Mathematics & Statistics School News

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Seminar

Special Public Lecture: Pitt -- ’My Mathematical Journey: From Play To Sea!’ by Jordan Pitt- A SMRI & AMSI Summer School Public Lecture Catherine Meister 19 Nov

Computational Algebra Seminar: Costa -- Effective computation of Hodge cycles Bill Unger 18 Nov

SMRI Special Semester: Chan, Lam, Williamson -- Modern perspectives in representation theory Catherine Meister 4 Nov

Algebra Seminar: Yang -- Higher spin representations of the Yangian of sl_2 and R-matrices Alex Sherman 3 Nov

Complex Systems workshop 2024 Eduardo Altmann 31 Oct

Algebra Seminar: Hohlweg -- Shi arrangements in Coxeter groups Alex Sherman 22 Oct

Algebra Seminar: Scherich -- An algorithm to Detect Non-Order Preserving Braids Alex Sherman 17 Oct

Algebra Seminar: Huerta -- Vertex superalgebras from prefactorization algebras Alex Sherman 15 Oct

Statistics Seminar: Tran -- Bayesian Computation as Optimisation on the Wasserstein space Tiangang Cui 9 Oct

Algebra Seminar: Nurcombe -- The ghost algebra and the dilute ghost algebra Alex Sherman 4 Oct

Time Series and Forecasting Symposium (TSF2024) Garth Tarr 2 Oct

Statistics Seminar: Kandanaarachchi -- Representing Sparse Graphs with Graphons: Challenges and Approaches Tiangang Cui 24 Sep

Algebra Seminar: Baine -- (Co)Minuscule Hecke Categories Alex Sherman 23 Sep

Algebra Seminar: Thomas -- The geometry of conjugation in Euclidean isometry groups Alex Sherman 12 Sep

Statistics Seminar: Zhao -- Tensor-Train Methods for Sequential State and Parameter Estimation in State-Space Models Tiangang Cui 5 Sep

Statistics Seminar: Canonne -- Locally Private Histograms in All Privacy Regimes Tiangang Cui 29 Aug

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Joan Licata (ANU) -- Geometric Heegaard Floer theory for the combinatorially inclined James Morgan 28 Aug

Statistics Seminar: Gao -- Statistics Seminar Series: Design Your Own Universe: A Physics-Informed Agnostic Method for Enhancing Graph Neural Networks Tiangang Cui 20 Aug

Statistics Seminar: Wilson Chen -- Statistics Seminar Series: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive MCMC Tiangang Cui 14 Aug

UNSW&USYD joint seminar -- Elliptic difference equations Pieter Roffelsen 13 Aug

Kazhdan-Lusztig equivalences: a learning seminar -- Kazhdan-Lusztig equivalences Alex Sherman 26 Jul

Applied Maths Seminar: Roffelsen -- On connection problems for Painlev\’{e} transcendents and affine Del Pezzo surfaces Jae Min Lee Oct 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Feng -- Determinantal point processes on spheres: Multivariate linear statistics Jae Min Lee Oct 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Tam -- Splitting algorithms for training GANs Jae Min Lee Sep 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Harrowell -- Introduction to the Problem of Glass Jae Min Lee Sep 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Upanshu Sharma Jae Min Lee Sep 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Subramanian -- Applied Maths Seminar: Rogue bursting as an effect of broken symmetry Jae Min Lee Aug 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Klotz -- Using Symmetry to Construct Dynamic Feedback Linearizations of Nonlinear Control Systems Jae Min Lee Jun 23

Applied Maths Seminar: Krause -- Pattern Formation via Blackboards and Web Browsers Jae Min Lee Jun 23

