Visitor Profiles
Profiles of some of the visitors to SMRI
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Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad: Using complex systems to understand epidemics, climate change and social media
In October 2025, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad visited SMRI and her host, Eduardo Altmann, as part of…
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Reflections: Modern perspectives in representation theory
Aside from the ongoing seminar series, SMRI has committed to running yearly themed special semesters.…
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Jonathan Gruber uses symmetry as a tool to understand mathematical objects
Pure mathematician Jonathan Gruber visited SMRI from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in January 2025. His…
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Xenia de la Ossa and Philip Candelas in conversation with Geordie Williamson
SMRI Director Geordie Williamson sat down to chat to Oxford University Mathematicians Xenia de la…
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Interview with Jessica Fintzen
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Jessica Fintzen’s research interests include representation theory and number theory: two areas of mathematics with…
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Interview with SMRI visitor Andrew Krause
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Applied mathematician Andrew Krause visited SMRI in June 2023. In this interview, Andrew discusses how…
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Spotlight on topology and algebraic geometry: Iva Halacheva and Marcy Robertson
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SMRI visitors Iva Halacheva (Northeastern University) and Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne) have published a…
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Laureate interview with Endre Szemerédi
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In September 2022, SMRI’s communications coordinator Larissa Fedunik had the privilege of interviewing 2012 Abel…
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Interview with SMRI visitor Francisco Crespo
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Over the second half of 2022, Francisco Crespo worked on a project related to the…
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2022 Toronto visitors: topological interpretations of knots, curves & more
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In July 2022, international visitors from Toronto (Nancy Scherich, Dror Bar-Natan and Jessica Liu), visited…
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Spotlight on spectral flow: Matthias Lesch
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SMRI’s first visitor Professor Matthias Lesch and his Australian collaborators have recently published a paper…
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Interview with SMRI visitor Ivan Guo
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In this interview, Ivan Guo (Monash University) reflects on his recent SMRI visit and explains…