Creating an app to enrich the network visualisation experience

8 Mar 2020 | Our stories

Te Pūnaha Matatini intern Shih-Hao (Samuel) Chen talks about his work with Nebula Data over the 2019-20 summer developing a tool that provides enhanced network analysis capabilities. By Shih-Hao (Samuel) Chen Networks arise in all shapes and forms in our everyday...

Creating 3D models of archaeological sites

3 Mar 2020 | Our stories

University of Auckland student Tamara Craigen on her summer research experience with Te Pūnaha Matatini, 3D modelling archaeological sites on Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island). Tamara Craigen Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island) has been an area of archaeological interest for...

Te Pūnaha Matatini interns at Ministry for the Environment

20 Feb 2020 | Our stories

Three Te Pūnaha Matatini interns report on their 2019-20 summer placement with the Ministry for the Environment, where they piloted a complex systems approach to modelling policy problems. Shnece Duncan, Ellena Black and Quyen Nguyen During our internship, we looked...

Te Pūnaha Matatini interns report on centre’s carbon emissions

20 Dec 2019 | Our stories

By Ebba Olsen and Kahu Te Kani Te Pūnaha Matatini (TPM) plans to introduce carbon emission reductions as a KPI from 2021 onwards. To prepare, we have analysed our carbon emissions (CO2e) from staff air travel over the past few years to better understand the...

Te Pūnaha Matatini’s link to exciting new start-up

1 Nov 2019 | Our stories

Te Pūnaha Matatini provided much of the impetus for Nebula Data, an innovative new data visualisation company set up by physicists with the help of the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Nebula Data, which aims to...

Maths Craft founders win NZAS Cranwell Medal for Science Communication

23 Oct 2019 | Our stories

Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson (pictured), Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators and the co-founders of Maths Craft New Zealand, have been awarded the 2019 New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) Cranwell Medal for Science Communication. Jeanette and Phil,...