Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure to announce the second edition of the Summer School in Algebra and Topology, which will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve from Wednesday the 11th until Saturday the 14th of September 2019. The summer school will consist in four intensive courses addressed to Master and PhD students, which will also be of interest to more experienced researchers in mathematics. This event is part of a joint project of UCLouvain with the universities of Coimbra, Padova and Poitiers, promoting research collaboration within the Coimbra Group. The invited speakers of this the summer school will be professors Silvana Bazzoni (Padova), Marino Gran (Louvain-la-Neuve), Sandra Mantovani (Milano), and Jorge Picado (Coimbra). The titles of their courses are: Contramodules and their applications - Silvana Bazzoni Categories for universal algebra - Marino Gran Categorical commutator theory - Sandra Mantovani Frames and locales: topology without points - Jorge Picado To register, please send a message to Mme Carine Baras <carine.baras@uclouvain.be> mentioning your academic status (Master or PhD student, post-doc, professor, etc.) and affiliation before the 15th of June 2019. She can also help you with booking a room in Louvain-la-Neuve. There is limited funding to partially cover local expenses for students. If you wish to apply for this, then please send me an up-to-date CV and a reference letter before the end of March 2019. Further information is available on the website www.uclouvain.be/irmp-summerschool-2 With best regards, Tim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]