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SMRI congratulates the following researchers in the mathematical sciences on their successful applications. There were 24 successful applicants in the International Visitor Program 2026 Round 2, which closed in August 2026.
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 SMRI’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
The next IVP application round (2027 Round 1) will open in December and close mid-February.
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.
Shigeki Akiyama (University of Tsukuba)
Research interests: Analytic number theory, Diophantine approximation, ergodic theory and dynamical systems, self-similar tiling and substitutive dynamics, Pisot and Salem numbers, fractal geometry
Dates: 28 Jun 2027 - 31 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tom Goertzen) 01 Sep 2027 - 15 Sep 2027 (La Trobe University, Host: Mumtaz Hussain)
Tyler Cassidy (University of British Columbia)
Research interests: Viral dynamics, mathematical medicine, mathematical biology, dynamical systems
Dates: 23 Jul 2027 - 15 Aug 2027 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Adrianne Jenner) 16 Aug 2027 - 03 Sep 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Peter Kim)
Rhoslyn Coles (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Research interests: Physical knot theory, simulated annealing, curvature measures and sets of positive reach, geometric measure theory, soft matter physics
Dates: 15 Aug 2027 - 30 Sep 2027 (University of Queensland Host: Agnese Barbensi) 01 Aug 2027 - 14 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Spreer)
Arnaud Eteve (University of Bonn)
Research interests: Langlands program, representations of finite groups of Lie type, geometric representation theory
Dates: 15 Nov 2027 - 10 Dec 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer)
Hans G. (Hans) Feichtinger (University Vienna)
Research interests: Harmonic analysis , function spaces , Gabor analysis, numerical harmonic analysis, distribution theory
Dates: 06 Mar 2028 - 19 Mar 2028 (Macquarie University but @SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Ji Li) 20 Mar 2028 - 01 Apr 2028 (Australian National University, Host: Pierre Portal) 03 Apr 2028 - 08 Apr 2028 (Monash University, Host: Zihua Guo)
Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland)
Research interests: Post-quantum cryptography, computational number theory, cryptography
Dates: 01 Apr 2027 - 30 Apr 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: John Voight)
Colin Gallagher (Clemson University)
Research interests: Changepoint detection, time series, non-parametric methods, heavy tailed analysis, asymptotic theory
Dates: 10 Jan 2028 - 21 Jan 2028 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Artem Prokhorov) 24 Jan 2028 - 04 Feb 2028 (Macquarie University, Host: Georgy Sofronov)
Ian Hambleton (McMaster University)
Research interests: Group actions on 4-manifolds, Yang Mills gauge theory, geometry and topology of manifolds
Dates: 10 Jan 2027 - 22 Jan 2027 (MATRIX (Mathematical Research Institute),Host: Diarmuid Crowley) 23 Jan 2027 - 06 Feb 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
John Harlim (The Pennsylvania State University)
Research interests: Computational mathematics, manifold Learning, applied dynamical systems, data assimilation, numerical PDEs
Dates: 19 Jul 2027 - 18 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
Do Kien (Kien) Hoang (Northeastern University)
Research interests: Geometric representation theory, Springer fibers and affine Springer fibers, nilpotent orbits and symplectic duality, Kazhdan-Lusztig cells and Hecke algebras, crystals and affine Lie algebras
Dates: 22 Jul 2027 - 25 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Oded Yacobi)
Rebecca Killick (Clemson University)
Research interests: Changepoint detection, nonstationary time series, wavelets
Dates: 10 Jan 2028 - 21 Jan 2028 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Artem Prokhorov) 24 Jan 2028 - 04 Feb 2028 (Macquarie University, Host: Georgy Sofronov)
Inkang Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Research interests: Hyperbolic geometry, real projective geometry, symmetric spaces and rigidity, surface group representations, harmonic maps
Dates: 01 May 2027 - 30 Jun 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Stephan Tillmann)
Alexander (Sasha) Kleshchev (University of Oregon)
Research interests: Representation theory
Dates: 22 Nov 2027 - 21 Dec 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Andrew Mathas)
Thomas Kruse (University of Wuppertal)
Research interests: Stochastic analysis, mathematical finance, stochastic control theory, stochastic numerical methods, mathematics of machine learning
Dates: 07 Feb 2028 - 03 Mar 2028 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit)
Alba Lia Masiello (The University of Naples Federico II)
Research interests: Partial differential equations, spectral theory, shape optimization, geometric analysis and geometric inequalities, nonlinear elliptic equations
Dates: 16 Aug 2027 - 31 Aug 2027 (University of Adelaide,Host: Giorgio Poggesi) 01 Aug 2027 - 15 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Florica Cirstea)
James (Jim) Meiss (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Research interests: Hamiltonian dynamics, plasma physics, computational topology, symplectic maps, transport in chaotic systems
Dates: 01 Jul 2027 - 31 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Duignan)
Gloria Paoli (The University of Naples Federico II)
Research interests: Partial differential equations, spectral theory , shape optimization, geometric analysis and geometric inequalities, nonlinear elliptic equations
Dates: 16 Aug 2027 - 31 Aug 2027 (University of Adelaide, Host: Giorgio Poggesi) 01 Aug 2027 - 15 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Florica Cirstea)
Ana Peón-Nieto (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Research interests: Hitchin integrable systems, moduli theory, Higgs bundles, mirror symmetry
Dates: 21 Jul 2027 - 19 Dec 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Emma Carberry) 25 Sep 2027 - 09 Oct 2027 (University of Queensland, Host: Masoud Kamgarpour) TBA - TBA (University of Adelaide, Host: David Baraglia)
David Perrella (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Spain)
Research interests: Magnetohydrodynamics, steady Euler equations, differential geometry, mathematical physics, topology
Dates: 28 Jun 2027 - 17 Jul 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Duignan) 18 Jul 2027 - 31 Jul 2027 (University of Western Australia, Host: Enrico Valdinoci)
Julia Pevtsova (University of Washington)
Research interests: Representation theory of algebraic groups, homological algebra, finite groups, Hopf algebras
Dates: 29 Nov 2027 - 24 Dec 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
Paul Sobaje (Georgia Southern University)
Research interests: Representation theory in characteristic p, structures of algebraic groups and Lie algebras
Dates: 21 Nov 2027 - 18 Dec 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier)
Maxwell Stolarski (University College Dublin)
Research interests: Geometric analysis, geometric flows (Ricci flow, mean curvature flow), nonlinear elliptic and parabolic PDEs, differential geometry, topology
Dates: 13 Jul 2027 - 11 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Haotian Wu)
Chi Cheuk Tsang (Tongji University)
Research interests: Pseudo-Anosov dynamics, topological structures on 3-manifolds, contact topology, Heegaard Floer homology
Dates: 26 Jul 2027 - 08 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Layne Hall) 09 Aug 2027 - 22 Aug 2027 (Monash University, Host: Jessica Purcell)
Holger Waalkens (University of Groningen)
Research interests: Hamiltonian systems, integrable systems, semiclassical quantum mechanics, mathematical physics
Dates: 01 Jul 2027 - 31 Aug 2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin)
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