Professor Jerzy Filar, the School's newly appointed Chair in Mathematics, won, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of South Australia and overseas, $395,000 for an ARC Discovery entitled Occupational measures, perturbations and complex deterministic systems.
In addition, Dr Denise deVries, in partnership with Dr Melanie Swalwell, and other collaborators, won a $186,000 ARC Linkage grant to provide an account of the role played by computer games in familiarising the public to new technologies. The computer game industry grosses billions of dollars each year, and yet game technology is quickly superseded. This project redresses this gap by writing histories of the early digital age, and preserving key artefacts. The grant is partnered with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Berlin Computerspiele Museum, the New Zealand Film Archive and the Victoria University of Wellington.
These successes extend the School's unbroken run of annual funding from the NHMRC and/or the ARC that stretches back at least a decade.
