Seminars and Conferences

• Algebra
• Applied Mathematics
• Categories
• Computational Algebra
• Number Theory
• Statistics

A Joint Colloquium is held, usually weekly, alternating between the School and the University of NSW School of Mathematics.

The School Calendar lists upcoming seminars and colloquia. Most seminars are held in the Carslaw building where the School is located.

There is also a weekly Financial Mathematics Seminar. Anyone interested in attending this is invited to contact Dr Peter Buchen (email peterb@maths.usyd.edu.au, phone +61 2 9351 2965).

• The Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference, ANZIAM 2008, will be held in Katoomba from 3rd to 7th February 2008. See the website http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/ANZIAM2008/ for more information.
• Special Public Lecture: Professor Terence Tao will speak on Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers on 7 February 2008 at 5:30–6:30pm, in the General Lecture Theatre.

• Workshop: Recent Advances in Asymptotic Probability and Statistics, with Time Series Applications (10th to 12th December 2007).
• GL07 – Geometry and Lie Theory, a conference marking Gus Lehrer's 60th birthday. (Held at ANU from July 2 to July 6 and at USyd from July 9 to July 13, 2007).
• Expansions, inequalities and approximations, a conference marking the 65th birthday of Professor Gavin Brown, held on 5th and 6th of March 2007.
• The fifth annual ICE-EM / AMSI Summer School was held at the University of Sydney from 15 January to 9 February 2007.
• FIRN Workshop: Exotic Option Pricing (18–19 April 2006).
• Recent Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (held at UNE 16–21 July 2006, marking the 60th birthday of Professor Norman Dancer).
• Miniconference on computational number theory (March 21 and 22, 2006).
• SUTMEG Seminar: Deborah Hughes Hallet and David Easdown 7th December 2005.
• JARCS: Japanese-Australian workshop on Real and Complex Singularities 5–8 September 2005.
• AMSI Workshop: Asymptotics and Non-parametrics (31 March & 1 April 2005, honouring Professor John Robinson).
• Echidna II: Elliptic Curves and HIgher DimeNsional Analogues 12–14 January 2005.
• Sydney Summer Statistics Workshop 2004   Friday, 27 February 2004
• Lie Minisymposium (12–14 November 2003)
• Geometric Aspects of Representation Theory (21–26 July 2002)
• Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) (7–11 July 2003)
• Workshop on Computational Arithmetic Geometry (18–20 June 2003)
• Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry (Echidna) (15–19 July 2002)
• Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS V) (7–12 July 2002)
• Second Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (1998)
• 1998 Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society

• 4000 Years of Mathematics in Images Professor Bill Casselman, 3 August 2004.
• BIG BANG – the history of the universe in 60 minutes by Simon Singh, 24th May 2005.
• From Babylon to Silicon Valley an illustrated history of mathematics, by Professor Bill Casselman, 27th July 2005.
• Ramanujan's Life and Notebooks by Professor Bruce Berndt, Australian Mathematical Society Mahler Lecturer for 2005, 27th October 2005.
• A.A. Markov, Markov Chains, and Google presented by Emeritus Professor Eugene Seneta, Thursday 24 August 2006, 6pm in the Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney.