Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – August 2020

Visit information up to date as of 13 October 2020. For current information, see the visitor list.

Sydney Mathematical Research Institute acknowledges the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise) to the International Visitor Program made by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney and by the hosts and universities listed below.

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London)

Research interests: Spectral methods, orthogonal polynomials, complex analysis

Dates:

  • 1 April – 15 May 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geoffrey Vasil)

Henri Guenancia (Paul Sabatier University)

Research interests: Complex algebraic and analytic geometry, canonical metrics in complex geometry

Dates:

  • 5 April – 7 May 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)

Christof Melcher (RWTH Aachen University)

Research interests: Partial differential equations, calculus of variations, mathematical physics, geometric analysis, stochastic differential equations

Dates:

  • 17 May – 15 July 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys)

Rafał Kulik (University of Ottawa)

Research interests: Time series, long memory, heavy tails, extreme value theory, empirical processes

Dates:

  • 1 June – 31 July 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Qiying Wang)

Erwan Rousseau (Aix-Marseille University)

Research interests: Complex algebraic and analytic geometry, Kobayashi hyperbolicity, holomorphic foliations

Dates:

  • 1 June – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)

Mark Andrea de Cataldo (Stony Brook University, New York)

Research interests: Topology, Hodge and cycle theory of algebraic maps

Dates:

  • 1 July – 15 October 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)

Jana de Wiljes (University of Potsdam)

Research interests: Data assimilation, unsupervised learning, data analysis, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification

Dates:

  • 2 – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
  • 1 – 21 September 2021 (University of Tasmania, Host: Terence O’Kane)
  • 22 September – 13 October 2021 (Monash University, Host: Tiangang Cui)

Andrew Krause (University of Oxford)

Research interests: Mathematical biology, pattern formation, partial differential equations, dynamical systems

Dates:

  • 2 – 31 August 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim)
  • 1 – 14 September 2021 (Monash University, Host: Mark Flegg)

Francisco Crespo (University of Bío-Bío)

Research interests: Continuous dynamical systems, Hamiltonian dynamics, geometric mechanics, celestial mechanics

Dates:

  • 2 August – 10 November 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)

Hans Boden (McMaster University)

Research interests: Low-dimensional topology, knots and links, invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, gauge theory, character varieties

Dates:

  • 16 August – 9 October 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso)

Jonathan Kujawa (University of Oklahoma)

Research interests: Algebraic Lie theory, representation theory of Lie (super)algebras and related structures, combinatorial, geometric, categorical methods in representation theory

Dates:

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

Paul Griffiths (Coventry University)

Research interests: Hydrodynamics, stability, non-Newtonian, boundary layer flows

Dates:

  • 1 November – 1 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Sharon Stephen)
  • 2 – 8 December 2021 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Michael Dallaston)

Ivan Angiono (National University of Córdoba)

Research interests: Quantum groups, Hopf algebras, tensor categories

Dates:

  • 1 November – 15 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)

Claudia Bucur (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Research interests: Partial and integro-differential equations, nonlocal operators, calculus of variations, geometric analysis

Dates:

  • 1 – 31 October 2021 (The University of Western Australia, Host: Enrico Valdinoci)
  • 1 – 21 November 2021 (MATRIX)
  • 22 November – 20 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Hauer)

Vladimir Kazakov (University of Paris)

Research interests: Theoretical and mathematical physics, quantum field theory, quantum and classical integrability, matrix models, theoretical statistical mechanics

Dates:

  • 1 – 15 December 2021 (University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Molev)
  • 16 – 31 December 2021 (Australian National University, Host: Vladimir Bazhanov)
  • 5 – 15 January 2022 (The University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin)

Martin Schmidt (University of Mannheim)

Research interests: Integrable systems, geometric analysis

Dates:

  • 13 December 2021 – 5 February 2022 (University of Sydney, Host: Emma Carberry)
Stephen Morgan