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News & Events
2008
- Vice-Chancellor's Awards
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The Department was well-represented in the 2008 Vice-Chancellor's
Awards, with the award for Postgraduate Supervision being awarded to Rob
Hyndman, while Gerrie
Roberts received
a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition, our
Department Head, Brett Inder,
received a
Vice-Chancellor's Equity and Diversity Award.
Rob is renowned for undertaking an innovative, problem-solving approach
to supervision. He has developed many new online resources for his students,
employed a copy editor to assist students with their theses and helped
new students to get settled.
Gerrie is highly-regarded by her students for her innovative approach
to teaching based on extensive and ongoing industry experience. The University
annually recognises and rewards exemplary teaching through the Vice Chancellor's
Awards for Teaching Excellence, with four awards available for teaching
excellence by individuals or teams. Gerrie was the only recipient
from the Faculty of Business and Economics.
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Brett has contributed over many years
to the enhancement of equity and diversity principles at Monash,
including data analysis on equity issues at Monash; chairing the
Inclusive Practices and Workplace Equity Committee; serving as a
mentor for both male and female staff; his personal actions at
Monash and volunteer work outside Monash; and academic research that
addresses issues directly related to equity and diversity concerns.
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50th Anniversary Research Awards
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Emeritus Professor Alan Powell received a 50th Anniversary award for research that launched a set of economic models and modelling techniques that have been used to support policy-making in areas including trade, taxation, labour markets and the environment.
The 50th Anniversary Research Awards acknowledge the exceptional contribution made by selected academics to their field of research and the community over the 50 years of Monash University's existence.
- Workshop on Bayesian Econometrics
- The Department hosted a well-attended one-day Workshop on Bayesian Econometrics in July. The workshop was held at the State Library of Victoria, and featured
presentations by John Geweke from the University of Iowa, Gary Koop (Strathclyde), Dale Poirier (UC Irvine), Robert Kohn (UNSW), and
Herman van Dijk (Erasmus).
2007
- Research
Awards for Don, Giovanni, and Katharina
- Three of the four recent Dean's Awards for excellence in research went
to researchers in our Department. Professor Don
Poskitt was recognised for exceptional achievement in research quality
and impact, and Giovanni Forchini and Katharina
Hauck shared the award for exceptional achievement in research by an
Early Career Researcher. This follows Xueyan
Zhao's success as an
Early Career Researcher in the previous year.
- Commendations went to George Athanasopoulos, Duangkamon Chotikapanich,
Brett Inder, Xibin Zhang, Sivagowry Sriananthakumar, Giovanni Forchini,
Don Poskitt, Katharina Hauck, Mark Harris, Tissa Galagedera, Jill Wright,
and Catherine Forbes.
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- Workshop on Time Series Analysis
- The Department hosted a well-attended one-day Workshop on Time Series
Analysis in November. Speakers included Peter Brockwell from Colorado State,
Boris Buchmann (Monash), Don Poskitt (Monash), William Dunsmuir from
UNSW, and Brendan McCabe from Liverpool, covering a diverse range of topics
ranging from CARMA processes, bootstrapping in ARFIMA models, quasi-Monte-Carlo
methods, and non-parametric forecasting.
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2006
- Rob Hyndman awarded
the 2006 Moran Medal
- The Australian Academy of Science has awarded Professor Rob
Hyndman the Moran Medal from for his distinguished research work
in statistics. The Moran Medal recognises outstanding research by scientists
under 40 years in one or more of the fields of applied probability, biometrics,
mathematical genetics, psychometrics and statistics.
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- Xueyan
wins Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
- Associate Professor Xueyan Zhao was
awarded one of the two 2006 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research
by an Early Career Researcher. These awards are designed to recognise,
reward and encourage excellent early career researchers within the faculty.
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- Gerrie
Roberts wins Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Gerrie Roberts has for
the second time received a Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, again
achieving excellent results and high student satisfaction by combining
practical learning with an evangelical teaching style.
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- Public Lecture by the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Professor Clive Granger, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics,
presented a public lecture on building policy models for management of
the Amazon rain forest.
Professor Granger is a Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters,
the American Economic Association, and the Econometric Society, and is currently
Research Professor at UCSD.
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