MAC LANE FEST SCHEDULE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO All talks will be in Eckhardt 206 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8: 2:30 Irving Kaplansky: Valuation rings and other things 3:30 Tea 4:00 Israel Singer: TBA 6:00 Banquet at the Quadrangle Club SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9: 9:30 Coffee and donuts 10:00 David Eisenbud: An exterior view of sheaves on projective space 11:15 Ieke Moerdijk: Operads, monads, and Hopf algebras 2:00 Anil Nerode: Logic with Mac Lane in the 1950's 3:30 Matters categorical: Peter Freyd, William Lawvere, and others SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10: 9:30 Coffee and donuts 10:00 Richard Kadison: Eilenberg-MacLane Cohomology -- Some Applications in Functional Analysis 11:15 Steve Awodey: Mac Lane set theory 2:00 Peter May: Picard groups, Grothendieck rings, and Burnside rings of symmetric monoidal categories 3:30 Reminiscenses: tutti Please e-mail Dorothy Frazier, dorothy@math.uchicago.edu, to let us know if you wish to attend the banquet. (There will be a $30 charge.)