Message from the HoI Prof. Tony Norris

Message from the HoI - Tony Norris

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Open Day 2010 2 - 3

Snippets of History - Chris Scogings 4 - 6

Trip to Keiv—Carlo Laing 7

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Edited by: Michelle Campbell

"Try to be like

the turtle - at

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own shell."

I guess the big news since the last IIMS Newsletter is the completion of the Shared Services Project and the success of our campaign to retain Anil and his IT Support Team within the Institute. Our case was made on the basis of the specialised nature of much of the IT support that Anil‘s team provides and once it was accepted that such support would remain within Colleges and Institutes it was pretty much a done deal.

However, the broad intention to offer lower level and help-desk support from ITS remains a goal and we have engaged in constructive discussion with ITS about how we can achieve a suitable balance. IIMS staff have become accus-tomed to something of a ‗luxury‘ service over the past few years and the chal-lenge will be to retain all that we can at this level with fewer staff. We have worked out an approach with ITS and we want to discuss it at a staff meeting. I am waiting for the PVC‘s Office to release the recommendations from the second major project on academic reform so that we can discuss these at the same meeting. Please bear with us.

One sad piece of news is that Michelle is leaving us to take up a Programme Administrator‘s post at AUT. Michelle has been a vital part of the IIMS gen-eral staff team over the past few years adding much to its stability and suc-cess. She has always ‗gone the extra mile‘ (including a fine stint as Editor of IIMS News) and we shall miss her. We wish her every success in her new role South of the Bridge.

The focus on external drivers, eg the Shared Services and Academic Reform projects etc, can be quite distracting and it would be good to arrange a few IIMS social events now that the weather is improving. We will start with a Happy (Hoppy!) Hour but the main event we have in mind is a PotLuck Din-ner. This used to be a very popular event but the last time we ran it we had only a dozen or so staff members and families present so when the notice ap-pears please clear your diaries and make it a great evening.

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Open Day 2010

Besides the rain, Open Day was very successful for IIMS this year—we had lots of interest and everyone had a good day—Thanks to those who contributed to make this day a success not only for IIMS but for Massey.

Here are a few photos of the day:

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During World War 2, many countries including the USA, Germany, Britain and the Commonwealth established women‘s branches of the armed forces. For example, Britain established the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), the WRENs (Women‘s Royal Naval Service), the WAAFs (Women‘s Auxiliary Air Force) and the FANYs (First Aid Nurs-ing Yeomanry).

Women were trained in many different roles including pilots, truck drivers, nurses, electricians, and crews of search lights and anti-aircraft guns. Women pilots flew new, damaged and repaired military aircraft (including Lancaster bombers) between factories and airfields. American women pilots flew heavy B-17 ―Flying Fortresses‖ from the USA to England. Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) was a member of the ATS and worked as a mechanic and truck driver. She is the last surviving head of state who served in uniform during WWII. Thousands of women re-mained as civilians and worked in armaments factories producing bombers, tanks, guns and ammunition.

Britain also recruited many women into the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and they were trained to parachute into European countries and work with the local resistance. Many of these agents were captured, tortured and exe-cuted. Many local women served actively with the resistance in their communities, often taking part in gun battles with German forces.

While women in the Soviet Union also worked in industry, medicine, transport and agriculture, over 800,000 volun-teered to participate directly in the fighting. Women excelled as pilots, snipers and tank crew and took part in most of the major battles on the Eastern Front. The Soviet Air Force established three women-only squadrons (586 Fighter Squadron, 46 and 125 Bomber Squadrons) which flew over 30,000 sorties during the war. Thousands more women joined the partisans in Western Russia and the Ukraine. It is known that many Chinese women took part in the partisan war against Japan, but unfortunately, individual stories are not easy to find.

