First announcement Workshop on Categorification and Higher-Order Geometry 23-24 July, 2003 Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal Confirmed main speakers to date: JOHN BAEZ, Univ. California at Riverside "Categorified Lie groups, Lie algebras, bundles and connections" LAWRENCE BREEN, Univ. Paris 13 (on non-abelian gerbes) LOUIS CRANE, Kansas State Univ. (to be announced) MIKHAIL KHOVANOV, Univ. California at Davis (on categorification of the Jones polynomial) STEPHAN STOLZ, Univ. Notre Dame (on elliptic objects) This workshop is a satellite event of the International Conference on Mathematical Physics, 28th July - 2nd August, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal (http://icmp2003.net/). Apart from the invited talks, there will be slots available for contributed talks. People interested in giving a contributed talk should contact the organisers as soon as possible to register their interest, and send a title and abstract before 31st January, 2003. The list of accepted talks will be announced before April 1st. Marco Mackaay: mmackaay@ualg.pt Roger Picken: rpicken@math.ist.utl.pt Due to the limitations of the budget it is unlikely that financial support will be available except for the main speakers and perhaps some local students. Further information will be provided on the conference homepage: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~rpicken/CHOG2003 21-Nov-2002 21:23:46 -0400,1246;000000000000-00000000