SMRI International Visitor Program (Round 2 2024) outcomes

I am happy to announce that there were 23 successful applicants in the SMRI
International Visitor Program round which closed in August 2024.  Below is the list of
these visitors, in order of their visit dates, which are quite tentative in some cases.
This scnews item will not be updated as visit information changes, so for the most
current information see:
https://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/visiting-researchers/ 

As always, SMRI is grateful for the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise)
made by the hosts listed below, both inside and outside our School.  

The selections were made by the Scientific Advisory Committee of SMRI, listed on the
webpage: 

https://sydney.edu.au/research/centres/mathematical-research-institute.html 

The next IVP application round will open in mid December with a closing date in mid
February 2025, for visits taking place in 2026 onwards.  

-- Stephan "Tillus" Tillmann 

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Raffaele Argiento (University of Bergamo) Research interests: Bayesian nonparametrics,
mixture modelling, model based clustering, computational statistics Dates: 02/03/2026 -
12/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian) 

Wael Bahsoun (Loughborough University) Research interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical
systems Dates: 12/01/2026 - 23/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg
Gottwald) 04/01/2026 - 11/01/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Gary Froyland)
24/01/2026 - 30/01/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute), "Statistical
Properties and Extremes in Dynamical Systems - Theory and Numerics") 

Hans Boden (McMaster University) Research interests: Knot theory, low-dimensional
topology, gauge theory, character varieties Dates: 03/04/2026 - 25/04/2026 (SMRI,
University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso) 

Federico Camerlenghi (University of Milano-Bicocca) Research interests: Bayesian
nonparametrics, point processes, completely random measures, statistical methodology,
exchangeability Dates: 02/03/2026 - 12/04/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara
Grazian) 

Jing Cao (Southern Methodist University) Research interests: Bayesian modeling, clinical
trial design, explainable language model, sentiment analysis, spatial modeling Dates:
01/07/2025 - 31/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Linh Nghiem) 

Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland) Research interests: Dynamical systems,
probability theory, mathematical physics Dates: 18/01/2026 - 31/01/2026 (MATRIX
(Mathematical Research Institute), Host: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman) 12/01/2026 -
17/01/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald) 31/01/2026 - 08/02/2026
(Queensland University of Technology, Host: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman) 

Anne Dranowski (University of Southern California) Research interests: Representation
theory, approximation and asymptotics, machine learning Dates: 01/12/2025 - 30/01/2026
(SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer) 

Erika Hausenblas (University of Leoben) Research interests: Stochastic partial
differential equations, stochastic analysis, numerical analysis, stochastic modelling,
Lévy processes Dates: 01/08/2025 - 22/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Ben
Goldys) 23/08/2025 - 30/08/2025 (Monash University, Host: Ngan Le) 

Allen Knutson (Cornell University) Research interests: Algebraic combinatorics,
algebraic geometry, representation theory, symplectic geometry Dates: 20/06/2025 -
06/07/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Paul Zinn-Justin) 07/07/2025 - 20/07/2025
(SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Oded Yacobi) 

Ian Melbourne (University of Warwick) Research interests: Ergodic theory, links with
probability theory, links with stochastic analysis, equivariant dynamical systems Dates:
17/03/2026 - 17/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald) 

Aleksandar Milivojević (University of Waterloo) Research interests: Rational homotopy
theory, almost complex manifolds Dates: 15/07/2025 - 28/07/2025 (University of Adelaide,
Host: Michael Albanese) 01/07/2025 - 14/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host:
Jonathan Hillman) 

Oleh Omelchenko (University of Potsdam) Research interests: Nonlinear dynamics, complex
systems, pattern formation, bifurcation theory, singular perturbations Dates: 22/09/2025
- 19/10/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald) 20/10/2025 - 02/11/2025
(University of Western Australia, Host: Michael Small) 

Layla Parast (University of Texas at Austin) Research interests: Nonparametric
statistics, survival analysis, causal inference, surrogate marker evaluation, clinical
trials Dates: 30/06/2025 - 20/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Garth Tarr)
21/07/2025 - 10/08/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Aurore Delaigle) 

Tommaso Proietti (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Research interests: Statistics, time
series analysis, data analysis, applied macroeconomics Dates: 07/07/2025 - 08/08/2025
(SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Shelton Peiris) 

Hwayeon Ryu (Elon University) Research interests: Mathematical biology, modeling of
immune response to COVID-19 Dates: 02/03/2026 - 20/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney,
Host: Peter Kim) 21/03/2026 - 02/04/2026 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute),
Collaborative Workshop for Under-Represented Genders Advancing Mathematical Biology) 

Liron Speyer (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Research interests:
Representation theory Dates: 22/01/2026 - 12/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host:
Andrew Mathas) 

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania) Research interests: Causal inference
, semiparametric theory, missing data , statistical genetics , environmental statistics
Dates: 20/01/2026 - 15/06/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang) 

Ilaria Viglino (EPFL Lausanne) Research interests: Analytic number theory, field theory,
geometry of numbers, sphere packings, module lattices Dates: 11/08/2025 - 24/08/2025
(SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dzmitry Badziahin) 25/08/2025 - 14/09/2025
(University of Canberra, Host: Bryce Kerr) 

Hanh Vo (Arizona State University) Research interests: Hyperbolic geometry, geometric
group theory, low dimensional topology Dates: 01/07/2025 - 30/08/2025 (SMRI, University
of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas) 

Polina Vytnova (University of Surrey) Research interests: Dynamical systems, ergodic
theory , fractal geometry Dates: 13/08/2025 - 31/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney,
Host: Caroline Wormell) 01/09/2025 - 15/09/2025 (Monash University, Host: Warwick
Tucker) 

Kui Wang (Soochow University) Research interests: Partial differential equations,
differential geometry Dates: 02/07/2025 - 30/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host:
Haotian Wu) 

Jakob Zech (Heidelberg University) Research interests: Uncertainty quantification,
theory of neural networks, high dimensional approximation, numerics of PDEs, statistical
inference Dates: 02/03/2026 - 27/03/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang
Cui) 

Wadim Zudilin (Radboud University Nijmegen) Research interests: Number theory, special
functions, combinatorics, arithmetic geometry Dates: 27/07/2025 - 23/08/2025 (University
of Newcastle, Host: Florian Breuer) 13/07/2025 - 26/07/2025 (University of Queensland,
Host: Ole Warnaar) 04/08/2025 - 16/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John
Voight)