Daphne Pearson, British, WAAF nurse (age 29). A bomber crash landed at her airfield in Kent (31st May 1940) and a bomb exploded inside the plane. She entered the burning wreckage, found the pilot alive and dragged him out. When they were a few metres away from the plane, the remaining bombs exploded and she shielded the pilot from the blast. She received the George Cross.

Noor Inayat Khan, Indian, SOE (age 30). Fluent in French, she parachuted into France in 1943 as a wireless op-erator. Many of her colleagues were captured and London offered to withdraw her back to the UK. She refused and continued operating for several months. Finally captured and held handcuffed for over ten months, she was sent to Dachau and executed. Posthumously awarded the George Cross.

Marie Ljalková, Czech, Soviet Army (age 23). Ace sniper, killing at least 30 German soldiers. Several decorations.

Andrée Peel, French, Resistance (age 37). She helped hundreds of Allied soldiers and airmen escape from France. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. She was lined up to be shot by firing squad when the US army arrived at the gates. Received the Légion d'honneur and many other decorations. She died in March 2010, at the age of 105.

1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Russian. Like many anti-aircraft regiments, it was staffed entirely by young women, some barely out of high school. In August 1942, outside Stalingrad, as Soviet infantry retreated around them, the regiment lowered their guns to fire directly at advancing tanks. They fought on alone for two days, destroy-ing 83 tanks, 15 trucks and 14 aircraft. Eventually they were all killed.

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Snippets of History

Chris Scogings

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Women in world war 2

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Lydia Litvyak, Russian, Air Force (age 22). One of only two female fighter aces in history (12 solo victories). Flew many missions, was wounded and crash landed several times. Last seen fighting eight Me109s. Her body was never found. In 1990, posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by President Gorbachev.

Major Wanda Gertz, Polish, Army (age 47). Fought in WW1, defended Warsaw in 1939. In 1942, she organised the women‘s section of the Home Army (resistance). Took part in the Warsaw uprising, and was captured along with another 2,000 Polish women. Received at least ten Polish decorations.

Liane Berkowitz, German, Resistance (age 20). Member of the anti-Nazi ―Red Orchestra‖ movement. Arrested and tried for putting up anti-war posters in Berlin. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, she was executed along with eleven other women at Plötzensee Prison on 5 August 1943,

Hannah Reitsch, German, Air Force (age 29). Test pilot for the rocket-propelled Me 163. Offered herself as a ka-mikaze pilot but was refused. In April 1945, Reitsch flew Gen. R. von Greim to Berlin to meet Hitler. When she saw that the airfield was occupied by Soviet forces, she landed on the road near the Brandenburg Gate. After the meeting, they took off with Russian soldiers advancing and shooting at the plane (Gen. Greim was wounded in the leg). They escaped through heavy anti-aircraft fire. She became German gliding champion in 1955. Received the Iron Cross (1st Class).

Yekaterina Budanova, Russian, Air Force (age 27). One of only two female fighter aces in history (11 solo victo-ries). Shot down and killed on 19 July 1943. In 1993, posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federa-tion.

Denise Bloch, French, SOE (age 29). In the resistance in Lyon in 1942. Walked across the Pyrenees and reached London in 1943. Dropped back into France in 1945. Captured and executed at Ravensbruck. Posthumously received the Légion d'honneur and other decorations.

Manshuk Mametova, Kazakh, Army (age 21). A machine gunner and the first Soviet Asian woman to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union for acts of bravery. Killed in battle on 15 October 1943.

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Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian, Army (age 25). Held a Masters degree in History from Kiev University. The most successful female sniper in history with 309 kills. Twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Odette Sansom, French, SOE (age 30). Dropped into France in 1942, leaving her three daughters in a convent school. Worked with the resistance for one year. Captured and extensively tortured, she refused to reveal any useful information. Sent to Ravensbruck and survived. Received an MBE and the George Cross.

Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian, Air Force (age 24). She held a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Moscow State University. Navigator with 46 Bomber Squadron and flew on 645 bombing missions. Shot down and killed on 9 April 1944. Posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Hannah Szenes, Hungarian, SOE (age 23). Lived in a Jewish family in Palestine. Trained by SOE to parachute into Yugoslavia (March 1944) to save Hungarian Jews. Captured crossing the border into Hungary and tortured. Tried for treason in Hungary, October 1944. Executed by firing squad on 7 November 1944.

Sophie Scholl, German, Resistance (age 22). A founding member of the ―White Rose‖ passive resistance move-ment. Distributed anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942/43. Executed in Munich in 1943, along with her brother Hans and friend Christoph Probst. During their trial Sophie said ―Somebody, after all, had to make a start.‖

Nancy Wake, born in New Zealand, SOE (age 32). Worked as a journalist in Paris in the 1930s. Her husband was captured and tortured by the Gestapo. Escaped to Britain and joined SOE. Parachuted into France in April 1944 to become a liaison between the resistance and London. She also led attacks on German installations and HQs and killed several German soldiers. Received the Medal of Freedom (USA), George Medal (UK), Légion d'honneur (France), and Croix de Guerre (3 times) (France), RSA Badge in Gold (NZ).

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Trip to Kiev

By Dr Carlo Laing

Last year I was invited to attend a meeting on ―Nonlinear Dynamics on Networks‖ in Kiev, Ukraine. I arrived on July 4, having spent more than 40 hours travelling, via Sydney, Singapore and London. One clear sign that I wasn‘t in the West anymore was the stray dog sleeping under a seat inside Borispol Airport, occasionally being fed by passersby. All participants stayed at the Hotel Ukraine, overlooking Independence Square, site of the Orange Revolution in 2004. The meeting itself was held in the Great Conference Hall of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a 20 minute walk away through the centre of Kiev. My main impression of the city was of large stone buildings, built to withstand a revolution (as they probably were!). Clearly some people have done very well out of the collapse of the Soviet Union (of which Ukraine was part) but it wasn‘t hard to see that many others have not.

On the Wednesday afternoon we took a boat trip on the Dnieper River to a small island where the crew cooked a BBQ dinner and we partook of a variety of local sweet wines and liqueurs, before returning in time for the many German participants to watch their soccer team lose to Spain in the World Cup semi-final.

The meeting ended at midday Friday and I spent the rest of the day sightseeing (without a map) and buying several souvenirs. One place of interest was the Memorial to the Holodomor Victims, the Holodomor being the 1932-33 fam-ine in Ukraine. This famine was largely man-made, a result of Stalin‘s policy of requiring most of the wheat produced in the Ukraine to be sent to Russia, not leaving enough to feed those who produced it. Estimates of the death toll range from several million to 10 million. The memorial itself is a circular underground room, similar to the National Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima. Inside are a number of books containing the names of those known to have died (1 million so far).

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St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.

The spires of St Andrew‘s Church.

―Mother Motherland‖ statue at the Museum of the Great Patriot War, as seen from the Dnieper River. (For scale, the sword is 16 metres long).

Independence Square

IIMS research outputs reported to August 2010

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Journal

Barry, S.I., & Sweatman, W.L. (2009). Modelling heat transfer in steel coils. Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal, 50 (CTA2008), C68-C681.

Batista, V. et al incl. Bond, I. A., Lin, W., Ling, C.H., Skuljan, L., Sweatman, W. L., & Tristram, P. J. (2009). Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050. Astronomy & As-trophysics, 508(1), 467-478.

Bennett, D.P. et al., incl. Bond, I. A., Lin, W., Ling, C.H., Skuljan, L., Sweatman, W. L., & Tristram, P. J. (2008). A low-mass planet with a possible sub-stellar-mass host in microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-192. The Astrophysical Journal, 684(1), 663-683.

Friedman, R., Whitworth, B., & Brownstein, M. (2010). Realizing the power of extelligence: A new business model for academic publishing. Common Ground, 6, 1-13.

