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The 58th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. Thanks to all the students and staff for contributing towards another successful school!

The 2026 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Bammann
  • Dr Em Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • Prof. David Harvey
  • Dr Melissa Lee
  • Prof. Jessica Purcell
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
  • A/Prof. Damjan Vukcevic
  • Prof. Ian Wanless
• Tutors:
  • Dr Zoltan Bacskai
  • Tom Clement
  • Tom Heyworth
  • Karen Man
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Maya Schildkraut
  • Siksha Sivaramakrishnan
  • Arlo Taylor
  • Dr Andy Tran
  • Liz Yevdokimov
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Catherine Greenhill
• Alumni Lecturer:
  • Dr Felicia Eng

The 59th NMSS will be held in January 2027.

The 57th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. Thanks to all the students and staff for contributing towards another successful school!

The 2025 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Bammann
  • Dr Em Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • Dr Melissa Lee
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
  • A/Prof. Katharine Turner
  • A/Prof. Damjan Vukcevic
  • Prof. Ian Wanless
• Tutors:
  • Dr Zoltan Bacskai
  • Thomas Burnett
  • Tom Heyworth
  • Jodie Lee
  • Karen Man
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Dr Ellena Moskovsky
  • Maya Schildkraut
  • Siksha Sivaramakrishnan
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Dist. Prof. Kerrie Mengersen FAA FASSA
• Alumni Lecturers:
  • Dr Subho Banerjee
  • Alex Ware

The 58th NMSS will be held 4-17 January 2026.

The 56th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. Thanks to all the students and staff for another successful school!

The 2024 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Smith
  • Em Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. David Harvey
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
  • Dr Fiona Skerman
  • Dr Katharine Turner
  • Prof. Ian Wanless
• Tutors:
  • Dr Zoltan Bacskai
  • Ell Baldwin
  • Tom Clement
  • Tom Heyworth
  • Jodie Lee
  • Dana Ma
  • Karen Man
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Dr Ellena Moskovsky
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Kate Smith-Miles
• Alumni Lecturers:
  • Sophie Johns
  • Danny Pikler

The 57th NMSS will be held 5 to 18 January 2025.

The 55th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. This year we were fortunate to return to a full two-week schedule held at ANU for the first time since 2019. Thanks to all the students and staff for another successful school!

The 2023 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Smith
  • Em Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • Dr Asilata Bapat
  • A/Prof. Norm Do
  • Dr Ty Ghaswala
  • A/Prof. David Harvey
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
  • Prof. Ian Wanless
• Tutors:
  • Ell Baldwin
  • Tom Clement
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • Tom Heyworth
  • Jodie Lee
  • Dana Ma
  • Karen Man
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Dr Ellena Moskovsky
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Distinguished Prof. Susan Scott
• Alumni Lecturers:
  • Dr Justin Koonin
  • Dr Olivia Smith

The 56th NMSS will be held in January 2024.

The 54th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 School was held virtually based on a similar model to the 2021 School. Thanks to all the students and staff for making this online NMSS as successful as any other!

The 2022 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • Dr Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Academic Support Officers:
  • Siksha Sivaramakrishnan
  • Em Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • Dr Norm Do
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Jonathan Kress
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Tutors:
  • Ell Baldwin
  • Jack Brand
  • Yudhi Bunjamin
  • Tom Clement
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • Tom Heyworth
  • Jodie Lee
  • Dr Mel Lee
  • Isabel Longbottom
  • Dana Ma
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Ellena Moskovsky
  • Lachy Potter
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Rob Hyndman FAA FASSA
• Alumni Lecturers:
  • Sarah Barker
  • Dr Robbie Gates

The 55th NMSS will be held in January 2023.

The 53rd ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School has now concluded. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 School was held virtually. Thanks to all the students and staff for making the first online NMSS as successful as any other!

The 2021 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • Dr Norm Do
• Deputy Directors:
  • Dr Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Academic Support Officer:
  • Emily Thompson
• Welfare Officer:
  • Michael Smith
• Manager:
  • Damien Hoban
• Lecturers:
  • Dr Norm Do
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Jonathan Kress
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Tutors:
  • Ell Baldwin
  • Mike Bammann
  • Yudhi Bunjamin
  • Tom Clement
  • Sean Gardiner
  • Rachel Hauenschild
  • Dr Mel Lee
  • Isabel Longbottom
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Ellena Moskovsky
  • Lachy Potter
  • Dr Olivia Smith
  • Edwin Spark
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Robyn Owens
• Alumni Lecturer:
  • Dr Alex Heath

The 54th NMSS will be held on 9-22 January 2022.

