Second announcement Fields Institute Program on Applied Homotopy Theory University of Western Ontario London, Ontario September, 2003 http://www.math.uwo.ca/homotopy/ During the month of September, 2003, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario will host a program on homotopy theory and its applications to other areas. Gunnar Carlsson, Paul Goerss, Ieke Moerdijk, Jack Morava and Fabien Morel will be in residence for some or all of the month. All of the events will take place in London, Ontario. The focus of the month will be a special 5 day version of the Ontario Topology Seminar, beginning on Saturday, September 20 in the morning and ending on Wednesday, September 24 in the afternoon. The speakers who have agreed to come are listed below. In addition, there will be several minicourses at other times during the month given by the five longer-term visitors. Each will consist of two to three lectures. The topics and dates will be announced later. We have received funding from the Fields Institute and additional funding is being sought from other agencies. We expect to be able to provide some support to graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s (contact us if you are eligible). The organizers are Rick Jardine <jardine@uwo.ca> and Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>. If you think you might attend, please let one of us know. The web page for this event is at http://www.math.uwo.ca/homotopy/ and will be updated periodically. Hotel and travel information is available at http://jdc.math.uwo.ca/directions.html We recommend you book a hotel room soon, as the conference overlaps with homecoming weekend at Western. (You can always cancel later.) Conference and mini-course speakers: Alejandro Adem, Wisconsin John Baez, Univ. of California, Riverside Paul Baum, Penn State Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford Wojciech Chacholski, Minnesota Bill Dwyer, Notre Dame Paul Goerss, Northwestern Jesper Grodal, Chicago Lars Hesselholt, MIT Mikhail Kapranov, Toronto Finnur Larusson, UWO Ib Madsen, Aarhus Peter May, Chicago Haynes Miller, MIT Ieke Moerdijk, Utrecht Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins Fabien Morel, Paris 7 Victor Snaith, Southampton Neil Strickland, Sheffield Bertrand Toen, Nice