Gould, A. et al., incl. Bond, I. A., Lin, W., Ling, C.H., Skuljan, L., Sweatman, W. L., & Tristram, P. J. (2009). The ex-treme microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-224: Terrestrial parallax observation of a thick-disk brown dwarf. The Astrophysical Journal, 698(2), L147-L152.

Janczak, J. et al., incl. Bond, I. A., Lin, W., Ling, C.H., Skuljan, L., Sweatman, W. L., & Tristram, P. J. (2010). Sub‑-Saturn planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb: Likely to be in the galactic bulge. The Astrophysical Journal, 711(2), 731-743.

Laing, C.R. (2010). Chimeras in networks of planar oscillators. Physical Review E, 81(6), pages 1-4.

McDonald, B.W., Hastie, G., & Wake, G.C. (2010). Estimating the lifetime of marine concrete. Australian Mathe-matical Society, 51, C409-C424.

Nishiura, H., & Roberts, M.G. (2010). Estimation of the reproduction number for 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in the presence of imported cases. Eurosurveillance, 15(29), 19-20. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19622

Ryu, H. (2008). Collective web usability analysis: Cognitive and activity walkthrough. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 4(3), 286-312.

Ryu, H., & Monk, A. (2009). Interaction unit analysis: A new interaction design framework. Human-Computer Inter-action, 24(4), 367-407.

Ryu, H., & Wong, A. (2008). Perceived usefulness and performance of human-to-human communications on televi-sion. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(4), 1364-1384.

Wake, G.C., Pleasants, A.B., Beedle, A., & Gluckman, P.D. (2010). A model for phenotype change in a stochastic framework. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Journal, 7(3), 719-728.

Wang, P., & Ryu, H. (2009). Not SMS, but mobile quizzes: Designing a mobile learning application for university stu-dents. International Journal of Mobile Learning & Organisation, 3(4), 351-365.

Whitworth, B. (2010). Simulating space and time. Prespacetime, 1(2), 218-243.

Whitworth, B. (2010). The emergence of the physical world from information processing. Quantum Biosystems, 2(1),

221-249.

Yee, J.C. et al incl. Bond, I. A., Lin, W., Ling, C.H., Skuljan, L., Sweatman, W. L., & Tristram, P. J. (2009). Extreme

magnification microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-279: Strong limits on planetary companions to the lens star. The

Astrophysics Journal, 703(2), 2082-2090.

Conference, proceedings

Han, J., & Ryu, H. (2008). Icons vs menus: An account of automatic process and goal-directedness to represent func-tions on mobile phone interfaces. In the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applications and Princi-ples of Information Science (APIS 2008), (pp. 351-354), January 28-30, Auckland, NZ.

Hocking, G.C., Sweatman, W.L., Roberts, M., & Fitt, A. (2010). Coating deformations in the continuous hot‑dipped galvanizing process. In T. Marchant, M. Edwards & G. Mercer (Eds.), in the proceedings of the 2009 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group (MISG2009), (pp 75-89), January 27-31, 2009, University of Wollongong, NSW.

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Mathrani, A.S., & Alipour, M. (2010). Website blocking across ten countries: A snapshot. In the proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2010), (pp 1588-1595), July 9-12, Taipei, Taiwan.

McGuiness, M., Sweatman, W.L., Baowan, D., & Barry, I. (2009). Annealing steel coils. Proceedings of the 2008 Mathematics & Statistics in Industry Study Group (MISG2008), (pp 61-80), January 28-February 1, Wollongong, NSW.

Norris, A.C. (2010). Mobile health: Strategy and sustainability. In P. Kommers, & P. Isaias (Eds.), the proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society International conference on e-Society (IADIS 2010), (pp. 187-194), March 18-21, Porto, Portugal. IADIS Digital http://www.iadis.net/dl/Search_list_open.asp?code=6890

Sivasankaran, A., Steves, B.A., & Sweatman, W.L. (2008). Close encounters in the Caledonian symmetric four‑body problem. In the proceedings of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade (Special Issue: Dynamics of Celestial Bodies – 2008 International Conference in honor of John D. Hadjidemetriou), (pp 177-180), June 23-26, Litohoro, Greece.

