CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. This is the first announcement for: OPERAD POP-UP What: 24-Hour conference on operads, their applications, and related topics When: 11 August, 2020. 00:00 UTC - 23:59 UTC. Where: zoom (details forthcoming) and twitch.tv/operads More information: http://phck.net/operad/ Confirmed speakers: Luciana Basualdo Bonatto (University of Oxford) Nathaniel Bottman (University of Southern California) Anna Cepek (IBS Center for Geometry and Physics) Michael Ching (Amherst College) Joost Nuiten (Montpellier) Dan Petersen (Stockholm university) Sophie Raynor (Macquarie University) María Ronco (Universidad de Talca) Dmitry Vaintrob (UC Berkeley) More details, including schedules, abstracts, and format will appear soon at the website http://phck.net/operad/ . If you have any questions, please contact one of the organizers: Philip Hackney, Geoffroy Horel, Marcy Robertson. We hope to see you there! [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]