17 Aug 2024, by ablahatherell in Events

Distinguished Lecture Series 2025: Nalini Joshi (Sydney)


3 – 6 March 2025

Venue: School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Fry Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG

Organised in collaboration with the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK



Nalini Joshi

Payne-Scott Professor of Mathematics and the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney
and a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow



Nalini was born and spent her early childhood in Burma, before her family emigrated to Australia. She was awarded a BSc (Hons), with the University Medal in applied mathematics, by the University of Sydney in 1982 and then a PhD in computational and applied mathematics in 1987 by Princeton University in the USA.


Her research focuses on mathematical methods to study integrable systems, which arise as universal models everywhere. Nalini’s strong research achievements led to several distinctions. She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2008, won an Australian Research Council Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2012 and was the 150th AnniversaryHardy Fellow of the London Mathematical Society in 2015.


Nalini also has a keen interest in diversity and her Laureate Fellowship had a component to attract and retain female researchers in STEM. She was foundation co-Chair of the SAGE (Science in Australia Gender Equity) national initiative, which is currently running a pilot program that involves 44 research organisations in Australia, including 33 universities.


In the 2016 Queen’s Birthday honours, Nalini was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to mathematical science and tertiary education as an academic, author and researcher, to professional societies, and as a role model and mentor of young mathematicians.


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