University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank , who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and distinguished service in the field of Applied Mathematics. .
Press Release – University of Canterbury University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank , who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and distinguished service in the field of Applied Mathematics. …
University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank, who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and distinguished service in the field of Applied Mathematics.
Professor Plank, of UC’s School of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded the Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) EO Tuck Medal for 2021.
She’s also dumbfounded by the fact that last year when the New Zealand Government asked people to stop working and stay home for six weeks, virtually the whole population just did exactly that. “Here in the US the government knows that no-one trusts them and nobody would obey them if they told them to stay home,” he told me. “It’s staggering that that many New Zealanders trust their government that much.”
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Mike O’Donnell: “Across a range of international indexes, New Zealand ranks as a world leader in trust and confidence in government, and its growing.”
OPINION: Recently there has been a big debate about the cost of getting our nation to net zero emissions by 2050. Will it cost 1 per cent of GDP or 3 per cent of GDP? On the one hand the debate seems a little odd. Are we willing to spend 1 cent in every dollar saving the planet or 3c? Since it is the planet that allows the dollar to be created in the first place, frankly either number seems a small price to pay. Digging deeper, the difference between the two numbers depends very much on innovation. Supporting the shift to a low-emissions economy would be a good example of a “focused innovation policy”, as recommended in a recently published Productivity Commission report.