First Announcement: Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science Department of Mathematics Stanford University July 30 - August 3, 2001 The application of algebraic topological methods in areas related to Computer Science is an emerging field that is of interest to both pure and applied mathematical scientists. The aim of this conference is to describe recent advances, and define the fundamental open problems in the field through a mixture of expository and technical lectures. There will be twenty lectures, on a variety of topics in the area. The following is a preliminary list of invited speakers: John Baez (Math, UC Riverside) Marshall Bern (Xerox PARC) Tamal Dey (CS, Ohio State) Herbert Edelsbrunner (CS, Duke) David Eppstein (CS, UC Irvine) Michael Freedman (Microsoft) Philippe Gaucher (CNRS, Strasbourg) Eric Goubault (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France) Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan) Marco Grandis (Dip. di Mat., Genova) Jeremy Gunawardena (HP BRIMS) Joel Hass (Math Dept, UC Davis) Maurice Herlihy (CS, Brown) Reinhard Laubenbacher (NMSU) Laszlo Lovasz (Microsoft) Vaughan Pratt (CS, Stanford) Christian Reidys (Los Alamos National Lab) Bernd Sturmfels (Math Dept, UC Berkeley) Noson Yanofsky (CS, Brooklyn College) All conference announcements and information will be available at the web site: http://www.math.uwo.ca/~jardine/at-cs.html The organizers for this meeting are: Gunnar Carlsson: gunnar@math.stanford.edu Rick Jardine: jardine@uwo.ca