Presentations

Invited Seminars

Presenting authors indicated by italics

  1. Melanie E. Roberts. A gully model for Queensland, 26 November 2020. Queensland Water ModellingNetwork Public Seminar
  2. Melanie E. Roberts. How mathematical modelling can be useful to better define performance and restoration options for gullies. 26 – 27 February 2020. Queensland Water Modelling Network Forum 2020: Water modelling for the future
  3. Melanie E. Roberts. Developing insights into the processes of gully erosion through mathematical modelling, 29 October 2019. QANZIAM workshop, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  4. Melanie E. Roberts. Modelling the erosion of linear gullies – the development of a process based mathematical model, 19 September 2019. CARMA, University of Newcastle, Australia
  5. Melanie E. Roberts. Mathematical modelling for insurance: Understanding bushfire risk and crop-hail damage, 18 December 2017. Keynote seminar IEEE First International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Engineering & Technology
  6. Melanie E. Roberts. Mathematical Modelling for the Insurance Industry, 7 September 2017. ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) and School of Mathematics and Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
  7. Melanie E. Roberts. Modelling the mechanical action of a front-loading washing machine MINZ2017, 21 July 2017. IBM Research – Australia Seminar Series
  8. Melanie E. Roberts. Weather impacted operations, 28 June 2017 2017. Keynote seminar, Mathematics in Industry New Zealand (MINZ), Massey University, New Zealand
  9. Melanie E. Roberts. Bushfire characteristics and the ember risk of a property, 17 March 2017. IBM Research – Australia Seminar Series
  10. Melanie E. Roberts, Andrew A. Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. Understanding personalised risk to bushfires through the mathematical modelling of potential ember load, 5 – 8 December 2016. Keynote seminar Applied/Industrial Special Session, 60th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematics Society, Canberra, Australia
  11. Melanie E. Roberts. Creating a career in industry, 2 November 2016. ACEMS Student Retreat, UTS, Sydney
  12. Melanie E. Roberts, Andrew A. Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. Modelling ember distribution to inform a personalised scalable model of bushfire risk, 19 July 2016. UNSW Canberra
  13. Melanie E. Roberts, Andrew A. Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. An introduction to mathematical sciences at IBM Research – Australia, 14 July 2016. ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, QUT, Australia
  14. Melanie E. Roberts. Understanding dynamic ember risk through mathematical modelling, 28 June 2016. IBM Research – Japan
  15. Melanie E. Roberts. Understanding bushfire impact through mathematical modelling, 22June2016. University of Melbourne Maths Fair
  16. Melanie E. Roberts, Andrew Rawlinson, Claire Reeves, Reena Kapoor, and Ziyuan Wang. Enhancing bush- fire readiness: An approach using mathematical modelling and optimisation, 21 April 2016. School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
  17. Melanie E. Roberts. Dynamic risk modelling and optimisation for bushfire risk management, 6 April 2016. Women in Science and Engineering visit to IBM Research – Australia
  18. Steven Barry and Melanie E. Roberts. Applying for a technical position, 7 February 2016. AustMS-ANZIAM Early Career Workshop
  19. Melanie E. Roberts. Maths Industry Study Groups & Modelling the Probable Maximum Precipitation in Large Catchments, 30 October 2015. IBM Research – Australia Seminar Series
  20. Melanie E. Roberts, Alessio Bonti, Christian Vecchiola, Guy Sharon, Laura Rusu, Mahathir Almashor, Shaila Pervin, Wanita Sherchan, and Ziyuan Wang. AfterHelp: Enabling locals helping locals, 12 – 14 October 2015. International Symposium on Disaster Management, Melbourne, Australia
  21. Melanie E. Roberts. IBM Watson: Cognitive computing through the lens of healthcare, 30 October 2014. Keynote seminar FiTT Future Trends Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
  22. Roslyn Hickson and Melanie Roberts. Mathematics at IBM Research – Australia, 10 October 2014. Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, La Trobe University
  23. Melanie E. Roberts and M. Trefry. Periodicities in coastal aquifer dynamics, 28 January – 1 February 2007. WA ANZIAM Seminar Series, Perth, Australia

