Dear colleague, In 2016, Stef Caenepeel will turn 60. To celebrate this joyful event, a conference is organized in Turin, Italy, from Tue 24 - Fri 27 May 2016 entitled "Brauer groups, Hopf algebras and monoidal categories. -- A conference in honour of Stef Caenepeel on the occasion of his 60th birthday" Hereby, you are cordially invited to participate in this meeting. A (tentative) list of speakers can be found at the end of this message. A poster session is organized for PhD students and young post-docs who would like to present their results during the meeting. The conference website can be found on the address: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~hopfalgb If you are interested to attend the conference, please fill out the registration form that is available on this site. Feel free to forward this message to everyone who might be interested. We hope to be welcoming you in Turin next May, Best wishes, The organizers, Ana Agore Alessandro Ardizzoni Sorin Dascalescu Isar Goyvaers Gigel Militaru Joost Vercruysse Tentative list of speakers: Jaques Alev Eliezer Batista Margaret Beattie Gabriella Böhm Tomasz Brzezinski Daniel Bulacu Frederik Caenepeel Mia Cohen Juan Cuadra Bojana Femic Timmy Fieremans José Gomez-Torrecillas Tomas Guédénon Miodrag Iovanov Bogdan Ion George Janelidze Eric Jespers Lars Kadison Lieven Lebruyn Tom Lenagan Andrei Marcus Claudia Menini Constantin Nastacescu Florin Panaite Peter Schauenburg Yorck Sommerhauser Dragos Stefan Alexander Stolin Blas Torecillas Fred Van Oystaeyen Alain Verschoren Yinhuo Zhang [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]