Visiting Researchers

• 01 Sep 2020 – 28 Feb 2021Linyuan Liu (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

  Research interests: Geometric representation theory

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  • 01 Sep – 28 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson

• 01 Sep 2020 – 31 Aug 2021Anna Romanov (University of Waterloo)

  Research interests: Lie algebras, real reductive Lie groups, Whittaker modules, D-modules, Soergel bimodules, Gelfand pairs, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials

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  • 01 Sep – 31 Aug University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson

• 09 Nov 2020 – 22 Nov 2020David Robertson (University of New England) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Combinatorial models for C*-algebras

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  • 09 Nov – 22 Nov University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe

• 16 Nov 2020 – 27 Nov 2020Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Operator algebras and their applications, especially C*-algebras associated to dynamics

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  • 16 Nov – 27 Nov University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe

• 30 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020Jie Yen Fan (Monash University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Probability theory and stochastic analysis

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  • 30 Nov – 18 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys

• 30 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020Ivan Guo (Monash University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Financial mathematics, stochastic control, optimal transport, model calibration, robust finance, stochastic games, graph theory, machine learning

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  • 30 Nov – 18 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit

• 30 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020Peter McNamara (University of Melbourne) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Representation theory, number theory, algebraic combinatorics

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  • 30 Nov – 18 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Oded Yacobi

• 11 Jan 2021 – 29 Jan 2021Yury Stepanyants (University of Southern Queensland) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Theory of nonlinear oscillations and waves, physical oceanography, vortices in fluids and in geophysical fluid dynamics, theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, instability of shear flows

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  • 11 Jan – 29 Jan University of Sydney,

• 11 Jan 2021 – 14 Feb 2021Mumtaz Hussain (La Trobe University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Analytical number theory, ergodic theory, dynamical systems

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  • 11 Jan – 14 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Dzmitry Badziahin and Alexander Fish

• 25 Jan 2021 – 12 Feb 2021Mehdi Tavakol (University of Melbourne) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Moduli spaces of curves, algebraic cycles, motives, triangulated categories, Calabi-Yau manifolds, Landau-Ginzburg theory, Higgs bundles, Frobenius manifolds

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  • 25 Jan – 12 Feb University of Sydney,

• 25 Jan 2021 – 19 Feb 2021Theodore Vo (Monash University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Origins and properties of rhythms in neural and cardiac systems

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  • 25 Jan – 19 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Martin Wechselberger

• 01 Feb 2021 – 12 Feb 2021Murray Elder (University of Technology Sydney) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Geometric group theory, complexity theory, automata and formal language theory, enumerative combinatorics, pattern-avoiding permutations

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  • 01 Feb – 12 Feb University of Sydney,

• 01 Feb 2021 – 12 Feb 2021Adam Piggott (Australian National University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Combinatorial and geometric group theory

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  • 01 Feb – 12 Feb University of Sydney,

• 01 Feb 2021 – 14 Feb 2021Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Operad theory, homotopy theory, higher category theory

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  • 01 Feb – 14 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso

• 08 Feb 2021 – 19 Feb 2021Bronwyn Hajek (University of South Australia) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Analytical solution of evolution equations, reaction-diffusion equations

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  • 08 Feb – 19 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Robert Marangell

• 15 Feb 2021 – 26 Feb 2021Kari Vilonen (University of Melbourne) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Geometric representation theory

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  • 15 Feb – 26 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson

• 15 Feb 2021 – 26 Feb 2021Ting Xue (University of Melbourne) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Geometric aspects of representation theory, algebraic groups, algebraic geometry

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  • 15 Feb – 26 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Anthony Henderson

• 01 Apr 2021 – 15 May 2021Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London) – IVP2020 round 2

  Research interests: Spectral methods, orthogonal polynomials, complex analysis

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  • 01 Apr – 15 May University of Sydney, Host: Geoffrey Vasil

• 03 May 2021 – 30 Jun 2021Wenjing Zhang (Texas Tech University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Nonlinear dynamical systems, mathematical biology, stochastic processes, scientific computation

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  • 03 May – 13 Jun University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim and Martin Wechselberger
  • 14 Jun – 30 Jun Swinburne University of Technology, Host: Tonghua Zhang

• 17 May 2021 – 15 Jul 2021Christof Melcher (RWTH Aachen University) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 17 May – 15 Jul University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys

• 01 Jun 2021 – 30 Jun 2021Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Representation theory, Lie algebras and superalgebras, algebraic geometry, Kac-Moody Lie algebras

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  • 01 Jun – 30 Jun University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier

• 01 Jun 2021 – 31 Jul 2021Rafał Kulik (University of Ottawa) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Jun – 31 Jul University of Sydney, Host: Qiying Wang

