[TYPES/announce] Scottish Category Theory Seminar

[Neil Ghani]

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*** Scottish Category Theory Seminar
*** First Meeting
*** Friday 27 November 2009, 2pm
*** University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the first meeting of the Scottish Category  
Theory Seminar which will be a forum for discussion of all aspects of  
category they, be they straight category theory or applications to  
computer science or physics etc. We envisage meeting for an afternoon  
once every few months, at some congenial location in Scotland. Talks  
by Scots and by visitors are welcome. Please contact us if you would  
like to host a meeting or give a talk. Meetings are open, and all are  
welcome to attend.

The first meeting will take on Friday 27 November at the University  
of Glasgow at 2pm. At the first meeting, we are pleased to announce  
the following invited speakers

     * Martin Hyland, Universty of Cambridge
     * Nicola Gambino, University of Palermo
     * Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester
     * Willem Bernard Heijltjes, University of Edinburgh


This meeting will receive financial support from the Complex Systems  
Engineering theme of SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer  
Science Alliance and from the Department of Mathematics at the  
University of Glasgow.

More details can be found at

http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ng/sct.html

If you wish to attend, or want more information about the Scottish  
Category Theory Seminar, please email scotcats at cis.strath.ac.uk

Neil Ghani
Tom Leinster
Alex Simpson