Subject: categories: Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science

From: Rick Jardine <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:50:22 -0500

First Announcement: 

  Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science

Department of Mathematics
Stanford University

July 30 - August 3, 2001

The application of algebraic topological methods in areas related to
Computer Science is an emerging field that is of interest to both pure
and applied mathematical scientists. The aim of this conference is to
describe recent advances, and define the fundamental open problems
in the field through a mixture of expository and technical lectures.  There
will be twenty lectures, on a variety of topics in the area.

The following is a preliminary list of invited speakers:

John Baez (Math, UC Riverside)
Marshall Bern (Xerox PARC)
Tamal Dey (CS, Ohio State)
Herbert Edelsbrunner (CS, Duke)
David Eppstein (CS, UC Irvine)
Michael Freedman (Microsoft)
Philippe Gaucher (CNRS, Strasbourg)
Eric Goubault (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France)
Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan)
Marco Grandis (Dip. di Mat., Genova)
Jeremy Gunawardena (HP BRIMS)
Joel Hass (Math Dept, UC Davis)
Maurice Herlihy (CS, Brown)
Reinhard Laubenbacher (NMSU)
Laszlo Lovasz (Microsoft)
Vaughan Pratt (CS, Stanford)
Christian Reidys (Los Alamos National Lab)
Bernd Sturmfels (Math Dept, UC Berkeley) 
Noson Yanofsky (CS, Brooklyn College)

All conference announcements and information will be available at the
web site:

    http://www.math.uwo.ca/~jardine/at-cs.html

The organizers for this meeting are:
  
Gunnar Carlsson: [email-masked]
Rick Jardine: [email-masked]