Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to inform you that the second Workshop on Categorical Algebra: CATALG2011 - “Recent developments and future perspectives”, will take place in Gargnano (GARDA lake) from September 27th to October 1st 2011. Our idea is to organise a true "workshop", with only a few invited talks, some open problem sessions, and some time for informal discussions. The Scientific Committee (M. Gran, S. Mantovani and E.M. Vitale) decided to invite Dominique Bourn, George Janelidze and Marco Grandis as Main Speakers: they will give an invited 2 hour talk and chair a 1 hour "open problem session", jointly with a member of the Scientific Committee. Besides the three Main Speakers, the Scientific Committee invited for a 1 hour talk, a few leading researchers in categorical algebra, namely T. Everaert, T. Janelidze, Z. Janelidze, S. Lack, G. Metere, D. Rodelo and T. Van der Linden. All of them have confirmed their presence. Finally, Walter Tholen kindly accepted to close the workshop with the last talk. Although there will be no other scheduled talk, there will be an open poster session to present and discuss results and investigations in categorical algebra. The workshop will start with a welcome buffet on Tuesday September 27th, in the late afternoon. Talks are scheduled from Wednesday September 28th, in the morning, till Saturday October 1st, before noon. The website of the conference can be found at the address http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/metere/Gargnano2011/ In order to register you should complete the Registration Form here below, and e-mail it to catalg2011@unimi.it before August 31st. We are looking forward to seeing you in Gargnano! Best regards, Sandra Mantovani and Giuseppe Metere on behalf of the Organizing Committee --------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------------------------- Name:________________ Surname:_____________ Affiliation:_____________ E-mail address:_________________ Day of arrival:________________ Day of departure:______________ -- Giuseppe Metere, Ph.D. Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi via Saldini, 50 MILANO [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]