Dear colleagues, This is a second call for proposals for academic visitors for the 2026 calendar year for two of our visitor programs, the longstanding Mathematical Sciences Research Visitor Program (
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This is a second call for proposals for academic visitors for the 2026 calendar year for two of our visitor programs, the longstanding Mathematical Sciences Research Visitor Program (MSRVP) and the Early Career Research Visitor Program (ECRVP).
The intention of the MSRVP is to bring distinguished mathematicians to MSI, and to boost the scientific activity of MSI. The research of potential visitors should be of interest to a reasonably broad cross section of MSI. In particular, such visitors should be able to give general talks including colloquia or public lectures.
The intention of the ECRVP is to bring extremely talented early career researchers, normally within the last year of PhD until 5 years after PhD (although we can be a bit flexible with that), to MSI, to give talks, discuss mathematics with MSI staff with a view to starting collaborative projects, and experience the atmosphere of MSI. We are thinking of this as a way to encourage very high-quality junior mathematicians to subsequently apply for positions at MSI, increasing the chance that we can hire the best people.
MSRVP visitors will be funded for a period of 2-8 weeks. ECRVP visitors will be funded for a period of 2-6 weeks. In both cases the support would normally be in the form of a grant which can be used to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses.
In selecting visitors, the MSRVP Committee places emphasis both on quality and on likely academic benefit to MSI. All members of academic staff (including non-continuing staff) are encouraged to consider developing proposals. We especially encourage people to put forward female mathematicians.
Your proposal should include a short, written statement of about one page supporting the nominated visitor along with an updated copy of the nominee's CV. In your written statement, you should:
• Provide evidence that the proposed visitor is distinguished (MSRVP) or is highly talented (ECRVP).
• Explain the benefit to MSI from the proposed visit, and how many MSI staff are likely to benefit.
• Propose specific activities to be undertaken by the visitor (e.g., seminar(s), colloquium, public lecture, minicourse, outreach).
• Give a suggested time for the visit and indicate level of enthusiasm on the part of the proposed visitor (e.g., by attaching an email from them).
Please submit proposals to admin.research.msi@anu.edu.au by Fri 16 Jan 26. In the current budget environment it is quite possible that not all applications will be funded.
Best wishes,
Ben Andrews
Associate Director, Research