Subject: categories: MAC LANE FEST SCHEDULE

From: Peter May <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:28:19 -0500 (CDT)

MAC LANE FEST SCHEDULE

                         DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
                         
                         THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

All talks will be in Eckhardt 206

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8:

  2:30 Irving Kaplansky: Valuation rings and other things

  3:30 Tea

  4:00 Israel Singer: TBA

  6:00 Banquet at the Quadrangle Club 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9:

  9:30 Coffee and donuts

 10:00 David Eisenbud: An exterior view of sheaves on projective space

 11:15 Ieke Moerdijk: Operads, monads, and Hopf algebras

  2:00 Anil Nerode: Logic with Mac Lane in the 1950's

  3:30 Matters categorical: Peter Freyd, William Lawvere, and others

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10:

  9:30 Coffee and donuts
 
 10:00 Richard Kadison: Eilenberg-MacLane Cohomology -- Some Applications 
                  in Functional Analysis

 11:15 Steve Awodey: Mac Lane set theory

  2:00 Peter May: Picard groups, Grothendieck rings, and Burnside 
                  rings of symmetric monoidal categories

  3:30 Reminiscenses: tutti

Please e-mail Dorothy Frazier, [email-masked], to let us 
know if you wish to attend the banquet. (There will be a $30 charge.)