K-THEORY, CYCLIC HOMOLOGY AND OPERADS

A conference on the occasion of Jean-Louis Loday's sixtieth birthday

                5-7 January 2006, IRMA (Strasbourg, France)

                          FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

On the occasion of Jean-Louis Loday's sixtieth birthday, a conference on
K-Theory, Cyclic Homology and Operads will take place at the IRMA
(Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée) in Strasbourg, France,
January 5-7 2006.

The following speakers will give plenary talks :

Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M)
Clemens Berger (Nice)
Alain Connes (IHES)
Zbigniew Fiedorowicz (Ohio State)
Mikhail Kapranov (Yale)
Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)
Jean-Christophe Novelli (Marne-la-Vallee)
Teimuraz Pirashvili (Tbilisi)
Birgit Richter (Cologne)
Maria Ronco (Valparaiso)
Marco Schlichting (Louisiana State)
Christophe Soulé (IHES)
Boris Tsygan (Northwestern)

The conference website is avaible at the following address :
http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/irma/seminaires/autres/loday/

Registration to the conference is not yet opened. More information
will be provided on the website soon.

To register to the conference mailing list or for further information,
send an email to

jll60@math.u-strasbg.fr

The organizing committee

Hans-Werner Henn
Max Karoubi
Muriel Livernet
Bruno Vallette