Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – August 2020

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London)

Research interests: Spectral methods, orthogonal polynomials, complex analysis

Dates:

• 1 April – 15 May 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geoffrey Vasil)

Henri Guenancia (Paul Sabatier University)

Research interests: Complex algebraic and analytic geometry, canonical metrics in complex geometry

Dates:

• 5 April – 7 May 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)

Christof Melcher (RWTH Aachen University)

Research interests: Partial differential equations, calculus of variations, mathematical physics, geometric analysis, stochastic differential equations

Dates:

• 17 May – 15 July 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys)

Rafał Kulik (University of Ottawa)

Research interests: Time series, long memory, heavy tails, extreme value theory, empirical processes

Dates:

• 1 June – 31 July 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Qiying Wang)

Erwan Rousseau (Aix-Marseille University)

Research interests: Complex algebraic and analytic geometry, Kobayashi hyperbolicity, holomorphic foliations

Dates:

• 1 June – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)

Mark Andrea de Cataldo (Stony Brook University, New York)

Research interests: Topology, Hodge and cycle theory of algebraic maps

Dates:

• 1 July – 15 October 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)

Jana de Wiljes (University of Potsdam)

Research interests: Data assimilation, unsupervised learning, data analysis, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification

Dates:

• 2 – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
• 1 – 21 September 2021 (University of Tasmania, Host: Terence O’Kane)
• 22 September – 13 October 2021 (Monash University, Host: Tiangang Cui)

Andrew Krause (University of Oxford)

Research interests: Mathematical biology, pattern formation, partial differential equations, dynamical systems

Dates:

• 2 – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim)
• 1 – 14 September 2021 (Monash University, Host: Mark Flegg)

Francisco Crespo (University of Bío-Bío)

Research interests: Continuous dynamical systems, Hamiltonian dynamics, geometric mechanics, celestial mechanics

Dates:

• 2 August – 10 November 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)

Hans Boden (McMaster University)

Research interests: Low-dimensional topology, knots and links, invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, gauge theory, character varieties

Dates:

• 16 August – 9 October 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso)

Jonathan Kujawa (University of Oklahoma)

Research interests: Algebraic Lie theory, representation theory of Lie (super)algebras and related structures, combinatorial, geometric, categorical methods in representation theory

Dates:

• 1 October – 30 November 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)

Paul Griffiths (Coventry University)

Research interests: Hydrodynamics, stability, non-Newtonian, boundary layer flows

Dates:

• 1 November – 1 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Sharon Stephen)
• 2 – 8 December 2021 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Michael Dallaston)

Ivan Angiono (National University of Córdoba)

Research interests: Quantum groups, Hopf algebras, tensor categories

Dates:

• 1 November – 15 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)

Claudia Bucur (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Research interests: Partial and integro-differential equations, nonlocal operators, calculus of variations, geometric analysis

Dates:

• 1 – 31 October 2021 (The University of Western Australia, Host: Enrico Valdinoci)
• 1 – 21 November 2021 (MATRIX)
• 22 November – 20 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Hauer)

Vladimir Kazakov (University of Paris)

Research interests: Theoretical and mathematical physics, quantum field theory, quantum and classical integrability, matrix models, theoretical statistical mechanics

Dates:

• 1 – 15 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Molev)
• 16 – 31 December 2021 (Australian National University, Host: Vladimir Bazhanov)
• 5 – 15 January 2022 (The University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin)

Martin Schmidt (University of Mannheim)

Research interests: Integrable systems, geometric analysis

Dates:

• 13 December 2021 – 5 February 2022 (University of Sydney, Host: Emma Carberry)