SMRI congratulates the following researchers in the mathematical sciences on their successful applications. There were 25 successful applicants in the International Visitor Program 2025 Round 1, which closed in February 2025.
As always, SMRI is grateful for the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise) made by the hosts listed below, both inside and outside our School. The selections were made by SMRI’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
The next IVP application round (2025 Round 2) will open in June 2025, closing in August 2025, for visits from mid 2026.
Below is the list of these visitors, in order of their visit dates, which are quite tentative in some cases. Visitor information is up to date as of 6 May 2025. For current information, see the visitor list.
Nicolás Andruskiewitsch (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba – CONICET)
Research interests: Hopf algebras, quantum groups, Lie theory
Dates: 13/04/2026 – 08/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Gustav Lehrer)
09/05/2026 – 23/05/2026 (University of Queensland, Host: Yang Zhang)
Paolo Cascini (Imperial College)
Research interests: Birational geometry, Foliation theory
Dates: 01/02/2026 – 14/02/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Behrouz Taji
15/02/2026 – 28/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
Ivan Cheltsov (University of Edinburgh)
Research interests: Birational geometry, K-stability
Dates: 01/02/2026 – 15/02/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Behrouz Taji)
16/02/2026 – 28/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
Qiang Du (Columbia University)
Research interests: Numerical analysis, applied mathematics, machine learning, data science, applied analysis
Dates: 04/05/2026 – 10/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dingxuan Zhou)
11/05/2026 – 16/05/2026 (University of Melbourne, Host: Hailong Guo)
17/05/2026 – 22/05/2026 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Qianqian Yang)
22/05/2026 – 02/06/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dingxuan Zhou)
Jens Niklas Eberhardt (University of Mainz)
Research interests: Representation theory of reductive groups, motivic homotopy theory, quantum error correction
Dates: 02/04/2026 – 15/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dominic Williamson)
16/04/2026 – 29/04/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Anna Romanov)
Sean Gasiorek (California Polytechnic State University)
Research interests: Integrable systems, dynamical systems, billiards
Dates: 22/06/2026 – 10/07/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Milena Radnović)
11/07/2026 – 31/07/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute)
01/08/2026 – 14/08/2026 (La Trobe University, Host: Reinout Quispel)
Simon Harris (University of Auckland)
Research interests: Branching processes and applications, branching Brownian motions, FKPP reaction-diffusion equations, coalescent processes, martingales
Dates: 24/01/2026 – 22/02/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Peter Braunsteins)
12/01/2026 – 23/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Benjamin Goldys)
Tamas Hausel (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Research interests: Geometry of integrable systems, geometric representation theory, algebraic geometry and topology of moduli spaces, mirror symmetry , Langlands duality
Dates: 01/09/2025 – 31/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)
01/02/2026 – 07/02/2026 (University of Queensland, Host: Masoud Kamgarpour)
Tyler Kelly (Queen Mary University of London)
Research interests: Algebraic geometry, mirror symmetry, computational number theory (zeta functions), Landau-Ginzburg models (derived and enumerative)
Dates: 12/01/2026 – 21/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Voight)
Panagiotis Kevrekidis (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Research interests: Nonlinear waves, dynamical systems, nonlinear PDEs, nonlinear dynamical lattices, mathematical biology
Dates: 03/02/2026 – 28/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Christopher Lustri)
Patrice Koehl (University of California, Davis)
Research interests: Computational geometry applied to biology, combinatorics, optimal transport theory, linear algebra (eigenvalue problems), computational physics
Dates: 29/06/2026 – 24/07/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
25/07/2026 – 07/08/2026 (University of Melbourne, Host: Marcy Robertson)
Guanghui Lan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Research interests: Optimization, machine learning, reinforcement learning
Dates: 23/11/2026 – 20/12/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Yiming Ying)
Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan)
Research interests: Statistical network analysis, high-dimensional statistics, statistical learning, graphical models
Dates: 19/01/2026 – 15/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang)
Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Calculus of variations, game theory, mathematical elasticity, convex integration, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
Dates: 01/05/2026 – 14/06/2026 (University of Western Australia, Host: Enrico Valdinoci)
15/06/2026 – 29/06/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Florica-Corina Cirstea)
Facundo Memoli (Rutgers University)
Research interests: Mathematics of data science, metric geometry, applied algebraic topology
Dates: 30/01/2026 – 01/03/2025 (Australian National University, Host: Vanessa Robins)
02/03/2026 – 15/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Spreer)
Maximilian Nitzschner (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Research interests: Random walks and random interlacements, Gaussian free field and interface models, percolation
Dates: 05/01/2026 – 15/01/2026 (Monash University, Host: Andrea Collevecchio)
16/01/2026 – 30/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Fish)
Mark Peletier (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Research interests: Calculus of variations, stochastic processes, machine learning, partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations
Dates: 20/07/2026 – 01/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
06/07/2026 – 19/07/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Upanshu Sharma)
17/08/2026 – 23/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
24/08/2026 – 28/08/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Upanshu Sharma)
Daria Poliakova (University of Hamburg)
Research interests: Polytopes, operads, category theory, representation theory
Dates: 01/02/2026 – 15/02/2026 (Australian National University, Host: Asilata Bapat)
16/02/2026 – 01/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Spreer)
Kamilla Rekvenyi (University of Manchester)
Research interests: Finite groups, non-abelian finite simple groups, primitive permutation groups, algebraic combinatorics, algebraic graph theory
Dates: 13/02/2026 – 15/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Voight)
16/03/2026 – 06/04/2026 (Monash University, Host: Melissa Lee)
Travis Scrimshaw (Hokkaido University)
Research interests: Crystal bases, affine quantum groups, solvable lattice models, integrable probability
Dates: 03/08/2026 – 24/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Andrew Mathas)
13/09/2026 – 28/09/2026 (University of Queensland, Host: Ole Warnaar)
25/08/2026 – 12/09/2026 (University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin)
13/09/2026 – 25/09/2025 (Australian National University, Host: Asilata Bapat)
Evgeny Shinder (University of Sheffield)
Research interests: Algebraic geometry, Cremona groups, motivic invariants, derived categories of coherent sheaves, Grothendieck ring of varieties
Dates: 03/02/2026 – 15/02/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Behrouz Taji)
16/02/2026 – 28/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
Sean Simpson (Wake Forest University School of Medicine)
Research interests: Brain network analysis, repeated measures analysis, covariance modeling
Dates: 08/06/2026 – 26/06/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang)
25/05/2026 – 05/06/2026 (Australian National University, Host: Francis Hui)
Priya Subramanian (University of Auckland)
Research interests: Pattern formation, quasicrystals, soft condensed matter, fluid mechanics, thermoacoustics
Dates: 19/01/2026 – 06/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Christopher Lustri)
07/02/2026 – 13/02/2026 (Australian National University, Host: ANZIAM 2026)
Peter Szmolyan (Vienna University of Technology)
Research interests: Dynamical systems, differential equations, singular perturbations, geometric singular perturbation theory, dynamics of chemical and biological networks, shock waves
Dates: 02/01/2026 – 01/02/2026 (University of Adelaide, Host: Samuel Jelbart)
02/02/2026 – 27/02/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Martin Wechselberger)
Marius Tucsnak (University of Bordeaux)
Research interests: Controllability and observability of PDE systems, anlaysis and control for fluid-structure systems, complex and harmonic analysis in control theory
Dates: 01/06/2026 – 01/11/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Ben Goldys)