From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4679 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Fiore Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: January Joint Meetings Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:46:15 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: Reply-To: Tom Fiore NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020101 14354 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:48:21 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Tue Nov 11 09:57:08 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Kztf0-0002oh-RB for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:52:02 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 4 Original-Lines: 52 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4679 Archived-At: 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