About

The South Pacific Mathematics Exchange Seminar (SOUPAMES) aims to build a sense of community among mathematicians working in Australia and the Pacific, in connection with the French mathematical community. It is organised by the ANU-CNRS France Australia Mathematical Sciences and Interactions International Research Lab, and supported by the Australia-France Pacific Shared Knowledge Initiative. 

Schedule

SOUPAMES will involve the following activities:

• accessible short talks (15 minutes) by the participants, aiming to give everybody an idea of what the research of members of the community is about,
• specialised thematic group discussions (in three groups: 1. Algebra, 2. Analysis, 3. Statistics and Dynamics) involving in-depth informal research discussions between SOUPAMES participants and MSI staff members,
• time for small group (2-4 people) discussions to go even deeper into research questions,
• outreach talks presenting the research of members of the community to non mathematicians (including representatives of the French CNRS),
• A cultural tour of Black Mountain and discussions to give participants a sense of place in the region, cognisant of both French and British colonial history, while visiting the ANU on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country,
• social activities to build connections.

Taking a long term view, the meeting will be particularly focused on early career researchers.

Short talks 

Note: this list is not yet complete.

• Pascal Auscher (Paris-Saclay)
• Yann Bernard (Monash): Analytical challenges in the study of conformally invariant problems.
• Alice Cleynen (Montpellier)
• Kéva Djambae (Polynésie Française - Tahiti): Explicit constructions of Galois Groups.
• Emanuel József Godfried (Melbourne): An introduction to narrow capture problems on Riemannian manifolds.
• Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (UNSW): A Potential-Theoretic Approach to (Complex-Valued) Distribution Functions.
• Renaud Leplaideur (Nouvelle Calédonie): About Thermodynamic Formalism.
• Diego Marcondes (ANU): A resolvent approach to the metastability of random maps.
• Sylvie Monniaux. (Aix-Marseille)
• Nasrin Nikbakht (New Zealand)
• Roger Oyono (Polynésie Française - Tahiti): Discrete Logarithm and Index Calculus for Algebraic Curves.
• Pierre Perruchaud (Monash)
• Pierre Portal (ANU): Harmonic analysis of stochastic diffusion equations.
• Hoel Queffelec (Montpellier): q-rationals and link invariants.
• Garry Terii (Nouvelle Calédonie): Optimisation, autoregressive models and geometric flows.

Outreach talks

We will start with a presentation by Armelle Pineau (CNRS Oceania office) on research opportunities available through the CNRS and Horizon Europe.

We will then have the following outreach talks (note that this list is not yet complete):

• Renaud Leplaideur (Nouvelle Calédonie): Chaos, Order,  Superconductivity and other freezing phase transition.
• Diego Marcondes (ANU): The metastability of financial markets.
• Nasrin Nikbakht (New Zealand): How to Recover What We Cannot See: Methods in Inverse Problems.

• Pierre Portal (ANU): Uncertainty: more an advantage than a problem.

   

Accommodation options

ANU Apartments (on campus)

Novotel Canberra - Google Maps

Quest Canberra - Google Maps

QT Canberra - Google Maps

Peppers Gallery Hotel Canberra - Google Maps

Ovolo Nishi - Google Maps

Canberra Accommodation Centre. They are a short tram ride from ANU.

Forrest Hotel and Apartments. They are about a 10 min drive from ANU.

Travel information

General information for visitors to ANU