Forthcoming Events at: Mathematical Sciences Institute

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Join us for opening night and exhibition on Thursday, 26 Mar 2026, 5:30pm. Mathematicians and Artists will be showcasing their mathematical creativity within the Hanna Neumann building #145. The evening will open in the Seminar Room 1.33 with keynote speaker, artistic donor, and friend of the MSI, Richard Hassell whose bats trace sweeping arcs across […]

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What are the greatest mathematical challenges for humanity? In 1959 ‘the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics’ was contemplated by Wigner as ‘a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve’, the wonder being that mathematics is so powerful in describing and predicting observed behaviours of the physical and even the biological and social worlds. Sixty-five years […]