CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. ================================================================= FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR TALKS FROM RESEARCH STUDENTS Categories and Companions Symposium 2021 (CaCS2021) 08:00–10:30 and 20:00–22:30, June 8–12, 2021 (UTC+10) on Zoom http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/coact/seminar/CaCS2021/ ================================================================= BACKGROUND CaCS2021 is an event for research students (Honours/Masters/PhD) in category theory and related disciplines from around the world to meet each other and share their work. Everyone is welcome to attend the event. Each day will feature a 50 minute talk by an invited speaker and a series of 20 minute contributed talks by research students, split across two sessions — the first aimed at Australasian and American time zones and the second at Australasian, African and European time zones. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet and talk to each other in smaller groups at various times throughout the symposium. This symposium is supported by MATRIX and AMSI. To support post-symposium research collaboration between PhD student participants, MATRIX and AMSI are providing funding through the MATRIX-AMSI PhD Student Research Collaboration Scheme. For more information, see https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/phd-student-research-collaboration-scheme-gui... . Please share the details of this event with research students in your local academic community. ================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES - Submission of abstracts: Friday, May 7, 2021 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth. - Acceptance/rejection notification: mid-May. - Registration for attendance: Friday, June 4, 2021 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth. - Symposium: Tuesday, June 8 to Saturday, June 12, 2021. ================================================================= REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Registration is now open (for both research students and the wider community) via the linked Google Form https://forms.gle/ZdEfrpzeaD3zkUzT8. When registering, all research students (Honours/Masters/PhD) are invited to propose a title and abstract for a 20 minute talk in category theory or category theory adjacent topics. Talks about work in progress, and talks by those who usually have fewer opportunities to present internationally, are very welcome and especially encouraged. Upon submitting the registration form, a link titled "Edit your response" will be presented; talk proposals may be edited using this link up until the May 7 deadline. ================================================================= INVITED SPEAKERS The following invited speakers will each deliver an extended 50 minute talk. Further information, including the titles and abstracts of their talks can be found on the CaCS2021 website: http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/coact/seminar/CaCS2021/. - John Baez (University of California, Riverside) - Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) - Tobias Fritz (University of Innsbruck) - Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - Ross Street (Macquarie University) ================================================================= ORGANISERS Bryce Clarke (Macquarie University) Matthew Di Meglio (Macquarie University) Nicola Di Vittorio (Macquarie University) Eli Hazel (Macquarie University) Yuki Maehara (Kyushu University) Adrian Miranda (Macquarie University) Giacomo Tendas (Macquarie University) Paula Verdugo (Macquarie University) Giulian Wiggins (University of Sydney) For any additional information, please contact us at catscomps2021@gmail.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]