PSSL 86 in Nancy: Preliminary Announcement

PSSL 86 in Nancy: Preliminary Announcement

[Francois Lamarche]

Fellow category theorists,

The 86th edition of the Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic will  
be held at the Institut Élie Cartan of the Université Henri Poincaré  
in Nancy, on the weekend of September 8-9 2007.

More details will be announced later this summer, but interested  
people can start contacting me now. We intend to continue the PSSL  
tradition of informality, and scheduling talks pertaining to any  
aspect of category theory, with or without applications in natural  
science, logic, computer science, or other branches of mathematics.

The fast TGV-Est  train line will be inaugurated in June, and the  
Paris-Nancy trip will then take only 1h30m, with easy connections to  
the two Paris airports. The city of Nancy is right on the Paris- 
Munich train line, and also has good train connecftions with the  
north (Luxembourg, Brussels and Frankfurt via Metz) and the south  
(Lyon, Nice...). There is a local airport, 45 minutes away from  
downtown by minibus shuttle, and there are also two relatively close  
international airports, Luxembourg and Strasbourg, which often allow  
you to do the airport-dowtown Nancy trip in less than 2h30m.

Nancy is of considerable interest for the mathematical tourist, being  
the birthplace of Henri Poincaré, and being intimately related to the  
career of Nicolas Bourbaki.  It has two historical old towns: the  
medieval one, with the Renaissance palace of the Dukes of Lorraine,  
and the classical one, with UNESCO World heritage sites built by Duke  
Stanislas. It is can also boast one of the highest concentrations of  
Art Nouveau architecture in all of Europe, rivalling Prague and  
Barcelona.


Hoping to see you in September,

François Lamarche

http://www.loria.fr/~lamarche