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CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics

In business, in science and in the world at large, people are increasingly faced with complicated systems to understand and manage. The mathematical sciences provide insights into these systems that can make a real difference.

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/news/ERA-model.html Two masked surgeons dressed in scrubs performing an operation. Australian surgeons are leading the world in using a new statistical model that predicts how well patients will respond to surgery.

Our Research

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Business and services analytics
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Environmental informatics
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Business and services analytics – Our researchers develop quantitative methods to be applied in many areas of the services sector, public and private, including finance and infrastructure, transport and logistics and government services. Learn more>
Environmental informatics – Our expertise in highly dimensional data is improving understanding and management of our dynamic environment and tackling big issues like climate change, urban water, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, and more. Learn more>

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Quantitative biosciences
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Computational and mathematical modelling
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Quantitative biosciences – With the explosion in data and brand new types of data, we’re developing and using quantitative tools in biotechnology, image analysis and informatics for human health and agriculture. Learn more>
Computational and mathematical modelling – We're creating wealth for Australia's mining and manufacturing industries through cutting edge analytical tools and technologies that simulate, visualise and understand real physical processes. Learn more>

Our Expertise

People

Dr Eddy Campbell

Dr Eddy Campbell is a research statistician who uses both statistical and physical methods to model environmental systems such as climate.

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Professor Adrian Baddeley is a leading researcher in spatial statistics and a CSIRO Science Fellow.

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Dr Emma Huang is developing methods for statistical bioinformatics of important agricultural crops like wheat and sugarcane.

Dr Louise Ryan, Chief of CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics.

Dr Ryan took up her post as Chief of CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics in 2009, after many years at Harvard University in the USA.

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Dr Wilson is a molecular biologist turned bioinformatician. He helps bridge the gap of understanding between statistical bioinformatics and molecular and cell biology.

Dr Pavel Shevchenko, helping Australian banks to better manage risk.

Dr Pavel Shevchenko leads mathematical research and commercial projects in financial risk management. He is involved in modelling market, credit and operational risks; options pricing; insurance; and the development of relevant numerical methods and software.

Dr Christine O'Keefe
Dr Christine O'Keefe is the Operations Director in the Preventative Health National Research Flagship.
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Ms Leane Bischof develops solutions to extract quantitative information from digital images, with the aim of increasing efficiency in the biological sciences.

Our Capabilities

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CSIRO mathematicians are developing equations and software to solve critical fluid flow problems for industry and research.

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CSIRO is developing computer vision tools that, like the human eye, can recognise and discriminate between objects but are also able to make detailed, accurate measurements.

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CSIRO’s work in risk management covers all aspects from identifying a problem to providing a software-based solution.

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CSIRO’s Optimisation in Air Transport Management team is developing new approaches for reshaping the architecture of the skies for safer and more efficient air travel for passengers, airlines and airports.

Relevant information being delivered directly where it's needed.

Globally, services science is a new and emerging area as the services sector itself grows in importance and size.

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Clever statistical methods are being applied to satellite imagery to improve environmental knowledge and management.

Making A Difference

Leanne Bischof with the Gemmological Digital Analyser

CSIRO researchers in collaboration with opal miners have developed an automatic imaging device that can accurately and objectively grade opals.

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Land and vegetation monitoring is now available to users on their own properties.  This is based on more than a decade of research and experience in analysing remotely-sensed (satellite) data for monitoring land condition.

Holiday makers know they will get the right vehicle, when and where they want it.

CSIRO mathematicians helped THL Rentals optimise their reservation system to give customers the right vehicle, when and where they want it.

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Mathematical modelling was one of several approaches which helped James Hardie to increase production rates for their reinforced cement building products.

CSIRO, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and a Belgian manufacturer have teamed up to produce a revolution in banknote technology.

CSIRO researchers developed a model and prototype software to quantify risk for a large portfolio of Australian stocks in margin lending.

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CSIRO has developed software and processes to help biologists, lab managers and technicians manage the mass of data generated by large-scale, high-throughput plant mutagenesis experiments.

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CSIRO environmental statisticians contributed to the Adelaide Coastal Waters Study by developing the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program for Adelaide's Coastal Waters.

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  • A computer model of a human swimming.

    One of the world’s leading developers of graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA, announced today that CSIRO has been selected as a member of its international network of high performance computing research centres.

  • Rainfall data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology was analysed by CSIRO statisticians to create the SWAC index.

    CSIRO and Chinese scientists have developed a new climatic index which provides an answer to a riddle that has puzzled researchers for decades: ‘Why has south-west Western Australia experienced dramatic declines in rainfall since the 1970s?’

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    The CSIRO Times is CSIRO's conference and events newspaper. Editions are compiled for various scientific conferences and public events.

  • Front cover of Process magazine, June 2010 issue.

    The June 2010 issue of Process demonstrates how applying CSIRO expertise to a wide range of industry projects continues to have a positive impact on the Australian minerals sector. (12 pages)

  • DNA strand.

    Learn about gene technology, how it impacts our lives and what research CSIRO is doing in this field.

  • CSIRO Summer Student Marlee Tucker from the University of New South Wales investigating frost tolerance in cereals at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra.

    Every summer hundreds of undergraduates get to work at CSIRO, here’s what some of them got up to.

Contact

Ms Carrie Bengston
Communication Manager
Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
Phone: 61 2 9325 3224 
Alt Phone: 61 2 9325 3000 
Fax: 61 2 9325 3200 

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