CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. ================================================================= FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT Categories and Companions Symposium 2021 (CaCS2021) 08:00–10:30 and 20:00–23:00, June 8–12, 2021 (UTC+10) on Zoom http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/coact/seminar/CaCS2021/ ================================================================= BACKGROUND CaCS2021 is an event for research students (Honours/Masters/PhD) in category theory and related disciplines from around the world to meet each other and share their work. Everyone is welcome to attend the event. Each day will feature a 50 minute talk by an invited speaker and a series of 20 minute contributed talks by research students, split across two sessions — the first aimed at Australasian and American time zones and the second at Australasian, African and European time zones. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in social activities including trivia and Q&A, as well as platforms to meet and talk to each other in smaller groups throughout the symposium. This symposium is supported by MATRIX and AMSI. To support post-symposium research collaboration between PhD student participants, MATRIX and AMSI are providing funding through the MATRIX-AMSI PhD Student Research Collaboration Scheme. For more information, see https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/phd-student-research-collaboration-scheme-gui... . Please share the details of this event with research students in your local academic community. ================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES - Registration for attendance: Friday, June 4, 2021 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth. - Symposium: Tuesday, June 8 to Saturday, June 12, 2021. ================================================================= REGISTRATION Registration is open (for both research students and the wider community) via the linked Google Form https://forms.gle/ZdEfrpzeaD3zkUzT8. A Zoom link will be sent to all the participants the day before the symposium. ================================================================= SCHEDULE The following invited speakers will each deliver an extended 50 minute talk: - John Baez (University of California, Riverside) - Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) - Tobias Fritz (University of Innsbruck) - Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - Ross Street (Macquarie University) A complete schedule of the event, including titles and abstracts of all the speakers, can be found on the CaCS2021 website: http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/coact/seminar/CaCS2021/ ================================================================= ORGANISERS Bryce Clarke (Macquarie University) Matthew Di Meglio (Macquarie University) Nicola Di Vittorio (Macquarie University) Eli Hazel (Macquarie University) Yuki Maehara (Kyushu University) Adrian Miranda (Macquarie University) Giacomo Tendas (Macquarie University) Paula Verdugo (Macquarie University) Giulian Wiggins (University of Sydney) For any additional information, please contact us at catscomps2021@gmail.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]