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The following is a list of conferences that we are aware of in the Australian region, or which may be of special interest to Australian mathematicians. A much broader list of international conferences is maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Also try ConferenceAlarm.com.JUN212020
vISEC2020 – virtual International Statistical Ecology Conference
Sun, June 21, 2020, 2:00 pm – Fri, June 26, 2020, 2:00 pm
Dates: 22–26 June 2020
Online Times: 8–11am & 9pm–12am GMT
Venue: SMC Conference & Function Centre, Goulburn St. Sydney: now virtual
The virtual International Statistical Ecology Conference is a biennial meeting of researchers at the interface between ecology and statistics. At vISEC2020 we have planned an exciting list of keynote speakers that bridge these two disciplines, as well as training opportunities for attendees, a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration, and a healthy dose of fun — all online, via this website!
Home base for the conference will be a Slack workspace, where registered participants can mingle, watch live-streamed talks (and recordings of talks you missed, or want to watch again!), browse poster presentations, interact with presenters and other attendees via text or video chat, plan Special Issue paper proposals, check our twitter stream, or compete at trivia night! There will be two conference sessions each day, no more than three hours in length, set at opposite ends of the Sydney day (8–11am & 9pm–12am GMT) to better align with timezones world-wide.
Draft Program now available! Speakers should check their details on the program and let us know of any issues by completing this form.
Registration closing soon! Register before Friday 12 June, 7pm GMT.
All short courses are now full! But if you register for the conference you can go to the Skills Showcase…
Call-out for lunchtime round-table discussion topics!
Training program announced, including Short Courses and a one-day Skills Showcase on the opening day of the conference.
Christl Donnelly (Imperial, Oxford, UK)
David Borchers (St Andrews, UK)
Dianne Cook (Monash Univ.)
Kiona Ogle (Northern Arizona, USA)
Mark Bravington (CSIRO)
More information …JUN222020
MATRI✗: Multiple Time-Scale Dynamical Systems
Mon, June 22, 2020 – Fri, June 26, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
New Developments in Multiple Time-Scale Dynamical Systems
Venue: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Water Street, Creswick, Victoria, 3363, Australia
Geometric singular perturbation theory (GSPT) has developed to tease apart the dynamics of multiple time-scale systems in a growing list of scientific applications. These methods have typically been confined to systems of ODEs in which there is a global splitting of the slow and fast variables, but researchers have begun to recognize that this "standard form" is restrictive and unnatural in a variety of applied problems. In the past few years, there has been a movement toward understanding multiple time-scale systems beyond the standard form, where the tools from GSPT need to be adapted and further developed.
The two target areas for this workshop are (1) non-standard ODE models in which the slow/fast splitting is defined (at most) locally, and (2) parabolic PDEs. The MATRIX program will bring together key Australian and international researchers leading the development and applications of GSPT in these contexts, and provide an environment in which to collaborate and determine the key challenges facing GSPT in these two classes of problems beyond the standard form.
Registration is by invitation only.
For similar MATRI✗ workshops, consult this announcement.
MATRI✗ Wine and Cheese Afternoon: 2 June 2020.
On the first Tuesday of each program, MATRI✗ provides a pre-dinner wine and cheese afternoon. Produce is locally-sourced to showcase delicacies from the region.
Ian Lizarraga (Univ. Sydney)
Theodore Vo (Monash Univ.)
AMSI Winter School 2020
Sun, June 28, 2020, 2:00 pm – Fri, July 10, 2020, 2:00 pmLocation: The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Dates: 29 June – 10 July
Venue: The University of Queensland
New Directions in Representation Theory
In light of the evolving COVID-19 situation, it is with great disappointment that we advise that the 2020 Winter School on New Directions in Representation Theory will not be staged in accordance with the intended July 2020 schedule. We are currently exploring all possibilities to host this program at a later date.
We are in the process of contacting all students who have submitted an application regarding refund of registration fees.
