Dear colleagues, We would like to announce the upcoming workshop: FIELDS INSTITUTE WORKSHOP ON CATEGORY THEORETIC METHODS IN REPRESENTATION THEORY University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada October 14-16, 2011 SPEAKERS Sabin Cautis (Columbia) James Dolan (UC Riverside) Ben Elias (M.I.T.) Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto) Aaron Lauda (Southern California) Anthony Licata (Institute for Advanced Study) Marco Mackaay (Universidade do Algarve) Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala) Kevin McGerty (Imperial College London) Raphaël Rouquier (Oxford) Catharina Stroppel (Bonn) Pedro Vaz (University of Zurich and IST Lisbon) Ben Webster (Northeastern) Geordie Williamson (Oxford) Oded Yacobi (Toronto) ORGANIZERS Alexander Hoffnung (Ottawa) Alistair Savage (Ottawa) FINANCIAL SUPPORT There is some funding available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Those interested should complete the funding application available on the workshop website (found below). The deadline for applying for support is September 1, 2011. FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/reptheory2011/ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]