Hi all, I am writing to announce a short series of expository talks to take place in Cambridge, England on Sunday June 29th (the arrival day for CT2014) starting no earlier than 2pm and finishing in time for the welcome reception. The exact location will be announced later. The talks will be given by members of the Kan Extension Seminar: www.math.harvard.edu/~eriehl/kan We are currently half-way through an online category theory reading course with the following syllabus. The links are to expository blog posts written by the students. * Lawvere, An elementary theory of the category of sets http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/01/an_elementary_theory_of_the_ca.h... * Street, The formal theory of monads http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/01/formal_theory_of_monads_follow.h... * Freyd-Kelly, Categories of continuous functors, I http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/02/categories_of_continuous_funct.h... * Lawvere, Metric spaces, generalized logic and closed categories http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/02/metric_spaces_generalized_logi.h... * Kelly-Street, Review of the elements of 2-categories http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/03/review_of_the_elements_of_2cat.h... * Street-Walters, Yoneda structures on 2-categories http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/03/an_exegesis_of_yoneda_structur.h... * Johnstone, On a topological topos * Kelly, Elementary observations on 2-categorical limits * Blackwell-Kelly-Power, Two-dimensional monad theory * Adámek-Borceux-Lack-Rosický, A classification of accessible categories * Lack, Codescent objects and coherence * Shulman, Enriched indexed categories The June talks will highlight some main theorems from the papers listed above and are aimed at all levels. I highly encourage anyone who finds themselves in Cambridge a few hours early to attend. My students are fantastic, destined to be future leaders in the field. I’d love for you to have the opportunity to get to know them. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. See you in June! Emily Riehl -- Benjamin Peirce & NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Mathematics Harvard University www.math.harvard.edu/~eriehl [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]