Brock Sherlock wins Best Student Paper Prize
The mathematics PhD candidate was honoured with the award during a recent conference.
Published on the 25 February 2025 by Susannah Waters
Mathematics PhD candidate Brock Sherlock has received a Best Student Paper Prize for his 2024 publication, The Distance Between: An Algorithmic Approach to Comparing Stochastic Models to Time-Series Data.
He received the award during the Mathematical Biology Special Interest Group Workshop at the ANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 2025 Conference, held from 2-6 February in Coffs Harbour. ANZIAM is a division of the Australian Mathematical Society, and focuses on applied mathematical research, mathematical applications in industry and business, and tertiary-level mathematics education.
Brock’s paper was co-authored with three of his supervisors: Adelle Coster (UNSW), Maria Vlasiou (University of Twente), and Marko Boon (Eindhoven University of Technology). At UNSW, Brock’s supervisory team includes Dr Michael Watson.
“I’m incredibly proud of Brock and am so pleased that his work has been recognised by this award", said Professor Adelle Coster.
"I see him having continuing and increasing impact in the applied mathematics and mathematical biology communities as his career develops.”
Brock Sherlock