SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk SMOOTH CATEGORIES IN GEOMETRY AND MECHANICS Special session of AMS Meeting No. 943 in Buffalo, N.Y. April 24/25, 1999 Several active researchers have already agreed to participate. AMS Rules stipulate that those wishing to be considered as speakers on the program should contact me by January 6. Please send a title and a preliminary abstract to wlawvere@acsu.buffalo edu The intended subject of the session includes (a) the application of extensive categories, regular categories, cartesian-closed categories, toposes and the like to differential geometry, functional analysis of smooth functions and differential forms, distributions and currents, the motion and heating of extended bodies, electro-magnetism, ... as well as (b) the formulation and explanation of problems in those fields to which such application would possibly be useful. ******************************************************************************* F. William Lawvere Mathematics Dept. SUNY wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu 106 Diefendorf Hall 716-829-2144 ext. 117 Buffalo, N.Y. 14214, USA *******************************************************************************