Science at the Museum
Public events at SMRI
National Science Week 2025: Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language Saturday August 16 from 12 – 4pmSunday August 17 from 12 – 4 pm To […]
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‘Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal?’ – A Basser-SMRI Joint Seminar by Robert Tarjan
Public events at SMRIDijkstra’s algorithm is a classic algorithm for doing route planning. Given a starting location it finds shortest paths from to all other reachable locations using the greedy method. Not only […]
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‘Irrational ways of manufacturing numbers’ – A special International Day of Mathematics Colloquium (1/2) by Tadashi Tokieda
Public events at SMRIThis is meant to be light mathematical entertainment, exploring simple yet unusual phenomena involving rational, irrational, transcendental numbers. We will also glean a few open problems. This event is part of a series […]
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‘A world from a sheet of paper’ International Day of Mathematics Public Lecture by Tadashi Tokieda
Public events at SMRIStarting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, stacking, crumpling, tearing, we shall explore a rich variety of phenomena, from magic tricks and geometry through elasticity and the traditional […]
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Maths at the Museum, including ‘A magic show’ by Tadashi Tokieda
Public events at SMRIInternational Day of Mathematics 2026: Mathematics and Hope Saturday March 14 from 12 – 4pmSunday March 15 from 12 – 4 pm To celebrate International Day of Mathematics, SMRI presents our Maths […]
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‘Pure mathematics as applied physics’ – A special International Day of Mathematics Colloquium (2/2) by Tadashi Tokieda
Public events at SMRIHumans tend to be better at physics than at mathematics. When an apple falls from a tree, there are more people who can catch it — they sense physically how the apple moves — than people who can compute […]
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Celebrating Women in Mathematics
Public events at SMRI#May12 #WomenInMaths #May12WIM Join us for an evening celebrating women in mathematics here at the University of Sydney. All welcome.Featuring talks from: Neda Khodabakhsh JonianiNalini JoshiMadeline NurcombePratibha PanwarAnd a special screening: […]
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Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Australian Mathematics CalendarWe are excited to confirm the announcement that MERGA48 will be hosted by Western Sydney University on their beautiful Paramatta South Campus, chaired by Prof Catherine Attard, from Monday 6 […]
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AMSI Winter School 2026 on Geometric Analysis
Australian Mathematics CalendarAMSI Winter School is an advanced training program for postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and industry professionals held annually around a central theme selected from emerging national and global research priorities […]
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AI Safety Forum 2026
Australian Mathematics CalendarJoin us for this two-day interdisciplinary forum grounded in the science of AI safety as explored in the International AI Safety Report, as we bring together people from across research, […]
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Dynamics and Number Theory
Australian Mathematics CalendarThe event will bring together leading dynamicists and number theorists from both Australia and overseas to explore recent advances at the intersection of their fields. The conference will highlight cutting-edge […]
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Global mathematics histories and futures
Australian Mathematics CalendarWhat can the histories of mathematics from all societies worldwide tell us about mathematics we may need to tackle 21st century global problems? This workshop aims to bring together cross-cultural, […]