Third Announcment Fields Institute Program on Homotopy Theory and its Applications University of Western Ontario London, Ontario September, 2003 http://www.math.uwo.ca/homotopy/ During the month of September, 2003, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario will host a program on homotopy theory and its applications to other areas. Gunnar Carlsson, Paul Goerss, Ieke Moerdijk, Jack Morava and Fabien Morel will be in residence for parts of the month (see below). All of the events will take place in London, Ontario. The focus of the month will be a special 5 day version of the Ontario Topology Seminar, beginning on Saturday, September 20 in the morning and ending on Wednesday, September 24 in the afternoon. The speakers who have agreed to come are listed below. In addition, there will be six mini-courses at other times during the month given by the five longer-term visitors. Each will consist of two to three lectures. A tentative schedule is below. The organizers are Rick Jardine <jardine@uwo.ca> and Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>. If you think you might attend, please let one of us know (if you haven't already). The conference web page (see above) will be updated periodically. Hotel and travel information is available at http://jdc.math.uwo.ca/directions.html We recommend you book a hotel room right away, as the conference overlaps with homecoming weekend at Western. (You can always cancel later.) The conference is supported by the Fields Insitute, the NSF, and NSERC. Conference and mini-course speakers: Alejandro Adem, Wisconsin John Baez, Univ. of California, Riverside Paul Baum, Penn State Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford Wojciech Chacholski, Minnesota Bill Dwyer, Notre Dame Paul Goerss, Northwestern Jesper Grodal, Chicago Lars Hesselholt, MIT Mikhail Kapranov, Toronto Finnur Larusson, UWO Ib Madsen, Aarhus Peter May, Chicago Haynes Miller, MIT Ieke Moerdijk, Utrecht Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins Fabien Morel, Paris 7 Victor Snaith, Southampton Neil Strickland, Sheffield Bertrand Toen, Nice Mini-course schedule: The mini-courses will be held at the University of Western Ontario. Each course will be three hours long, either three one-hour lectures or two 90-minute lectures, except for Carlsson's second course, which will consist of two one-hour lectures. Rooms, times and abstracts will be announced later. Sept 8, 9, 10: Morava, "Recent developments in Galois theory" Sept 11, 12: Goerss, "Sheaves of modules and sheaves of spectra on the moduli stack of formal groups" Sept 15, 16, 17: Carlsson, "Galois theory and representations in K-theory" Sept 18, 19: Carlsson, "Algebraic topology and shape and feature recognition" Sept 17, 18, 19: Moerdijk, "Operads, Hopf algebras and homotopy theory" Sept 20-24: conference Sept 25, 26, 29: Morel, "Computation and conjectures on motivic stable homotopy groups of spheres" Here is when the minicourse speakers will be at Western: Gunnar Carlsson: Sept 14-23. Paul Goerss: Sept 7-13. Ieke Moerdijk: Sept 12-24. Jack Morava: Sept 5-10 and Sept 15-24. Fabien Morel: roughly Sept 20 to Oct 4. A list of all potential attendees can be found at http://www.math.uwo.ca/homotopy/attendees.html