Announcement: Workshop: n-Categories: Foundations and Applications.

Announcement: Workshop: n-Categories: Foundations and Applications.

[Peter May]

There will be a two week workshop, June 7 - 18, 2004, on
the topic:

n-Categories: Foundations and Applications.

This is the 2004 Summer Program of the Institute for
Mathematics and its Applications, at the University
of Minnesota. Further information may be found at:

http://www.ima.umn.edu/categories

Our main goal is to make progress in sorting out the basic
foundational issues concerning definitions of "weak n-category",
but the main areas of current and potential application will
also be discussed.  We have generous but limited funding from
the IMA, and we have applied to the NSF for supplemental funding.
Those interested are invited to register on-line at:

http://www.ima.umn.edu/docs/reg_form1.html

We will do the best that we can to find (partial) support.
Graduate students and postdocs who are seriously interested in
learning about this subject and who have some background in
category theory and/or categorical homotopy theory are especially
invited to register.

John Baez and Peter May