast Start Marsden Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand
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Prof Matt Visser

Awards

Year Award
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
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
2011-2013 Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council grant, PI Gordon Royle
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