SMRI congratulates the following researchers in the mathematical sciences on their successful applications. There were 13 successful applicants in the International Visitor Program 2025 Round 2, which closed in August 2025.
As always, SMRI is grateful for the valuable contributions (financial and otherwise) made by the hosts listed below, both inside and outside our School. The selections were made by SMRI’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
The next IVP application round (2026 Round 1) will open in December 2025, closing in February 2025, for visits from 2027 onwards.
Below is the list of these visitors, in order of their visit dates, which are quite tentative in some cases. Visitor information is up to date as of 16 October 2025. For current information, see the visitor list.
Yunshan Duan (Johns Hopkins University)
Research interests: Bayesian Statistics , Bayesian nonparametrics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, clinical trial design
Dates: 26/04/2027 – 15/05/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Rachel Wang)
15/05/2027 - 04/06/2027 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Kerrie Mengersen)
Huabin Ge (Renmin University of China)
Research interests: Thurston's triangulation conjecture, the Volume Conjecture, combinatorial Ricci flows
Dates: 03/07/2026 – 31/07/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Zhou Zhang)
Alex Gorodetsky (University of Michigan)
Research interests: Bayesian inference, tensor networks, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation
Dates: 01/07/2026 – 14/07/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Tiangang Chi)
15/07/2026 – 31/07/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Sahani Pathiraja)
Fred Hickernell (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Research interests: (Quasi-)Monte Carlo methods, cubature and function approximation, experimental design, adaptive algorithms, mathematical software
Dates: 03/08/2026 – 16/08/2026 (University of New South Wales, Host: Frances Kuo)
20/07/2026 – 02/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Georg Gottwald)
Gianluca Mastrantonio (Polytechnic of Turin)
Research interests: Spatial statistics, clustering, directional statistics, Bayesian statistics, computational statistics
Dates: 13/07/2026 – 16/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Clara Grazian)
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
Research interests: Optimal transportation, partial differential equations, mathematical physics and mathematical economics, convex analysis, geometry and optimization, geometric analysis
Dates: 01/08/2026 - 22/08/2026 (Monash University, Host: Cale Rankin)
06/07/2026 - 25/07/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Jiakun Liu)
Peter Mueller (University of Texas at Austin)
Research interests: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics, Bayesian clinical trial design, bioinformatics
Dates: 26/04/2027 - 14/05/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Rachel Wang)
15/05/2027 - 04/06/2027 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Kerrie Mengersen)
Mihai Paun (Bayreuth University)
Research interests: Complex Kaehler manifolds, L2 theory, Monge-Ampere equations
Dates: 01/03/2027 - 28/03/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Behrouz Taji)
Yanir Rubinstein (University of Maryland)
Research interests: Complex geometry, geometric analysis, algebraic geometry, convex geometry, microlocal analysis
Dates: 01/12/2026 - 20/02/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Zhou Zhang)
08/12/2026 - 22/12/2026 (Australian National University, Host: Ben Andrews)
23/12/2026 - 13/01/2027 (University of Melbourne, Host: Jesse Gell-Redman)
Nik Ruskuc (University of St Andrews)
Research interests: Semigroup theory, general/universal algebra, automata and languages, combinatorics
Dates: 31/10/2026 - 15/12/2026 (Western Sydney University, Host: James East)
12/10/2026 - 30/10/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: David Easdown)
Alfonso Sorrentino (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Research interests: Hamiltonian dynamics, Aubry-Mather theory, mathematical billiards, symplectic dynamics, Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Dates: 20/07/2026 - 25/07/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Milena Radnovic)
26/07/2026 - 09/08/2026 (MATRIX Mathematical Research Institute)
10/08/2026 - 16/08/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Milena Radnovic)
Elizabeth (Liz) Stanhope (Lewis & Clark College)
Research interests: Geometric analysis, spectral geometry, orbifold
Dates: 03/11/2026 - 22/11/2026 (University of Melbourne, Host: Arunima Ray)
23/11/2026 - 05/12/2026 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Anne Thomas)
06/12/2026 - 18/12/2026 (University of Melbourne, Host: Arunima Ray)
Yanxun Xu (Johns Hopkins University)
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, reinforcement learning, clinical trial design, electronic health records, biostatistics
Dates: 26/04/2027 - 14/05/2027 (SMRI, University of Sydney, Host: Rachel Wang)
15/05/2027 - 04/06/2027 (Queensland University of Technology, Host: Kerrie Mengersen
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