Union College Conference

["Niefield, Susan" <niefiels@union.edu>]

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 general announcement for the conference follows:

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

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

The meeting will begin with an evening reception on Friday, October 18, and  end on Sunday afternoon.   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.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website at:

       http://www.math.union.edu/~niefiels/13conference/

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/ ]