Sweatman, W.L. (2008). Full ionisation in binary-binary scattering. In E. Vesperini, M. Giersz & A. Sills (Eds.), in the proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 246, 2007, Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, (pp 233-234), September 5-9, Capri, Italy, Cambridge University Press.

Zhang, Y., & Ryu, H. (2008). An empirical study on the relationship between identity-checking steps and perceived trustworthiness in online banking system use. In the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science (APIS 2008), (pp 19-22), January 28-30, Auckland, NZ.

Presentation, oral

Ben-Tal, A. (2010). Mathematics in the clinic: Explaining drift in lung volume measurements. Department of Mathe-matics, The University of Auckland, May 20, Auckland, NZ.

Ben-Tal, A. (2010). The mathematics of breathing. Academic Experience Day, June 3, Massey University, Auckland, NZ.

El Beltagi, R., Potgieter, J., & Ben-Tal, A. (2010). High speed weighing systems. 25th International Conference of

CAD/CAM, Robotics & Factories of the Future, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa,

1-13, July 13-16

Laing, C.R. (2010). Chimera states in heterogeneous Kuramoto networks. Presented at the International Workshop of Nonlinear Dynamics on Networks, July 5-9, Kiev, Ukraine.

Mann, J. L., & Roberts, M. G. (2010). Modelling virus variants and invasion. Presented at the 3rd Conference of Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3), May 31 - June 4, Bordeaux, France.

Roberts, M. G. (2010). Next generation matrices and the type reproduction number - beyond R0. Presented at the Workshop on Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Emerging Challenges, January 4-8, National University of Sin-gapore, Singapore.

Roberts, M.G. (2009). Modelling pandemic influenza. Presented at the New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2009, December 7-10, Massey University, Auckland, NZ.

Roberts, M.G. (2010). Early estimation of epidemic parameters. Presented at the Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Workshop, June 16, Health Research Council, Auckland, NZ.

Roberts, M.G. (2010). Next generation matrices and the type reproduction number – beyond R0 . Plenary talk pre-sented at the 3rd Conference of Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3), May 31 - June 4, Bordeaux, France.

Roberts, M.G. (2010). The concept of generation in epidemic models. Presented at the 46th Applied Mathematics Conference (ANZIAM 2010), January 31 – February 4, Queenstown, NZ.

Roberts, M.G. (2010.) Virus evolution – escaping immunity. Presented at the International Conference on Mathe-

matics, Evolution and Development, March 21-28, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CN.

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Presentation, poster

Babbage, D., Leathem, J., & Ryu, H. (2009). Design considerations for mobile computing devices as cognitive pros-theses in neurorehabilitation. Poster presentation at the 2009 AFRM/NIRR/NZRA - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Rehabilitation, incorporating the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the AFRM, July 21-25, Queenstown, NZ.

Ben-Tal, A. (2010). Simplified model of rhythm generation in the intact respiratory neural network. Poster presenta-tion at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on the Life Sciences, July 12‑15, PA, USA.

Book, chapter in

Hawick, K., & Scogings, C. (2010). Complex emergent behaviour from evolutionary spatial animat agents. In R.A. Sarker & T. Ray (Eds.), Agent-Based Evolutionary Search (pp 139-159), Berlin, Germany:Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-13424-1.

Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2009). Recommended readings and resources. In H. Ryu & D. Parsons (Eds.), Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies (pp 356-363), IGI Global: Hershey, PA.

Monograph

Ryu, H. (2009). Mobile user interface analysis and design: A practitioner‘s guide to designing user interface for mo-

bile devices, (pp 1-251), Nova Science: New York, USA.