SMRI International Visitor Program 2024 Round 1 - Outcomes

SMRI International Visitor Program 2024 Round 1 - Outcomes 

I am happy to announce that there were 24 successful applicants in the SMRI
International Visitor Program round which closed in February 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 the Visitor list on the SMRI webpage -
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://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/.  The next IVP
application round will open in later this year.  

-- Stephan ’Tillus’ Tillmann 

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International Visitor Program - 2024 round 1
Successful Applicants

Visit information up to date as of 05 April 2024

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.

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Laki Michel Faustin (Faustin) Adiceam (University Paris-Est Creteil)

Research interests: Number theory, measure theory, discrete and continous analysis, 
convex geometry, applications to information theory

Dates:	
02/06/2025 - 30/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Dmitry Badziahin)


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Alejandra Avalos Pacheco (Vienna University of Technology)

Research interests: Bayesian statistics, heterogenous data integration, high-dimensional 
inference, latent factor models, graphical models

Dates:	
27/01/2025 - 09/02/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)

10/02/2025 - 23/02/2025 (University of Wollongong, Host: Matt Moores)

24/02/2025 - 28/02/2025 (Monash University, Host: Jack Jewson)


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Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto)

Research interests: Low dimensional topology, knot theory, quantum algebra

Dates:	
26/05/2025 - 06/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Zsuzsanna Dancso)


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Theodora Bourni (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Research interests: Geometric measure theory, calculus of variations, (nonlinear) 
partial differential equations , differential geometry, convex geometry

Dates:	
20/01/2025 - 31/01/2025 (Monash University, Host: Julie Clutterbuck)

11/02/2025 - 21/02/2025 (Australian National University, Host: Mat Langford)

06/01/2025 - 19/01/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Haotian Wu)


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Barbara Brandolini (University of Palermo)

Research interests: Elliptic PDEs, shape optimization problems, symmetrization, calculus 
of variations

Dates:	
15/07/2025 - 15/09/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Florica-Corina Cirstea)


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Philip Candelas (Retired (University of Oxford))

Research interests: Mathematical structures of string theory, mathematical physics

Dates:	
01/09/2024 - 13/09/2024 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute)
14/09/2024 - 25/09/2024 (University of Melbourne, Host: Johanna Knapp)
18/08/2024 - 24/08/2024 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)
25/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 (University of New South Wales, Host: Jock McOrist)


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Charlotte Chan (University of Michigan)
Research interests: Representation theory, p-adic groups, character sheaves, L-packets

Dates:	
20/02/2025 - 17/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)


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Graham Cox (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Research interests: Spectral geometry, partial differential equations, geometric analysis

Dates:	
01/05/2025 - 25/05/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Jesse Gell-Redman)
26/05/2025 - 15/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Robert Marangell)
16/06/2025 - 27/06/2025 (University of Western Australia, Host: Serena Dipierro)


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Hailong Dao (University of Kansas)

Research interests: Commutative algebra, combinatorics, algebraic geometry, homological 
algebra

Dates:	
10/05/2025 - 01/06/2025 (Macquarie University, Host: Bregje Pauwels)
02/06/2025 - 14/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: June Park)
26/05/2025 - 30/05/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Daniel Murfet)


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Xenia de la Ossa (University of Oxford)
Research interests: Mathematical structures of string theory, quantum field theory and 
theoretical physics, geometry and number theory

Dates:	
01/09/2024 - 13/09/2024 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute)
14/09/2024 - 25/09/2024 (University of Melbourne, Host: Johanna Knapp)
18/08/2024 - 24/08/2024 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)
25/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 (University of New South Wales, Host: Jock McOrist)


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Sergey Dolgov (University of Bath)

Research interests: Numerical analysis, high-dimensional approximations, uncertainty 
quantification

Dates:	
03/02/2025 - 14/03/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Cui)


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Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK))

Research interests: Complex systems and networks, mathematical and computational 
epidemiology, statistical physics, data science, computational social science

Dates:	
27/01/2025 - 28/02/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Eduardo Goldani Altmann)


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Jonathan Gruber (University of York)

Research interests: Representation theory, algebraic groups, tensor categories, Hecke 
algebras, homological algebra

Dates:	
06/01/2025 - 01/02/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer)
02/02/2025 - 15/02/2025 (University of Melbourne, Host: Arun Ram)


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Tejas Kalelkar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)

Research interests: Low-dimensional topology, manifold triangulations, Heegaard 
splittings, hyperbolic geometry

Dates:	
02/06/2025 - 28/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Spreer)
05/05/2025 - 01/06/2025 (Monash University, Host: Jessica Purcell)


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Karina Koval (Heidelberg University)

Research interests: Optimal experimental design, bayesian inverse problems

Dates:	
03/02/2025 - 14/03/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Cui)


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Thomas Lam (University of Michigan)

Research interests: Algebraic combinatorics, combinatorial algebraic geometry

Dates:	
20/02/2025 - 17/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Geordie Williamson)


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Yunwen Lei (University of Hong Kong)

Research interests: Learning theory, machine learning, stochastic optimization

Dates:	
01/08/2025 - 28/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Ding-Xuan Zhou)


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Joseph Malinzi (University of Eswatini)

Research interests: Mathematical biology, computational mathematics

Dates:	
20/01/2025 - 21/02/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim)


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Vladimir Matveev (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Research interests: Classical differential geometry, projective differential geometry, 
Finsler geometry, finite dimensional integrable systems, Hamiltonian systems

Dates:	
24/02/2025 - 07/03/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)
08/02/2025 - 23/02/2025 (La Trobe University, Host: Yuri Nikolayevsky)


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Anand Oza (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Research interests: Fluid dynamics, mathematical modeling, soft matter physics

Dates:	
06/01/2025 - 31/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Christopher Lustri)


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Eric Sedgwick (DePaul University)

Research interests: Computational topology, triangulations, normal surfaces, algorithms

Dates:	
23/06/2025 - 02/08/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)


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Matteo Tanzi (King’s College London)

Research interests: Ergodic theory, coupled systems, applications to complex systems, 
classical many body systems

Dates:	
03/03/2025 - 23/03/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
24/03/2025 - 30/03/2025 (University of Queensland, Host: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman)
31/03/2025 - 05/04/2025 (University of New South Wales, Host: Gary Froyland)


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Lijia Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Research interests: Statistical network analysis, multiple testing, confidence interval, 
asymmetric error control

Dates:	
12/05/2025 - 14/06/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Rachel Wang)
06/01/2025 - 13/01/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Rachel Wang)


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Qiang Wu (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Research interests: Computational learning theory, machine learning, statistics

Dates:	
02/06/2025 - 06/07/2025 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Yiming Ying)
07/07/2025 - 11/07/2025 (University of Queensland, Host: Xin Guo)

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