One School Seminar: Jonathan Spreer Anna Aksamit Apr 22

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Sandor Kovacs (UW Seattle) -- Rational singularities Boris Lishak Dec 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Baine -- Some characters for simple G-modules Anna Romanov Nov 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Fedor Bogomolov (NYU) -- Elliptic curves and unramified correspondences Boris Lishak Nov 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Liu -- The Brylinski-Kostant filtration Anna Romanov Nov 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Joan Licata (ANU) -- Foliated Open Books ---or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About How to Glue Open Books Boris Lishak Nov 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: June Huh (IAS) -- Logarithmic concavity of Schur polynomials Boris Lishak Nov 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: June Huh (IAS) -- Logarithmic concavity of Schur polynomials Boris Lishak Oct 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Michael Figelius (Seigen) -- Modular forms and applications to coding theory Boris Lishak Oct 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Cliff -- Vanishing cycles Anna Romanov Oct 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Romina Arroyo (Queensland) -- The prescribed Ricci curvature problem for naturally reductive metrics on compact Lie groups Boris Lishak Oct 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Liu -- Introduction to cohomology of line bundles on flag varieties Anna Romanov Sep 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Naqvi -- An introduction to buildings Anna Romanov Sep 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Cliff -- An introduction to sheaves on stacks Anna Romanov Sep 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Martin Helmer (ANU) -- Segre-Driven Containment Testing for Varieties Boris Lishak Sep 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto) -- Algebraic Knot Theory Boris Lishak Sep 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Daryl Cooper (UCSB) -- A combinatorial characterization of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds Boris Lishak Sep 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Jonathan Spreer (Sydney) -- Discrete Algorithms for Geometric Topology Boris Lishak Sep 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Williamson -- Intersection cohomology over rings Anna Romanov Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Oliver Singh (Durham) -- Knotted Surfaces in 4-manifolds and Distances Between Them Boris Lishak Aug 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Lishak -- Group Cohomology Anna Romanov Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Yong Huang (Hunan University) -- Brunn-Minkowski Theory and Minkowski Problem Boris Lishak Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Gus Lehrer (Sydney) -- Link invariants and quantum invariant theory Boris Lishak Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Joseph Maher (CUNY) -- Random walks on geometric groups Boris Lishak Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Adam Parusinski (Nice) -- Algebraic Varieties Are Homeomorphic to Varieties Defined over Number Fields Boris Lishak Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Alex Bishop (UTS) -- Geodesic Growth in Groups Boris Lishak Aug 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Wenshuai Jiang (Sydney) -- Regularity and singularity of Ricci curvature and related applications Boris Lishak Aug 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Cliff -- On the Kirwan map for moduli stacks of Higgs bundles Anna Romanov Jul 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Burrull -- The Bruhat graph of a Coxeter group Anna Romanov Jul 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Ignat Soroko (Louisiana State) -- Groups of type FP: their quasi-isometry classes and homological Dehn functions Boris Lishak Jun 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Christine Lee (South Alabama) -- A surface construction for colored Khovanov homology Boris Lishak Jun 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Vidit Nanda (Oxford) -- The topology of cellular gradient flow Boris Lishak May 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Henry Segerman (OSU) -- From veering triangulations to pseudo-Anosov flows Boris Lishak May 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Maltoni -- Affine Hecke algebras and equivariant K-theory Anna Romanov May 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Charles Katerba (Montana State) -- Twist knot intersections in the character variety of the Whitehead link Boris Lishak May 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Burrull -- The Bernstein presentation of the Hecke algebra Anna Romanov May 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Alex Casella (Florida State) -- Coordinates for real projective structures using ideal triangulations Boris Lishak May 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Matthias Lesch (University of Bonn) -- The resolvent expansion of geometric operators on singular spaces Boris Lishak May 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Losev -- Modular representations of semisimple Lie algebras Anna Romanov Apr 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Baine -- Representations of SL_2(F_q), Part II Anna Romanov Apr 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Xianfeng Wang (Nankai) -- Minimal Lagrangian submanifolds of the complex hyperquadric Boris Lishak Apr 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Baine -- Representations of SL_2(F_q) Anna Romanov Apr 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Ramiro Lafuente (UQ) -- Homogeneous Einstein manifolds via a cohomogeneity-one approach Boris Lishak Apr 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Colin Guillarmou (Orsay) -- On Fried conjecture (Lefschetz formula for flows) for Anosov flows Boris Lishak Mar 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Anita Liebenau (UNSW) -- On Ramsey equivalence in graph theory Boris Lishak Mar 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Parkinson -- Hecke algebras with unequal parameters, part II: Plancherel theorems Anna Romanov Mar 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Marco Mazzucchelli (ENS Lyon) -- Periodic orbits of exact magnetic flows on surfaces Boris Lishak Mar 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Volker Schlue (Melbourne) -- Geometry of expanding black hole cosmologies Boris Lishak Mar 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Marcelo Laca (Victoria) -- Equilibrium and monoidal growth Boris Lishak Feb 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Masanori Kobayashi (Tokyo Metropolitan) -- Application of tropical geometry to scheduling problem Boris Lishak Feb 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Wilderich Tuschmann (Karlsruhe) -- Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Nonnegatively Curved Riemannian Metrics Boris Lishak Feb 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Soren Galatius -- $E_\infty$-cells and general linear groups of finite fields Anna Romanov Feb 19

Informal Friday Seminar: Will Donovan -- Perverse schobers on mirror moduli spaces Anna Romanov Feb 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Soren Galatius (Copenhagen) -- Tropical curves, graph homology, and top weight cohomology of \(M_g\) Boris Lishak Feb 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Yann Bugeaud (Strasbourg) -- Exponential Diophantine equations Boris Lishak Jan 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Ruth Kellerhals (Fribourg) -- Small hyperbolic orbifolds and Coxeter groups Boris Lishak Jan 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Maggie Miller (Princeton) -- Diagrams for surface isotopies in 4-manifolds Boris Lishak Jan 19

