We are pleased to announce that the category theory portion of the Union College Mathematics Conference will be dedicated to Bill Lawvere and the 50th anniversary of his dissertation (see www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articles/5/tr5abs.html). In addition to an invited lecture by Bill, there will be contributed half-hour talks in his honor as well as in other areas of category theory. A preliminary announcement for the conference follows: UNION COLLEGE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE Schenectady, New York Saturday and Sunday October 19 - October 20, 2013 This is a preliminary announcement for the fourteenth Union College Mathematics Conference. This year the conference topics are algebraic topology, category theory, commutative algebra, differential geometry, and statistics. In addition to invited lectures, there will also be shorter contributed talks in parallel sessions. Anyone interested in giving such a talk should contact one of the organizers. The meeting will begin with an evening reception on Friday, October 18, and end on Sunday afternoon. More information will be available at the Union College Mathematics Department website (www.math.union.edu) in June. Union College is centrally located in New York's capital district about 10 miles from the Albany International Airport, easily accessible by train from NYC, and just 3 to 4 hours by car from NYC, Boston, and Montreal. We hope to see you here in the fall! ORGANIZERS Algebraic Topology Brenda Johnson (johnsonb@union.edu) Kathryn Lesh (leshk@union.edu) Big Data Analytics Roger Hoerl (hoerlr@union.edu) Category Theory: A Celebration of Bill Lawvere and Fifty Years of Functorial Semantics Susan Niefield (niefiels@union.edu) Kimmo Rosenthal Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Leila Khatami (khatamil@union.edu) Special Geometric Structures Charles Boyer Jeff Jauregui Christina Tonnesen-Friedman (tonnesec@union.edu) [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]