AMSI sincerely thanks all of our partners including The University of Queensland, SMRI and MSRI, Berkeley CA for their support during this challenging time.More information …JUL132020
MATRI✗: Isoperimetric Inequalities in Geometric PDEs
Mon, July 13, 2020 – Fri, July 24, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Isoperimetric Inequalities in Geometric Partial Differential Equations
Dates: 13–24 July 2020
Isoperimetric comparisons may be used to uncover new properties of curved spaces, and to estimate eigenvalues of operators of physical significance. Isoperimetric estimates have an ancient history, comparing the area and perimeter of regions. Only recently have the complex geometric situations seen in nature begun to be understood. These include excitation energies in quantum mechanics, and the geometry of soap bubbles. The field brings together the theory of PDE, differential geometry and non-smooth metric geometry and has continued to produce novel and exciting mathematics since antiquity.
This program will gather together experts in such isoperimetric inequalities to progress this challenging, yet recently quite fruitful area. In particular it will facilitate communication between researchers working on different aspects of the field that may not yet be communicating with each other. For example, those researchers with expertise in PDE aspects may not be up to date on the latest results in RCD spaces and vice-versa.
MATRI✗ Wine and Cheese Afternoon: 14 July 2020.
Paul Bryan (Macquarie Univ.)
Julie Clutterbuck (Monash Univ.)
Daniel Hauer (Univ. Sydney)
Lei Ni (UC San Diego, USA)
Guofang Wang (Univ. Freiburg, Germany)
Guofang Wei (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
More information …SEP142020
MATRI✗: The Skeleton of Turbulent Shear Flows
Mon, September 14, 2020 – Fri, October 2, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
The Skeleton of Turbulent Shear Flows
Dates: 14 Sept. – 2 October 2020
This workshop will bring together the leading theoreticians and the key experimentalists in the field to discuss the latest computational and theoretical progress. We will focus on the identification of key directions on the path to a quantitative understanding of the backbone of turbulence.
It will begin with a one-week conference that is split 50–50 between talks aimed at a graduate student level and cutting-edge research. In addition to researchers from academia and research laboratories there will be involvement from industry. Participation will include female researchers in the field, a large number of ECR's and other members of the vibrant Australian fluids community.
MATRI✗ Wine and Cheese Afternoon: 15 September 2020.
Philip Hall (Monash Univ.)
Ivan Marusic (Melbourne Univ.)
Beverley McKeon (Caltech, USA)
Laurette Tuckerman (EPSCI, Paris, France)
ACSME 2020 online
Wed, September 30, 2020 – Fri, October 2, 2020Location: online via Zoom
It has become increasingly clearer that we will not be allowed to have large gatherings by the time of our annual ACSME conference, but the good news is that the conference will still go ahead online.
The online conference will be held on September 30 to October 2. The new theme for ACSME 2020 is A science education for uncertain times, and the format will follow that of previous conferences, with invited speakers, panels, and poster and presentations. Discipline workshops will be held on the third day, as usual.
Submissions are now open and will close on June 5 for abstracts, and June 19 for refereed papers. Further information is available on the ACSME 2020 website.
We look forward to receiving your contribution and to seeing you at the conference.
Finally, I am delighted to let you know that the Western Australia team has kindly agreed to host ACSME in Perth in 2021 around the equity theme that was proposed for this year.
Cristina Varsavsky
Director, ACDS Teaching & Learning Centre
You can follow #ACSME on Twitter and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ACSMEconference.More information …NOV82020
Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets
Sun, November 8, 2020, 1:00 pm – Fri, November 13, 2020, 1:00 pmLocation: The University of Newcastle
Dates: 9–13 November
Venue: The University of Newcastle
The cryosphere is one of the critical components of the earth climate systems, and it has been the subject of significant transformation in recent years in response to climate change. There are several mathematical challenges to modelling this system, and the program aims to bring other researchers who are experts in the mathematical modelling of ice sheets and sea ice, two related by separated parts of the cryosphere. We anticipate the workshop will run for five days, with the first day being devoted to introductory lectures and the final day been given over to focused research sessions.
Details and website to come.More information …NOV162020
MATRI✗: Frontiers in Representation Theory
Mon, November 16, 2020 – Fri, November 27, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Frontiers in Representation Theory
Representation theory and homotopy theory are two central branches of mathematics. In recent years, new exciting and similar structures have been found in both areas. This workshop will bring together leading mathematicians interested in these two important areas of mathematics. The aim of this workshop is to encourage and support the interaction and collaboration between the two areas, and hope to make more deep connections. The program will consist of lecture series by prestigious international leading experts on cutting-edge topics in representation theory and homotopy theory.
Deadline: 16 September 2020
MATRI✗ Wine and Cheese Afternoon: 17 November 2020.
