News and events
The Australian Mathematical Society Medal awarded to Jiakun Liu.
The Australian Mathematical Society Medal is awarded to a member of the Society within 15 years of the award of their PhD for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. More information, and a video of Jiakun explaining his award-winning work, appears here.
Royal Society of NSW award to Nalini Joshi
The Royal Society of New South Wales has announced that Professor Nalini Joshi is the recipient of the Pollock Award and Lectureship for 2024. For more details see the Recent Winners: 2024 page on the RSNSW website.
Algebraic Geometry Workshop Sydney
This workshop, organized by the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, will take place on 16–18 December 2024. See the workshop website for more information.
ARC funded research grants commencing in 2025
The Funding Announcements page on the Australian Research Council website includes details of five Discovery Projects with members of the School of Mathematics and Statistics as chief investigators. The people are
- Dr Nathan Brownlowe,
- Associate Professor Kevin Coulembier,
- Dr Lindon Roberts,
- Dr Daniel Tubbenhauer,
- Professor Martin Wechselberger,
- Professor Yiming Ying,
- Professor Dingxuan Zhou.
See also our Research Grants page.
The University of Sydney is ranked first in Australia in the maths subject ranking
According to Shanghai Ranking, the University of Sydney is placed first in Australia in Mathematics category. Overall, USyd Maths is rated among 51 – 75 best institutions in the world. See the full rating here.
Geordie Williamson receives the 2024 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award
This grant from the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recognizes the fundamental work of SMRI director Professor Geordie Williamson in the use of artificial intelligence in theoretical mathematics. See the Max Planck Society announcement for further details.
National Intelligence and Security research grant
Nalini Joshi and Tomas Lasic Latimer have been awarded $746,424 from the Office of National Intelligence for their research project "Extending Elliptic Curve Cryptography". See the funding announcements web page for further information.
Frontiers of Science award for Kevin Colembier
The International Congress of Basic Science has honoured Kevin Coulembier and co-authors Pavel Etingof and Victor Ostrik for their 2023 paper "On Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories", judged to be of the highest scientific value and originality and to have made an important impact on Lie Theory and Representation Theory.
See the Frontiers of Science Awards page for further information.