SUMS - Sydney University Mathematics Society

SUMS - Sydney University Mathematics Society 🌏 Official page for the Sydney University Maths Society USYD SUMS
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This is the official page for the Sydney University Maths Society. Membership: https://usu.edu.au/clubs/mathematics-society/
Website: https://usydsums.org/
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02/09/2026

REGISTER IN BIO IF YOU ARE FUN

Get your thinking caps on because SUMS x SUDATA Trivia Night is coming!

Join us for a night of trivia, food, prizes & good vibes . bring your smartest friends and compete for the $$$ 🤑🏆

📅 Thursday, 3rd September
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 Chemistry Lecture Theatre 3
🍕 Food provided!!!
💰 PRIZES UP FOR GRABS

Tag your trivia team below 👇 and we’ll see you there! 🧠🔥

31/08/2026

Watch us fly ✈️

Get your thinking caps on because SUMS x SUDATA Trivia Night is coming!

Join us for a night of trivia, food, prizes & good vibes . bring your smartest friends and compete for the $$$ 🤑🏆

📅 Thursday, 3rd September
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 Chemistry Lecture Theatre 3
🍕 Food provided!!!
💰 PRIZES UP FOR GRABS

Tag your trivia team below 👇 and we’ll see you there! 🧠🔥

Faculty Has Your Back (FHYB)Week 5 - Monday 31/08 & Tuesday 1/09Time: 10 AM - 2 PMLocation: Carslaw Learning Hub West (o...
28/08/2026

Faculty Has Your Back (FHYB)
Week 5 - Monday 31/08 & Tuesday 1/09
Time: 10 AM - 2 PM
Location: Carslaw Learning Hub West (old Careers Centre space)

Need a little mid-semester check-in? Faculty Has Your Back is coming to campus in Week 5! Drop by for a free coffee, sweet treat, fruit and Science stickers, and have a chat with Faculty staff about how your semester is going and whether there’s any support they can help you with.

STEM-tember Careers MonthWondering where a Science degree could take you? STEM-tember is back this September, with a mon...
28/08/2026

STEM-tember Careers Month
Wondering where a Science degree could take you? STEM-tember is back this September, with a month of events designed to give you a glimpse into the many pathways, people and possibilities beyond your degree.

Hear from industry professionals, researchers and alumni about where their Science careers have taken them, get an inside look at research opportunities, build your professional network and pick up practical tips to help you prepare for life beyond university.

28/08/2026

🧠✨ THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES? ✨🧠

Get your thinking caps on because SUMS x SUDATA Trivia Night is coming!

Join us for a night of trivia, food, prizes & good vibes . bring your smartest friends and compete for the $$$ 🤑🏆

📅 Thursday, 3rd September
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 Chemistry Lecture Theatre 3
🍕 Food provided!!!
💰 PRIZES UP FOR GRABS

Tag your trivia team below 👇 and we’ll see you there! 🧠🔥

Registrations are OPEN! 🧮🔥Join us for the Inter-University Math Competition and put your problem-solving skills to the t...
25/08/2026

Registrations are OPEN! 🧮🔥

Join us for the Inter-University Math Competition and put your problem-solving skills to the test against students from across Sydney.

📅 Friday 4th September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍 Carslaw Room 173

Grab your mates, sign up, and win some insane prizes ☝️🥺

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Interested in consulting?🤩SUMS is excited to share Visagio Connect & Consult - an evening for uni students to meet the V...
21/08/2026

Interested in consulting?🤩

SUMS is excited to share Visagio Connect & Consult - an evening for uni students to meet the Visagio team, learn more about consulting, and get a head start on the recruitment process.

This year, Visagio is introducing an Assessment Centre to its Sydney recruitment process for the first time. Come along to hear what to expect, what the team looks for, and how to stand out 👀

📅 3 September 2026
🕕 6:00–8:30 PM
📍 Visagio Office, Level 1/477 Pitt St, Haymarket

Come along, meet the team, and get the inside scoop on recruitment!

🌟 WEEK 4: WEEKLY MATHS TALK 🌟

📄 Title: Dirichlet’s theorem on primes📣 Speaker: Lewis Combes🗓️ DATE: Thursday 27th Augus...
20/08/2026

🌟 WEEK 4: WEEKLY MATHS TALK 🌟



📄 Title: Dirichlet’s theorem on primes
📣 Speaker: Lewis Combes

🗓️ DATE: Thursday 27th August 2026
⏰ TIME: 1pm
📍 LOCATION: F07.03.373.Carslaw Building.Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373

Description: Dirichlet proved that every arithmetic progression that can contain infinitely many primes does contain infinitely many primes. The proof is remarkable, both in its beauty and relative simplicity, and the fact that it uses objects of enduring importance to modern mathematics. We will discuss some background and then prove the theorem (modulo some technical results). Along the way we will see Dirichlet characters, L-functions and Euler products, all of which are enduring players in the story of modern number theory.

Bio: Lewis Combes is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, working with John Voight. He is interested in topics in computational number theory, such as modular forms and Galois representations, and spends a lot of time programming in Magma. Before moving to Sydney, Lewis studied for his PhD in the UK. He prefers the weather here.

🌟 WEEK 3: WEEKLY MATHS TALK 🌟

📄 Title: “It’s just a jump to the left: adventures in advection”📣 Speaker: Mary Myerscoug...
18/08/2026

🌟 WEEK 3: WEEKLY MATHS TALK 🌟



📄 Title: “It’s just a jump to the left: adventures in advection”
📣 Speaker: Mary Myerscough

🗓️ DATE: Thursday 20th August 2026
⏰ TIME: 1pm
📍 LOCATION: F07.03.373.Carslaw Building.Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373

Description: Advection equations are first order differential equations that model how given quantities change with time and with another variable, for example space or age of individuals. This type of equation is used to represent plumes of pollution or age-structured populations.

We will start with some simple examples to give you a feel for what these equations can do and then look at how an advection equation model for the population of macrophages (a type of white blood cell) inside an atherosclerotic plaque can help us think about what cellular behaviours influence plaque growth.

Bio: Mary completed her DPhil (=PhD) in Mathematical Biology under the supervision of Professor JD Murray at Oxford a very long time ago. She undertook postdoctoral studies at Macquarie University where she was a walking identity crisis, as a mathematician studying an ecological problem in the School of Chemistry. Her
work has covered applications ranging from honeybees to heart attacks, and uses mathematical techniques that stretch from large individual-based simulations to detailed analysis of PDEs. Her research mindset has been described as “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” but she has found working in angel-avoidant areas scientifically interesting, mathematically challenging and immensely satisfying.

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