Nora Ganter (Univ. Melbourne)
Masoud Kamgarpour (Univ. Queensland)
Peter McNamara (Univ. Melbourne)
Peng Shan (Tsinghua Univ., PR China)
Yaping Yang (Univ. Melbourne)
Gufang Zhao (Univ. Melbourne)
More information …NOV292020
AMSI BioInfoSummer 2020
Sun, November 29, 2020, 1:00 pm – Fri, December 4, 2020, 1:00 pmLocation: The Australian National University
Venue: The Australian National University
MATRI✗: Groups and Geometries
Mon, November 30, 2020 – Fri, December 4, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Groups and Geometries
Dates: 30 November. – 4 December 2020
In the 1950's Jacques Tits provided a converse to Klein's Erlangen program showing that algebraic groups could be understood by the study of geometric objects (buildings) associated to them. In fact his theory is so all-encompassing it also allows us to study groups over local fields, which are of crucial importance in number theory and representation theory. Moreover, the geometry of buildings is very rich in itself and buildings are a key family of examples in geometric group theory, as they form spaces of non-positive curvature (CAT(0) spaces). Lastly the development of buildings played a crucial role in the classification of the finite simple groups. The aim of the meeting is to gather world leading experts and early career researchers working on the theory of buildings and its connections to adjacent fields to investigate the research avenues that have opened up in recent years by means of some spectacular breakthroughs in the field.
MATRI✗ Wine and Cheese Afternoon: 1 December 2020.
Alice Devillers (Univ. Western Australia)
James Parkinson (Univ. Sydney)
Jeroen Schillewaert (Univ. Auckland, NZ)
Anne Thomas (Univ. Sydney)
Mon, November 30, 2020 – Fri, December 4, 2020Location: Australian National University, Canberra
BioInfoSummer 2020
Dates: 30 Nov.–4 Dec. 2020
Venue: The Australian National University, Canberra
events@amsi.org.auMore information …NOV302020
events@amsi.org.auMore information …DEC72020
MATRI✗: Hyperbolic DEs in Geometry and Physics
Mon, December 7, 2020 – Fri, December 18, 2020Location: University of Melbourne, Creswick campus
Hyperbolic Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics
Dates: 7–18 December 2020
Non-linear differential equations of hyperbolic type underlie many of the main focus points in mathematical physics and geometric analysis. Their study influences and connects topics like general relativity, fluid dynamics, spectral theory, and dynamical systems. Our conference will bring together world leaders in cutting edge research areas to discuss hyperbolic equations and their many facets; this includes experts in fluids working on the Navier–Stokes equations, in general relativity working on important problems like cosmic censorship and global stability of special space-times, and in micro-local analysis, which has recently found important use in well-posedness problems for quasi-linear PDEs.
Deadline: 7 October 2020
Jesse Gell-Redman (Univ. Melbourne)
Andrew Hassell (Australian Nat. Univ.)
Todd Oliynyk (Monash Univ.)
Volker Schlue (Univ. Melbourne)
More information …DEC82020
AustMS 2020
Tue, December 8, 2020 – Fri, December 11, 2020Location: University of New England, Armidale, NSW
64th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society
Dates & Venue: Tuesday–Friday 8–11 December 2020
Venue: University of New England, Armidale, NSW
For enquiries please contact Gerd Schmalz: schmalz@une.edu.auDEC132020
Mathematics of String Theory @ UNE
Sun, December 13, 2020, 1:00 pm – Fri, December 18, 2020, 1:00 pmLocation: University of New England, School of Science and Technology (C26)
Dates: 14–18 December
Venue: University of New England, School of Science and Technology (C26)
While its role as a theory of the fundamental forces of nature is still being settled, the mathematics of string theory has led to some extraordinary advances in areas of pure mathematics. These areas range from algebraic and enumerative geometry to number theory as well as inspiring new mathematics such as Hitchin's generalised geometry. The significance of these advances have been recognised by many awards including three Fields medals in recent decades. The research aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians from Australia and world leading international experts to discuss the latest developments in the physical mathematics of string theory and its umbrella of related subjects. These topics range from conformal field theory and vertex algebras to arithmetic & number theoretic properties of Calabi–Yau's to integrable systems, AdS/CFT, supersymmetry and supergravity.
Details and website to come.More information …