SMRI congratulates the following researchers in the mathematical sciences on their successful applications. There were 23 successful applicants in the International Visitor Program 2024 Round 2, which closed in August 2024.
As always, SMRI is grateful for the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise) made by the hosts listed below, both inside and outside our School. The selections were made by SMRI’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
The next IVP application round (2025 Round 1) will open in mid December 2024, closing in mid February 2025, for visits from 2026.
Below is the list of these visitors, in order of their visit dates, which are quite tentative in some cases. Visitor information is up to date as of 15 October 2024. For current information, see the visitor list.
Raffaele Argiento (University of Bergamo)
Research interests: Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture modelling, model based clustering, computational statistics
Dates: 02/03/2026 – 12/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)
Wael Bahsoun (Loughborough University)
Research interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems
Dates: 12/01/2026 – 23/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
04/01/2026 – 11/01/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Gary Froyland)
24/01/2026 – 30/01/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute), ‘Statistical Properties and Extremes in Dynamical Systems – Theory and Numerics’)
Hans Boden (McMaster University)
Research interests: Knot theory, low-dimensional topology, gauge theory, character varieties
Dates: 03/04/2026 – 25/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso)
Federico Camerlenghi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Research interests: Bayesian nonparametrics, point processes, completely random measures, statistical methodology, exchangeability
Dates: 02/03/2026 – 12/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)
Jing Cao (Southern Methodist University)
Research interests: Bayesian modeling, clinical trial design, explainable language model, sentiment analysis, spatial modeling
Dates: 01/07/2025 – 31/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Linh Nghiem)
Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland)
Research interests: Dynamical systems, probability theory, mathematical physics
Dates: 18/01/2026 – 31/01/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute), Host: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman)
12/01/2026 – 17/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
31/01/2026 – 08/02/2026 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman)
Anne Dranowski (University of Southern California)
Research interests: Representation theory, approximation and asymptotics, machine learning
Dates: 01/12/2025 – 30/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer)
Erika Hausenblas (University of Leoben)
Research interests: Stochastic partial differential equations, stochastic analysis, numerical analysis, stochastic modelling, Lévy processes
Dates: 01/08/2025 – 22/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Ben Goldys)
23/08/2025 – 30/08/2025 (Monash University, Host: Ngan Le)
Allen Knutson (Cornell University)
Research interests: Algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, representation theory, symplectic geometry
Dates: 20/06/2025 – 06/07/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin)
07/07/2025 – 20/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Oded Yacobi)
Ian Melbourne (University of Warwick)
Research interests: Ergodic theory, links with probability theory, links with stochastic analysis, equivariant dynamical systems
Dates: 17/03/2026 – 17/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
Aleksandar Milivojević (University of Waterloo)
Research interests: Rational homotopy theory, almost complex manifolds
Dates: 15/07/2025 – 28/07/2025 (University of Adelaide, Host: Michael Albanese)
01/07/2025 – 14/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Hillman)
Oleh Omelchenko (University of Potsdam)
Research interests: Nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, pattern formation, bifurcation theory, singular perturbations
Dates: 22/09/2025 – 19/10/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
20/10/2025 – 02/11/2025 (University of Western Australia, Host: Michael Small)
Layla Parast (University of Texas at Austin)
Research interests: Nonparametric statistics, survival analysis, causal inference, surrogate marker evaluation, clinical trials
Dates: 30/06/2025 – 20/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Garth Tarr)
21/07/2025 – 10/08/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Aurore Delaigle)
Tommaso Proietti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Research interests: Statistics, time series analysis, data analysis, applied macroeconomics
Dates: 07/07/2025 – 08/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Shelton Peiris)
Hwayeon Ryu (Elon University)
Research interests: Mathematical biology, modeling of immune response to COVID-19
Dates: 02/03/2026 – 20/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim)
21/03/2026 – 02/04/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute), Collaborative Workshop for Under-Represented Genders Advancing Mathematical Biology)
Liron Speyer (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Research interests: Representation theory
Dates: 22/01/2026 – 12/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Andrew Mathas)
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
Research interests: Causal inference , semiparametric theory, missing data , statistical genetics , environmental statistics
Dates: 20/01/2026 – 15/06/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang)
Ilaria Viglino (EPFL Lausanne)
Research interests: Analytic number theory, field theory, geometry of numbers, sphere packings, module lattices
Dates: 11/08/2025 – 24/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dzmitry Badziahin)
25/08/2025 – 14/09/2025 (University of Canberra, Host: Bryce Kerr)
Hanh Vo (Arizona State University)
Research interests: Hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, low dimensional topology
Dates: 01/07/2025 – 30/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas)
Polina Vytnova (University of Surrey)
Research interests: Dynamical systems, ergodic theory , fractal geometry
Dates: 13/08/2025 – 31/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Caroline Wormell)
01/09/2025 – 15/09/2025 (Monash University, Host: Warwick Tucker)
Kui Wang (Soochow University)
Research interests: Partial differential equations, differential geometry
Dates: 02/07/2025 – 30/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Haotian Wu)
Jakob Zech (Heidelberg University)
Research interests: Uncertainty quantification, theory of neural networks, high dimensional approximation, numerics of PDEs, statistical inference
Dates: 02/03/2026 – 27/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Cui)
Wadim Zudilin (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Research interests: Number theory, special functions, combinatorics, arithmetic geometry
Dates: 27/07/2025 – 23/08/2025 (University of Newcastle, Host: Florian Breuer)
13/07/2025 – 26/07/2025 (University of Queensland, Host: Ole Warnaar)
04/08/2025 – 16/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Voight)