School
of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bendigo
 Welcome
to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Bendigo campus
of La Trobe University.
The Department at Bendigo is located in the Business
Building. We are a small, but active, group of mathematicians
and statisticians, who are committed to quality teaching
and to developing and maintaining research programs
in several areas of pure and applied mathematics. Staff members are also
involved in consulting work within the wider community.
Please follow the links to discover more about the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics at Bendigo and its activities.
- MATHEMATICS MAJOR: A major in
mathematics and statistics is available in the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Science Education courses at Bendigo. More details are available here.
- MATHEMATICS TEACHING: Are you interested in a career as a mathematics teacher? For teaching in secondary schools, you can take a Mathematics and Statistics Major in the Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Science Education double degree. For teaching in the middle years, there is a P–10 Mathematics Pathway in the Bachelor of Education course at Bendigo.
- Studies of mathematics and statistics can be included in many other degrees at Bendigo, such
as the Bachelor
of Arts, Bachelor
of Business, Bachelor
of Chemical Sciences, Bachelor
of Commerce, Bachelor
of Information Technology and
Bachelor
of Psychological Science, while mathematics is a core component
of the Bachelor
of Civil Engineering course.
- Units (subjects) taught by the Department
at Bendigo (with details of unit availability in 2008-9, and links
to the University Unit Database and on-line resources developed by lecturers)
- Contact details for Staff Members (with
links to personal pages)
- Current Research Projects of staff
and postgraduate students
- A list of Publications
from the Department at Bendigo
- The G. S. Watson Annual Lecture
is a lecture series that was established in 1999 in memory of Professor
Geoffrey S. Watson, a distinguished Bendigo-born mathematician. The 2008
Watson Lecture will be presented at 5pm on Wednesday 10 September by Emeritus
Professor Neville de Mestre (Bond University) – the theme of the
lecture will be "Mathematics in Sport". (To illustrate some of Professor
de Mestre's work, here are recent articles from
The Age,
BBC News and
ABC Radio National
that discuss his work on bodysurfing.)
- The current and past Seminar Program
of the Department
- The Mathematics Prize for undergraduate
students
- La Trobe University is a member of the Australian
Mathematical Sciences Institute, a national collaborative venture
to address some of the challenges facing the mathematical sciences
in Australia.
- The Department is a sponsor of the NOVA-Mathematics
web site of the Australian Academy of Science. The site provides informative,
topical articles on mathematics, and is especially valuable for senior
secondary school teachers and students.
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