Newman
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Laci Kovács (extreme left) and Mike Newman (extreme right) with Professor BH Neumann and Professor David Craig (President, Australian Academy of Science) after receiving their BH Neumann Awards in Canberra, April 1993. Mike was a Fellow in the Research School of Mathematics at the ANU for decades and later a Professor. Laci and Mike founded the Canberra Friday night enrichment group and ran it for many years until about 1988. Mike was a Foundation Member of the Challenge Problems Committee and continued in this role through the remaining 23 years covered by this history.