AustMS Meeting 2025 La Trobe University

AustMS 2025 - schedule overview

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Monday December 8

Time Event Location
4:00pm WIMSIG Business Meeting Borchardt Library, Room 1.34
6:00pm WIMSIG Dinner Glenn College Dining Hall

Tuesday December 9 (Day 1)

Time Event Location
8:00am Information and Registration desk opens Agora East, Level 2
9:00am Opening ceremony and prizes Agora Theatre
11:00am Morning tea Agora East, Level 2
11:30am Plenary Talk – Tobin Driscoll
Computational approximation by rational functions		 Agora Theatre
12:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm Special sessions Various locations
3:30pm Poster session Agora East, Level 2
Afternoon tea TLC, Level 2
and Agora East, Level 2
4:00pm Special sessions Various locations
5:30pm Plenary Talk – Sophie Hautphenne
Branching processes in practice: models, inference, and applications		 Agora Theatre
6:30pm Welcome Reception Jenny Graves Lawn

Wednesday December 10 (Day 2)

Time Event Location
8:30am Information and Registration desk opens Agora East, Level 2
10:00am Plenary Talk – Agnese Barbensi
Mapping the topology of polymer folding: knots, geometry, and data 		Agora Theatre
11:00am Morning tea Agora East, Level 2
11:30am Plenary Talk – Yoshihiro Tonegawa
Geometric measure theory and mean curvature flow 		Agora Theatre
12:30pm Lunch break
1:00pm Debate: AI will destroy mathematics Agora Theatre
2:00pm Special sessions & Education Afternoon Various locations
3:30pm Poster session Agora East, Level 2
Afternoon tea TLC, Level 2
and Agora East, Level 2
4:00pm Special sessions & Education Afternoon Various locations
5:30pm Refreshments before the Public Lecture Agora East, Level 2
6:00pm Public Lecture – Tobin Driscoll Why Your Calculator Is (Slightly) Lying to You—And Why That's OK Agora Theatre

Thursday December 11 (Day 3)

Time Event Location
8:30am Information and Registration desk opens Agora East, Level 2
9:00am Plenary Talk – Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman
A journey through random dynamical systems and multiplicative ergodic theory 		Agora Theatre
10:00am Morning tea Agora East, Level 2
10:30am Plenary Talk – John Bamberg
Finite generalised polygons: the final frontier in the classification of spherical buildings 		Agora Theatre
11:30am Plenary Talk – Oksana Yakimova
Commutative subalgebras of the enveloping and symmetric algebra of a Lie algebra q 		Agora Theatre
12:30pm Lunch break
LGBTQIA+ and Allies Lunch Agora East, Level 2
1:30pm Special sessions Various locations
3:30pm Afternoon tea TLC, Level 2
and Agora East, Level 2
4:00pm AustMS Annual General Meeting Agora Theatre
7:00pm Conference dinner
Drinks served from 6:30pm
Buses departing Car Park 2 between 5:30 and 5:45pm		 Leonda by the Yarra

Friday December 12 (Day 4)

Time Event Location
8:30am Information and Registration desk opens Agora East, Level 2
9:00am Plenary Talk – Caroline Wormell
Computing transfer operators and fractal dimensions 		Agora Theatre
10:00am Morning tea Agora East, Level 2
10:30am Plenary Talk – Anita Liebenau
From Graphs to Latin Rectangles: Probabilistic Methods in Asymptotic Enumeration 		Agora Theatre
11:30am Plenary Talk – Theo Johnson-Freyd
Fermions and categorified algebra closure 		Agora Theatre
12:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm Special sessions Various locations
3:30pm Afternoon tea Agora East, Level 2
4:00pm Special sessions Various locations
6:00pm Conference concludes