MATRIX and South Australian Department for Education Launch 2025 MathsCraft Partnership

24 June 2025 MATRIX is delighted to announce a new partnership with the South Australian Department for Education as the primary funders of the MathsCraft – Enhancing Problem Solving in Schools (EPCiS) program in 2025. This initiative supports the professional development of teachers and promotes deeper mathematical thinking among students by bringing the practices of research mathematicians into the classroom. … Read More

Open Call for Research Program and Tandem Workshop Proposals

MATRIX Research Program Proposals MATRIX invites proposals for research programs to be held in 2026/2027. Next closing date: Friday, 19 September 2025 Guidelines  MATRIX-BIRS Tandem Research Workshop (in 2026) Proposals The institutes MATRIX  in Creswick (Australia) and BIRS in Banff (Canada) invite proposals for a tandem workshop taking place simultaneously at MATRIX and BIRS in the week of 22-27 November 2026. Next closing … Read More

MATRIX Celebrates 10 Years of Mathematical Discovery and Collaboration

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of MATRIX, Australia’s residential institute for the mathematical sciences. Established in 2015, MATRIX is supported by a national institutional collaboration that includes the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Queensland, the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales. MATRIX has become a national hub for deep, collaborative research across the … Read More

UQ becomes Partner and UNSW joins as Associate Member

10 January 2025   Happy New Year! MATRIX welcomes the University of Queensland as full Partner since 2024 and the University of New South Wales as Associate Member from 2025 onward in a national consortium that also includes the Australian National University, Monash University and the University of Melbourne. With current pressures on the sector as a whole, we are extremely grateful … Read More

Call to Action based on Key Findings of the AMSI-MATRIX Research Investment Report 2024

AMSI-MATRIX Call to Action28 August 2024   MATRIX is Australia’s residential research institute for the mathematical sciences, and critical national research infrastructure. Our Call to Action, based on a joint report with the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), evidences a lack of accessibility by mathematical science researchers to the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), lack of accessibility to a … Read More

Research Investment and Expenditure into the Mathematical Sciences

AMSI-MATRIX REPORT23 MAY 2024 This updated report, published by MATRIX and AMSI, analyses investment and expenditure in Australia to support research in the mathematical sciences over the period 2008-2024 using current publicly available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Medical and Health Research Council (NHMRC). The report includes a summary … Read More

Building Blocks of the Universe – with Prof. Alessandro Sfondrini

Esteemed MATRIX-Simons Fellow, Alessandro Sfondrini (University of Padua) and host Gabriele Tartaglino Mazzucchelli (The University of Queensland) recorded this very interesting discussion on the ‘building blocks of the universe’. Listen to the podcast  The Random Sample podcast was recorded during the New Deformations of Quantum Field and Gravity Theories research program at MATRIX, Creswick in January-February 2024. Alessandro and Gabriele … Read More

Open call for research program and tandem workshop proposals

MATRIX Research Program Proposals MATRIX invites proposals for research programs to be held in 2025/2026. Next closing date: Sunday, 24 March 2024 Guidelines  MATRIX-MFO Tandem Research Workshop (in 2025) Proposals The institutes MATRIX  in Creswick (Australia) and MFO in Oberwolfach (Germany) invite proposals for a tandem workshop taking place simultaneously at MATRIX and MFO  in the week of 21-26 September 2025. Next closing date: Sunday, 1 September … Read More