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This week a delegation of six staff members, two PhD students and six undergraduate students from the DMG attended the AustMS meeting at Latrobe University. We gave the following talks:

• Lashi Bandara – The space of rough Riemannian metrics; Harmonic analysis and boundary trace for first-order elliptic operators over vector bundles and Cutting and gluing via matching boundary conditions.

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”.

• Brianna Laird under the supervision of Reinier Díaz Millán and Julien Ugon on “Generalising the Weber Problem via Bregman Divergences in Infinite Dimensional Spaces”.
• Kate Suraev under the supervision of Julien Ugon and Lashi Bandara on “Formal Verification of Mathematical Proofs in Lean”.
• Bao Minh Tran, under the supervision of Gleb Beliakov and Simon James on “Out-of-distribution data fitting”.

Congratulations to our three students and we look forward to their projects.

Congratulations to Trill White and Hoa My Huy Lim for their success in joining the AMSI Summer Research Scholarship Program.

Trill will work under the supervision of Dr Kelvin Li on her project “Optimisation in BKZ: An analysis of dynamic block size” and Hoa will work under the supervision of Dr Sergey Polyakovskiy on her project “Just-in-Time Batch Scheduling Subject to Batch Size and Packing Constraints”.

Julien Ugon was kindly invited by Mehdi Tavakol at the University of Western Sydney to work on their joing project. While there, Julien gave a seminar on the teaching approach used in the school of IT at Deakin university, titled “Rekindling students’ engagement in mathematics through co-constructive practice”. The slides can be found here.

Iman Shekarriz visited the Technical University of Leoben from September 18th to 22nd. There, he met with Wilfried Imrich to discuss the theoretical advancement of soft happy colouring. Afterwards, they travelled together to at AGH university, Krakow, Poland to attend 10CCGT, a large gathering of graph theorists from all over the world. He presented a talk titled “Soft Happy Colouring”. Upon returning to Austria, Iman stayed at the Vienna University of Technology to visit Karl Svozil for some days. There, they discussed quantum chromatic contextuality.