Dear All, We are pleased to announce the following international event (school + conference) on topos theory, which will take place in Como from 24 to 29 June 2018. We hope to see you in Como. Best regards, Olivia Caramello (on behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees) =============================================================================== TOPOSES IN COMO Call for participation School: 24-26 June 2018 - Conference: 27-29 June 2018 Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and Università degli Studi dell’Insubria http://tcsc.lakecomoschool.org * Scope * ------------ The event “Toposes in Como”, which represents the second edition of the conference “Topos à l’IHES” held in France in 2015, will consist of a three-day school, offering introductory courses for the benefit of students and mathematicians who are not already familiar with topos theory, followed by a three-day conference featuring both invited and contributed presentations on new theoretical advances in the subject as well as applications of toposes in different fields such as algebra, topology, number theory, algebraic geometry, logic, homotopy theory, functional analysis and computer science. * School lecturers * -------------------------- Francis BORCEUX (Université Catholique de Louvain) Olivia CARAMELLO (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria - Como) Alain CONNES (IHES) Laurent LAFFORGUE (IHES) * Conference invited speakers * ------------------------------------------ Tibor BEKE (University of Massachusetts) Ingo BLECHSCHMIDT (University of Augsburg) Eduardo DUBUC (University of Buenos Aires) Pieter HOFSTRA (University of Ottawa) Maria Emilia MAIETTI (Università degli Studi di Padova) Andrew PITTS (University of Cambridge) Mauro PORTA (Université de Strasbourg) Bas SPITTERS (Aarhus University) David SPIVAK (MIT) * Scientific Committee * -------------------------------- Olivia CARAMELLO Alain CONNES Caterina CONSANI Laurent LAFFORGUE * Organizing Committee * ---------------------------------- Olivia CARAMELLO Franco CAZZANIGA Stefano PIGOLA Lidia STOPPINO * Short communications * ---------------------------------- There is room for a few short communications (20-25 minutes long); if you want to submit a one-page abstract for a short talk at the conference, please upload it while registering on the conference website before the 15th of April. * Financial support for students and young researchers * --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a limited number of travel grants (or registration fee exemptions) for attending this event available for deserving students and young researchers who are not funded by their own institutions. If interested in obtaining such a grant, please send a request to the address mailto:tcsc@lakecomoschool.org before the 15th of April, attaching a Curriculum Vitae and a supporting letter by a senior mathematician (e.g. your Ph.D. supervisor). * Registration and contact * ------------------------------------ Registration information is available at the conference webpage http://tcsc.lakecomoschool.org/registration/ If you have any queries please send them to the conference e-mail address tcsc@lakecomoschool.org =============================================================================== [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]