CATEGORY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
A CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF SAUNDERS MACLANE
In conjunction with
THE 2006 UNNI NAMBOODIRI LECTURES
and
THE SPRING, 2006, MIDWEST TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
April 7-11, 2006
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Remembrance of Saunders MacLane
Bond Chapel, 10:00-12:00 April 7
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Namboodiri Lectures
John Baez, University of California at Riverside
Title: Higher category theory, higher gauge theory
April 7, 4:00; April 10, 4:00; April 11, 4:30
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Conference Theme and Speakers
A number of Mac Lane's students, colleagues, collaborators, and friends will speak during the conference. Its primary mathematical focus will be recent applications of category theory. As MacLane's book ``Categories for the working mathematician'' emphasized, he was interested both in the internal development of category theory and in its development with a view towards applications in other areas of mathematics. The conference will highlight recent work that introduces new category theory aimed directly at applications in differential geometry (and hence to mathematical physics) and in algebraic topology. As Saunders would very much have liked, most of the speakers will be young mathematicians actively engaged in just such research.
| Friday | Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
| 10:00--12:00 MacLane Memorial |
9:30--10:30 Johnstone 11:00--12:00 Lawvere |
9:30--10:30 Stevenson 11:00--12:00 Fiedorowicz |
9:30--10:30 Gurski 11:00-12:00 Bergner |
9:30--10:30 Fiore 11:00-12:00 Shulman |
| 2:00--3:30 Reminiscences |
2:00--3:00 Crans |
2:00--3:00 Moerdijk |
2:00--3:00 Awodey |
1:30--2:30 Freyd 3:00--4:00 May |
| 4:00--5:00 Baez/Namb. |
4:00--5:00 Joyal |
4:00--5:00 Cheng |
4:00--5:00 Baez/Namb. |
4:30--5:30 Baez/Namb. |
For information about lodging and travel arrangements, see Eugenia Cheng's page