Dr Michael Sun, Mathematician

My student Alex Qiu was selected to represent Australia at the 2024

International Maths Olympiad (IMO)

My student Leo Li was accepted into Columbia University and Cambridge University, graduate

with 99.95 ATAR and state rank in Math X2.

My student William Liu also go

9.95 ATAR and state rank in X2 among other subjects.

My student Janiru was accepted to Harvard University medicine 2023

My student Xing was accepted to Beijing University, 2022

My student Haibing represented Australia at the International Maths Olympiad and got a Silver Medal. This is the best achievement out of any NSW student in 2021.

A few more testimonials at the bottom of the page.

• Visiting Scholar, East China Normal University, China (2016)

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, 博士后 research only, University of M¨unster, Germany (2014-2016)

• PhD (Mathematics) under Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon (2009-2014) I was mentored by Victor Ostrik and N. Christopher Phillips.

I was awarded the B¨orsting Prize for best graduate.

• M.Sc (Research) under Anthony Henderson, University of Sydney (2009)

Completed in less than 6 months with a research publication.

• B.Sc (Advanced)(Honours) University of Sydney (2005-2008)

I was awarded the University Medal. High Distinction in all Maths courses.

• HSC (99.95) Normanhurst Boys High School, Australia (2004)

I was Dux and Best All-Rounder. I was also a prefect.

Research publications

• Symplectic level rank duality via tensor categories (with V. Ostrik and E. Rowell)

J. Lie Theory 30 (2020), No. 4, 909–924.

• Strongly outer group actions on UHF algebras

J. Topology and Analysis (2017). DOI: 10.1142/S1793525318500231

• Low dimensional representations of the three component loop braid group

J. Math. Phys. 56, 111707 (2015), DOI: 10.1063/1.4935361.

• Existence of the Matui-Sato tracial Rokhlin property

J. Operator Theory 74:1 (2015), 101–119, DOI: 10.7900/jot.2014apr11.2031.

• Level-rank duality via tensor categories (with Victor Ostrik),

Comm. Math. Phys. 326 (2014) 49-61, DOI: 10.1007/s00220-013-1869-9

• Point stabilizers for the enhanced and exotic nilpotent cones,

J. Group Theory 14 (2011), 825-839, DOI: 10.1515/JGT.2010.080

• Native speaker of English, very fluent in spoken Chinese, some German.

• Attended Joint Meetings of the American Maths Society (San Antonio 2015) as well as the International Congress of Mathematicians (Seoul 2014)

• Countries visited:

Australia,

China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Changchun, Nanning, Wuxi),

United States of America (Oregon, California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, Minesota, Nevada, Texas, Kansas),

Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland

Books

Higher School Mathematics

-recalling the maths in the HSC

Maths Olympiad: Theory building and problem solving. 3 books

Junior to Intermediate

Intermediate to Senior

Senior to Professional

There will be various scholarships and things which are omitted to save time, some of which do become relevant from time to time.

For example,

I played Table tennis for NSW U21 team

JCL chess rating of about 1000

2024-6 Committee Member elect Hornsby Spiders Basketball association.

2024- Volunteer Coach and Referee for CWPS PSSA and State knockout.

2023- Volunteer Coach Friday 4-5pm Upper Primary Basketball

2022 Assistant Coach U18/Div 1 Spiders under Ben Fricke

2019 Head Coach Barker year 7 A team, 10D

2019 Head Coach U16/Div 2 Spiders without assistant. Had winning season and made Semi Finals.

2018 and 2019 Train-on player for Spiders Men’s team (two seasons)

under Jim Arkell and Alicia Poto

2017 Assistant Coach U12/Div 1 Spiders under Wayne Nicols

got some game coaching experience

Other sports

Represented NSW U21 table tennis Australian National Championships

Represented UO at USA College National Championships.

Represented Usyd at Easter and Australian University Games

Volleyball represented Sydney North at NSW state championships twice. Represented Usyd at SVL.

Chess represented high school at NSW state championships, JCL rating about 1000.