INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY THEORY MEETING (CT95)

Canadian Mathematical Society Annual Seminar

July 9-15, 1995

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Fifty years after the paper which founded Category Theory and twenty-five years after the discovery of Elementary Topos Theory, the Category Theory community met in Halifax. The meeting was also an Annual Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Society (which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1995).

The meeting took place on the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax. The scientific program ran from Monday, July 10 to Saturday, July 15 inclusive. The conference social events included an excursion to Point Pleasant Park followed by a boat tour of Halifax harbour and lobster dinner, and a conference banquet on the Thursday evening.

About 107 mathematicians participated in the conference. Their names and email addresses (where known) are listed. Here is the conference picture - thanks to Bob Walters for scanning.

During the two weeks preceding CT95 a Category Theory Summer School was held at Dalhousie. Professors F. W. Lawvere and S. Schanuel presented a series of lectures to an enthusiastic audience of graduate students from around the world.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Below is a list of speakers at CT95 and their titles. Where speakers have provided them, there are links to material (preprints, etc.) related to their lectures. The abstracts presented by the speakers are available in pdf format.

ADAMEK, J.
Finitary sketches II
BARR, M.
Acyclic Models
BETTI, R.
Factorizations in bicategories
BISSON, T.
Covering Spaces as Operations in Cobordism Theory
BLUTE, R.
Linear Lauchli Semantics
BOURN, D.
Characterization of the nerve of n-Groupoids
BUNGE, M.
Fundamental group of a topos : paths versus coverings
CLEMENTINO, M. M.
Separation versus connectedness
COCKETT, R.
Coherence for MIX
CUBRIC, D.
Semantics for the Universal Quantifier -- gzipped Postscript file
DAMPHOUSSE, P.
Distorted logic for full subcategories of finite sets
DUSKIN, J.
Some Applications of 2-Category Techniques in the Theory of Braided Tensor Categories
FIORE, M.
Aspects of Axiomatic Domain Theory
FUNK, J.
Geometric Spreads
GATES, R.
A construction of the initial distributive category with P(X) isomorphic to X
GRANDIS, M.
Limits in double categories
HU, H.
On pure morphisms in accessible categories
JANELIDZE, G.
Higher Dimensional Central Extensions: A Categorical Approach to Homology Theory of Groups
JOYAL, A.
Bicompletions of Categories
KATIS, P.
Circuits and the Grothendieck Construction
KELLY, G. M.
Enrichment for monads on the category of categories
KLEISLI, H.
How induced representations should be constructed
KOCK, A.
Natural Bundles over Smooth Etendues - compressed .dvi file
KOSLOWSKI, J.
From bicategories of relations to bicategories of profunctors
LAWSON, M.
Constructing Inverse Semigroups from Category Actions
LAWVERE, F. W.
TBA
LIPPINCOTT, T.
An Introduction to Diagrammatic Languages
Mac LANE, S.
Emmy Noether and Heinz Hopf Made Category Theory Possible
MacCAULL, W.
Kripke semantics for substructural logics with weakening and no contraction
MacLEOD, R.
Substitution Systems
MAKKAI, M.
First order logic with dependent sorts, with applications to category theory
MARMOLEJO, F.
Weak Limits and Algebras
NIEFIELD, S.
Constructing Quantales From Monoidal Categories
PEDICCHIO, M. C.
Internal Category Theory and Commutators
PLEWE, T.
Localic triquotient maps are effective descent maps - gzipped dvi, also postscript
ROSENTHAL, K.
Quantaloids, Enriched Categories and Automata Theory
ROSICKY, J.
Finitary Sketches I
SQUIRE, R.
Omega co-generates simplicial sets
STEINER, R.
Presentations of omega-categories by directed complexes
STREET, R.
Low-dimensional topology and higher-order categories I - Postscript file
THOLEN, W.
The categorical notions of separation, compactness and connectedness
TIERNEY, M.
On the theory of path groupoids I
TRIMBLE, T.
Parity Structures on Associahedra and Higher-Dimensional Categories
VERITY, D.
Surface Diagrams and Associahedra
WALTERS, R. F. C.
Bicategories and Concurrency
WALTERS-WAYLAND, J.
Commutativity of certain coreflections and reflections in the category of uniform frames
WENDT, M.
Towards an Algebraic Theory of Integration
WICK PELLETIER, J.
On the quantisation of points
WOOD, R. J.
A 2-categorical approach to geometric morphisms and change of base, II