AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Friday September 26, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, I
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 8:45 a.m.
  The theory of $h$-categories
  Andr\'e Joyal*,
  (924-18-301)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Functions versus distributions on Grothendieck toposes
  Marta Bunge*,
  (924-18-143)

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, II
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Computation and visualization: a new philosophy of categories
  Pierre Cartier*,
  (924-18-203)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Remarks on Categorical Fixed Points
  Philip S Mulry*, Colgate University
  (924-18-217)
- 4:05 p.m.
  From NNO to Complexity
  James R Otto, Jr*,
  (924-18-26)
- 4:45 p.m.
  On the Cardinality of Functors
  Robert Pare*,
  (924-18-170)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, III
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 8:45 a.m.
  Toposes of Laws of Motion
  F. William Lawvere*, SUNY Buffalo
  (924-18-206)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Conceptual Mathematics, Categories, Functors, and Tensors
  Walter Noll*,
  (924-18-247)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Geometric Construction of the Levi-Civita Parallelism
  Anders Kock*, Aarhus University, Denmark
  (924-53-131)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, IV
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Categories and Representation Theory
  Peter Gabriel*,
  (924-18-204)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Semistabilization and infinite loop-spaces
  Alex Heller*, Graduate School, C.U.N.Y.
  (924-18-132)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Multirelations and power quantales
  Kimmo I Rosenthal*, Union College
  (924-18-147)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Triples vs. Theories -- one last time
  Fred E. J. Linton*,
  (924-18-29)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, V
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 8:45 a.m.
  Dg-thickenings of classifying spaces.
  Mikhail M Kapranov*,
  (924-18-255)
- 9:40 a.m.
  The Petit Topos of Globular Sets
  Ross H Street*, Macquarie University
  (924-18-130)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Opetopes and bar constructions
  Todd H. Trimble*,
  (924-18-288)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, VI
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Objective number theory
  Stephen H Schanuel*, SUNY at Buffalo, NY (USA)
  (924-18-154)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Syntactic characterizations of various classes of locally presentable categories.
  Aurelio Carboni*,
  (924-18-142)
- 4:05 p.m.
  What is the category of sets? (A tribute to Bill Lawvere)
  J. Lambek*, McGill University
  (924-18-95)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Higher-dimensional multicategories
  Claudio A Hermida*, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6
  (924-18-253)

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