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

为纪念桑德斯·麦克莱恩，一个为期五天的范畴理论及其应用会议将于2006年4月7日至11日在芝加哥大学举行。其主题将是：1。桑德斯·麦克莱恩的作品的影响，2.范畴理论的现状，3.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，范畴论中有许多有趣的工作在进行，而在美国却鲜为人知。 多名外国专家将参加。 会议将突出最近的工作直接针对应用微分几何（因此数学物理）和代数拓扑。 这次会议将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，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·莱恩和他的合作者艾伦伯格创立了范畴论。 Mac巷感兴趣的是既在内部发展的范畴理论，并在其发展，以期对应用在其他领域的数学。 在芝加哥举行的会议将有助于表明这些问题是如何交织在一起的，并将提高这一主题的能见度。 这是麦克林一生中非常渴望的事情。更多的信息可以在会议主页上找到：http：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/