Completed PhD Students

1. Mei Chee SHUM

Thesis title: Tortile Tensor Categories (Macquarie University, November 1989); published in full in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 93 (1994) 57-110.

 

2. Scott R. JOHNSON died 8 December 1988; posthumous PhD 1994;

Thesis title: Cauchy Completion in Enriched Categories (Australian National University, 1993).

Publications forming the thesis:

1. Monoidal Morita equivalence, Journal of Pure & Appl. Algebra 59 (1989) 169-177;

2. Small Cauchy completions, Journal of Pure & Appl. Algebra 62 (1989) 35-45;

3. Modulated bicategories (with A. Carboni, R. Street and D. Verity), Journal of Pure & Appl. Algebra 94 (1994) 229-282.

 

3. Paddy McCRUDDEN

Thesis title: Categories of Representations of Balanced Coalgebroids (Macquarie University, 22 February 1999) ; awarded a Letter of Commendation from the Dean of Graduate Students.

Publications arising from the thesis:

1. Balanced coalgebroids, Theory and Appl. of Categories 7 (2000) 71-147;

2. Categories of Representations of Coalgebroids, Advances in Math. 154 (2000) 299-332;

3. Tannaka duality for Maschkean Categories, Proceedings of the Category Theory Conference in Coimbra (July 1999), J. Pure. Appl. Algebra 168 (2002) 265-367.

 

4. Mark WEBER

Thesis title: Symmetric Operads for Globular Sets (Macquarie University, May 2001).

 

5. Elango PANCHADCHARAM

Thesis title: Categories of Mackey Functors (Macquarie University, 10 April 2007; http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/119).

 

6. Craig PASTRO

Thesis title: Hopf algebras and related structures in a categorical environment (Macquarie University, 10 June 2008).

 

7. Dimitri CHIKHLADZE

Thesis title: Elements of enriched and quantum category theory (Macquarie University, submitted 2 July 2010; PhD awarded 28 September 2010).

Publications arising from the thesis:

1. Barr's Embedding theorem for enriched categories, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 215 (2011) 2148-2153.

2. Category of quantum categories, Theory and Applications of Categories 25 (2011) 1-37.

3. (with S. Lack and R. Street) Hopf monoidal comonads, Theory and Applications of Categories 24 (2010) 554-563.

4. The Tannaka representation theorem for separable Frobenius functors, Algebras and Representation Theory (accepted on 22 February 2011).

 

8. David OURY

Thesis title: Duality for Joyal's category $\Theta $ and homotopy concepts for ${\Theta }_{2}$-sets (Macquarie University, submitted 18 March 2011; PhD awarded 4 October 2011).

Publication arising from the thesis:

1. On the duality between trees and disks,  Theory Appl. Categ. 24 (2010) 418-450.

 

9. Thomas BOOKER

Thesis title: Structures in and on monoidal categories with a view towards Tannaka duality  (Macquarie University, submitted 15 December 2011; PhD awarded 3 April 2012).

Publication arising from the thesis:

  1. Torsors, herds and flocks (with R. Street), Journal of Algebra 330 (2011) 346-374
  2. Commutative algebras in Fibonacci categories (with A. Davydov), Journal of Algebra 355 (2012) 176-204

 

Partially supervisor of: Tim Brook PhD ANU 1974; Greg Bird PhD USyd 1984; Andrew Solomon PhD USyd 1997; Isar Stubbe PhD UCL (Belgium) 2004

 

Current PhD Students (Macquarie University)

(with Michael Batanin) Camell  Kachour.

 

Visiting Masters Students

Steve Bennoun (cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne), Tannaka Duality for Comodules over a Hopf Algebra (October 2006 -- March 2007)

 

Jean-Baptiste Boyer (cole Normale Superieure de Cachan, antenne de Bretagne), Categories and Algebraic Topology (June 2010 -- July 2010)

 

Basile Pillet (cole Normale Superieure de Cachan, antenne de Bretagne), Tangle with categories: Presentation and Report (July 2011 -- August 2011)

 

Honours Students

Frank Sharpe, Sheaves as Generalized Sets (1973)

Colin Hill, Sets with Operations from a Categorical Point of View (1974)

Mark Weber, A Mathematical Analogy (1996)

Amy Young, Traced Monoidal Categories (June 1998)

Dilshara Abayasekara, Species of Structure (1999)

Simon Byrne, Groupoids and Stuff Types (2005)

Thomas Booker, Non-Standard Numbers as Global Sections of a Dedekind Reals Object (2007)

Mitchell Buckley, Lawvere Theories (2008)

 

Vacation Scholars

1994: Heidi Manning (Knot theory)

1995: Paddy McCrudden (Quantum groups) and Stephen Warburton (Links formed in fencing wire)

1996: Stuart Lawrence (String diagrams in linear algebra)

1997: Daniel O'Neil and Paul Batten (Representations of the finite general linear groups)

2001: Ryan Crompton and Thi Minh Tam Pham (The Taylor expansions of tanx and secx; also see http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~street/Boustroph.pdf )

2002: Ben Odgers and Hanh Nguyen Vo (Efficient development of number systems and trigonometry)

2004: James Douglas and Rony Kirollos (Number systems, TeX and categories)

2005: Simon Byrne (Quantum groups)

2006: Mitchell Buckley (String diagrams in algebra)