Chair: Professor
Gus Lehrer,
University of Sydney and
Australian National University.
Biographical note: After being educated at
Sydney and
Warwick Universities
and a period of research in Europe, Gus returned to the
University of Sydney,
where he is Professor of Pure Mathematics
and a former Head of the
School of Mathematics and Statistics.
The central theme of his research is Representation Theory,
which acts as a meeting place for Abstract Algebra
and Concrete Geometry.
Gus's early work on Reductive Groups was highly algebraic,
but more recently he has given applications of Cohomology Theory
to problems in cheese-cutting,
and made connections between this and Knot Theory.
In July 1996 he took up the position of
Head of the
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the
ANU.
