Join us as we present our National Science Week public lecture: Alan Turing's legacy: computers, AI and some very queer mathematics 🗓️ Friday 21 Aug 2026 ⏰ 5:30pm - 6:30pm 🏢 Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building Usyd. 💲 Free Find out more Register now events.humanitix.com/alan-turing-...

SMRI is delighted that friend and former Advisory Board member, Terence Tao, has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2026. It is a fitting tribute to Terry, whose contributions inspire so many and have expanded the horizons of mathematical discovery. Congratulations! Photo: UCLA

Thrilled to announce the inaugural SMRI Summer School: Rigidity, Geometry, Dynamics with courses by Benson Farb, Alan Reid and Amie Wilkinson 📍SMRI, USYD 📆 18 –29 Jan 2027 🔗 mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/smri-summer-... 🚨 Funding applications due: 20 Sep 2026 Please share widely 🧮

See invited addresses from #JMM2026 on YouTube. Today’s video: Geordie Williamson, University of Sydney, gives the first AMS Colloquium Lecture, asking “Can AI help us discover interesting mathematics?” Watch today: https://youtu.be/0Tgftb5ELvE

Watch Invited Addresses from #JMM2026 on YouTube. Today’s video: Geordie Williamson, University of Sydney (USYD), gives the second Colloquium Lecture on "Mental Models for Neural Networks." Watch: https://youtu.be/5LDagOaWZnw

Watch an invited address from #JMM2026: Today's video is the third Colloquium Lecture by Geordie Williamson, University of Sydney (USYD), "Searching for interesting mathematical objects with neural networks." Watch: https://youtu.be/hVIBiwWWaqM

Upcoming event: 'Optimal Transport: Mini-Course and Mini-Workshop' here at SMRI/USYD 🗓️ 3 - 5 Aug 2026 📍USYD All staff, students and anyone interested in optimal transport are encouraged to attend, more information and registration here: www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar... #MathSky

Today, on #May12, we honour and celebrate the achievements of #WomenInMaths Join us at SMRI and the University of Sydney where we have an evening of talks, networking and a screening of Je Suis Sophie Germain. All welcome! 🗓️ Today, 17:00 📍The Quad Seminar Room S421, USYD #MathSky

Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI)@sydmathinst.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Celebrate #WomenInMaths here at USYD Join us for pizza🍕 + talks from Neda Khodabakhsh Joniani, Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social, Madeline Nurcombe & Pratibha Panwar 🗓️ Tues May 12, 5 pm 📍 USYD 🔗https://events.humanitix.com/international-day-of-women-in-mathematics-2026 #May12 #May12WIM #MathSky

SMRI's latest spotlight on research is live! Christian Gaetz (UC Berkeley) talks about his work in combinatorics & how it offers a unique new tool to understand the rich world of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials 〽️🧮 🔗 mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/an-interview... #MathSky #SMRISpotlight

An interview with Christian Gaetz: Cracking Combinatorial Invariance for the Coefficient of q - Sydney Mathematical Research Institute

Take a look at modern mathematics, and a sprawling landscape emerges. How do we navigate and orient ourselves in an environment that we can’t see, dealing

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@monsoon0.bsky.social's fundamental research in the mathematical sciences is our weapon against cryptographic breakdown of our current security systems protecting your personal and financial information 🔐 Check out the episode of The Solutionists here: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... #MathSky

The Solutionists with Mark Scott

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Nalini Joshi@monsoon0.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I did a podcast with my Vice-Chancellor @sydney.edu.au go.sydney.edu.au/H7FkmC #thesolutionists

Physical measures, intermittent dynamics and random walks — Ian Melbourne, University of Warwick www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SkV... #MathSky #SMRISeminar

The ARC Centre of Excellence in #Mathematics for #Quantum Era Security and Trust (MathQuEST) is hiring a Chief Operating Officer! 3+ years, based in #Sydney. Or, more succinctly: "we're planning a COO!" Details: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E... More about #MathQuEST: mathquest.edu.au

Chief Operating Officer - MathQuEST

Full time (applicants seeking part-time employment considered), fixed term, initially for 3 years, with possibility of further extension. Located at Camperdown Campus Senior leadership role supporting...

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Celebrate #WomenInMaths here at USYD Join us for pizza🍕 + talks from Neda Khodabakhsh Joniani, Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social, Madeline Nurcombe & Pratibha Panwar 🗓️ Tues May 12, 5 pm 📍 USYD 🔗https://events.humanitix.com/international-day-of-women-in-mathematics-2026 #May12 #May12WIM #MathSky

Immune Dysregulation in COVID-19: What Can Mathematical Modeling Tell Us? — Hwayeon Ryu, Elon University youtu.be/jyIs1IllV9c #MathSky #SMRISeminar

Immune Dysregulation in COVID-19: What Can Mathematical Modeling Tell Us?

