Union College Conference

[Susan Niefield <niefiels@union.edu>]

UNION COLLEGE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE

Saturday and Sunday                          Schenectady
December 3-4, 2005                           New York

This is a preliminary announcement of the twelfth Union College
Mathematics Conference.  This year the conference topics will be algebraic
topology, category theory, and commutative algebra.

In addition to plenary lectures, of interest to the entire conference
audience, there will be shorter contributed talks in parallel sessions.
Anyone interested in giving such a talk should contact one of the
organizers.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 11th,
and for registration is November 18th.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

    John Baez (University of California, Riverside)
    David Cox (Amherst College)
    Jesper Grodal (University of Chicago)

The meeting will begin with an evening reception on Friday, December 2,
and end on Sunday afternoon.  For more information about the conference,
including registration, submission of abstracts, housing and
transportation, please visit our website at

    www.math.union.edu/~leshk/05Conference/

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.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Category Theory
     Susan Niefield        niefiels@union.edu

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

Commutative Algebra
     Pedro Teixeira        teixeirp@union.edu
     David Vella           vellad@union.edu

We hope to see you in December!