# The 60th birthday of Amnon Neeman

4–5 September 2017

This gathering will celebrate the Australian career of Amnon Neeman and honour him on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

## Speakers

Amnon Neeman arrived in Australia as a 13-year-old in February 1971. He finished Randwick Boys High School in 1974, winning the Room Medal for coming top in NSW  at the mathematics HSC exam. He went on to study mathematics at U.Sydney starting in 1975. There he was immersed in its exciting mathematical culture and was especially influenced by Terry Gagen, Max Kelly, Gus Lehrer and John Mack. He got an honours degree with a University Medal in 1978, and then a master's degree in 1979 shortly before heading off to pursue his PhD in the USA.

At the time it was customary for the top students in U Sydney to head off to Cambridge or Oxford for their PhDs. It was John Coates, then at the ANU, who advised Amnon that going to the US was much better. Jon Glass, a young postdoc at the time, gave a course at U Sydney on algebraic geometry, following Mumford's red book, and it was on his advice that Amnon went to Harvard to study with Mumford.

Amnon spent nearly twenty years in the US, at some elite universities. He returned to Australia in March 1999, with a position at ANU. In 2010, he was awarded a Laureate Fellowship. He is the author of two books and some seventy papers.

The following students completed their PhDs with Amnon: Avishay Vaknin (2003), Daniel Murfet (2008), Greg Stevenson (2011), Shane Kelly (2012), Hafiz Khusyairi (2017).

Triangulated Categories and Geometry - a conference in honour of Amnon Neeman

An international conference in Amnon's honour was held in Germany in May. For more information.

## Sessions

4 September 2017
Time Session
1.30–2pm
Registration
2–3pm
Geometric approach to the invariant theory of the orthosymplectic super group scheme
Professor Gus Lehrer
3.15–4.15pm
Toward multilinear extension of homotopy theory of small categories
Associate Professor Michael Alexandrovich Batanin
4.30–5.30pm
Base change of Morita theories
Emeritus Professor Ross Street
6.30–9prm
Conference dinner
Copper Chimney
5 September 2017
Time Session
8.30–9am
Coffee and tea
9–10am
Tannakian categories in characteristic zero
Dr Peter O'Sullivan
10.15–11.15am
Turing machines and Coalgebras
Dr Daniel Murfet
11.30am–12.30pm
K-theory of line bundles and regularity
Professor Christian Haesemeyer

On Monday 4th September, we will be hosting a dinner in honour of Amnon Neeman at Copper Chimney Restaurant. If you would like to attend, please make sure to select this option at checkout.

Please note, we are asking for a $15 contribution, no alcoholic drinks included. ### Registration date 9th August to 1st September 2017 Innovations Lecture Theatre, Building #124, Australian National University ## Map ## Accommodation Below are some accommodation options for your visit to Canberra. ## Cafés and Dining Below are some café, restaurant and bar options in the Canberra city and surrounding areas. ## Transportation There are many ways to get around Canberra. Below is some useful information about Bus & Taxi transport around the ANU, the Airport and surrounding areas. ### Taxi If you are catching a taxi to the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute, ask to be taken to Kingsley Street, Drill Hall Gallery. From here, it is only a short walk to the Mathematical Sciences Building (John Dedman, Building 27). A Taxi will generally cost around$40 and will take roughly 15 minutes. Pricing and time may vary depending on traffic.

Taxi bookings can be made through Canberra Elite Taxis - 13 22 27.

### Airport Shuttle

Airport express buses to the city are cheaper but they will not take you directly to your destination. The buses stop at 3 locations marked in the map below. The most convenient stop for getting yourself to the ANU is West Row, Civic.

Shuttle prices:

• $12 one way •$20 return