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Congratulations to Mary Myerscough, awarded the 2026 ANZIAM Medal
The medal was awarded to Mary because of her ground-breaking research on the population dynamics of honey-bee colonies, significant grant funding success, and exceptional national and international service. Congratulations to Mary for her great achievements!
John Cannon awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Congratulations to John Cannon, awarded for his exemplary contribution to tertiary education, to mathematical computation, to cryptography, and to the development of algebraic software systems. For more information see the announcement from the Australian Academy of Sciences.
Nalini Joshi will be plenary speaker at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting
Congratulations to Nalini Joshi, who was chosen as a plenary speaker at the annual meeting for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. This meeting, which brings together more than 14 thousand attendees, is the premiere international event in applied mathematics.
New ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematics for Quantum Era Security and Trust!
The ARC has awarded 35M AUD to a Centre of Excellence led by Director Nalini Joshi and includes several more members of the School: Geordie Williamson, Stephan Tillmann andJohn Voight. This Centre will focus on post-quantum cryptography and involves a cross disciplinary team from other parts of the university and beyond. Congratulations to all on this amazing achievement! For more information see theARC's funding outcomes portal and the School'sResearch Grants page.
Nalini Joshi named 2025 NSW Scientist of the Year!
Congratulations to Nalini for this achievement. This is the first time a mathematician has been awarded this honour. For more information see theuniversity's press release.
The University of Sydney is again ranked first in Australia by the recent Shanghai subject ranking in Mathematics!
Kevin Coulembier named Australia's leader in algebra by The Australian
Congratulations are in order for the recently awarded Discovery Projects and a DECRA Fellowship!
The School of Mathematics and Statistics has been awarded six new Discovery Projects. Congratulations to Ellis Patrick, Shila Ghazanfar, Robert Marangell, Linh Nghiem, Rachel Wang, Martin Wechselberger, Tiangang Cui, Georg Gottwald, Jean Yang, and Garth Tarr for their successful applications.
Congratulations are also in order to Caroline Wormell on their recently awarded DECRA Fellowship titled "From chaos to clarity: reliable data-driven analysis of dynamical systems"! For more information on these projects see theARC's grant funding portal and the School'sResearch Grants page.
Geordie Williamson to deliver high profile lectures at upcoming ICM and AMS-MAA Meeting
Geordie will be delivering the Public Lecture at the ICM 2026 in Philadelphia, andAMS Colloquium Lecture at the AMS Joint Meeting in Washington DC.
Second Sydney Workshop on Mathematics of Data Science
The second Sydney Workshop on Mathematics of Data Science will be held at the University of Sydney on 10–12 December 2025. For information about the event, see theSydney-MDS 2025 web page.
Congratulations to three Future Fellows from the School of Maths and Stats!
Congratulations to Nalini Joshi - honorary member of the LMS
The London Mathematical Society has elected Professor Nalini Joshi to Honorary Membership of the Society. The citation reads in part, "Professor Joshi is a world-leading mathematician whose pioneering work has transformed the field of integrable systems." The full citation appears here.
University of Sydney #1 in Australia in mathematics in QS rankings
The recent QS subject rankings places the University of Sydney first in Australia in the Mathematics category, and #38 worldwide: QS World University Ranking.
Congratulations to Jiakun Liu - winner of the The Australian Mathematical Society Medal and the Gavin Brown Prize.
The Australian Mathematical Society Medal is awarded to a member of the Society within 15 years of the award of their PhD for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. More information, and a video of Jiakun explaining his award-winning work, appears here.
The Gavin Brown best paper prize is for "an outstanding and innovative piece of research in the mathematical sciences published by a member or members of the Society." Jiakun received the award for his paper with S. Chen and X. J. Wang titled "Global regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation with natural boundary condition"published in the Annals of Mathematics.
Simons Foundation deal makes Magma widely available in U.S.
An agreement between the Simons Foundation and theMagma Group makes the Magma computational algebra system widely available in the US. See the School'snews pagefor more information.