School calendar for the coming week:
News and Events
Nalini Joshi named 2025 NSW Scientist of the Year!
Congratulations to Nalini for this achievement. This is the first time a mathematician has been awarded this honour. For more information see the university's press release.
The University of Sydney is again ranked first in Australia by the recent Shanghai subject ranking in Mathematics!
For more information see the Shanghai subject rankings.
Kevin Coulembier named Australia's leader in algebra by The Australian
Congratulations to Kevin for this recognition. For more information see the university's press release.
Congratulations are in order for the recently awarded Discovery Projects and a DECRA Fellowship!
The School of Mathematics and Statistics has been awarded six new Discovery Projects. Congratulations to Ellis Patrick, Shila Ghazanfar, Robert Marangell, Linh Nghiem, Rachel Wang, Martin Wechselberger, Tiangang Cui, Georg Gottwald, Jean Yang, and Garth Tarr for their successful applications.
Congratulations are also in order to Caroline Wormell on their recently awarded DECRA Fellowship titled "From chaos to clarity: reliable data-driven analysis of dynamical systems"! For more information on these projects see the ARC's grant funding portal.
Geordie Williamson to deliver high profile lectures at upcoming ICM and AMS-MAA Meeting
Geordie will be delivering the Public Lecture at the ICM 2026 in Philadelphia, and AMS Colloquium Lecture at the AMS Joint Meeting in Washington DC.
Second Sydney Workshop on Mathematics of Data Science
The second Sydney Workshop on Mathematics of Data Science will be held at the University of Sydney on 10–12 December 2025. For information about the event, see the Sydney-MDS 2025 web page.
Congratulations to three Future Fellows from the School of Maths and Stats!
Congratulations to Anne Thomas, Pengyi Yang and Tiangang Cui who have been awarded 4-year Future Fellowships in the latest round. Anne has been awarded $1,175,732 for her project "Connection via reflections: A new approach to Coxeter groups", Pengyi has been awarded $1,280,036 for his project "Interpretable deep learning for cell programming", and TC has been awarded $1,107,368 for his project "Dimension-robust and dynamical uncertainty quantification for digital twins".
Congratulations to Nalini Joshi - honorary member of the LMS
The London Mathematical Society has elected Professor Nalini Joshi to Honorary Membership of the Society. The citation reads in part, "Professor Joshi is a world-leading mathematician whose pioneering work has transformed the field of integrable systems." The full citation appears here.
University of Sydney #1 in Australia in mathematics in QS rankings
The recent QS subject rankings places the University of Sydney first in Australia in the Mathematics category, and #38 worldwide: QS World University Ranking.
Congratulations to Jiakun Liu - winner of the The Australian Mathematical Society Medal and the Gavin Brown Prize.
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.
The Gavin Brown best paper prize is for "an outstanding and innovative piece of research in the mathematical sciences published by a member or members of the Society." Jiakun received the award for his paper with S. Chen and X. J. Wang titled "Global regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation with natural boundary condition" published in the Annals of Mathematics.
Simons Foundation deal makes Magma widely available in U.S.
An agreement between the Simons Foundation and the Magma Group makes the Magma computational algebra system widely available in the US. See the School's news page for more information.