There were several exciting new IGA events in 2019. These were mainly funded by Mathai's Australian Laureate support grant and some jointly with AMSI.

Dennis Sullivan (Einstein Professor, City University of NY and SUNY) gave an IGA distinguished lecture-series, January 15-19, 2018.

IGA/AMSI Workshop, Index theory and applications to positive scalar curvature and \ related areas, June 4-8, 2018.

Lecture series on Morse theory and applications by A/Prof Graeme Wilkin (N\ US), July 11, 18, 25, 2018.

*Cancelled* IGA Lecturer, Luis Avarez-Gaume (Director of Simons Centre for Geometry and Physics and Professor at SUNY) will be giving a mini IGA lecture series, November 14-16, 2018. *Cancelled*