From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: categories Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: BarrFest (Montreal) - 2nd notice Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:45:53 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241016910 25340 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 14:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:10 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: cat-dist Sat Apr 5 08:46:34 1997 Original-Received: by mailserv.mta.ca; id AA12749; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:45:53 -0400 Original-Lines: 85 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:354 Archived-At: Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:05:00 -0500 From: Robert A. G. Seely C --- R | / | CENTRE de RECHERCHE en THEORIE des CATEGORIES | / | CATEGORY THEORY RESEARCH CENTER T --- C CATEGORY THEORY BARRFEST: SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT McGill University, Montreal Thursday-Saturday, May 29-31, 1997 Dear Colleague, We invite you to join us in Montreal next May for a special three-day conference in honour of Michael Barr's sixtieth birthday. The meeting will take place the last three days of May. The following students, mentors, and friends of Mike have agreed to participate as invited speakers: Peter Chu, Jack Duskin, Peter Freyd, Murray Gerstenhaber, John Kennison, Jim Lambek, Fred Linton, Saunders MacLane, Michael Makkai, James Otto, John Power, Myles Tierney, Don VanOsdol, Charles Wells. We will have time for a limited number of other speakers. In keeping with the spirit of the conference, we ask that talks be concerned with one of the subjects to which Mike Barr has contributed: Homological algebra, triples, embeddings, exact catgeories, torsion theories, topos theory, topology, *-autonomous categories, universal algebra, logic, computer science, or linguistics. If you wish to give a talk, send your request as soon as possible to Tom Fox at the address below. The conference proceedings will be published in a special number of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. We will meet in the Bronfman Building, 1001 Sherbrooke West. The first talk will be at 9:00, May 29th. Registration will take place the morning of the 29th from 8:30-9:00 and during the morning break. There will be a registration fee of $80 for faculty, $40 for students, including a dinner/party to be held Friday evening. Please let us know if you intend to join us by sending a short email to fox@triples.math.mcgill.ca, indicating whether or not you will bring a guest to the dinner. Below you will find a list of hotels and tourist rooms close to McGill. If you have any further questions, please contact Tom Fox or Robert Seely. CRTC Dept of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University 805 Sherbrooke West Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3A 2K6 Tom Fox fox@triples.math.mcgill.ca Robert Seely rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca ---------------------------------------------------------- Hotels: L'Appartement, 455 Sherbrooke W, 284-3634, $75 Howard Johnson Plaza, 475 Sherbrooke W, 842-3961, $79 (1-800-8423961) Citadelle, 410 Sherbrooke W, 844-8851, $89 Holiday Inn, 420 Sherbrooke W, 842-6111, $99 Hotel du Parc, 3625 Park Ave, 288-6666, $85 Versailles*, 1659 Sherbrooke W, 933-3611, $89 (B&B) Tourist Rooms: Ambrose, 3422 Stanley, 288-6922, $40-50 (excellent) Armor*, 151 Sherbrooke E, 285-0140, $38-70 Bienvenue B&B** 3950 Laval, 844-5897, $60-75 (1-800-2275897) Casa Bella, 258 Sherbrooke W, 849-2777, $40-65 Centre Ville B&B*, 3458 Laval, 289-9749, $40-55 Pierre*, 169 Sherbrooke E, 288-8519, $65 *15 minute walk from McGill **30 minute walk from McGill