Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure to announce the second edition of the Summer School in Alg= ebra and Topology, which will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve from Wednesday= the 11th until Saturday the 14th of September 2019. The summer school will consist in four intensive courses addressed to Maste= r and PhD students, which will also be of interest to more experienced rese= archers in mathematics. This event is part of a joint project of UCLouvain = with the universities of Coimbra, Padova and Poitiers, promoting research c= ollaboration within the Coimbra Group.=20 The invited speakers of this the summer school will be professors Silvana B= azzoni (Padova), Marino Gran (Louvain-la-Neuve), Sandra Mantovani (Milano),= and Jorge Picado (Coimbra). The titles of their courses are: Contramodules and their applications - Silvana Bazzoni Categories for universal algebra - Marino Gran Categorical commutator theory - Sandra Mantovani Frames and locales: topology without points - Jorge Picado To register, please send a message to Mme Carine Baras <carine.baras@uclouv= ain.be> mentioning your academic status (Master or PhD student, post-doc, p= rofessor, etc.) and affiliation before the 15th of June 2019. If you wish, = she can also help you with booking one of the rooms we reserved at the stud= ent residence "Le Relais" and at the hotel "Ibis Style"; in that case, plea= se contact her as soon as possible. There is limited funding to partially cover local expenses for students. If= you wish to apply for this, then please send me an up-to-date CV and a ref= erence letter before the end of March 2019. Further information is available on the website https://uclouvain.be/en/res= earch-institutes/irmp/summer-school-in-algebra-and-topology-2019.html With best regards,=20 Tim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]