SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online, 25 June: Victor Ostrik – Incompressible symmetric tensor categories
SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online Seminar Incompressible symmetric tensor categories Victor Ostrik (University of Oregon) Thursday, 25 June, 09:30–11:00 AEST (Sydney) Other time zones: Vancouver, Wed 16:30; Toronto, Wed 19:30; London, Thu 00:30; Cape Town, Thu 01:30; Mumbai, Thu 05:00; Beijing, Thu 07:30 This talk is based on joint work with Benson and Etingof. We …
SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online, 03 June: David Ben-Zvi – Boundary conditions and hamiltonian actions in geometric Langlands
SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online Seminar Boundary conditions and hamiltonian actions in geometric Langlands David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas at Austin) Wednesday, 03 June, 11:00–12:30 AEST (Sydney) Other time zones: Vancouver, Tue 18:00; Toronto, Tue 21:00; London, Wed 02:00; Berlin, Wed 03:00; Mumbai, Wed 06:30; Beijing, Wed 09:00 I will discuss some of the structures …
A message from the Executive Director
A message from inaugural Executive Director Anthony Henderson after one year of opening the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute.
Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – January 2020
Congratulations to the successful applicants of the International Visitor Program – January 2020.
Nancy Reid
In the era of big data and machine learning, everybody is trying to extract the best quality information from their data. It’s a complicated task, but one statisticians have been working on for more than a century, long before anyone could even conceive of Facebook or Google. This is the field in which Professor Nancy …
Syarifah Nordin
Have you ever been driving down the highway and found yourself stuck behind a slow-moving car, blocking an otherwise fast-moving lane? When this happens to Dr Syarifah Nordin, Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, her mind jumps to mathematics. Dr Nordin works in operations research, the mathematics of decision-making. It uses a combination of analysis, …
Colloquium, 30 January: In praise of small data
In praise of small data Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) Thursday 30 January, 16:00–17:00 Oriental Room S204, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney (Ground floor of the quadrangle, directly off ‘Lobby B’ accessed through the front ‘Left Entrance’) Statistical science has a 200-year history of advances in theory and application. Data science is a relatively newly …
Nalini Joshi wins a 2019 Premier’s Prize
The Sydney Mathematical Research Institute would like to congratulate Professor Nalini Joshi, a member of our Scientific Advisory Committee, on winning the 2019 NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics.
Cheryl Praeger wins the 2019 PM’s Prize for Science
The Sydney Mathematical Research Institute would like to congratulate Professor Cheryl Praeger on winning the 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Professor Praeger, a member of our advisory board, is the first mathematician, and only the second person in the mathematical sciences, to be awarded the prize.
Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – July 2019
Congratulations to the successful applicants of the International Visitor Program – July 2019.