Awards

Honours

Both Max Kelly and Ross Street were awarded Australian Federation Centenary Medals with the citation: for service to Australian society and science in mathematics. Appropos to this, an interview with Kelly appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (page 4 on 22 April 2003).

A publication dedicated to Professor Max Kelly on the occasion of his 70th birthday appeared as Volume 175 Numbers 1-3 of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

For the fourth consecutive year Daniel Steffen was awarded a WWDC 2003 Apple University Consortium Competitive Scholarship to be Macquarie's representative at the Apple Computer Conference in San Francisco.

Funding

The Centre has been actively supported by both Macquarie University and the University of Sydney. In 1998, Mr Steve G Johnson made a very generous donation, in memory of Scott Russell Johnson, a former graduate student in category theory. This has provided both Research Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships.

Recent additional funding has come from a successful Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for 2003-5 by Professor Street. This is for the project entitled Invariants of higher-dimensional categories, with applications. The allocation was $220,000. The funds allow the Centre to support Dr Alexei Davydov as a Research Associate on the project.