(Apologies for cross-listing again, but there are recently added talks that may be of interest for those planning to attend the Joint Meetings.) This message serves two purposes: Second Announcement of an AMS Homotopy Session at the Joint Meetings Jan. 6th & 7th, and First Announcement of a Satellite Conference the afternoon of Jan. 5th at MIT. Satellite Conference Thursday, Jan. 5th, tentatively 2:30 to 5:50 PM at MIT, Room 2-105 (building 2, first floor) AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, Jan. 6th & 7th, 2012 at the Joint Meetings in Boston. Friday, Jan. 6th, 8-10:50 AM (no afternoon session) Saturday, Jan. 7th, 8-10:50 AM and 1-5:50 PM (The previously announced Special Session on Calculus of Functors and Its Applications runs for both halves of the day on Friday, Jan. 6th.) In addition to the session talks, we plan to organize an informal dinner Friday evening and those attending either session are invited to join us. Further details will be posted on our session website https://sites.google.com/site/2012amshomotopytheory/ Speakers (* for Satellite Conference speakers Thursday afternoon) Ricardo Andrade Shaun Ault * David Ayala Romie Banerjee Paul Baum Anna-Marie Bohmann Greg Chadwick * Daniel Dugger Martin Frankland Matthew Gelvin Bertrand Guillou John E. Harper Samuel B. Isaacson Niles Johnson Andre Joyal William Kronholm Tyler Lawson John Lind Angelica Osorno David Oury * Kari Ragnarsson Daniel Ramras * Nathaniel Rounds * Nick Rozenblyum Chris Schommer-Pries Michael Shulman Vesna Stojanoska Ron Umble * Enxin Wu * Questions and/or comments may be addressed to any of the organizers: Mark Behrens Haynes Miller Mark Johnson James Turner Donald Yau (corresponding organizer) We hope to see you in Boston! [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]