Dear all, It is a pleasure for us to announce that a summer school will be held in Ottawa on the 29-30-31 July 2019 on the topic “Operads and higher structures in Algebraic Topology and Category Theory “. This summer school will be followed by a workshop on the same topic (1-2 August 2019). The lecturers for the summer school are: - Manfred Hartl (Northeast Normal University - Université Polytechnique des Hauts de France) - Pascal Lambrechts (Université catholique de Louvain) and - Mark Weber (Macquarie University). Two speakers are already confirmed for the workshop, the other ones will be announced later: - Murray Bremner (University of Saskatchewan) - Ülo Reimaa (University of Tartu) You can find more information on the webpage: https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/pjacqmin/operadsATCT.html To register, please send an email to the organizers Pierre-Alain Jacqmin (pjacqmin@uottawa.ca<mailto:pjacqmin@uottawa.ca>) or Paul-Eugène Parent (pparent@uottawa.ca<mailto:pparent@uottawa.ca>). We have a limited amount of financial supports to help Ph.D. students to join the event. They will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis. Please let the organizers know if you need one. Scientific committee: - Richard Blute - Pierre-Alain Jacqmin - Paul-Eugène Parent - Philip Scott - Tim Van der Linden We are looking forward to seeing you on this occasion. With best regards, Pierre-Alain Jacqmin and Paul-Eugène Parent [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]