Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference
Month: July 2013
Date: July 22--26
Name: Samuel Eilenberg Centenary Conference
Location: Warsaw, Poland.
Description
The Conference will be held on the old campus of the University of Warsaw, Alma Mater of Samuel Eilenberg.
Organizer
By the University of Warsaw, Polish Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the American Mathematical Society and Columbia University.
Scientific Program
Confirmed plenary lectures will be delivered by Paul Balmer (University of California at Los Angeles), Andre Joyal (Université du Qu{é}bec, Montr{é}al), Martin Hyland (University of Cambridge), Ieke Moerdijk (Radboud University Nijmegen), Brooke E Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago), Bernard Toen (Universit{é} de Montpellier), Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago), Mariusz Wodzicki (University of California at Berkeley). We plan also to organize parallel sessions of contributed talks and poster session which will cover the areas of Eilenberg's contributions: Algebraic topology, category theory and computability. Sectional talks will last 30-45 minutes. Proposals of talks can be submitted electronically after registration for the conference. Proceedings on the occasion of the conference, a special volume of Fundamenta Mathematicae will appear, the journal in which Eilenberg published many papers, including his first (in 1934) and the last (in 1988) topological papers. Participants are welcome to submit their papers which all will be refereed.
Financial support
Grants will be offered to a limited number of students and postdocs, towards covering their local expenses in Warsaw. Applications can be submitted via the registration website.
Information
http://eilenberg100.ptm.org.pl.