Announcement: Thematic Program on Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory Fields Institute Toronto, Canada January-June 2007 This research program will develop new applications of homotopy theory in algebraic geometry, number theory and mathematical physics, and will include subprograms on the homotopy theory of schemes, stacks in geometry and topology, and higher categories and their applications. The overall program organizers are: Rick Jardine (Western Ontario), Lead Organizer, jardine@uwo.ca Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford), gunnar@math.stanford.edu Dan Christensen (Western Ontario), jdc@uwo.ca Each subprogram will be two months in duration, and will incorporate graduate courses and five-day workshops. The subprograms, their organizers, and dates of the workshops are the following: 1) Higher categories and their applications (January-February) J. Baez (Univ. of California, Riverside) E. Cheng (Chicago) P. May (Chicago) Workshop: January 9-13, 2007 2) Homotopy theory of schemes (March-April) E. Friedlander (Northwestern) M. Karoubi (Paris VII) M. Kolster (McMaster) Workshop: March 26-30, 2007 3) Stacks in geometry and topology (May-June) K. Behrend (British Columbia) P. Goerss (Northwestern) B. Toen (Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Workshop: May 14-18, 2007 Funding will be available for junior researchers and graduate students; an on-line application will be available in 2006. The conference website is http://www.fields.toronto.edu/programs/scientific/06-07/homotopy/ Further information about the program will appear on this website, as it becomes available. 30-Jun-2005 09:15:50 -0300,3659;000000000000-0000001f