IV Seminar on Categories and Applications

Bellaterra, 6 to 9 of June of 2007    

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This is the fourth of a series of meetings devoted to category theory and applications. It is intended as meeting point for specialists in category theory and related areas as homological algebra, representation theory, or homotopy theory.


The program will include eight plenary talks proposed by the scientific committee:

■ Denis-Charles Cisinski, Université Paris 13

■ José L. García Hernández, Universidad de Murcia

■ Ken Goodearl, University of California at Santa Barbara

■ Joachim Kock, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

■ Henning Krause, Universität Paderborn

■ Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow

■ Ieke Moerdijk, Universiteit Utrecht

■ Antonio Viruel, Universidad de Málaga


There will be three survey talks at the proposal of the organizing committee, specially addressed to the young participants:

■ Ronnie Brown, University of Wales

■ Carles Casacuberta, Universitat de Barcelona

■ Marco Grandis, Università di Genova


The program is completed with short communications and posters contributed by the participants.


This edition of the meeting is organized by the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the collaboration of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica.


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Organizing committee:

Pere Ara, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Carles Broto, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (coordinator)

José Manuel Casas, Universidad de Vigo

Luis Javier Hernández, Universidad de La Rioja

Manuel Ladra, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Albert Ruiz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jérôme Scherer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


Scientific committee:

Ronnie Brown, University of Wales

Carles Casacuberta, Universitat de Barcelona

José Luis Gómez Pardo, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Marco Grandis, Università di Genova

Lionel Schwartz, Université Paris 13


Place and Dates:

The meeting will take place from Wednesday, June 6th to Saturday, June 9th, 2007, in the premises of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


Registration fee:
Registration fee is 125€. It includes conference coffee breaks, meals, social activities,  and conference dinner. Deadline for registration is May 18, 2007.

Reduced registration fee is 100€ for registrations completed before May 4, 2007.


Financial support:

A limited number of grants are offered, preferably to young participants. Grants will cover housing in a shared student apartment on campus and a reduction of the registration fee to 50€. Deadline for applications is May 4, 2007.


Sponsors:

generali_textmedium Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca – AGAUR
logo_petit_textmedium Grup de Topologia Algebraica de Barcelona
                     
Grup de Recerca en Teoria d'Anells
uab Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
logomecsmall_textmedium Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia – MEC

Departament de Matemàtiques - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - 08193 Bellaterra - Spain