• 01 Jun 2021 – 31 Aug 2021Erwan Rousseau (Aix-Marseille University) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Jun – 31 Aug University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji

• 27 Jun 2021 – 10 Jul 2021Ngan Le (Monash University) – DVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Dynamics in nano-magnetics, anomalous sub-diffusion problems and porous media problems

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  • 27 Jun – 10 Jul University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys

• 01 Jul 2021 – 31 Aug 2021Johannes Schleischitz (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) – IVP2019 round 2

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

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  • 01 Jul – 31 Jul University of Sydney, Host: Dmitry Badziahin
  • 01 Aug – 31 Aug La Trobe University, Host: Mumtaz Hussain

• 01 Jul 2021 – 15 Oct 2021Mark Andrea de Cataldo (Stony Brook University, New York) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Jul – 15 Oct University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson

• 02 Aug 2021 – 14 Sep 2021Andrew Krause (University of Oxford) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 02 Aug – 31 Aug University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim
  • 01 Sep – 14 Sep Monash University, Host: Mark Flegg

• 02 Aug 2021 – 13 Oct 2021Jana de Wiljes (University of Potsdam) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 02 Aug – 31 Aug University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald
  • 01 Sep – 21 Sep University of Tasmania, Host: Terence O'Kane
  • 22 Sep – 13 Oct Monash University, Host: Tiangang Cui

• 02 Aug 2021 – 10 Nov 2021Francisco Crespo (University of Bío-Bío) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 02 Aug – 10 Nov University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin

• 16 Aug 2021 – 09 Oct 2021Hans Boden (McMaster University) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 16 Aug – 09 Oct University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso

• 01 Oct 2021 – 30 Nov 2021Jonathan Kujawa (University of Oklahoma) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Oct – 30 Nov University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier

• 01 Oct 2021 – 20 Dec 2021Claudia Bucur (University of Milano-Bicocca) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Oct – 31 Oct University of Western Australia, Host: Enrico Valdinoci
  • 01 Nov – 21 Nov MATRIX,
  • 22 Nov – 20 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Hauer

• 04 Oct 2021 – 05 Nov 2021Henri Guenancia (Paul Sabatier University) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 04 Oct – 05 Nov University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji

• 01 Nov 2021 – 08 Dec 2021Paul Griffiths (Coventry University) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Nov – 01 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Sharon Stephen
  • 02 Dec – 08 Dec Queensland University of Technology, Host: Michael Dallaston

• 01 Nov 2021 – 15 Dec 2021Ivan Angiono (National University of Córdoba) – IVP2020 round 2

  Research interests: Quantum groups, Hopf algebras, tensor categories

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  • 01 Nov – 15 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson

• 08 Nov 2021 – 03 Dec 2021Tamás Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Hamiltonian systems, transient chaos, transport, time series analysis, synchronization, recurrence networks

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  • 08 Nov – 03 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Altmann

• 01 Dec 2021 – 16 Jan 2022Vladimir Kazakov (University of Paris) – IVP2020 round 2

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

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  • 01 Dec – 15 Dec University of Sydney, Host: Alexander Molev
  • 15 Dec – 31 Dec Australian National University, Host: Vladimir Bazhanov
  • 05 Jan – 16 Jan University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin

• 13 Dec 2021 – 25 Feb 2022Martin Schmidt (University of Mannheim) – IVP2020 round 2

  Research interests: Integrable systems, geometric analysis

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  • 13 Dec – 25 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Emma Carberry

• 24 Jan 2022 – 07 Apr 2022Suojin Wang (Texas A&M University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Statistical theory and methodology, measurement error models, missing data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, resampling methods, small sample asymptotics, survey sampling

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  • 24 Jan – 05 Feb University of Sydney, Host: Samuel Muller
  • 06 Feb – 22 Feb Australian National University, Host: Alan Welsh
  • 23 Feb – 07 Apr University of Sydney, Host: Samuel Muller

• Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Moduli spaces, birational geometry, minimal model program, combinatorial algebraic geometry, algebraic groups
• Kenneth Ascher (Princeton University) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Moduli of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, birational geometry, K-stability, applications to arithmetic
• James Bagrow (University of Vermont) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Network science and complex systems, data science, machine learning, computational social science, optimization, statistical physics
• Henri Berestycki (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) – IVP2019 round 2

  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
• Gregory Berkolaiko (Texas A&M University) – IVP2019 round 1

  Research interests: Spectral theory of differential operators and graphs and networks
• Jared Bronski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Applied partial differential equations, stability of travelling waves and coherent structures, eigenvalue and index problems related to stability
• Matteo Burzoni (University of Oxford) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Financial mathematics, economics, stochastic analysis, game theory, PDE
• Lisa Orloff Clark (Victoria University of Wellington) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Functional analysis and operator algebras, topological groupoids and their associated algebras, connections between functional analysis and ring theory
• Darren Crowdy (Imperial College, London) – IVP2019 round 1

