From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5395 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Coecke Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: additions Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:16:47 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Bob Coecke NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261442590 12451 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2009 00:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:43:10 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Dec 22 01:43:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NMsq6-0006zV-Od for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NMsP5-0006Pj-Ni for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:15:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5395 Archived-At: Dear all, May I point at another current activity: > 1) Algebraic topology and homological algebra > 2) Abelian categories > 3) Algebraic geometry and topos theory > 4) General cartesian algebra > 5) Categorical logic > 6) Homotopical algebra > 7) Elementary topos theory and set theory > 8) Monoidal categories and enriched category theory > 9) General tensor algebra and coalgebra > 10) Category theory and computer science > 11) Quantum field theory > 12) Higher categories and homotopy theory 13) Category theory in quantum information & quantum foundations While only a quite recent activity, in funding terms this may currently be the 2nd most funded category-theory related area after Category Theory in Computer Science, with, for example, dedicated large EU grants, US Office of Naval Research support, and many others. Also, this summer two researchers in the area obtained permanent positions in France, and here in Oxford we hired a 3rd faculty member in the area. While money and science quality are obviously not always that related to each other, funding is an essential component for sustaining a research activity, enabeling jobs for postdocs in the area, etc. Best wishes, Bob. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]