ANU joins MATRIX Partnership

MATRIX is delighted to announce that the Australian National University (ANU) has joined Monash University and The University of Melbourne in a three-way partnership. Access the news release at https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/news/.

Call for Research Program Proposals and Expressions of Interest (EOI)

• The next deadline for research program proposals for 2022–2023, is Friday 6 November 2020.
• Expressions of Interest (EOIs) can be submitted at any time.
• Guidelines can be found at https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/guidelines.
• The MATRIX Family Fund provides additional support to participants with families. Please contact the MATRIX office for further information.

MATRIX held two successful research programs in the beginning of this year:

• Early Career Researchers Workshop on Geometric Analysis and PDEs
  13–24 January 2020
• Harmonic Analysis and Dispersive PDEs: Problems and Progress
  3–7 February 2020

Eight other programs scheduled for 2020 have been postponed due to Covid-19 and will be rescheduled for 2021 and 2022.

Inaugural Research Program Online

MATRIX hosted its first online research program Operad – Pop Up on 11–12 August 2020.

Online Seminar Series

MATRIX hosts a series of monthly online seminars. You are invited to join us. You only need to register once for the whole series here.

Our upcoming seminar speakers include:

• Miranda Cheng (Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands) — 3 September
• Akshay Venkatesh (Inst. Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) — October
• Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) — November

For information on future seminars and access to recordings of past seminars, visit: https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/events-01/online-seminars/.

MATRIX is pleased to have already hosted the following online seminars in 2020:

• 15 April 2020: Terry Tao (Univ. California Los Angeles, USA)
  The Collatz Conjecture
• 1 May 2020: James McCaw (Univ. Melbourne)
  Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
• 2 June 2020: Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton Univ., USA)
  Holes with Hats and the Erdös-Hajnal conjecture
• 3 July 2020: Michael I. Jordan (Univ. California Berkeley, USA)
  Optimization with Momentum
• 6 August 2020: Geordie Williamson (SMRI, Univ. Sydney)
  Modular Representation Theory and Geometry

Jan de Gier, Director
David Wood, Deputy Director
Peter Bouwknegt, Deputy Director
MATRIX | Mathematical Research Institute