Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – January 2020

Nancy Scherich (Wake Forest University)

Research interests: Knot theory, finite type invariant theory, representation theory of braid groups

Dates:

• 25 May – 25 July 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso)

Patrice Koehl (University of California, Davis)

Research interests: Geometry and topology of shapes, optimal transport, statistical physics, large eigenvalue problems arising in biological sciences

Dates:

• 22 June – 1 August 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
• 2 – 23 August 2020 (Australian National University, Hosts: Katharine Turner and Vanessa Robins)

Alexandru Suciu (Northeastern University)

Research interests: Algebraic and geometric topology

Dates TBC:

• 13 July – 12 September 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Laurentiu Paunescu)

Jérémie Guilhot (University of Tours)

Research interests: Kazhdan-Lusztig theory in Coxeter groups with unequal parameters

Dates:

• 1 September 2020 – 6 January 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: James Parkinson)

Peng Lu (University of Oregon)

Research interests: Geometric analysis, Ricci flow, complex geometry

Dates:

• 1 October – 30 November 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Haotian Wu)

Alexei Davydov (Ohio University)

Research interests: Algebra, category theory, theoretical physics

Dates:

• 1 October – 30 November 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Molev)
• 1 – 31 December 2020 (Macquarie University, Host: Ross Street)
• 1 – 30 January 2021 (University of New South Wales, Host: Pinhas Grossman)

Anne Moreau (University of Lille)

Research interests: Representation theory, Lie algebras, vertex algebras, nilpotent orbits, arc schemes

Dates TBC:

• 2 – 30 November 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson)

Michael Griebel (University of Bonn)

Research interests: Numerical analysis, scientific computing, fast numerical methods for high dimensional problems in approximation and quadrature

Dates TBC:

• 1 January – 28 February 2021 (The University of New South Wales, Hosts: Frances Kuo and Ian Sloan)
• 1 – 7 March 2021 (Australian National University, Host: Markus Hegland)
• 8 – 31 March 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)

Tamás Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)

Research interests: Hamiltonian systems, transient chaos, transport, time series analysis, synchronization, recurrence networks

Dates:

• 5 January – 5 February 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann)

Bianca Viray (University of Washington)

Research interests: Rational points on varieties, cohomological obstructions, arithmetic of rational varieties, isolated points on curves

Dates:

• 8 January – 14 March 2021 (University of New South Wales, Host: David Harvey)
• 15 – 26 March 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Dzmitry Badziahin)
• 27 March – 15 June 2021 (University of New South Wales, Host: David Harvey)

James Bagrow (University of Vermont)

Research interests: Network science and complex systems, data science, machine learning, computational social science, optimization, statistical physics

Dates:

• 10 January – 7 February 2021 (University of Adelaide, Host: Lewis Mitchell)
• 8 – 22 February 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann)

Jared Bronski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Research interests: Applied partial differential equations, stability of travelling waves and coherent structures, eigenvalue and index problems related to stability

Dates:

• 15 January – 15 February 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Robert Marangell)

Xingbin Pan (East China Normal University)

Research interests: Nonlinear PDEs and systems, calculus of variations, mathematical theory of superconductivity, liquid crystals, electromagnetism

Dates:

• 15 January – 31 January 2021 (University of New England, Host: Yihong Du)
• 1 – 16 February 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Zhou Zhang)

Suojin Wang (Texas A&M University)

Research interests: Statistical theory and methodology, measurement error models, missing data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, resampling methods, small sample asymptotics, survey sampling

Dates:

• 25 January – 6 February 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Samuel Muller)
• 7 – 23 February 2021 (Australian National University, Host: Alan Welsh)
• 24 February – 8 April 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Samuel Muller)

Susan Sierra (University of Edinburgh)

Research interests: Noncommutative ring theory, noncommutative algebraic geometry, enveloping algebras of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras

Dates:

• 1 February – 21 March 2021 (University of New South Wales, Host: Daniel Chan)
• 22 March – 2 April 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Molev)

Vladimir Matveev (University of Jena)

Research interests: Finite dimensional integrable systems, classical differential geometry, projective geometry, Cartan parabolic geometry, mathematical physics, mathematical relativity

Dates:

• 15 February – 6 March 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)
• 7 March – 14 May 2021 (La Trobe University, Host: Yuri Nikolayevsky)
• 15 – 29 May 2021 (University of New South Wales, Host: Jonathan Kress)
• 30 May – 14 June 2021 (University of Adelaide, Host: Thomas Leistner and Michael Eastwood)

Wenjing Zhang (Texas Tech University)

Research interests: Nonlinear dynamical systems, mathematical biology, stochastic processes, scientific computation

Dates:

• 3 May – 13 June 2021 (University of Sydney, Hosts: Peter Kim and Martin Wechselberger)
• 14 – 30 June 2021 (Swinburne University of Technology, Host: Tonghua Zhang)

Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley)

Research interests: Representation theory, Lie algebras and superalgebras, algebraic geometry, Kac-Moody Lie algebras

Dates:

• 1 – 30 June 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)