National Science Week: twisting somersaults public lecture & maths workshops
The August events will include a public talk by University of Sydney mathematician Professor Holger Dullin, who’ll explore the mathematical phenomena of twisting somersaults. Plus, Geordie Williamson onstage in “Doctor Karl and Friends: Innovation & Beyond”.
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 and podcasts discussing the Nature paper “AI-guided intuition” can be found here, along with the SMRI course “Machine Learning for the Working Mathematician”.
Successful applicants: International Visitor Program 2023 Round 1
SMRI congratulates 20 researchers in the mathematical sciences who were successful in the International Visitor Program 2023 Round 1.
Women in Mathematics Day 2023 “Olga Ladyzhenskaya” film screening
To celebrate Women in Mathematics Day on 12 May 2023, SMRI hosted a screening of the short documentary “Olga Ladyzhenskaya” (2022) by acclaimed filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko.
‘Duels & duality’ International Day of Mathematics public lecture recording & photo gallery
To celebrate Pi Day on 14 March, University of Sydney mathematician Oded Yacobi presented “Duels and Duality: A fable about the life and mathematics of Évariste Galois”. View the photo gallery here.
Pi Day events: public lecture & Sydney high school workshops
To celebrate the International Day of Mathematics 2023 (aka “Pi Day”) on 14 March, SMRI organised three public events for all ages and levels of mathematics.
UTS and UNSW also hosted events to celebrate Pi Day.
Interview with SMRI visitor Francisco Crespo
Over the second half of 2022, Francisco Crespo worked on a project related to the full n-body problem, which refers to the motion of rigid bodies in space. Find out why celestial mechanics has fascinated mathematicians throughout history in this video interview.
Three postdoctoral research positions at SMRI: apply by January 2023
Postdoctoral positions at SMRI and USyd School of Maths and Stats: applications have now closed.
2022 Toronto visitors: topological interpretations of knots, curves & more
In July 2022, international visitors from Toronto (Nancy Scherich, Dror Bar-Natan and Jessica Liu), visited SMRI to work on a topological algebra project with University of Sydney mathematician Zsuzsanna Dancso.
Watch our group interview, followed by individual interviews with Dr Scherich and Professor Bar-Natan.
Spotlight on spectral flow: Matthias Lesch
SMRI’s first visitor Professor Matthias Lesch and his Australian collaborators have recently published a paper on spectral flow in the Journal of Topology and Analysis.
Based at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn, Professor Lesch spent three months at SMRI and the Uni of Wollongong in mid-2019.