Find out about the latest maths news, announcements and stories at ANU.

Rowena Bell
Monday, 08 Apr 2024
bob dewar
Monday, 08 Apr 2024
  • Memoriam

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

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Flying high: from circus school to a maths degree
Tuesday, 12 Dec 2023
  • News

It’s not a massive leap to go from circus performer to mathematics graduate, says Grover Lancaster-Cole, from the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute.

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Pierre Portal - Why mathematicians love blackboards
Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023
  • News

Associate Professor Pierre Portal explains why this old-fashioned piece of technology is still so special to mathematicians.

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Portrait of a man standing inside a building
Thursday, 02 Mar 2023
  • Academic profile

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
Tuesday, 03 Jan 2023
  • Research story

Pure mathematics often yields unanticipated applications, but without a time machine to look into the future, how do mathematicians like me choose what to study?

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Two people standing in front of a building
Thursday, 15 Dec 2022
  • Student profile

Read about Himani's journey to MSI, the main highlights and challenges she had to overcome and her plans for the future.

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Cracked Earth showing lava underneath it
Monday, 14 Nov 2022
  • Research story

“Faster, more efficient software,” “speedups and code profiling,” and “parallel programming” – these were the central takeaways from the two-week National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) HPC-AI Hackathon hosted in partnership with NVIDIA, and the OpenACC organisation from 24 October to 4 November.

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Friday, 23 Sep 2022
  • News

Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate than in verse? The Maths Poetry Competition is open now.

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