SCOTTISH CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ng/sct.html *** Fifth Meeting *** *** Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh *** *** Friday 25 November 2011, 2.00-5.40pm *** The programme for the fifth Scottish Category Theory Seminar has now been finalized. * Invited talk: Anders Kock (Aarhus University) "Introduction to Synthetic Differential Geometry, and some arithmetic with nilpotents" * Invited talk: Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS, Paris 7) "Braided notions of dialogue categories" * Tom Leinster (University of Glasgow) "Measuring an enriched category" * Invited talk: Anders Kock (Aarhus University) "Commutative monads, and distributions (in a broad sense)" The meeting is open to all. There is no registration, but, if you intend to come please let us know by email: scotcats@cis.strath.ac.uk For more information, see webpage. This meeting is generously supported by the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust. Alex Simpson (local organizer) (ScotCats organizers: Neil Ghani, Tom Leinster, AS) -- Alex Simpson, LFCS, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Email: Alex.Simpson@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5113 Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als Fax: +44 (0)131 651 1426 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]