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Visiting Fellows

The visiting fellow programme of the ICMS provides funds for researchers from low and middle income countries to visit the UK, possibly as an extension of participation in a workshop. It also provides Distinguished Visiting Fellowships with the intention of facilitating the visits of leading figures in the mathematical sciences to the UK.

The normal expectation of visiting fellows is that they will also utilise their stay in the UK to liaise with other institutions in addition to the ICMS. 

Please contact the Centre Manager Jane Walker or the Director Minhyong Kim with queries.

We expect the following points to be covered in your application:

  1. A specific plan of collaborative research
  2. Justification of why you are being proposed for this collaboration
  3. A budget with justification
  4. CV of UK host and visiting fellow
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Alicia Dickenstein

05 Nov 2023 to 11 Nov 2023

University of Buenos Aires

Alicia Dickenstein is Professor Emerita of the University of Buenos Aires and a Senior Researcher of CONICET, the National Research Council of Argentina. She is a Member of the National Academy of Exact and Natural Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina. She was Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union. She is an AMS Fellow and a SIAM Fellow. She holds Honorary Doctorates from UNS and UNL, Argentina, and from KTH, Sweden. She received the  2015 TWAS Prize in Mathematics and a 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO International Award "For Women in Science".

 

During Alicia's visit to the UK she gave the annual Jack Carr Memorial Lecture at ICMS  as well as speaking at the universities of Oxford and Warwick.

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Sourav Patranabish

01 Jan 2023 to 31 Mar 2023

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Dr. Sourav Patranabish from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, is visiting Prof. Apala Majumdar’s group at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from January - March 2023. Sourav completed his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in October 2022 and continued there as an Early-Doc Fellow. He is an experimentalist by training but has also worked on the modelling of bent-core liquid crystalline systems with Prof. Majumdar. His major research interests include Liquid Crystals, Liquid Crystal nanocomposites, Liquid Crystal based Optoelectronic and Photonic devices, Polymers and Polymer Composites, Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Energy Harvesting devices, and Soft Matter in general. He is currently looking for a full-time postdoctoral position in any of these fields or closely related areas. During his visit to Prof. Majumdar’s group, Sourav will work on the free-energy modelling of twist-bend nematic liquid crystals and some other systems. He will also visit a few other research groups in the UK actively involved in liquid crystal research and look for future collaboration opportunities.

 

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Pavel Etingof

02 Apr 2023 to 07 Apr 2023

MIT

Pavel Etingof is a world-leading expert on geometric representation theory, especially its interface with theoretical physics. After receiving his Ph.D. at Yale University, he held faculty positions at Harvard University and Columbia University before settling down at MIT, where he has been Professor of Mathematics since 2005. He has received many awards and distinctions for his contributions to mathematics, including a Prize Fellowship from the Clay Mathematical Institute, election to the Fellowship of the American Mathematical Society, and a Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Etingof is visiting the UK in April 2023 to address the UK mathematical community in a plenary lecture at the British Mathematical Colloquium.

John Baez

01 Jul 2023 to 31 Dec 2023

UC Riverside

John Baez is visiting twice: Sep-Dec 2022 and Jul-Dec 2023.

Mathematicians and physicists know John Baez for his work on higher categories in physics. Together with James Dolan, in an article now cited 580 times, he formulated the Cobordism Hypothesis on the classification of topological quantum field theories. In 2009 the renowned Harvard mathematician and MacArthur Fellow Jacob Lurie wrote an 111-page sketch of a proof, and the hypothesis continues to provoke new research. Baez also helped introduce the field of higher gauge theory, currently of interest in condensed matter physics and string theory. A broader audience knows Baez for his explanations of mathematics and physics. In 1993 he began writing This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics  originally on Usenet, predating the World Wide Web  which has been called the worlds first blog. The series continued for 300 issues. Arithmetic geometer and author Jordan Ellenberg wrote that Baez invented the math blog, and, quite possibly, the blog itself. When the pandemic began, Baez helped create the Category Theory Community Server, a worldwide discussion forum that now has hundreds of users. He edited the Visual Insight blog for the American Mathematical Society (a place to share striking images that help explain advanced topics in mathematics) and has recently been chosen to write a twice-yearly column in the worlds most highly read mathematics periodical, the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. He has twice written pieces featured in Princeton University Presss annual roundup of The Best Writing on Mathematics, and with his student John Huerta he won the Levi L. Conant Prize for expository mathematics writing. He is author of five books and 111 research papers. Baez is also in very high demand as a speaker, well-known for his ability to reach and inspire an exceptionally wide audience. He currently holds a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh, running for a total of one year in 2022 and 2023. In 2021, Baez was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, recognizing outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

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Rajiv Sinha

01 Jul 2022 to 27 Jul 2022

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Professor Rajiv Sinha from the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur visited the Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow from July 1-27, 2022. This visit was to foster the ongoing collaboration between the two institutions on the development of novel methods for analysing water quality data acquired from new generation of Earth observation and on-the-ground data sources. During this visit, Professor Sinha interacted with several colleagues from the department (Prof. Surajit Ray, Prof. Marian Scot and Prof. Clair Miller). He also visited University of Stirling (Prof. Andrew Tyler) and James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen (Dr. Miriam Glendell) for technical discussions on the ongoing collaboration and possible future activities. Further, Prof. Sinha has had collaborations with several other scientists from other universities within the UK and some of them visited Glasgow during his stay (Prof. Hugh Sinclair, Edinburgh; Prof. Alex Densmore, Durham; Dr. Harjinder Sembhi, Leicester) and discussed future collaborations. 

Ngô Bảo Châu

Ngô Bảo Châu

02 May 2022

University of Chicago and Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics

Fields Medallist Ngô Bảo Châu is visiting in May to give a talk on Automorphic L-functions for our Inaugral Jack Carr Lecture

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