SMRI International Visitor Program 2023 Round 2 - Outcomes

SMRI International Visitor Program 2023 Round 2 - Outcomes 

I am happy to announce that there were 20 successful applicants in the SMRI
International Visitor Program round which closed in August 2023.  

Below is the list of these visitors, in order of their visit dates, which are quite
tentative in some cases.  

This scnews item will not be updated as visit information changes, so for the most
current information see the Visitor list on the SMRI webpage -
https://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/visiting-researchers/.  

As always, SMRI is grateful for the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise)
made by the hosts listed below, both inside and outside our School.  

The selections were made by the Scientific Advisory Committee of SMRI, listed on the
webpage - https://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/.  The next IVP
application round will open in later this year, for visits taking place in 2025.  

-- Stephan ’Tillus’ Tillmann 

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Shane Henderson (Cornell University) 

Research interests: Stochastic optimisation,stochastic simulation, stochastic modeling,
applications in bike sharing, healthcare, emergency services, epidemiology 

Dates: 01/03/2024 - 15/03/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Lindon Roberts) 16/03/2024 -
26/04/2024 (University of Adelaide, Host: Matthew Roughan) 

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Abel Lacabanne (Universite Clermont Auvergne) 

Research interests: Representation theory, quantum enveloping algebras,
categorification, diagrammatic calculus 

Dates: 01/07/2024 - 26/07/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer) 

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Nisha Chandramoorthy (Georgia Institute of Technology) 

Research interests: Nonlinear dynamics, ergodic theory, chaotic systems, computational
statistics, Bayesian statistics, generalization and statistical learning theory 

Dates: 01/07/2024 - 30/07/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald) 

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Ye Zheng (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) 

Research interests: Statistical modeling, biostatistics, statistical computing,
bioinformatics, genomics 

Dates: 01/07/2024 - 30/07/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang) 

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Anatoli Ivanov (Pennsylvania State University) 

Research interests: Differential equations (ordinary, delay, functional), dynamical
systems, difference equations, bifurcation theory, chaotic systems, applications in
mathematical modelling 

Dates: 08/07/2024 - 19/07/2024 (Deakin University, Host: Gleb Beliakov) 20/07/2024 -
02/08/2024 (Flinders University, Host: Sergiy Shelyag) 05/08/2024 - 16/08/2024
(University of Sydney, Host: Martin Wechselberger) 

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Mair Khan (University College of Zhob, BUITEMS, Pakistan) 

Research interests: Newtonian fluid, non-Newtonian fluid, heat and mass transfer, sort
effect and dufour effect thermo-physical properties, solar radiation, slip condition and
non-slip condition flow, stability analysis, asymptotic methods, temperature based
viscosity, double stratified, viscous dissipation, Joule heating, stretching sheet,
rotating disk, nanofluid, shooting method, Keller Box method 

Dates: 15/07/2024 - 15/09/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Sharon Stephen) 

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Jeroen Wouters (University of Reading) 

Research interests: Stochastic limit laws (homogenization), response theory, large
deviation theory, rare event simulation, tipping points, rare transitions, extreme value
theory 

Dates: 22/07/2024 - 01/09/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald) 

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Elijah Bodish (MIT) 

Research interests: Representation theory, modular representation theory, diagrammatic
algebra, monoidal categories, categorification, link homology, quantum groups 

Dates: 29/07/2024 - 12/08/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer)
13/08/2024 - 18/08/2024 (University of Melbourne, Host: Peter McNamara) 19/08/2024 -
30/08/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Daniel Tubbenhauer) 

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Ehud Meir (University of Aberdeen) 

Research interests: Representation theory, tensor categories, Hopf algebras, invariant
theory 

Dates: 29/07/2024 - 25/08/2024 (Australian National University, Host: Uri Onn)
15/07/2024 - 28/07/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Kevin Coulembier) 

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Angela Reynolds (Virginia Commonwealth University) 

