News and events
The University of Sydney is ranked first in Australia in the maths subject ranking
According to Shanghai Ranking, the University of Sydney is placed first in Australia in Mathematics category. Overall, USyd Maths is rated among 51 – 75 best institutions in the world. See the full rating here.
Complex Systems workshop 2024
Organized by the Centre for Complex Systems of the University of Sydney, this workshop will take place on 13 November and 14 November 2024. See the event webpage for more information.
Algebraic Geometry Workshop Sydney
This workshop, organized by the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, will take place on 16–18 December 2024. See the workshop website for more information.
Mathematics of Data Science workshop in December 2024
This workshop will be held in the School from December 4th to December 6th. See the web page https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/USYD-MDSworkshop/ for more information.
National Intelligence and Security research grant
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.
Frontiers of Science award for Kevin Colembier
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.
Eight ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2024
The Funding Announcements page on the Australian Research Council website includes details of eight Discovery Projects with members of the School of Mathematics and Statistics as chief investigators. The people are
- Associate Professor Eduardo Altmann,
- Associate Professor Alexander Fish,
- Professor Ben Goldys,
- Dr Christopher Lustri,
- Professor Andrew Mathas,
- Professor Alexander Molev,
- Associate Professor Pengyi Yang,
- Professor Dingxuan Zhou.
See also our Research Grants page.
DECRA for Lindon Roberts
Dr Lindon Roberts is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, with funding to commence in 2024. For more details see the Funding Announcements page on the Australian Research Council website.