Conference on Category Theory and its Applications in Memory of Saunders MacLane

2006年4月7日至4月11日，将在芝加哥大学举行为期五天的范畴论及其在纪念桑德斯·麦克莱恩中的应用会议。它的主题将是：1；桑德斯·麦克·莱恩作品的影响，2。范畴论的现状；范畴论的最新应用。第三个主题将是主要的数学焦点。在其他国家有很多关于范畴论的有趣的研究在美国却鲜为人知。几位著名的外国专家将参加。会议将重点介绍最近的工作，直接针对微分几何（因此数学物理）和代数拓扑的应用。这次会议在很大程度上是对麦克莱恩的纪念，他是美国最有影响力的数学家之一，于去年去世，享年95岁。他职业生涯的大部分时间都在芝加哥度过。麦克莱恩和他的合作者埃伦伯格创立了范畴论这门学科。麦克莱恩既对范畴论的内部发展感兴趣，也对范畴论在其他数学领域的应用感兴趣。在芝加哥举行的会议将有助于阐明这些问题是如何相互交织在一起的，并将提高这一主题的可见度。这是麦克莱恩生前梦寐以求的。更多信息可以在会议主页上找到：https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/MACLANE/

A five day conference on category theory and it applications in memory of Saunders Mac Lane will be held on April 7--April 11, 2006 at the University of Chicago. Its themes will be: 1. The influence of the work of Saunders Mac Lane,2. The current status of category theory,3. Recent applications of category theory.The third theme will be the primary mathematical focus. There is much interesting work in category theory going on in other countries that is little known in the United States. Several leading foreign experts will participate. The conference will highlight recent work aimed directly at applications in differential geometry (and hence to mathematical physics) and in algebraic topology. The conference will in large part be a memorial tribute to Mac Lane, who was one of the most influential American mathematicians and died last year at age 95. He spent most of his career at Chicago. Mac Lane and his collaborator Eilenberg created the subject of category theory. Mac Lane 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 at Chicago will help make manifest how these are intertwined and will heighten the visibility of the subject. This is something that MacLane greatly desired in his lifetime. More information can be found on the conference homepagehttp://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/MACLANE/