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Successful applicants for SMRI's International Visitor Program – August 2020 include Sheehan Olver, Henri Guenancia, Christof Melcher, Rafał Kulik, Erwan Rousseau, Mark Andrea de Cataldo, Jana de Wiljes, Paul Griffiths, Ivan Angiono, Vladimir Kazakov and Martin Schmidt.

Congratulations to Geordie who has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, in the category of Leadership in Innovation and Science.

Visit information up to date as of 04 August 2020. For current information, see the visitor list. James Borger (Australian National University) Research interests: Algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry Dates: 7 September – 18 September 2020 Lance Gurney (Australian National University) Research interests: Prismatic cohomology, shtukas, Dieudonné theory, CM elliptic curves, Drinfeld modules, Lubin-Tate modules, ...

Dr Nancy Scherich (Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, North Carolina) discusses her research on braids, life as an early career researcher, and her experience combining mathematics with her love of dance. Dr Scherich was the 2017 winner of the Dance your PhD competition.

We have just passed one year since the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute opened its doors. Thanks to the hard work of our staff, and the strength of mathematical research at the University of Sydney and across Australia, we have been privileged to host a total of 80 visiting researchers in our first year. Like similar ...

Visit information up to date as of 04 March 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. Nancy ...

In the era of big data and machine learning, everybody is trying to extract the best quality information from their data. It’s a complicated task, but one statisticians have been working on for more than a century, long before anyone could even conceive of Facebook or Google. This is the field in which Professor Nancy ...

Have you ever been driving down the highway and found yourself stuck behind a slow-moving car, blocking an otherwise fast-moving lane? When this happens to Dr Syarifah Nordin, Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, her mind jumps to mathematics. Dr Nordin works in operations research, the mathematics of decision-making. It uses a combination of analysis, ...

The Sydney Mathematical Research Institute would like to congratulate Professor Nalini Joshi, a member of our Scientific Advisory Committee, on winning the 2019 NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics.

The Sydney Mathematical Research Institute would like to congratulate Professor Cheryl Praeger on winning the 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Professor Praeger, a member of our advisory board, is the first mathematician, and only the second person in the mathematical sciences, to be awarded the prize.

Visit information up to date as of 23 September 2019 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. Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) Research interests: Theoretical ...

Why do guitars, flutes and voices sound different? How do we hear the different notes in a piece of music? Why does the sound of a whistle feel simpler than that of a violin? Most importantly, what does all of this have to do with the cover of Pink Floyd’s “The dark side of the ...