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Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad: Using complex systems to understand epidemics, climate change and social media
In October 2025, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad visited SMRI and her host, Eduardo Altmann, as part of the International Visitor Program, from the SRH University of Applied Sciences. In this interview, she…
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Reflections: Modern perspectives in representation theory
Aside from the ongoing seminar series, SMRI has committed to running yearly themed special semesters. From May to June 2025, Modern perspectives in representation theory ran at SMRI, organised by…
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Computing the Hausdorff dimension of the Apollonian gasket with Caroline Wormell
The Apollonian gasket is a well-known fractal identified more than 2000 years ago by Apollonius of Perga. The distribution of circle radii within the construct is governed by the Hausdorff…
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Jonathan Gruber uses symmetry as a tool to understand mathematical objects
Pure mathematician Jonathan Gruber visited SMRI from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in January 2025. His research interests include representation theory, algebraic groups, tensor categories, Hecke algebras, and homological algebra. In…
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Xenia de la Ossa and Philip Candelas in conversation with Geordie Williamson
SMRI Director Geordie Williamson sat down to chat to Oxford University Mathematicians Xenia de la Ossa and Philip Candelas, who visited SMRI in September 2024. This interview explores general characteristics…
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Interview with Jessica Fintzen
Jessica Fintzen’s research interests include representation theory and number theory: two areas of mathematics with a mysterious relationship. In this interview, Jessica gives us a rundown of p-adic groups and…
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Interview with SMRI visitor Andrew Krause
Applied mathematician Andrew Krause visited SMRI in June 2023. In this interview, Andrew discusses how to model biological processes and other dynamical systems, from human fingerprint pattern formation to Turing’s…
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Spotlight on topology and algebraic geometry: Iva Halacheva and Marcy Robertson
SMRI visitors Iva Halacheva (Northeastern University) and Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne) have published a paper that sets out a topological characterisation of the Kashiwara–Vergne groups, along with their SMRI…
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Laureate interview with Endre Szemerédi
In September 2022, SMRI’s communications coordinator Larissa Fedunik had the privilege of interviewing 2012 Abel Prize winner Endre Szemerédi at the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Watch the interview with the…
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Interview with SMRI visitor Francisco Crespo
Over the second half of 2022, Francisco Crespo worked on a project related to the full n-body problem, which refers to the motion of rigid bodies in space. Find out…
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2022 Toronto visitors: topological interpretations of knots, curves & more
In July 2022, international visitors from Toronto (Nancy Scherich, Dror Bar-Natan and Jessica Liu), visited SMRI to work on a topological algebra project with University of Sydney mathematician Zsuzsanna Dancso.…
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Spotlight on spectral flow: Matthias Lesch
SMRI’s first visitor Professor Matthias Lesch and his Australian collaborators have recently published a paper on spectral flow in the Journal of Topology and Analysis. Based at the Mathematical Institute…