  Research interests: Applied and computational complex analysis, special function theory, fluid and solid mechanics
• Ágnes Cseh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Discrete mathematics, graph theory, graph algorithms, complexity theory, matchings under preferences
• Alexei Davydov (Ohio University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Algebra, category theory, theoretical physics
• Tiziano De Angelis (University of Leeds) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Optimal stopping, singular stochastic control, free boundary problems, stochastic games, mathematical finance
• Vladimir Dragović (University of Texas, Dallas) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Integrable systems, Painlevé and Schlesinger equations, billiards, rigid body systems, extremal polynomials, Riemann surfaces
• Maksym Fedorchuk (Boston College) – IVP2019 round 1

  Research interests: Moduli spaces of curves, stability of projective varieties, geometric invariant theory
• Michael Griebel (University of Bonn) – IVP2020 round 1

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• Changfeng Gui (University of Texas, San Antonio) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Nonlinear partial differential equations arising from geometric analysis and physical sciences
• Jérémie Guilhot (University of Tours) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Kazhdan-Lusztig theory in Coxeter groups with unequal parameters
• Shamik Gupta (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, quantum dynamics
• Jiuzu Hong (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Representation theory, algebraic geometry
• Elena Issoglio (University of Leeds) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Stochastic analysis with strong links to the theory of PDEs
• Monique Jeanblanc (University of Évry) – IVP2019 round 1

  Research interests: Enlargement of filtrations, portfolio optimization, default risk
• Patrice Koehl (University of California, Davis) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Geometry and topology of shapes, optimal transport, statistical physics, large eigenvalue problems arising in biological sciences
• Péter Koltai (Freie Universität Berlin) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Theoretical, numerical, and efficient data-based analysis and modelling of complex, chaotic, multiscale, and stochastic systems
• Peng Lu (University of Oregon) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Geometric analysis, Ricci flow, complex geometry
• Vladimir Matveev (University of Jena) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Finite dimensional integrable systems, classical differential geometry, projective geometry, Cartan parabolic geometry, mathematical physics, mathematical relativity
• Anne Moreau (University of Lille) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Representation theory, Lie algebras, vertex algebras, nilpotent orbits, arc schemes
• Vidit Nanda (University of Oxford) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Applied and computational algebraic topology, Morse theory, constructible sheaves and stacks on stratified spaces
• Frank Nijhoff (University of Leeds) – IVP2018

  Research interests: Discrete systems, variational calculus, quantum mechanics, partial differential equations, difference equations
• Syarifah Nordin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) – IVP2018

  Research interests: Task scheduling, parallel processor system, mixed integer linear programming, optimization
• Xingbin Pan (East China Normal University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Nonlinear PDEs and systems, calculus of variations, mathematical theory of superconductivity, liquid crystals, electromagnetism
• Enrique Pardo (University of Cádiz) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Algebras associated to combinatorial structures: graphs, self-similar actions, inverse semigroups, groupoids and small categories
• Franz Pedit (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) – IVP2018

  Research interests: Differential geometry, integrable systems, harmonic maps
• Nancy Scherich (University of Toronto) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Knot theory, finite type invariant theory, representation theory of braid groups
• Jeroen Schillewaert (University of Auckland) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Tits buildings and related areas
• Susan Sierra (University of Edinburgh) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Noncommutative ring theory, noncommutative algebraic geometry, enveloping algebras of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
• Dave Smith (Yale-NUS College) – IVP2019 round 1

  Research interests: Spectral theory of differential operators, well-posedness of initial boundary value problems for linear PDE, complex boundary conditions
• Alexandru Suciu (Northeastern University) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Algebraic and geometric topology
• Alex Townsend (Cornell University) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Spectral methods, low rank approximation, orthogonal polynomials, fast transforms, multilinear algebra
• Hung Tran (University of Oklahoma) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology
• Mariusz Urbański (University of North Texas) – IVP2019 round 2

  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
• Sandro Vaienti (University of Toulon) – IVP2019 round 2

  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
• Bianca Viray (University of Washington) – IVP2020 round 1

  Research interests: Rational points on varieties, cohomological obstructions, arithmetic of rational varieties, isolated points on curves
• Holger Waalkens (University of Groningen) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Dynamical systems, Hamiltonian systems, integrable systems, mathematical physics, semiclassics, optics
• Jonathan James Wylie (City University of Hong Kong) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, mathematical models for ion transport
• Yongsheng Zhang (Tongji University) – IVP2019 round 2

  Research interests: Calibrated geometry, minimal submanifolds

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