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IMU-SMRI Mathematical Colloquia and Panels
SMRI was lucky enough to host the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in March 2024. We hosted a series of talks and panel events to align with…
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Special Semester: Mathematical Challenges in AI
A 2023 Special Semester organized by Geordie Williamson The Mathematical challenges in AI seminar is the successor of the Machine Learning for the Working Mathematician special semester. The main focus of the seminars this…
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D-Modules and Representation Theory
Dragan Milicic and Geordie Williamson present this course which ran in Semester Two, 2023 D-modules provide an algebraic language for studying systems of linear partial differential equations. In some sense,…
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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…
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Modular Representation Theory
This course, organised by Geordie Williamson and Chris Honen, ran in Semester One 2023 This course is designed to show some of the beautiful mathematics in modern modular representation theory.…
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AMSI-MSRI Winter School
SMRI Director Geordie Williamson was an invited speaker at the AMSI-MSRI Winter School, hosted over two weeks at the University of Queensland. He presented five lectures on Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials: Representation,…
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“Hendoff” for inaugural SMRI Exec Director Anthony Henderson
The Hendoff is a celebration of Anthony Henderson’s manifold contributions to mathematics in Australia, through both his research and service to the community. After over two years at the helm…
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ICM2022 Down Under: Photo Gallery
The official International Congress of Mathematics 2022 was held virtually. In Sydney, SMRI recreated some of the usual spirit of the ICM. Our local event featured talks by the Australia-based…
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Machine learning for the working mathematician
This special semester was organised by Joel Gibson, Georg Gottwald, and Geordie Williamson and took place in Semester 1 2022 The Machine Learning for the Working Mathematician seminar is an introduction to ways in…