SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Colleagues: This is a call for contributed talks to the "Workshop on Categorical Structures for Descent and Galois Theory, Hopf Algebras and Semiabelian Categories" to be held September 23-28, 2002, at the Fields Institute in Toronto. http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/galois_and_hopf/ See also below for a list of confirmed speakers. The program of the workshop will commence on Monday September 23, at 9am and run until noon Saturday September 28. In addition to the 20 invited lectures we expect to be able to place up to 30 contributed 20-minute talks in the program. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite you to submit an abstract by 15 May 2002, to be sent directly to all three organizers as a ps- or pdf-file or as a plain message. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 June 2002. Please email abstracts to all: George Janelidze (george_janelidze@hotmail.com) Bodo Pareigis (pareigis@rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de) Walter Tholen (tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca) We plan to edit conference proceedings. Details will be communicated in the third announcement, to be sent in June. There will also be a poster session at the conference. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please notify the organizers, preferably by 15 May 2002. REGISTRATION Registration will be open in early 2002. The conference fee for all participants of the workshop is $130 (CDN), students $65 (CDN). The fee will include an excursion to the Niagara peninsula (planned for Wednesday, September 25 afternoon) and the conference dinner (planned for Thursday September 26). The fee for accompanying guests is $130. To be informed of when registration is open please contact programs@fields.utoronto.ca All participants (including invitees) are requested to register. HOUSING Participants should also arrange for their accommodation. Since tourism is still very active in Toronto during late summer/early fall, we advise to make reservations early; there is a link to a list of conveniently located hotels and guest houses from the site given above. We hope to welcome you at the workshop. George Janelidze, Bodo Pareigis, Walter Tholen Confirmed speakers (as of 25 January 2002): Francis Borceux, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Dominique Bourn, Univ. Littoral, France Ronnie Brown, Univ. of Wales, UK Stefaan Caenepeel, Vrije Univ. of Brussels, Belgium Johannes Huebschmann, Univ. de Lille, France Max Kelly, Univ. of Sydney, Australia F.W. Lawvere, Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA Andy Magid, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA Robert Pare', Dalhousie Univ., Canada Peter Schauenburg, Univ. of Munich, Germany Ross Street, Macquarie Univ., Australia Mitsuhiro Takeuchi, Univ. of Tsukuba Sakura-Mura, Japan Myles Tierney, Rutgers Univ., USA 29-Jan-2002 08:18:56 -0400,2696;000000000000-00000000