A brief update: if you intend to attend and haven't emailed me, please do so asap so we have a good idea of how many folks to expect. Even more importantly, if you wish to give a talk, let me know asap as well. The list of speakers currently stands as follows: M Makkai TBA V Harnik TBA M Barr Duality of $Z$-groups M Warren Types and groupoids (abstract) P Hofstra From poset to quantifier (abstract) R Cockett TBA B Redmond Safe recursion revisited G Lukacs TBA R Lucyshyn-Wright TBA C Nourani Functorial Parallel Worlds Model Computations (abstract) N Yanofsky On The Algorithmic Informational Content of Categories S Niefield Par-valued lax functors and exponentiability (abstract) D Pronk Translation Groupoids and Orbifold Homotopy Theory G Seal TBA (If any speakers have given me a title, and it's not listed above, or if you've indicated a wish to speak and you're not on the list above, please email me again - you have my apology for losing track of your previous email! - and ditto for abstracts: I seem to only have the 4 mentioned above.) Full details about the meeting may be found on the webpage http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples/octoberfest08.html -= rags =- -- <rags@math.mcgill.ca> <www.math.mcgill.ca/rags>