Lawvere-fest 2013

Lawvere-fest 2013

[Niefield, Susan]

We are pleased to announce that the category theory portion of the Union College Mathematics Conference will be dedicated to Bill Lawvere and the 50th  anniversary of his dissertation (see www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articles/5/tr5abs.html).  In addition to an invited lecture by Bill, there will be contributed half-hour talks in his honor as well as in other areas of category theory.  A preliminary announcement for the conference follows:

UNION COLLEGE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE
Schenectady, New York
Saturday and Sunday
October 19 - October 20, 2013

This is a preliminary announcement for the fourteenth Union College Mathematics Conference.  This year the conference topics are algebraic topology, category theory, commutative algebra, differential geometry, and statistics.

In addition to invited lectures, there will also be shorter contributed talks in parallel sessions. Anyone interested in giving such a talk should contact one of the organizers.

The meeting will begin with an evening reception on Friday, October 18, and  end on Sunday afternoon.  More information will be available at the Union College Mathematics Department website (www.math.union.edu) in June.

Union College is centrally located in New York's capital district about 10 miles from the Albany International Airport, easily accessible by train from NYC, and just 3 to 4 hours by car from NYC, Boston, and Montreal.

We hope to see you here in the fall!

ORGANIZERS

Algebraic Topology
      Brenda Johnson (johnsonb@union.edu)
      Kathryn Lesh (leshk@union.edu)

Big Data Analytics
      Roger Hoerl (hoerlr@union.edu)

Category Theory:  A Celebration of Bill Lawvere and Fifty Years of Functorial Semantics
      Susan Niefield (niefiels@union.edu)
      Kimmo Rosenthal

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
      Leila Khatami (khatamil@union.edu)

Special Geometric Structures
      Charles Boyer
      Jeff Jauregui
      Christina Tonnesen-Friedman (tonnesec@union.edu)

[For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]