Nancy Scherich
International visitor Dr Nancy Scherich discusses her research on braids, life as an early career researcher, and her experience combining mathematics with her love of dance.
A message from the Executive Director
A message from inaugural Executive Director Anthony Henderson after one year of opening the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute.
Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – January 2020
Congratulations to the successful applicants of the International Visitor Program – January 2020.
Nancy Reid
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 ...
Syarifah Nordin
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, ...
Nalini Joshi wins a 2019 Premier’s Prize
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.
Cheryl Praeger wins the 2019 PM’s Prize for Science
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.
Successful applicants for the International Visitor Program – July 2019
Congratulations to the successful applicants of the International Visitor Program – July 2019.
This Sounds like Science: Why Music is Maths
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 ...
Gwyn Bellamy
Dr Gwyn Bellamy is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and is among the first visitors through SMRI's International Visitor Program. Hailing from a small village on the Welsh coast, the school-aged Bellamy made the decision of where to study maths on a cattle showground, at a university careers fair in the village of Carmarthen.