Subject: categories: CT99 - Second Announcement

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:18:28 +0000

Please circulate to all interested colleagues.

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                        SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
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                                CT99
                International Category Theory Meeting

                      Department of Mathematics
                        University of Coimbra
                          Coimbra,  Portugal
                           July 19-24, 1999

The Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra is organizing an
International Meeting on Category Theory to be held at the University of
Coimbra, from 19th to 24th of July, 1999.

The conference arrival day is Sunday July 18. The scientific program will
begin Monday morning July 19 and will finish before lunch on Saturday July 24.
The conference will consist of 10 invited lectures and 25mn contributed
talks. It will open with the lecture "Eilenberg and categories" by Saunders
Mac Lane.

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 
Michael Batanin (Macquarie University, Australia) 
Carsten Butz (McGill University, Canada) 
Pilar Carrasco (University of Granada, Spain) 
Jonathon Funk (University of British Columbia, Canada) 
Saunders MacLane (University of Chicago, USA) 
Ieke Moerdijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 
Jiri Rosicky (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) 
Stephen Schanuel (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) 
Enrico Vitale (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Jiri Adamek (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) 
Bernhard Banaschewski (McMaster University, Canada) 
Peter T. Johnstone (University of Cambridge, UK) 
Andre Joyal (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada) 
F. William Lawvere (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) 
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 
Ross Street (Macquarie University, Australia) 
Walter Tholen (York University, Canada) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Manuela Sobral (Universidade de Coimbra) 
Maria Manuel Clementino (Universidade de Coimbra) 
Jorge Picado (Universidade de Coimbra) 
Lurdes Sousa (Instituto Superior Politecnico de Viseu) 
Goncalo Gutierres (Universidade de Coimbra) 

SATELLITE EVENT
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SCTA: School on Category Theory and Applications, University of Coimbra,
July 13-17, 1999.
e-mail: [email-masked]
Web page: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~scta/
(A detailed announcement of the school will be sent out next week.)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Participants are invited to present a 25mn talk. They are due to prepare an
Abstract occupying no more than one page, written in English, with the
following format:

          Title of the talk
          Author's names
          Authors' Institutions
          Abstract

If the talk has several authors, the name of the speaker should be
underlined. 

Abstracts may be sent either by e-mail (in TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX) - preferably
in an attached file -, by fax or postal mail.

REGISTRATION FEE
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The conference registration fee is set at 30000 PTE. Students will
pay a reduced fee of 20000 PTE. 
This amount covers conference documentation, welcome reception, coffee
breaks and lunchs, as well as the conference dinner. 

Payment must be made (before March 31) by bank transfer to

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         |  Bank: Banco Portugues do Atlantico        |
         |  Branch: Celas, Coimbra                    |
         |  Address: Praca Machado de Assis, 7        |
         |           3000 Coimbra, Portugal           |
         |  Account number: 0017-0309-00045281906-24  |
         |  Account name: Category Theory 99          |
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Please do not forget to indicate the name of sender and keep a copy
of the transfer; note that you have to pay all the bank charges.

Registrations can be made directly at the Conference Web Page or by
electronic or postal mail, filling in the Registration Form below. 

ACCOMMODATION
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Please keep in mind that July is high season here and that to ensure
accommodation after April 30 can be difficult. Please reserve your 
accommodation as soon as possible.

You may book your hotel room in the following conference hotels:

HOTEL           CAT.  SINGLE   DOUBLE    

Qta. Lagrimas   ****   15000    17000  

Tivoli          ****   10000    12000  

Astoria          ***    7700     9900   
 
Braganca         ***    6400     8500  

Ibis              **    8600     9500 
  
Resid. Botanico  ***    5900     7500  

In order to do that you must fill in the Hotel Reservation Form below and 
send it by postal mail or fax to the following address:

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          |  Profissional Tours                             |
          |  Av. Afonso Henriques, 45                       |
          |  3000 Coimbra, Portugal                         |
          |  Phone: 351-39-402011                           |
          |  Fax: 351-39-704317                             |
          |  email: [email-masked]  |
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There will be a few rooms available at Students Residences. The students
interested on them should send an email to mailto:[email-masked]

IMPORTANT DATES
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Registration: March 31, 1999.
Abstract submission: April 20, 1999.

CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE
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The Registration and Hotel Reservation Forms, as well as up-to-date
information, are available at our web page http://www.mat.uc.pt/~ct99/

CONFERENCE ADDRESSES
====================
All correspondence must be sent to one of the following addresses:

E-mail address: [email-masked]

Postal address: CT99
                Departamento de Matemática
                Apartado 3008
                3000 Coimbra, PORTUGAL

Please find below the Registration and Hotel Reservation Forms. They may also 
be sent to you by fax, upon request.

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                        CATEGORY THEORY 99
       
              Coimbra, Portugal, July 19-24, 1999

        REGISTRATION FORM (Please send before March 31, 1999)

Family name: _________________________________

First name: __________________________________

Institution (full postal address): _____________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

e-mail address: ________________________________________________

Fax number: ____________________________________________________

Registration Fee: Non-student (30000 PTE): ____
                  Student (20000 PTE): ____

I need a receipt: YES ____  NO _____

addressed to (Name or Institution): _______________________________________

I plan to give a 25 minute talk: YES ____  NO ____

Title: ____________________________________________________________________

I will send the abstract: in TeX (LaTeX, AMSTeX) by e-mail ____
                          by fax  ____
                          by mail ____

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                        CATEGORY THEORY 99
       
              Coimbra, Portugal, July 19-24, 1999

        HOTEL RESERVATION FORM (Please send before April 30, 1999)

Accommodation prices: All prices indicated are in Portuguese escudos
(1 EURO=200.482 PTE) and per room per day, including breakfast.
Deadline for guaranteed room is April 30, 1999.

HOTEL           CAT.  SINGLE   DOUBLE  Room Type  Priority Choice
                       ROOM     ROOM     S / D      1   2   3

Qta. Lagrimas   ****   15000    17000   ______      __  __  __

Tivoli          ****   10000    12000   ______      __  __  __

Astoria          ***    7700     9900   ______      __  __  __
 
Braganca         ***    6400     8500   ______      __  __  __

Ibis              **    8600     9500   ______      __  __  __
  
Resid. Botanico  ***    5900     7500   ______      __  __  __

* The organization will not allocate people to double rooms. So, if you are
sharing a room, please indicate the name (surname, initials) of the person
you will be sharing with.

Date of arrival: ___/___/___     Date of departure: ___/___/___

Number of nights: _____

METHOD OF PAYMENT:

By cheque # in Portuguese escudos, payable to: PROFISSIONAL TOURS

# personal cheques are not acceptable and bank draft cheques or money orders
in escudos are accepted only when free of charges to the organization.

By credit card: VISA ____   MASTERCARD ____  EUROCARD ____

Please charge my credit card to the total amount of _______________________PTE

Card Number _________________________________  Expiry date  _____/_____

Signature ___________________________________

PLEASE FILL BELOW, INDEPENDENTLY OF YOUR METHOD OF PAYMENT

Name _________________________________________________ Fax __________________

Full address _________________________________________ Country ______________

                            PLEASE SEND TO

   PROFISSIONAL TOURS - Av. Afonso Henriques, 45 - 3000 COIMBRA - PORTUGAL

               Phone (+351 39)402011 - Fax (+351 39)704317

              e-mail: [email-masked]

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