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. 

Here is a link to photos of the meeting.

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 

• Pascal Auscher (Paris-Saclay): What is a fundamental solution to a parabolic equation?
• Yann Bernard (Monash): Analytical challenges in the study of conformally invariant problems.
• Alice Cleynen (CNRS): Markov decision models for long-term treatment optimisation for cancer patients.
• Barry Croke (ANU): Modelling of floods and water resources as part of transdisciplinary studies.
• Kéva Djambae (Polynésie Française - Tahiti): Explicit constructions of Galois Groups.
• Emanuel József Godfried (Melbourne): An introduction to narrow capture problems on Riemannian manifolds.
• Teresa Heiss (ANU): Topological descriptor designed for predicting physical properties of periodic materials.
• 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): A magic formula (of Leibniz type).
• Roger Oyono (Polynésie Française - Tahiti): Discrete Logarithm and Index Calculus for Algebraic Curves.
• Pierre Perruchaud (Monash): Brownian loop soup and Gaussian free field for quantum field theory.
• Pierre Portal (ANU): Harmonic analysis of stochastic diffusion equations.
• Hoel Queffelec (CNRS): q-rationals and link invariants.
• Devesh Rajpal (ANU): Affine Boosted Gauss Curvature Flow
• Garry Terii (Nouvelle Calédonie): Optimisation, autoregressive models and geometric flows.

Other talks

These are talks involving MSI staff and visitors that will be delivered during Soupames, and may be of interest to some participants.

Online talk at the international Prague seminar on function spaces by Wenqi Zhang (8 April, 6:40pm).

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:

• Kéva Djambae (Polynésie Française - Tahiti): Number theory through the lens of geometry.
• Renaud Leplaideur (Nouvelle Calédonie): Chaos, Order,  Superconductivity and other freezing phase transition.
• Diego Marcondes (ANU): The metastability of financial markets.
• Pierre Portal (ANU): Uncertainty: more an advantage than a problem.
• Hoel Queffelec (CNRS): All around knots.

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.

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General information for visitors to ANU

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