SMRI congratulates the following researchers in the mathematical sciences on their successful applications. There were 28 successful applicants in the International Visitor Program 2025 Round 2, which closed in August 2025.
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 (2026 Round 2) will open in June 2026, closing in August 2026, for visits from June 2027 onwards.
Below is the list of these visitors, please note visit dates are tentative. Visitor information is up to date as of 20 May 2026. For current information, see the visitor list.
Pramod Achar (Louisiana State University)
Research interests: Geometric representation theory, perverse sheaves
Dates: 28/06/2027 – 30/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)
Raffaele Argiento (University of Bergamo)
Research interests: Model based clustering, mixture models, Bayesian nonparametrics, computational statistics, statistical modelling for complex data
Dates: 06/07/2027 – 31/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)
Boris Aronov (New York University)
Research interests: Computational geometry, combinatorial geometry, discrete geometry, algorithms
Dates: 05/04/2027 – 30/05/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Joachim Gudmundsson)
James (Jim) Bagrow (University of Vermont)
Research interests: Network Science, statistical inference, machine learning, statistical mechanics
Dates: 15/02/2027 – 15/03/2027 (University of Adelaide, Host: Lewis Mitchell)
02/01/2027 – 14/02/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann)
Federico Camerlenghi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Research interests: Bayesian nonparametrics, point processes, species sampling models, completely random measures, Dirichlet process
Dates: 15/11/2027 – 15/12/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)
Agustina Czenky (University of Southern California)
Research interests: Tensor categories, fusion categories, topological quantum field theories
Dates: 19/07/2027 – 17/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
Nathan Dalaklis (The University of Oklahoma)
Research interests: Multifractal analysis, fractal geometry, thermodynamic formalism, dimension theory, nowhere differentiable functions
Dates: 15/06/2027 – 29/06/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Jason Atnip)
01/06/2027 – 14/06/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Fish)
Pallavi Dani (Louisiana State University)
Research interests: Geometric group theory, Coxeter groups
Dates: 28/06/2027 – 30/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas)
Alberto De Sole (Sapienza University of Rome)
Research interests: Vertex algebras
Dates: 14/06/2027 – 25/06/2027 (MATRIX, Host: David Ridhout)
25/06/2027 – 31/07/2027 (University of Melbourne, Host: David Ridhout)
01/08/2027 – 15/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Alex Molev)
Andres Fernandez Herrero (University of Pennsylvania)
Research interests: Moduli theory, algebraic stacks
Dates: 15/07/2027 – 30/07/2027 (Australian National University, Host: Svetlana Makarova)
01/07/2027 – 14/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Voight)
Ulrike Feudel (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
Research interests: Bifurcations in nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos theory, stability and tipping in climate and ecosystems, interplay between hydrodynamics and biology, dynamics on complex networks
Dates: 01/04/2027 – 30/04/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann)
Priyanga Ganesan (University of California San Diego)
Research interests: Quantum graphs, quantum information theory, operator systems, non local games, quantum groups
Dates: 01/07/2027 – 31/07/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Aidan Sims)
01/08/2027 – 15/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe)
Maria Gorelik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Research interests: Lie superalgebras, representation theory
Dates: 04/07/2027 – 18/07/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Alex Sherman)
14/07/2027 – 25/07/2027 (MATRIX, Host: David Ridout)
26/07/2027 – 03/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
31/05/2027 – 13/06/2027 (University of Melbourne, Host: Thomas Quella)
Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh)
Research interests: Category theory, quantum computing, semantics of programming languages, operator algebra
Dates: 01/02/2027 – 01/03/2027 (Macquarie University, Host: Richard Garner)
01/03/2027 – 21/03/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
21/03/2027 – 15/04/2027 (University of Technology Sydney, Host: Mingsheng Ying)
Vladimir Hinich (University of Haifa)
Research interests: Homological algebra, higher categories, lie theory
Dates: 18/06/2027 – 03/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
04/07/2027 – 18/07/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Alex Sherman)
Shuo Huang (Italian Institute of Technology (IIT))
Research interests: Statistical learning theory, approximation theory
Dates: 01/07/2027 – 20/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Yiming Ying)
Rakheon Kim (Baylor University)
Research interests: Statistical learning, high dimensional variable selection, high dimensional covariance matrix estimation, biostatistics
Dates: 28/06/2027 – 06/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Garth Tarr)
19/07/2027 – 30/07/2027 (Macquarie University, Host: Samuel Muller)
Vladimir Matveev (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research interests: Integrable systems, Nijenhuis geometry, Finsler geometry, classical differential geometry
Dates: 22/02/2027 – 07/03/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)
07/02/2027 – 21/02/2027 (La Trobe University, Host: Yuri Nikolayevsky)
Gemma Moran (Rutgers University)
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, probabilistic machine learning
Dates: 02/11/2026 – 13/01/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Ormerod)
Andre Nies (University of Auckland)
Research interests: Logic (in particular computability), group theory, quantum information, theoretical computer science
Dates: 01/02/2027 – 27/02/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Sasha Rubin)
Sheehan Olver (Imperial College)
Research interests: Numerical analysis, orthogonal polynomials, spectral methods
Dates: 15/03/2027 – 11/04/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Chris Lustri)
Mark Powell (University of Glasgow)
Research interests: 4-manifolds, knotted surfaces
Dates: 01/02/2027 – 28/02/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Hillman)
11/01/2027 – 22/01/2027 (MATRIX, Host: Arunima Ray)
23/01/2027 – 31/01/2027 (University of Melbourne, Host: Arunima Ray)
Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley)
Research interests: Representation theory, algebraic geometry, supermanifolds, Kac-Moody Lie algebras and superalgebras, tensor categories
Dates: 12/06/2027 – 03/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
04/07/2027 – 18/07/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Alexander Sherman)
Ivan Telpukhovskiy (Tsinghua University)
Research interests: Hyperbolic geometry
Dates: 31/05/2027 – 14/06/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
16/06/2027 – 30/06/2027 (Monash University, Host: Norman Do)
Michal Wrochna (Utrecht University)
Research interests: Partial differential equations, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, microlocal analysis, operator theory
Dates: 01/08/2027 – 15/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Daners)
17/08/2027 – 01/09/2027 (University of Melbourne, Host: Jesse Gell-Redman)
01/09/2027 – 05/09/2027 (University of Canberra, Host: Andrew Hassell)
Yahong Yang (Binghamton University)
Research interests: Deep learning theory in solving complex PDEs, simulation in material science and biology, partial differential equation, stochastic PDEs
Dates: 15/06/2027 – 15/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dingxuan Zhou)
Nicole Tianjiao (Nicole) Yang (University of Tennessee)
Research interests: Stochastic analysis, optimal control and differential games, learning theory, (dynamic) inverse problems, financial mathematics
Dates: 24/11/2026 – 23/12/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Cui)
04/01/2027 – 20/01/2027 (University of New South Wales, Host: Sahani Pathiraja)
Olivier Zahm (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA)))
Research interests: High dimensional approximation, Bayesian computation, sampling algorithms, reduced order modelling
Dates: 05/07/2027 – 15/08/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Cui)