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This is the website of the meeting in memory of Aurelio Carboni. We would like to remember Aurelio's mathematical vision through the voices of his closest friends and colleagues.

The Conference will be held in Milan, June 24 - 26, 2013, at the Department of Mathematics "Federigo Enriques" of the Università degli Studi.

The following invited speakers have already confirmed their participation

  • Dominique Bourn (Université du Littoral, Calais, F)
  • Marta Bunge (McGill University, Ca)
  • Marino Gran (Université catholique de Louvain, Be)
  • Marco Grandis (Università degli Studi di Genova, I)
  • George Janelidze (University of Cape Town, ZA)
  • Peter T. Johnstone (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • F. William Lawvere (University at Buffalo, US)
  • Giuseppe Rosolini (Università degli Studi di Genova, I)
  • Enrico M. Vitale (Université catholique de Louvain, Be)
  • Robert F. C. Walters (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, I)
  • Richard Wood (Dalhousie University, Ca)

There is no conference fee, but registration is highly appreciated. Everybody is very welcome.

Conference Program

(Abstracts of the talks here)

Monday 24

13:30 - 14:30 Registration

14:30 - 14:45 Opening - Silvio Ghilardi (Head of the Dept.)

14:45 - 15:45 "The mathematical heritage of Aurelio Carboni" - Bill Lawvere and George Janelidze.

15:45 - 16:15 coffee break

16:15 - 17:15 "The Snail Lemma" - Enrico M. Vitale

17:15 - 18:15 "Racks and Tangled Circuits" - Bob Walters

Tuesday 25

9:00 - 10:00 "Mal'cev categories vs protomodular categories" - Dominique Bourn

10:00 - 11:00 "Monotone-light factorisation systems and torsion theories" - Marino Gran

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 "Projective and affine aspects in categories" - Marco Grandis

14:30 - 15:30 "Towards axiomatic description of categories of commutative algebras" - George Janelidze

15:30 - 16:30 "The symmetric topos in perspective: algebraic and geometric aspects" - Marta Bunge

16:30 - 17:00 coffee break

17:00 - 18:00 T.B.A. - Pino Rosolini

20:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 26

9:00 - 10:00 "The geometry (?) of realizability toposes" - Peter T. Johnstone

10:00 - 11:00 "The waves of a total category and total distributivity" - Richard Wood

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 "Syntactical Presentations of Objective Abstract Generals and Axiomatizability, Distributors and Distributions" - Bill Lawvere

The organizers

Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Sandra Mantovani (Università degli Studi di Milano), Giuseppe Metere (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Robert F. C. Walters (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria).