Simon James and Julien Ugon attended the Meanjin Delta conference on the 25 and 26th of November. Julien presented a talk titled “Co-constructive mastery-based learning in mathematics” and Simon’s presentation was titled “Five years of the mathematics yearbook: a side quest in co- constructive learning”. We acknowledge funding from the faculty of SEBE that enabled us to attend this conference.

Gleb and Simon’s new book, Choquet Capacities and Fuzzy Integrals, co-authored with Jian-Zhang Wu, has just appeared.

Prof Beliakov was named in the Australian’s 2026 Research Magazine as a top researcher in Engineering and Computer Science, in the field of Fuzzy Systems. Congratulations to Gleb for this tremendous achievement.

Lashi Bandara visited Aprameyan Parthasarathy at IIT-Madras on invitation from 6th to 10th October.

In the IIT-Madras Maths Colloquium, he gave a talk titled “Functional calculus, garnished with a little geometry”.

Julien Ugon and Reinier Diáz Millán attended a two days workshop on optimisation, the Optimisation Days at the university of New South Wales. Reinier’s trip was kindly supported by Vera Roshchina.

Reinier gave a presentation titled “Frank–Wolfe algorithm for DC optimisation problem”.