January
- Professor John Cannon AO FAA, recognised as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to tertiary education, to mathematical computation, to cryptography, and to the development of algebraic software systems (26 January) “Academy Fellows Honoured on Australia Day“
February
- Professor Mary Myerscough was awarded the 2026 ANZIAM Medal (16 February), “News from ANZIAM 2026“
- Geordie Williamson’s JMM lecture “Can AI help us discover interesting mathematics?” published on YouTube
- Zsuzsanna Dancso published an article in The Conversation, “Why you can’t tie knots in four dimensions” (26 February)
March
- Announcement of $55 m funding to support SMRI in Australian Financial Review “University of Sydney maths research body SMRI boosted by record funding to keep AI talent at home (16 March 2026)
- Geordie Williamson’s JMM lecture “Mental Models for Neural Networks” published on YouTube
- Geordie Williamson’s JMM lecture “Searching for interesting mathematical objects using neural networks” published on YouTube
- MIT Technology Review article “This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math” quoting Geordie Williamson published (25 March)