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DO THE MATHS Celebrates 20 Years Inspiring Young Women Mathematicians

Dr Asilata Bapat Challenges Stereotypes in Mathematics

At the 2025 UNSW Women in Mathematics and Statistics event, ANU Pure Mathematics researcher Dr Asilata Bapat presented a talk on “What does a mathematician do all day?”

Through personal stories, she showcased the creativity and variety in maths, dispelling myths that it’s just number-crunching or blackboard staring.

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Jordan Pitt
Jordan Pitt

Sea^2 = Play^2 + Me^2

Join us for a public lecture from Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean Indigenous Strategy & Services Jordan Pitt (University of Sydney).

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By Matthew Hole, Australian National University
By Matthew Hole, Australian National University

What’s the difference between fusion and fission? A nuclear physicist explains

By Matthew Hole, Australian National University

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Rodney Baxter
Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025

Vale Professor Rodney Baxter

MSI pays tribute to Em/Prof. Rodney Baxter.

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Rowena Bell
Monday, 08 Apr 2024

Maths has no borders: Professor Rowena Ball brings Indigenous mathematics to ANU

Professor Rowena Ball brings Indigenous maths to ANU

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Monday, 08 Apr 2024

Vale Professor Bob Dewar

MSI pays tribute to Em/Prof. Robert (Bob) Leith Dewar.

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Why maths’ bad reputation doesn’t add up

Associate Professor Adam Piggott knows how mathematical ideas can transform our world, and he wishes more people were in on the secret.
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Exploring the mathematical universe – connections, contradictions, and kale

Exploring the mathematical universe – connections, contradictions, and kale

Pure mathematics often yields unanticipated applications, but without a time machine to look into the future, how do mathematicians like me choose…
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Cracked Earth showing lava underneath it

ANU researchers speed up earthquake simulation software

“Faster, more efficient software,” “speedups and code profiling,” and “parallel programming” – these were the central takeaways from the two-week…
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Topology
7 Oct 2025 | 3 - 4pm

Translation surfaces and their periods

The seminar series covers topics in Algebra and Topology
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Colloquium
8 Oct 2025 | 3 - 4pm

Lorentz-regularity for the fractional Poisson problem with L^1-data

The PDE & Analysis seminar covers topics in PDE and analysis.
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toptime
27 Oct 2025 | 9am - 31 Oct 2025 | 5pm

Topological methods for time-varying data: theory and applications (Top Time)

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a research area at the intersection of Algebra, Topology, Geometry, Statistics and Machine Learning. While methods from TDA have been applied successfully to data from a variety of domains — from financial mathematics, to materials science, climate science, biomedical imaging, or social science —, there has been less work done on studying in a principled way how such methods can be applied to data that changes dynamically over time. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in TDA with experts in application domains in which time-varying data is particularly prevalent. Examples include time series in climate modelling and financial mathematics, as well as dynamic networks in epidemiology and social science modelling.
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