of the University of Adelaide. The following citation was read when Dr Murray was presented with the award at the Australian Mathematical Society Meeting in Auckland in July 1997.
Among the highlights in Michael's work are: his work on the theory of monopoles for gauge groups of rank higher than 1 (i.e. other than SU(2)), a subject which is essentially `his'; the introduction of the information metric, previously used in a statistical context, to the study of moduli spaces of solutions of sets of differential equations; his pioneering use of `bundle gerbes' in the study of quantum field theories.
The field in which Michael works, viz. the part of the interface between pure mathematics and mathematical physics which relates low dimensional geometry and topology to physics, is currently extremely active and competitive; workers in the area have won three Fields medals in the last dozen years. In this context, Michael's work is of a quality which deserves the Society's medal.
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