Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference

Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference

[Marek Zawadowski]

Dear Category Theorists,

As one of the local organizers, I want to invite you to
Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference
to be held in Warsaw, on July 22-26, 2013.
You can read the Preliminary Announcement below.
The web page of the Conference is eilenberg100.ptm.org.pl
If you have any questions concerning the Conference,
you can email me directly.

I hope to see many of you in Warsaw next summer.

Best regards,
Marek Zawadowski



Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference

Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland, July 22-26, 2013

Preliminary Announcement

Samuel Eilenberg, one of mathematicians who shaped 20th century
mathematics and made
important contributions to theoretical computer science, was born in
Warsaw on September 30, 1913.
The Centenary Conference will be held in the city of his birth July
22-26, 2013.
The intention is to cover all the areas of Eilenberg's great
contributions: topology, category
theory and computability. The categorical viewpoint developed by
Eilenberg and his collaborators lies
behind many recent developments, thus the conference will be of
relevance to a large body of current
research in mathematics. The program of the Conference will consist of
plenary lectures and
contributed talks covering the wide scope of Eilenberg's mathematical
legacy. Some historical materials
will be presented to illustrate social context of his life.

The conference venue will be the old campus of the University of Warsaw,
Alma Mater of
Samuel Eilenberg. Already as a student Eilenberg was one of the most
active members of the Warsaw
topology group - he left Warsaw in April 1939, thus escaping the
Holocaust. After several short
employments at institutions in the USA, in 1947 Eilenberg settled at
Columbia University, where he
stayed until retirement in 1982. He was a member of the Polish and
American Mathematical Societies
and of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Samuel Eilenberg was an
extraordinary personality; he was
also a famous collector and expert in Southeast Asian art. He donated
his impressive collection to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Conference is organized by the University of Warsaw, Polish
Mathematical Society and the
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in
collaboration with the American
Mathematical Society and Columbia University. On the occasion of the
conference a special volume
of Fundamenta Mathematicae will appear, the journal in which Eilenberg
published many papers,
including his first (in 1934) and the last (in 1988) topological papers.
The First Announcement will be distributed later in Fall . The webpage
of the conference is:
eilenberg100.ptm.org.pl . For more information please contact the
secretary of the local organizing
committee Marek.Zawadowski@mimuw.edu.pl .

Eric Friedlander, President of the American Mathematical Society
Stefan Jackowski, President of the Polish Mathematical Society
Ioannis Karatzas, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Columbia
University
Feliks Przytycki, Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
Andrzej Tarlecki, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and
Mechanics, University of Warsaw


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Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference

[Marek Zawadowski]

Dear Categorists,
below you find the First Announcement for

Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference

that will be held in

Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland, July 22-26, 2013

The registration is already open!

Looking forward to seeing you in Warsaw,
Marek Zawadowski


First Announcement

The Conference will be held at the old campus of the University of
Warsaw, Alma Mater of Samuel Eilenberg,
July 22--26 2013. The Conference is organized by the University of
Warsaw, Polish Mathematical Society
and the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in
collaboration with the American
Mathematical Society and Columbia University.

Scientific Program Plenary lectures will be delivered by Paul Balmer
(University of California at Los
Angeles), John Greenlees (University of Sheffield), Martin Hyland
(University of Cambridge), Andre Joyal
(Universit?? du Qu??bec a Montr??al), Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University) ???
to be confirmed, William Lawvere
(University at Buffalo), Haynes Miller (MIT), Ieke Moerdijk (Radboud
University Nijmegen), Brooke E
Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago), Bernard Toen (Universit?? de
Montpellier), Shmuel Weinberger
(University of Chicago), Mariusz Wodzicki (University of California at
Berkeley).
We plan also to organize parallel sessions of contributed talks and
poster session which will cover the
areas of Eilenberg's contributions: algebraic topology, category theory
and computability. Sectional talks
will last 30-45 minutes. Proposals of talks can be submitted
electronically after registration for
the conference.

There will be a number of events commemorating Eilenberg, including
special historical lectures and
a conference dinner on Wednesday, July 24. On the occasion of the
conference a special  volume
of Fundamenta Mathematicae will appear, the journal in which Eilenberg
published many papers,
including his first (in 1934) and the last (in 1988) topological papers.
Participants are welcome
to submit their papers which all will be refereed.

Important dates and deadlines
2013-05-16 (Thursday) -- raise of the conference fee
2013-06-16 (Sunday) -- deadline for submission of abstracts
2013-07-21 (Sunday) -- arrival day
2013-07-22 (Monday) -- opening of the conference
2013-07-24 (Wednesday) -- conference dinner and tourist program
2013-07-26 (Friday) -- end of the conference

For information, registration and subscription of the Conference
Newsletter visit
http://eilenberg100.ptm.org.pl/.

Financial support Grants will be offered to a limited number of students
and postdocs, towards covering
their local expenses in Warsaw. Application can be submitted via the
registration website.

If you have any further questions contact the local organizers at:
eilenberg100@ptm.org.pl
We look forward to welcoming you to Warsaw!


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