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Suhyoung Choi (KAIST) -- Lens-shaped totally geodesic ends of convex real projective manifolds Boris Lishak Dec 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Robert Lowe (TU Berlin) -- Secondary fans of punctured Riemann surfaces Boris Lishak Nov 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Jesse Gell-Redman (Melbourne) -- Index of non-elliptic operators Boris Lishak Nov 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Enrico Le Donne (Jyvaskyla) -- Boundaries, conformal maps, and sub-Riemannian geometry Boris Lishak Nov 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Alexander Majchrowski (Sydney) -- Level-Set and Surgery Approaches to Brendle-Huisken G-Flow Boris Lishak Oct 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Michal Ferov (UTS/Newcastle) -- Quantifying complexity for the isomorphism problem of hyperbolic groups Boris Lishak Oct 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Diletta Martinelli (Edinburgh) -- An introduction to the birational geometry of moduli spaces of stable objects Boris Lishak Oct 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Iva Halacheva (Melbourne) -- Tangles and Alexander type invariants Boris Lishak Sep 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Yusra Naqvi (Sydney) -- Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for Jack polynomials Boris Lishak Sep 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Andre van Renssen (Sydney) -- Routing Among Obstacles Boris Lishak Sep 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Kwok-Kun Kwong (Sydney) -- Some quantitative comparison theorems in Riemannian geometry Boris Lishak Aug 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: John Nicholson (UCL) -- Poincare 3-complexes and Stably-Free Modules over Integral Group Rings Boris Lishak Aug 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Montek Singh Gill (Michigan) -- Chains and cochains on spectra Boris Lishak Aug 18

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Michelle Chu (UCSB) -- Quantifying virtual properties of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds Boris Lishak Jul 18

Joint Colloquium: Masoud Kamgarpour -- Symmetries in mathematics: a personal perspective Alexander Fish Mar 14

Joint Colloquium: Prof. Xiao Zhang -- Some Geometrical Problems in General Relativity Alexander Fish Mar 14

Joint Colloquium: Bursztyn -- Lie theory and geometry of groupoids Alexander Fish Jan 14

Joint Colloquium: Henrik Kragh Sørensen -- Abel’s exception, history of infinity and cognitive accounts of mathematics: One chance fumbled and another one missed Alexander Fish Jan 14

AGR Seminar: Prof. George Willis -- Amenability, measure and randomness in groups Alexander Fish Nov 13

Joint Colloquium: Coquereaux -- From the representation theory of compact Lie groups and their finite subgroups to modular fusion categories associated with affine Lie algebra at some level (or quantum groups at roots of unity) and their module-categories Alexander Fish Oct 13

Joint Colloquium: Dykema -- Invariant suspaces and upper triangular forms for classes of infinite dimensional operators Alexander Fish Oct 13

Joint Colloquium: Xiaodong Cao -- Ricci flow, Einstein manifolds and Ricci solitons Alexander Fish Oct 13

Joint Colloquium: Dyer -- The counting constraint satisfaction problem Alexander Fish May 13

Joint Colloquium: Sukhendu Mehrotra -- Noncommutative K3 surfaces Alexander Fish May 13

Joint Colloquium: Anthony Licata -- Positivity and integrality from higher representation theory Alexander Fish Apr 13

Joint Colloquium: Palsson -- k-point configurations and multilinear generalised Radon transforms Alexander Fish Apr 13

Meeting

Algebraic Geometry Workshop Sydney Catherine Meister 30 Oct

SMRI Afternoon Tea Hannah Bryant 8 Jan

Shut up & write Alex Sherman 13 Aug

Deadline

International Visitor Program for July 2022-December 2023 - application deadline 22 February 2022 Hannah Bryant Dec 21

Announce

A Useful New Book Published Shelton Peiris 31 May

SMRI International Visitor Program 2024 Round 1 - Outcomes Hannah Bryant 16 Apr

Helen Byrne awarded Laureate Fellowship in our School Eduardo Altmann Jul 21

Nalini awarded the ANZIAM medal! Eduardo Altmann Feb 21

Congratulations to Anthony Henderson Gus Lehrer Dec 10

Info

Unikey login and /loc/ objects Paul Szabo Jul 07

Laptops, wired and wireless connections Paul Szabo Oct 05

Stroke recognition - early & life saving Janet Thomas Nov 05

ITMatters

scnews into personal calendar Paul Szabo Mar 20

Transparent proxy (no proxy settings needed) Paul Szabo Nov 13

Ricoh printers: hold print, locked print features Paul Szabo Sep 11

Other

SMRI International Visitor Program (Round 2 2024) outcomes Catherine Meister 30 Oct

IMO2025 organisers seek for volunteers Dzmitry Badziahin 18 Oct

Australian AI Safety Forum 2024 Catherine Meister 15 Oct

Help needed - locating USyd 1957 MSc Thesis - ’The force and moment on an aerofoil in shear flow’ Newman, Michael Hannah Bryant 12 Sep

DECRA Outcomes Eduardo Altmann Aug 21

Congrats to Giles Gardam on disproving Kaplansky’s unit conjecture! Alexander Fish Mar 21

Dean on wages Paul Szabo Sep 13

Garton on pay rates Paul Szabo Aug 13

VC on financial position Paul Szabo Jul 13

VC to all-staff: casuals are un-trained Paul Szabo Aug 13

When your phone stops working, change your internet banking password Paul Szabo Jul 13

Do not fall victim to scam/fake tech support calls Paul Szabo Aug 12

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