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Our #InternationalDayOfMathematics public lecture 'A world from a sheet of paper' was given by Tadashi Tokieda 📜🗺️ Curious about origami, miura-ori, and how geometry can confer properties such as elasticity? 🧬 Catch up here👉 mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/a-world-from... #MathSky 🧮

Our #InternationalDayOfMathematics colloquia by Tadashi Tokieda are now online: 1/2: 'Irrational ways of manufacturing numbers' (13 March) youtu.be/eebNVwdu51M 2/2: 'Pure mathematics as applied physics' (16 March) youtu.be/mGZJH-n4a6E Thanks to Tadashi for the visit 🌏🦘🧮 #MathSky #SMRISeminar

Irrational ways of manufacturing numbers

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Mapping class groups and algebraic cycles — Richard Hain, Duke University youtu.be/FozvCqoAMJY #MathSky #SMRISeminar

Mapping class groups and algebraic cycles

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Philanthropic support from Simon Marais Foundation & Hooper Shaw Family Foundation will help us at SMRI @sydney.edu.au expand our fundamental research and deepen global partnerships🌏 We are profoundly grateful to the donors who believed in our vision from the beginning #MathSky #USYDForGood

Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI)@sydmathinst.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As mathematicians, we explore abstract questions, yet history shows that these ideas often become the foundations of transformative technologies 🧮📱 This weekend of #InternationalDayOfMathematics we are proud to announce a landmark $55.1m co-investment in SMRI🧵 www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

As mathematicians, we explore abstract questions, yet history shows that these ideas often become the foundations of transformative technologies 🧮📱 This weekend of #InternationalDayOfMathematics we are proud to announce a landmark $55.1m co-investment in SMRI🧵 www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

$55.1 million to position Australia as world leader in maths

Two philanthropic gifts totalling $28.7 million from the Simon Marais Foundation and the Hooper Shaw Family Foundation to the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute at the University of Sydney will c...

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It was a great day! Happy weekend of #InternationalDayOfMathematics #MathSky

Joseph Newton@josephnewton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today I spent 4 hours making hexaflexagons for maths outreach with @sydmathinst.bsky.social, it’s a good life

Full house for tonight's public lecture 'A world from a sheet of paper' #InternationalDayOfMathematics #MathSky

We are kicking off #InternationalDayOfMathematics with a maths colloquium by Tadashi Tokieda: Irrational ways of manufacturing numbers #MathSky

I gave a talk* in the NSW Science & Research Breakfast series organized by the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer’s Office. I can’t watch myself but ICYMI 👇🏼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxJ... (*Can you spot the point where I misnamed the author whose famous book contains an attack on a Playfair code?)

Prof Nalini Joshi presents, ‘Mathematics for Quantum Era Security and Trust’

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The Tait conjectures for classical, virtual, and welded knots — Hans Boden, McMaster University youtu.be/rx1dwhuQkdc #MathSky #SMRISeminar

If you were thinking of joining us for Tadashi Tokieda's 'A magic show', we have added two extra sessions 🗓️ due to demand on Sat 14 + Sun 15 March: events.humanitix.com/a-magic-show... 🎩🐰 This will be part of 'Maths at the Museum', curated by SMRI for International Day of Mathematics #MathSky #Syd

✨Highly recommend Geordie Williamson's brilliant talk. We were lucky to meet Geordie in Sydney in 2022 at @sydmathinst.bsky.social , he lives by his own words: "Mathematics is humanity's longest conversation."✨ youtu.be/0Tgftb5ELvE?... via @YouTube

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We are excited to formalise our partnership with @matrix-inst.bsky.social , the only residential research institute in the mathematical sciences in Australia. As an Associate Member, SMRI and @sydney.edu.au look forward to increasing our engagement with MATRIX 🧮🌏 #MathSky

MATRIX@matrix-inst.bsky.social · 5mo ago

MATRIX is thrilled that the University of Sydney, through the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, will join MATRIX as an Associate Member from 2026. USyd joins MATRIX partners Monash University, the University of Melbourne and UQ, along with Associate Members the ANU and UNSW, Sydney.

MATRIX is thrilled that the University of Sydney, through the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, will join MATRIX as an Associate Member from 2026. USyd joins MATRIX partners Monash University, the University of Melbourne and UQ, along with Associate Members the ANU and UNSW, Sydney.

🔝SymplecticGeometry has its roots in physics. To take a simple example, imagine a pendulum. Don't miss the video of #HolgerDullin and #FranciscoCrespo and how the role of symmetry can change everything! @sydmathinst.bsky.social @sydneymathsstats.bsky.social youtu.be/fdeh3lljA_Q?...

Francisco Crespo: Celestial mechanics and the full n-body problem

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