January Joint Meetings

[Tom Fiore <fiore@math.uchicago.edu>]

Dear Category Theorists,
 	We are pleased to announce the AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory
and Higher Categories at the Joint Meetings, January 5-8 in Washington DC. The
Special Session will be on January 7th and 8th. More information is below, and
on the website. Please note that November 14th is the deadline for hotel
reservations at the discounted rate.

Speakers:

Maia Averett, Mills College
John Baez, University of California at Riverside
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College CUNY
Julie Bergner, University of California at Riverside
Thomas M. Fiore, University of Chicago
Mike Hill, University of Virginia
Niles Johnson, University of Chicago
Valentina Joukhovitski, University of Michigan
Bill Kronholm, Swarthmore College
Aaron Leeman, University of Oregon
Xiaouxue Li, Emory and Henry College
Peter May, University of Chicago
Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins University
Son Phuc Nguyen, Wayne State University
Kyle Ormsby, University of Michigan
Paul Pearson, University of Rochester
David Pengelley, New Mexico State University
Daniel Ramras, Vanderbilt University
Rekha Santhanam, Johns Hopkins University
Armira Shkembi, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Shulman, University of Chicago
Barry Walker, Northwestern University


Dinner: 6:30, Wednesday, January 7th, Nam Viet Restaurant, 3419 Connecticut
Avenue, N.W. Washington D.C. 20008. The restaurant is approximately 9/10 of a
mile north along Connecticut Ave, right outside Cleveland Park Station. This
restaurant has meat dishes and vegetarian dishes. Note that there are two
locations, we will be at the one in Washington next to Cleveland Park Station.


The schedule, titles, and abstracts are on the website:

http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~fiore/1/JointMeeting.htm

Hotel reservations (deadline November 14th for discounted rate!):
http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2110_hsg.html
https://www.ams.org/meetreg?meetnum=2110

Best greetings,
Tom Fiore, Mark Johnson, Jim Turner, Donald Yau, Steve Wilson