News and Events

The recent QS subject rankings places the University of Sydney first in Australia in the Mathematics category, and #38 worldwide: QS World University Ranking.

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.

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.

The University of Sydney is placed first in Australia in the Mathematics category according to the recent Shanghai Ranking. See the full rating here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.