The latest news from ITMS...

Teaching and Learning Performance

In 2006 the University of Ballarat was ranked the BEST UNIVERSITY IN VICTORIA for "SATISFACTION WITH GOOD TEACHING".

In 2007 the School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences and the School of Science & Engineering were together ranked BEST UNIVERSITY IN VICTORIA AND NUMBER 5 in the 38 Australian universities for SATISFACTION WITH GOOD TEACHING.

For more detail and even more wonderful results see Teaching and Learning Performance 2006 and 2007.

Alumni Newsletters

The Alumni Newsletters are now online and available for download.

Leverhulme Visiting Professorship

Congratulations to Professor Mirka Miller (pictured right) on winning a prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Kings College, London. The overriding criteria for selection were the academic standing and achievement of the visitor, and the ability of the receiving institution to benefit from the imported skills and expertise. Professor Miller plans to visit Kings College for four months later in 2007, with eligible visiting periods being between three and ten months. This is a real honour for Professor Miller, and brings publicity and recognition to the University of Ballarat and the School of ITMS. For more details of these Visiting Professorships see: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants_awards/grants/visiting_professorships

ARC Discovery Success

We are delighted to announce that CIAO has been successful in obtaining an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant valued at $210,000.

Dr Zhiyou Wu (pictured below) won the three-year Grant to research the topic "Filled function methods for global optimization and their applications".