LAST ANNOUNCEMENT SMOOTH CATEGORIES IN GEOMETRY AND MECHANICS Special session of AMS Meeting No. 943 in Buffalo, N.Y. Diefendorf Hall, SUNY, Main Street Campus April 24/25, 1999 note: changes in Sunday schedule SCHEDULE: Saturday, April 24, 1999 9:00 - 9:20 James FARAN: A Synthetic Approach to Characteristic Cohomology (Abstract # 943-18-72) 9:30 - 9:50 Hirokazu NISHIMURA: Infinitesimal Calculus of Variations (Abstract # 943-18-71) 10:00 - 10:20 Jonathon FUNK: Lebesgue Toposes (Abstract # 943-18-65) 10:30 - 10:50 George JANELIDZE: (joint work with Walter Tholen) Strongly Separable Morphisms (Abstract # 943-18-73) *** 2:30 - 2:50 Gonzalo REYES: (joint work with Anders Kock) Atoms and Categories of Differential Equations in SDG (Abstract # 943-18-109) 3:00 - 3:20 Felipe GAGO: Transversal Stability for Infinitesimally Represented Germs (Abstract # 943-18-66) 3:30 - 3:50 Anders KOCK: Infinitesimal Geometric Aspects of Riemannian Metrics (Abstract # 943-18-68) *** 4:30 - 4:50 Rene LAVENDHOMME: Infinitesimal Deformations in SDG (Abstract # 943-18-70) 5:00 - 5:20 Marta BUNGE: Single Universe for Intensive and Extensive Quantities in a Topos (Abstract # 943-18-76) Sunday, April 25, 1999 9:00 - 9:20 Peter FREYD: Arithmetic Categories (Abstract # 943-18-69) 9:30 - 9:50 Craig SNYDAL: Vertex Algebras, an Example of a Relaxed Multilinear Category (Abstract # 943-18-67) 10:00 - 10:20 Walter NOLL: Conceptual Mathematics, Categories, Functors, and Tensors (Abstract # 943-18-176) 10:30 - 10:50 Bill LAWVERE Smoothness of Cubical Splines (Abstract # 943-18-145) ***** 2:30 - 4:00 Round Table Discussion on the Theme of the Special Session ARRIVAL DATE: Friday, April 23, 1999 BUFFET DINNER: Saturday, April 24, 6:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. at the Center for Tomorrow on UBs North Campus. Cost $ 10.--; cash bar. Transportation available from Diefendorf Hall. LUNCHES: available for both days at Diefendorf Hall. ACCOMODATIONS: For the participants of the meeting the downtown HYATT REGENCY BUFFALO has special rates. For more information about hotels, etc. see Http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jjfaran/AMS_MEETING_home.html A block of rooms under the name AMS SMOOTH CATEGORIES has been reserved at the UNIVERSITY MANOR, 3612 Main Street, (intersection Main/Bailey, at walking distance from Main Street Campus). Prices are: Queen US$ 50.--/ King or 2 beds US$ 54.--, minus 10% for participants, plus 13% tax. Tel. (716) 837-3344; Fax (716 )834-6246. REGISTRATION: Room 114, Diefendorf Hall, Saturday starting at 7:30 am. Fees are $ 30.--/AMS or CMS members, $ 45.-- /nonmembers, $ 10.-- emeritus members, students, unemployed mathematicians, (payable on-site only) ******************************************************************************* F. William Lawvere Mathematics Dept. SUNY wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu 106 Diefendorf Hall 716-829-2144 ext. 117 Buffalo, N.Y. 14214, USA *******************************************************************************