Research Workshops, Courses & Symposia

  • Upcoming: Algebraic Geometry Workshop

    A workshop organized by Daniel Chan, Ivan Cheltsov, Jack Hall, Behrouz Taji, Geordie Williamson running at Sydney Mathematical Research Institute A workshop on Algebraic Geometry will run at the Sydney…

  • Upcoming: Modern Perspectives in Representation Theory

    A 2025 Special Semester organized by Charlotte Chan, Thomas Lam, and Geordie Williamson A special semester on “Modern Perspectives in Representation Theory” will run at the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute…

  • University of Sydney quadrangle

    Perspectives on Mathematics, its Humanity, Culture, and Communication

    A 2024 Special Semester organized by Francis Su & Stephan Tillman This interactive seminar series explored and illuminated the human side of mathematics—the culture(s) of mathematics, how we teach and…

  • IMU-SMRI Mathematical Colloquia and Panels

    SMRI was lucky enough to host the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in March 2024. We hosted a series of talks and panel events to align with…

  • Special Semester: Mathematical Challenges in AI

    A 2023 Special Semester organized by Geordie Williamson The Mathematical challenges in AI seminar is the successor of the Machine Learning for the Working Mathematician special semester.  The main focus of the seminars this…

  • D-Modules and Representation Theory

    Dragan Milicic and Geordie Williamson present this course which ran in Semester Two, 2023 D-modules provide an algebraic language for studying systems of linear partial differential equations. In some sense,…

  • Tiger Bruhat

    Maths and machine learning

    SMRI Director Geordie Williamson and a team of mathematicians from Oxford University have collaborated with AI lab DeepMind, using machine learning to help prove or suggest new mathematical theorems. Articles…

  • University of Sydney quadrangle

    Modular Representation Theory

    This course, organised by Geordie Williamson and Chris Honen, ran in Semester One 2023 This course is designed to show some of the beautiful mathematics in modern modular representation theory.…

  • AMSI-MSRI Winter School

    SMRI Director Geordie Williamson was an invited speaker at the AMSI-MSRI Winter School, hosted over two weeks at the University of Queensland. He presented five lectures on Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials: Representation,…