Hebrew University of Jerusalem                 University of Haifa
 
                                    Workshop
 
                                       on
 
                  THE HOMOTOPY THEORY OF HOMOTOPY THEORIES
 
                     Monday-Wednesday,   May 24-26, 2010
 
                      Caesarea Maritime Center,  Israel
 
        Main speaker:  Professor JULIA BERGNER
                       University of California at Riverside
 
     1) Nerves and simplicial enrichment
 
     2) Model categories and simplicial categories as homotopy theories
 
     3) Segal categories, complete Segal spaces, and quasi-categories
 
     4) Homotopy theories as (infinity,1)-categories
 
     5) Higher categorical versions: (infinity,n)-categories
 
     6) Applications: algebraic geometry, representation theory,
                       and the cobordism hypothesis
 
    Background talks will be given by other participants of the workshop.
 
* For further details and registration please contact:
 
      David Blanc <blanc@math.haifa.ac.il>,        Tel 04-8249758
      Emmanuel Farjoun <farjoun@math.huji.ac.il>   Tel 02-6584534
      David Kazhdan <kazhdan@math.huji.ac.il>      Tel 02-6584534
 
Note:  All local expenses will be covered for registered particpants.
       Please register by April 16, 2010.
 
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******** PLEASE NOTE change in dates from original annoucement *********
 
        We ask that you confirm registration for the new dates.
 
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Technion Math Net-2 (TECHMATH2)
Editor: Gershon Wolansky <techm@math.technion.ac.il>
Announcement from: David Blanc <blanc@math.haifa.ac.il>