The 52nd ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School concluded on Saturday 18 January 2020. Due to exceptional emergency circumstances in Canberra at the time, the School was held for just eight days this year, at Melbourne University. Thanks to all the students and staff for contributing towards an unusual but invigorating week of distilled mathematics!

The 2020 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • Prof. Ben Burton
• Deputy Directors:
  • Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Smith
  • Emily Thompson
• Lecturers:
  • Dr Norm Do
  • Sean Gardiner
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Jonathan Kress
• Tutors:
  • Ell Baldwin
  • Yudhi Bunjamin
  • Tom Clement
  • Sean Gardiner
  • Isabel Longbottom
  • Dr Brendan McMonigal
  • Ellena Moskovsky
  • Dr Olivia Smith
  • Andy Tran
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Kerry Landman
• Alumni Lecturer:
  • Prof. Jean Yang

The 53rd NMSS will be held on 10-23 January 2021.

The Poladian Project is an event that has been put together by organisers at The University of Sydney to celebrate the late Leon Poladian. Leon was the previous Director of the National Mathematics Summer School from 2013-2017, and a long-time friend of the School having attended twice as a student and 26 times as a staff member.

Leon’s research and interests spanned a vast range of areas and disciplines, and the Poladian Project is focussed on educating people in and celebrating interdisciplinary thinking.

The completely free event consists of presentations and workshops between 14-21 February which are intended for a general audience. These include workshops covering Origami, The Science of Food, and Astronomy through Movement and Music, and seminars about topics spanning how bees make drones safer, brain atlases, and making robots out of DNA. The keynote lecture by guest speaker Dr Robert Lang, titled “Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern World of Origami”, will be given at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday 20 February at the University of Sydney.

All information can be found at the website: https://thepoladianproject.com/

A document highlighting those events most suitable for high-school students can be read by clicking here.

The 51st ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School concluded on Saturday 19 January 2019. Thanks to all the students and staff for contributing towards such an enjoyable and satisfying two weeks.

The 2019 NMSS staff and invited speakers were:

• Director:
  • Prof. Ben Burton
• Deputy Directors:
  • Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
• Welfare Officers:
  • Michael Smith
  • Zaiga Thomann
• Lecturers:
  • Prof. Ben Burton
  • Dr Norm Do
  • Sean Gardiner
  • A/Prof. David Harvey
  • Dr Merryn Horrocks
  • A/Prof. Jonathan Kress
  • A/Prof. Leanne Rylands
  • Dr Kate Turner
• Tutors:
  • Tom Clement
  • Sean Gardiner
  • Ellena Moskovsky
  • Dr Olivia Smith
  • Edwin Spark
  • Bryce Stansfield
  • Emily Thompson
  • Finn Thompson
  • Dr Yinan Zhang
• Blakers Lecturer:
  • Prof. Ole Warnaar
• Alumni Lecturers:
  • Dr Karen Dancer
  • Dr Lara Ford
• Travel Coordinator:
  • Garry Webb

The 52nd NMSS will be held on 5-18 January 2020.

NMSS is excited to announce that the 2019 Blakers Lecturer will be Professor Ole Warnaar. The Blakers Lecture is delivered by a member of the Australian Academy of Science exclusively to students and staff of the School, held at the Shine Dome. The lecture is named after the founder of the National Mathematics Summer School, Professor A.L. (Larry) Blakers AM.

Ole Warnaar is a pure mathematician from the School of Mathematics and Physics at The University of Queensland. He grew up in The Netherlands, where he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Leiden and Doctorate at the University of Amsterdam.

In 1993 he moved to Australia for a postdoctoral position at The University of Melbourne. After a brief stint back in The Netherlands, he returned to Australia on a more permanent basis in 2000, and has been Professor and Chair in Pure Mathematics at The University of Queensland since 2008. Ole is a past Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society and past deputy chair of the National Committee for Mathematical Sciences. In 2008 he was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science for his contributions to algebraic combinatorics, integrable systems and number theory.

Since 2006 Ole writes the competition questions for years 7 and 8 of the University of Melbourne School Mathematics Competition, poking mathematical fun at politicians, celebrities and popular culture.