Professor Geordie Williamson has been awarded the Australian Mathematical Society medal for 2018.

See the AMSI media release for information about this years awards, and the list of former winners on the Australian Mathematical Society website.

To be held at the University of Sydney on 24–27 June 2019.

There is a web page with further information.

A workshop to be held at the University of Sydney on 24–29 June 2019.

There is a web page with further information.

A workshop to be held at the University of Sydney on 5–9 August 2019.

See this web page for further information.

The following members of the School of Mathematics and Statistics have been awarded funding from the Australian Research Council for projects beginning in 2019:

• A/Prof Eduardo Altmann and Professor Mary Myerscough,
• A/Prof Florica-Corina Cîrstea,
• Dr Milena Radnović,
• A/Prof Stephan Tillmann and Dr Jonathan Spreer,
• Dr Leo Tzou (two grants),
• Dr Wenshuai Jiang,
• Dr Ulrich Thiel,
• Dr Guangbo Xu.

Some further information is available on our research grants web page.

On Monday 12th November the University of Sydney's new Mathematical Research Institute was launched by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Dr Michael Spence, and the Institute's founding director, Professor Geordie Williamson.

There are several media reports of the launch available on the internet:
ABC news / Sydney Morning Herald / Australian Financial Review / Times Higher Education Supplement / the 7.30 report for 12/11/18 (on iView until 12/12/18) / The Australian / University of Sydney News / AMSI news.

Professor Geordie Williamson has become the first Australia based mathematician to be a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicans. Organized by the International Mathematical Union, and held every four years, the ICM is the premier event on the calendar of mathematicians world-wide.

The ICM website has a page describing Professor Williamson's talk: Williamson: 'Semi-simplicity is like the air we breathe'. The slides from his lecture, Representation Theory and Geometry, are also available.

Please see the University of Sydney Mathematical Research Institute web site.

The Simons Foundation and the Magma Group have concluded an agreement that will make the Magma computational algebra system much more widely available in the US. See the School's news page for more information.