Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – July 2019

Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)

Research interests: Theoretical statistics, statistical inference, likelihood methods, asymptotic theory of statistics, foundations of inference, interface between statistics and data science, applications of statistical theory

Dates:

• 20 January – 5 February 2020, 7 – 20 April 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Samuel Mueller)
• 6 February – 27 March 2020 (Monash University, Host: Di Cook)
• 28 March – 6 April 2020 (University of Melbourne, Host: Aurore Delaigle)

Bob Rink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Research interests: Dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, equivariant dynamics, coupled cell networks, synchronization, coupled oscillators, Hamiltonian systems, KAM theory, Aubry Mather theory, monotone recurrence relations

Dates:

• 3 February – 1 July 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Martin Wechselberger)

Sandro Vaienti (University of Toulon)

Research interests: Statistical properties of dynamical systems, decay of correlations, limit theorems, non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems, random perturbations of dynamical systems, extreme value theory

Dates:

• 1 – 15 April 2020 (University of New South Wales, Host: Gary Froyland)
• 16 – 30 April 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
• 1 – 10 May 2020 (University of Queensland, Host: Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman)

Changfeng Gui (University of Texas at San Antonio)

Research interests: Nonlinear partial differential equations arising from geometric analysis and physical sciences

Dates:

• 1 April – 31 May 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Hauer)

Enrique Pardo Espino (Universidad de Cádiz)

Research interests: Algebras associated to combinatorial structures: graphs, self-similar actions, inverse semigroups, groupoids and small categories

Dates:

• 12 April – 9 May 2020 (University of Wollongong, Host: Aidan Sims)
• 10 – 23 May 2020 (University of Newcastle, Host: Alejandra Garrido Angulo)
• 24 May – 6 June 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe)

Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia)

Research interests: Algebraic geometry, including moduli spaces, birational geometry, minimal model program, combinatorial algebraic geometry, and algebraic groups

Dates:

• 25 April – 2 May 2020 (Australian National University, Host: Anand Deopurkar)
• 3 – 25 May 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson)

Matteo Burzoni (ETH Zurich)

Research interests: Financial mathematics, economics, stochastic analysis, game theory, PDE

Dates TBC:

• 26 April – 30 May 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit)

Vladimir Dragović (University of Texas at Dallas)

Research interests: Integrable systems, Painlevé and Schlesinger equations, billiards, rigid body systems, extremal polynomials, Riemann surfaces

Dates:

• 1 – 30 June 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Milena Radnović)

Mariusz Urbański (University of North Texas)

Research interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems, conformal dynamical systems, holomorphic dynamical systems, random dynamical systems, iterated function systems, thermodynamic formalism, Kleinian groups, gas lattices, statistical physics

Dates:

• 1 – 14 June 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Fish)
• 15 June – 31 July 2020 (University of New South Wales, Hosts: Gary Froyland and Jason Atnip)

Jiuzu Hong (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Research interests: Representation theory, algebraic geometry

Dates:

• 1 June – 31 July 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Oded Yacobi)

Johannes Schleischitz (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus)

Research interests: Diophantine approximation, transcendence theory, lattices, homogeneous dynamics, geometry of numbers, uniform distribution, mass theory

Dates:

• 15 June – 15 July 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Dmitry Badziahin)
• 16 July – 15 August 2020 (La Trobe University, Host: Mumtaz Hussain)

Lisa Orloff Clark (Victoria University of Wellington)

Research interests: Functional analysis and operator algebras, topological groupoids and their associated algebras, connections between functional analysis and ring theory

Dates:

• 1 – 15 July 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe)
• 15 July – 12 August 2020 (University of Wollongong, Host: Aidan Sims)

Vidit Nanda (University of Oxford)

Research interests: Applied and computational algebraic topology, Morse theory, constructible sheaves and stacks on stratified spaces

Dates:

• 1 July – 1 September 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Yusra Naqvi)
• 2 September – 1 October 2020 (Australian National University, Host: Katharine Turner)

Hung Tran (University of Oklahoma)

Research interests: Geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology

Dates:

• 6 July – 15 August 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas)

Kenneth Ascher (Princeton University)

Research interests: Moduli of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, birational geometry, K-stability, applications to arithmetic

Dates:

• 13 July – 14 August 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)

Holger Waalkens (University of Groningen)

Research interests: Dynamical systems, Hamiltonian systems, integrable systems, mathematical physics, semiclassics, optics

Dates:

• 20 July – 20 September 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)

Alex Townsend (Cornell University)

Research interests: Spectral methods, low rank approximation, orthogonal polynomials, fast transforms, and multilinear algebra

Dates:

• 3 – 18 August 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Geoffrey Vasil)
• 19 August – 2 September 2020 (University of New South Wales, Host: Frances Kuo)

Ágnes Cseh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Research interests: Discrete mathematics, graph theory, graph algorithms, complexity theory, matchings under preferences

Dates:

• 16 August – 11 September 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Julian Mestre)
• 12 – 26 September 2020 (University of New South Wales, Host: Haris Aziz)

Péter Koltai (Freie Universität Berlin)

Research interests: Theoretical, numerical, and efficient data-based analysis and modelling of complex, chaotic, multiscale, and stochastic systems

Dates:

• 17 – 30 August 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
• 31 August – 26 September 2020 (University of New South Wales, Host: Gary Froyland)

Yongsheng Zhang (Tongji University)

Research interests: Geometry and topology, especially calibrated geometry and minimal submanifolds

Dates:

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

Shamik Gupta (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and
Research Institute)

Research interests: Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, quantum dynamics

Dates:

• 1 November – 15 December 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann)

Jonathan James Wylie (City University of Hong Kong)

Research interests: Fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, mathematical models for ion transport

Dates:

• 2 – 8 November 2020 (University of Adelaide, Host: Yvonne Stokes)
• 9 -13 November 2020 (University of South Australia, Host: Bronwyn Hajek)
• 14 – 28 November 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Martin Wechselberger)

Elena Issoglio (University of Leeds)

Research interests: Stochastic analysis with strong links to the theory of PDEs

Dates:

• 9 November – 1 December 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys)
• 2 – 9 December 2020 (University of New South Wales, Host: Thanh Tran)

Tiziano De Angelis (University of Leeds)

Research interests: Optimal stopping, singular stochastic control, free boundary problems, stochastic games and mathematical finance

Dates:

• 9 November – 9 December 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit)

Jeroen Schillewaert (University of Auckland)

Research interests: Tits buildings and related areas

Dates:

• 15 – 28 November 2020, 4 – 18 December 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas)
• 28 November – 4 December 2020 (MATRIX)

Henri Berestycki (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres)

Research interests: Calculus of variations, qualitative theory of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations, free boundary problems, propagation phenomena, mathematical models in physics, biology, ecology, and social sciences

Dates:

• 20 November – 4 December 2020 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Daners)
• 4 – 20 December 2020, including AustMS Annual Meeting (University of New England, Host: Yihong Du)