Please circulate to all interested colleagues: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CATEGORY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS (CT04) July 18-24, 2004 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada This conference will be held on the University of British Columbia campus. It will begin with a reception at 6pm on Sunday July 18, 2004, and will end at 1pm on Saturday July 24, 2004. All those interested in category theory and its applications are welcome. This announcement is made for your advance planning purposes only and does not require a response. A second announcement will be made in September of 2003 with more details. Support is being requested from the Pacific Institute of Mathematics(PIMS}. John MacDonald 16-Jul-2002 20:03:01 -0300,1464;000000000000-0000001b