Contributed Seminars

  1. Melanie E. Roberts and R.I. Hickson. Heterogeneity in sediment size and density and the erosion of an ideal gully, 1 – 5 February 2021. ANZIAM 2021, Cape Schanck (online), Victoria Australia
  2. M. E. Roberts, M.F. Adame, D. P. Hamilton, and J. Lu. The potential benefit of wetlands in protecting the Great Barrier Reef from poor water quality, February 2020. AustMS 2020, Armadale (online), NSW Australia
  3. Melanie E. Roberts. Informing gully remediation to protect the Great Barrier Reef, 2 – 6 February 2020. ANZIAM 2020, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
  4. Melanie E. Roberts. The erosion of an ideal gully under steady state conditions, 2 December 2019. 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra, Australia
  5. Melanie E. Roberts. A mathematical model for the erosion of an ideal gully to inform interventions, 21 – 27 July 2019. 8th International Symposium on Gully Erosion, Townsville, Australia
  6. Melanie E. Roberts and Robin Ellis. Effects of temporal variation in sediment reduction: a modelling investigation of a grazed catchment in Queensland, 8 – 10 May 2019. River Basin Management Conference, Alicante, Spain
  7. Melanie E. Roberts. Towards a process-based model of gully erosion for improved Great Barrier Reef water quality, 4 February 2019. ANZIAM 2019, Nelson, New Zealand
  8. Melanie E. Roberts and Shrihari Vasudevan. Fine-grained multi-factor hail damage modelling, 7 February 2018. ANZIAM 2018, Hobart, Australia
  9. Melanie E. Roberts and Andrew Rawlinson. Bushfire characteristics and the ember risk of a property, 7 February 2017. ANZIAM 2017, Hahndorf, Australia
  10. Andrew Rawlinson, Noel Faux, Roslyn Hickson, and Melanie E. Roberts. Modelling anxiety and depression to determine the effect of community stigma around mental health, 9 February 2017. ANZIAM 2017, Hahndorf, Australia
  11. Ziyuan Wang, Melanie E. Roberts, and Laura Rusu. Dynamic personalised recommendations for reducing property risk, using mobile and cloud technologies, 30 – 31 May 2016. Australian and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference, Gold Coast, Australia
  12. Melanie E. Roberts and Andrew Rawlinson. An ember based model for bushfire risk to houses, 9 February 2016. ANZIAM 2016, Canberra, Australia
  13. Melanie E. Roberts and Shrihari Vasudevan. Fine-grained multi-factor hail damage modelling, 20 – 22 November 2015. Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Tainan, Taiwan
  14. Melanie E. Roberts and Badrinath Nagarajan. Understanding risk through virtual sensing: an application to the agricultural industry, 1 – 5 February 2015. ANZIAM 2015, Gold Coast, Australia
  15. Melanie E. Roberts and Badrinath Nagarajan. Virtual sensing – using hail hindcasts to fill the gaps in hail reports for crop damage, 8 – 12 December 2014. 8th Australian New Zealand Mathematics Convention, Melbourne, Australia
  16. Melanie E. Roberts. Streamflow predictions for industrial applications, 1 – 6 February 2014. ANZIAM 2014, Rotorua, New Zealand
  17. Melanie E. Roberts. The stability of a time-periodic flow incorporating a simple model for noise, 29 January – 2 February 2012. ANZIAM 2012, Warrnambool, Australia
  18. Melanie E. Roberts. The stability of a bounded time-periodic flow, 11 – 13 April 2011. British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  19. Melanie E. Roberts. The onset of thermal convection in rotating spherical shells: investigation of higher-order effects, 30 January – 3 February 2011. ANZIAM 2011, Glenelg, Australia
  20. Melanie E. Roberts. The effect of an upper bounding plate on the stability of a time-periodic flow, 31 January – 4 February 2010. ANZIAM 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand
  21. Melanie E. Roberts. Groundwater response to tidal forcing, 1 – 5 February 2009. ANZIAM 2009, Caloundra, Australia
  22. Melanie E. Roberts. Groundwater response to tidal forcing, 13 – 16 July 2008. Computational Techniques and Applications Conferences, Canberra, Australia
  23. Melanie E. Roberts. Periodicities in coastal aquifer dynamics, 3 – 7 February 2008. ANZIAM 2008, Katoomba, Australia
  24. Melanie E. Roberts. Modelling periodic free surface phenomena in coastal groundwater systems, 28 January – 1 February 2007. ANZIAM 2007, Fremantle, Australia

Poster Presentations

  1. Melanie Roberts, Andrew Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. Enhancing community resilience through personalised understanding of risk and vulnerability to ember attack. In Poster session presented at the Australian and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 30 – 31 May 2016
  2. Melanie Roberts, Andrew Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. A model of ember risk for improved bushfire risk management in the peri-urban fringes. In Poster session presented at the 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20 April 2016
  3. Ziyuan Wang, Melanie Roberts, and Andrew Rawlinson. Dynamic and personalised recommendations for proactive bushfire impact management. In Poster session presented at the 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20 April 2016

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