Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to remind you that this May, Professor George Janelidze will be the recipient of the prestigious Chaire de la Vallee Poussin 2017 (see http://www.uclouvain.be/784661.html) at the Universite catholique de Louvain. On this occasion, professor Janelidze will give a series of invited lectures entitled "From Galois theory to commutative Hopf algebras and finite topological spaces". Abstract: These lectures are about Galois theory, which begins with field extensions, makes several steps of wide generalization, and eventually arrives at a purely category-theoretic level, where it gets new motivation and many new expected and unexpected examples. These examples will be described, with special remarks on commutative Hopf algebras that appear as Galois groups, and the whole last lecture devoted to algebraic topology of finite spaces, where the Galois theory of covering spaces works especially well. Schedule: Tuesday, May 30, 16:30: "Evolution of Galois theory" Wednesday, May 31, 11:00: "Categorical foundation" Wednesday, May 31, 16:30: "Concrete Galois theories" Thursday, June 1, 10:00: "Algebraic topology of finite spaces" -------------------------------------------------------------- A Workshop on Categorical Methods in Non-Abelian Algebra will follow from June 1st to 3rd, 2017. Please, let us know as soon as possible if you want to participate by sending a message to tim.vanderlinden@uclouvain.be. Participants are warmly invited to present talks. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 30, 2017. Further information can be found at the workshop webpage: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~mmc/mcana/MCANAfifthworkshop.html Looking forward to seeing you in Louvain-la-Neuve, The organizers Alan Cigoli Maria Manuel Clementino Marino Gran Tim Van der Linden Joost Vercruysse Enrico Vitale [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]