We are pleased to organise this workshop in in the stunning setting of Hostal Reyes Católicos in Santiago de Compostela.

Goals:

    Numerical invariants of homotopy type akin to the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category (henceforth LS-cat) have a long tradition in Algebraic Topology, and in the last years they have become a trend research topic by their implications in some applied settings.

    The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest in LS-cat invariants, but different perspectives, to provide the opportunity to exchange information and results of recent work. It is hoped that the exposition of all these different approaches to LS-cat invariants will create a synergistic research forum that will lead to new ideas and collaboration projects.

Speakers:

    It is our pleasure to announce that the following colleagues have accepted (so far) to become plenary speakers at the conference:

• Jesús Álvarez, Universidade de Santiago, Spain
• Hellen Colman, Wright College, US (web page)
  
• José Manuel García Calcines, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain (web page)
• Norio Iwase, Kyushu University, Japan (web page)
• Thomas Kahl, Universidad de Minho, Portugal (web page)
• Quique Macías, Universidade de Santiago, Spain (web page)
• Aniceto Murillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain (web page)
• Jérôme Scherer, EPFL, Switzerland (web page)
• Lucile Vandembroucq, Universidad de Minho, Portugal (web page)

Organizers:

    The organizers of this conference are coordinated by:

• Cristina Costoya, Universidade da Coruña
  
• Antonio Viruel, Universidad de Málaga

Sponsors:

D. de Álgebra, Geometría y Topología Universidad de Málaga

Red Española de Topología (MTM2011-13556-E)

Programa Nacional de Matemáticas, grupos: MTM2008-05861 MTM2009-14464-C02-01 MTM2010-18089