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Simon and his collaborators, Chris and Erin, recently got together with Lauren Holcomb-Smith to discuss their Open Educational Resource (OER) on mathematical reasoning. The podcast is available here (https://openeducation.podcast.audio/@storiesofopenness/episodes/OER-maths/activity) as well as Apple and Spotify podcasts and the book can be found here (https://deakin.pressbooks.pub/mathematicalreasoninginvestigation/).

Lashi Bandara was invited to visit number of research centres in Europe (Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom and Portugal) from mid-December 2025 till mid-February 2026.

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.