[cat.fr] A Colloquium in Honour of Jean Benabou

[Andrei Rodin <>]

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A COLLOQUIUM

TITLE : Category Theory Yesterday,Today (and Tomorrow?)

A Colloquium in Honour of Jean Benabou

DATE :  Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th 2011

VENUE :  Department of Mathematics
               EcoleNormaleSuperieure
               45 Rue D'Ulm
               Paris

Confirmed Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Jean Benabou
Pierre Cartier
Francois Chargois
Andree Ehresmann
Rene Guitart
Christian Houzel
Andre Joyal
Jacques Roubaud
Thomas Streicher

Titles of Talks with Abstracts and a Full Program of the Meeting will be
circulated with the Second Announcement around May 1st 2011

This Two Day Colloquium is the culmination of a week of activities at  
ENS
intended to honour Professor Jean Benabou's contributions to  
Mathematics over
the last half century.

Born in Rabat in Morocco in 1932, Jean Benabou entered
the EcoleNormale Superieure in 1952, graduating in 1956. He was a CNRS
Researcher from 1956 to 1962, then, after a spell at the University of  
Chicago from 1966-67 at the invitation of Saunders Mac Lane, on his  
return to France he directed the research seminar in Category Theory  
at The Institut Henri Poincare (and latterly at the Institut  
Mathematique de Jussieu) from 1969 to 2001. This Seminar was one of  
the most influential and fertile centres in the development of  
Category Theory for much of that period, attracting contributions for  
over 30 years from  some of the leading researchers  in the field.

Professor Benabou's own contributions to Category Theory have been  
rich, various
and profound, and are ongoing. They will be described in more detail in
the Second Announcement.

The Contributions to this Colloquium will review aspects of his work  
and touch
on a selection of his interests. The Colloquium Talks will take place  
on the
afternoon of Friday June 3rd and throughout the day on Saturday June  
4th. They
will be preceded on the morning of Friday June 3rd by the final and  
open session
of a series of Rencontres - Discussions between Professor Benabou and  
an invited
panel of several of his mathematical colleagues, which will take
the form of a Round Table. Further details of the subjects for these  
discussions
will also be circulated with the Second Announcement