Centre of Australian Category Theory

CoACT 2011

Information about CoACT

http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/coact/

 

Members

 

Advisory Board

Emeritus Professor Ross Street

Director of CoACT, Mathematics Department

Professor Michael Johnson

Associate Director of CoACT, Computing Department

Associate Professor Steve Lack

Mathematics Department

Dr Wesley Phoa

Capital Strategy Research, USA

Professor Steven Schwartz (ex officio)

Vice-Chancellor, Macquarie University

Professor Stephen Thurgate (ex officio)

Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University

Associate Professor Dominic Verity

Computing Department, Macquarie University

 

Other Members

Dr Michael Batanin

Scott Russell Johnson Memorial Fellow, Mathematics Department

Mr Tom Booker

PhD Student, Mathematics Department

Dr John Corbett

Senior Research Fellow, Mathematics Department

Dr Brian Day

Research Associate, Mathematics Department

Dr Lee Flax

Honorary Fellow, Computing Department

Dr Richard Garner

Research Fellow, Computing Department

Dr Hardy Hulley

Lecturer, School of Finance and Economics, UTS

Mr Camell Kachour

PhD Student, Mathematics Department

Ms Carolyn Kennett

Director, Numeracy Centre

Mr Micah Blake McCurdy

Lecturer, Mathematics Department

Mr Fabio Trova

PhD Student, Mathematics Department

Dr Frank Valckenborgh

Lecturer, Mathematics Department

Dr Mark Weber

Research Associate, Mathematics Department

 

Some Recent Visitors

Glynn Winskel (Jan 2007; Cambridge University)

Clemens Berger (Feb 2007; Feb 2009; May 2011; Laboratoire J.A. DieudonnŽ, UniversitŽ de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France)

Robert Rosebrugh (Aug 2007; Mt Allison U, Canada)

Dorette Pronk (Jul 2007; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

Jiri Rosicky (Nov 2007; Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Alexis Virelizier (Nov-Dec 2008; University of Montpelier II, France)

Alain Bruguires (Nov-Dec 2008; University of Montpelier II, France)

Martin Markl (Nov-Dec 2008; Nov-Dec 2010 Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Denis-Charles Cisinski (Sep 2008; May-Jun 2011, University of Paris XIII, France)

Mark Weber (Jul-Sep 2008; 2009, University of Paris VII, France)

Ezra Getzler (July 2008; Northwestern University, USA)

Michael Shulman (May 2008; University of Chicago, USA)

Peter Johnstone (Apr 2008; Cambridge University, UK)

Boris Chorny (Mar 2008; Australian National University)

Isar Stubbe (Feb-Mar 2008; University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Richard Wood (Jan-Feb 2008; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

Robert Rosebrugh (Feb-Mar 2009; Mt Allison U, Canada)

Stefano Kasangian (Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques", Universitˆ degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

Richard Garner (Oct 2009-Feb 2010; University of Cambridge, UK)

Emily Riehl (Oct 2009-Feb 2010; University of Chicago, USA)

Gabriella Bšhm (Jan-Feb 2010; Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest)

Marcelo Aguiar (Feb 2010; Texas A&M, USA)

 

Projects

ARC Grant DP0558372: Foundation of higher dimensional homological algebra (Final Report)

ARC Grant DP0771252: Cohomology enhanced: an application of enriched and higher categories (Final Report)

ARC Grant DP1094883: Applicable categorical structures (2010 Progress Report)

ARC Grant DP1095346: Functorial operadic calculus 

         

Awards

Stephen Lack was awarded the Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society for 2009.

Ross Street was awarded the Chaire de la VallŽe Poisson for 2011 by the ancient Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and a conference was organized in connection with the Chaire.

Dominic Verity received the Macquarie University 2008 Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Michael Johnson chaired the AMAST (Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology) conference held in Quebec City in June and lectured at the University of Milan in April.

Stephen Lack was appointed chair of the Scientific Committee for the major international category theory conference CT2011 at UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Publications

See the Final Report on ARC Grant DP0771252 and our various home pages, for example