Dear all, This is to give you advance warning that in the new year we will be advertising a permanent position here at Macquarie University in Sydney. While the position will be open to any field of mathematics, priority will be given to excellent candidates working in category theory. As many of you are probably aware, the group here is pretty active: we have Steve Lack and myself as continuing academics, Ross Street, Dominic Verity and Mike Johnson as emeritus professors, and John Power as an honorary professor; plus a community of 11 postgraduate students and a couple of postdocs. This is a Lecturer position, analogous to a UK lecturer or a US assistant professor, with a base salary of AU$110,000-$130,000, and is a balanced academic role with 40% research, 40% teaching and 20% service. We expect the formal advertisement to be live at the start of February with a closing date early in March. This rather short period is forced upon us by federal government rules, so it seems best to get word out now. Please feel free to distribute this message further, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about anything to do with this. Richard [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]