Nalini Joshi

My interests in mathematics are motivated by problems in the natural world--but recently, I've become intensely interested in mathematical ideas arising from quantum computing.

I am a Payne-Scott Professor of Mathematics and the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney. I use mathematical ideas and tools from all areas, including algebra, geometry, analysis and mathematical physics. For more information about me, see the pages on brief history and media. I can also be found on Mastodon and Bluesky.

☞ Talks:

Here are the slides of my recent talk in Hong Kong: Segre surfaces and the Painleve equations and a link to a video of my Rothschild Lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute "Motion, monodromy, and asymptotics".

☞ Research:

I work on transcendental functions that are turn out to be incredibly important in physics. Recently, I've also become interested in post-quantum cryptography - see mind-bending maths. Check out Painleve?, geometry & asymptotics, AM4 integrable systems

☞ Projects:

My recent Denison projects concerned non-commutative groups acting on elliptic curves.

☞ Videos:

You might like the video that Trixie Barretto made of me - if you can't see it in the browser window check out mathematician:

mathematician from Trixie Barretto on Vimeo.

If you're interested in my media appearances, you might want to see this Q&A episode Time Travel, Teaching and the Meaning of Life with Matt Covell (360), Brian Cox, Richard Gill and Miranda Tapsell.