Research interests: Ordinary and partial differential equations, agent-based modeling
for medical applications, dynamical systems approaches, computational methods 

Dates: 05/08/2024 - 17/08/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Mary Myerscough) 18/08/2024
- 30/08/2024 (MATRIX) 

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Laszlo Feher (University of Szeged, Hungary) 

Research interests: Integrable Hamiltonian systems, group theoretic interpretation of
integrable many-body systems, Hamiltonian reduction, group theoretic methods, dynamical
Yang--Baxter structures, soliton equations 

Dates: 12/08/2024 - 09/09/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Holger Dullin) 

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Christian Voigt (University of Glasgow) 

Research interests: Noncommutative geometry, quantum groups, K-theory 

Dates: 16/09/2024 - 06/10/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe) 07/10/2024
- 14/10/2024 (University of New England, Host: David Robertson) 15/10/2024 - 27/10/2024
(University of Wollongong, Host: Adam Rennie) 

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Elissa Schwartz (Washington State University) 

Research interests: Dynamical systems, ordinary differential equations, agent-based
modeling, bifurcation analysis, infectious disease dynamics, epidemiology, biological
modeling, virus dynamics 

Dates: 16/09/2024 - 08/11/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Mary Myerscough & Peter Kim)
09/11/2024 - 13/12/2024 (University of New South Wales, Host: Miles Davenport) 

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Johannes Wiesel (Carnegie Mellon University) 

Research interests: Quantitative finance, risk management, robust pricing bounds, robust
pricing-hedging duality, distributionally robust optimisation, Martingale optimal
transport, convex order, Wasserstein distance, Robust statistics, non-parametric
statistics, dependence modelling, machine learning 

Dates: 30/10/2024 - 10/11/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit) 11/11/2024 -
24/11/2024 (Monash University, Host: Ivan Guo) 25/11/2024 - 14/12/2024 (University of
Sydney, Host: Anna Aksamit) 

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Alan Agresti (University of Florida) 

Research interests: General statistical theory, categorical data analysis, statistics
for data science, history of statistics, statistical education 

Dates: 01/11/2024 - 14/11/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: Jean Yang) 15/11/2024 -
22/11/2024 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Kerrie Mengersen) 23/11/2024 -
30/11/2024 (University of Western Australia, Host: Michael Giudici) 01/12/2024 -
07/12/2024 (University of Melbourne, Host: Howard Bondell) 

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Christophe Hohlweg (University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)) 

Research interests: Coxeter groups, algebraic and geometric combinatorics, Lie theory,
combinatorial representation theory 

Dates: 01/11/2024 - 01/12/2024 (University of Sydney, Host: James Parkinson) 

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Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University) 

Research interests: Operator algebras, quantum information theory, quantum computing,
fusion categories 

Dates: 29/01/2025 - 16/02/2025 (University of New South Wales, Host: Pinhas Grossman)
15/01/2025 - 28/01/2025 (University of Sydney, Host: Nathan Brownlowe) 17/02/2025 -
01/03/2025 (Australian National University, Host: James Tener) 

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Max Nendel (Bielefeld University) 

Research interests: Financial mathematics, model uncertainty, partial differential
equations, Markov processes, mean field games, optimal control 

Dates: 03/02/2025 - 16/03/2025 (University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys) 

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Michael Roeckner (Bielefeld University) 

Research interests: Probability theory, stochastic analysis, partial differential
equations, Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations, potential theory, Dirichlet forms,
spectral theory, functional inequalities, mathematical physics 

Dates: 19/02/2025 - 16/03/2025 (University of Sydney, Host: Beniamin Goldys) 

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Stefano Riolo (University of Bologna) 

Research interests: Geometric topology, hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology,
geometric structures on manifolds and deformations, hyperbolic 4-manifolds 

Dates: 03/03/2025 - 17/03/2025 (University of Queensland, Host: Daniele Celoria)
17/02/2025 - 02/03/2025 (University of Sydney, Host: Jonathan Spreer) 

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