PROGRAM

Conference Themes

New Technology in industry

Optimum manufacturing processes

New energy sources

The future of mining

Preparing our present engineering students for tomorrow's technology

Future development of communications

Environmental problems and their possible solutions

The interactions of industry and mathematics

The use of new computer packages in teaching and industry

Invited Speakers

Professor Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde, UK
Industrial Applications of Engineering Mathematics

Professor Ron Daniel, Oxford University, UK
Teleoperation and Control Theory

Professor Larry Forbes, University of Tasmania, Australia
Applications of Applied Mathematics Including MRI

Dr. Allan Paull, University of Queensland, Australia
The Scram Jet Project

Mr. Terry Stevenson
Technical Director of Boeing, Australia

Dr. Noel Barton - Mathematical & Information Sciences CSIRO
Science & Industry Manager CMIS

Monday 30 September

9:00 am Official Opening - Room B117 - Hilbert

9:15 am : Marker and Cell - the State of the Art - Sean McKee

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A1 - Room B117 - Hilbert

10:15 am: Wavelets and their applications in industry - M Kobayashi

STREAM B1 - Room B121 - Banach

10:15 am: Sensor requirements for tyre force estimation; applications to off-highway mining trucks - P Siegrist

10:45 am: MORNING TEA

STREAM A2 - Room B117 - Hilbert

11:15 am: External force resolution from a dynamic,coupled mechanical-structural-electrical system: Application in Longwall Mining - A Reid

11:45 am: An interior layer in a film-blowing problem - J Shepherd

12:15 pm: On the use of the airy stress function for granular media problems - K Johnpillai

STREAM B2 - Room B121 - Banach

11:15 am: A computational model of the effects of fuel additives - J Aitchison

11:45 am: Modelling Wine Production - R Weber

12:15 pm: Polymer Combustion: The critical mass flux model - M Nelson

12:45 pm: LUNCH

2:00 pm: Teleoperation, Information and Control. Combining Physics and Mathematics to Improve the Science of Engineering Systems - Ron Daniel

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A3 - Room B117 - Hilbert

3:00 pm : Development of a training set for fault detection in longwall mining - D. Bongers

STREAM B3 - Room B121 - Banach

3:00 pm : Polystyrene Strength Models - N. Fowkes

3:30 pm : AFTERNOON TEA

STREAM A4 - Room B117 - Hilbert

4:00 pm: An algorithm for the automatic detection of microseismic arrivals in an underground mining environment - A.King

4:30 pm: Application of fundamental mathematical techniques to improve mineral processing grinding operations - S. Gay

STREAM B4 - Room B121 - Banach

4:00 pm: Performance analysis of fault detection and isolation techniques - B. Barter

4:30 pm: Some simple analytical solutions for highly frictional granular materials - N Thamwattana

5:00 pm: EMG Annual General Meeting

Tuesday 1 October

9:00 am Terry Stevenson - Room B117 - Hilbert

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A5 - Room B117 - Hilbert

10:00 am: Thermal Loading Dynamics of a Solid Rocket Motor - D. Smith

STREAM B5 - Room B121 - Banach

10:00 am: Uncertainty analysis for the measurements of aerodynamic loss of cooled turbine blades - S. Aminossadati

10:30 am: MORNING TEA

STREAM A6 - Room B117 - Hilbert

11:00 am: Incorporation of oxygen in metal rods burning in reduced gravity and normal gravity - A. Edwards

11:30 am: A study on shape optimization - K. Suzuki

12:00 pm: Self-similarity of decaying turbulent jet - D Strunin

STREAM B6 - Room B121 - Banach

11:00 am: Mathematical Modelling of a wool-scour bowl - S. Barry

11:30 am: Coastal flood modelling: allowing for dependence between rainfall and tidal anomaly - I. Ahmer

12:00 pm: Clusterscope: an informative retrieval and cluster analysis tool for massive databases - M. Kobayashi

12:30 pm: LUNCH

1:30 pm : Allan Paull - Room B117 - Hilbert

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A7 - Room B117 - Hilbert

2:30 pm: CEANET Seminar

STREAM B7 Room B121 - Banach

2:30 pm: Electromagnetic modelling of propagation in photonic crystal lattices - G. Smith

3:00 pm : Interaction effects between self-heating packages in a shipping container - L. Zhang

3:30 pm : TECHNICAL TOURS

Evening: Conference Dinner
Venue: Friday's Pavilion, 123 Eagle Street Brisbane
Time: 7.00pm for 7.30pm

Wednesday 2 October

Room B117 - Hilbert
9:00 am : Finite and Discrete Elements - Noel Barton

10:00 am: Discussion

10:30 am: MORNING TEA

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A9 - Room B117 - Hilbert

11:00 am: Modelling with first-order differential equations: some student difficulties - Z. Jovanoski

11:30 am: Bridging the gap between assumed knowledge and reality: a case for supplementary learning support in tertiary engineering mathematics - H. MacGilivray

12:00 pm: Pythagoras' theorem an its applications to engineering and elsewhere - N. de Mestre

STREAM B9 - Room B121 - Banach

11:00 am: Hyperelastic finite element analysis of articular cartilage layers to impact loading - K. Oloyede

11:30 am: Models of tracer exchange during liver perfusion experiments - G. Aldis

12:00 pm: A review of some recent advances in modelling the wood drying process - Ian Turner

12:30 pm: LUNCH

Room B117 - Hilbert
1:30 pm : Applied Mathematics and MRI Coil Design - Larry Forbes

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A10 - Room B117 - Hilbert

2:30 pm: Using CAS in first year courses: can computing be compatible with deep understanding? - M. Pemberton

3:00 pm: Bridging and support services for engineering students - L. Wood

STREAM B10 - Room B121 - Banach

2:30 pm: On the validity of the linerized Ginzburg-Landau model in realistic problems with spatio-temporal instabilites - S. Suslov

3:00 pm: Solution of separable volterra integral equations using walsh functions and a multigrid approach - B. Blyth

3:30 pm AFTERNOON TEA

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

STREAM A11 - Room B117 - Hilbert

4:00 pm: Flammability Limits in a batch reactor - M. Nelson

4:30 pm : Recursive adaptive numerical integration - R. Pietzel

STREAM B11 - Room B121 - Banach

4:00 pm: Unsteady state mathematical model for the settling of primary and secondary pollutants - B. Singh

4:30 pm : Formulating the equations of motion for mechanisms having multiple kinematic loops - N. Hillier

Student Prizes

Student prizes will be awarded to both oral and poster presentations.