Please circulate to all interested colleagues. =================================================================== SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT =================================================================== School on Category Theory and Applications Department of Mathematics University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal July 13-17, 1999 The Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra is organizing a School on Category Theory and Applications from 13th to 17th of July, 1999. This school will consist of the following 7 hours intensive courses, at a postgraduate level: n-Categories by John Baez (University of California, USA) Algebraic Theories by M. Cristina Pedicchio (University of Trieste, Italy) Chu Spaces: duality as a common foundation for computation and mathematics by Vaughan Pratt (Stanford University, USA). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Manuela Sobral (Universidade de Coimbra) Maria Manuel Clementino (Universidade de Coimbra) Jorge Picado (Universidade de Coimbra) Lurdes Sousa (Instituto Superior Politecnico de Viseu) REGISTRATION FEE ================ The school registration fee is set at 6000 PTE payed at arrival. This includes the courses notes, coffee breaks and a dinner. Registrations can be made directly at the School Web Page or by electronic or postal mail, filling in the Registration Form below. ACCOMMODATION ============= Please keep in mind that July is high season here and that to ensure accommodation after April 30 can be difficult. Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. You may book your hotel room in the hotels of the Category Theory Conference filling in the Hotel Reservation Form below and sending it to Profissional Tours. Alternatively, there will be some rooms available at UNIVERSITY Residences. There you have to pay the price for two weeks: 8.000 PTE. The participants interested on this type of accommodation should send an email to mailto:picado@mat.uc.pt IMPORTANT DATES =============== Registration: April 30, 1999. SCHOOL HOMEPAGE =================== The Registration and Hotel Reservation Forms, as well as up-to-date information, are available at our web page http://www.mat.uc.pt/~scta/ There you can also see a city map with the hotels location. SCHOOL ADDRESSES ==================== All correspondence must be sent to one of the following addresses: E-mail address: scta@mat.uc.pt Postal address: SCTA Departamento de Matemática Apartado 3008 3000 Coimbra, PORTUGAL Please find below the Registration and Hotel Reservation Forms. They may also be sent to you by fax, upon request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHOOL ON CATEGORY THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Coimbra, Portugal, July 13-17, 1999 REGISTRATION FORM (Please send before April 30, 1999) Family name: _________________________________ First name: __________________________________ Institution (full postal address): _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ e-mail address: ________________________________________________ Fax number: ____________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHOOL ON CATEGORY THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Coimbra, Portugal, July 13-17, 1999 HOTEL RESERVATION FORM (Please send before April 30, 1999) Accommodation prices: All prices indicated are in Portuguese escudos (1 EURO=200.482 PTE) and per room per day, including breakfast. Deadline for guaranteed room is April 30, 1999. HOTEL CAT. SINGLE DOUBLE Room Type(*) Priority Choice ROOM ROOM S / D 1 2 3 Qta. Lagrimas **** 15000 17000 ______ __ __ __ Tivoli **** 10000 12000 ______ __ __ __ Braganca *** 6400 8500 ______ __ __ __ Ibis ** 8600 9500 ______ __ __ __ Resid. Botanico *** 5900 7500 ______ __ __ __ (*) The organization will not allocate people to double rooms. So, if you are sharing a room, please indicate the name (surname, initials) of the person you will be sharing with. Date of arrival: ___/___/___ Date of departure: ___/___/___ Number of nights: _____ METHOD OF PAYMENT: By cheque # in Portuguese escudos, payable to: PROFISSIONAL TOURS # personal cheques are not acceptable and bank draft cheques or money orders in escudos are accepted only when free of charges to the organization. By credit card: VISA ____ MASTERCARD ____ EUROCARD ____ Please charge my credit card to the total amount of _______________________PTE Card Number _________________________________ Expiry date _____/_____ Signature ___________________________________ PLEASE FILL BELOW, INDEPENDENTLY OF YOUR METHOD OF PAYMENT Name _________________________________________________ Fax __________________ Full address _________________________________________ Country ______________ PLEASE SEND TO PROFISSIONAL TOURS - Av. Afonso Henriques, 45 - 3000 COIMBRA - PORTUGAL Phone (+351 39)402011 - Fax (+351 39)704317 e-mail: profissional.comercial@beta-viagens.pt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------