Emeritus Professor George Willis honoured for a lifetime of work
Emeritus Professor George Willis has been awarded the 2023 George Szekeres Medal at 67th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society.
The society recently honoured six of Australia’s leading mathematicians at a ceremony in Queensland, including Professor Willis.
The George Szekeres Medal is the society's most prestigious medal recognising research achievement and outstanding support of the mathematical sciences. Professor Willis is known internationally as an innovator and problem solver in diverse fields of mathematics. In topological algebra, his insights into locally compact groups and fundamental concepts that he has introduced, such as the scale function and flatness, have initiated new research directions and made new applications possible.
You can read more about this special honour on the Australian Mathematical Society's website.
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