SECOND  ANNOUNCEMENT


            B A N A C H   C E N T E R   S Y M P O S I U M

                     GEOMETRIC SINGULARITY THEORY

                     P O L I S H - J A P A N E S E
                    SINGULARITY THEORY WORKING DAYS

                      21st Century of COE program
           "Mathematics of Nonlinear structure via Singularity"
              Hokkaido University, Department of Mathematics 



               BEDLEWO, POLAND (www.impan.gov.pl/Bedlewo)
                     30 August - 8 September, 2004

Programme:
- Lagrangian and Legendrian singularities
- Asymptotic behaviour around caustics and wavefronts
- Symplectic singularities, local invariants
- Singular symplectic, contact and Poisson spaces
- Systems of rays, optical caustics
- Bifurcations of caustics and wavefronts
- Singularities of smooth maps and differential forms
- Motivic integration
- Subanalytic and semialgebraic sets - Lipschitz stratifications
- Lagrangian cobordism invariants 
- Blow analytic equivalence 
- Singular reduction, Hamiltonian systems and their generalizations
- Applications to physical systems and control theory
- Differential geometry and singularities
 

                            SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
T. Fukuda (Tokyo), H. Hironaka (Tokyo), G. Ishikawa (Sapporo), 
S. Izumiya (Sapporo), S. Janeczko (Warsaw), T. Mostowski (Warsaw), 
W. Pawlucki (Krakow), Z. Szafraniec (Gdansk), K. Yamaguchi (Sapporo) 


                             CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
K. Fukaya (Tokyo), T. Fukuda (Tokyo), G. Ishikawa (Sapporo), 
S. Izumiya (Sapporo), T. Mostowski (Warsaw), W. Pawlucki (Krakow), 
V. Sedykh (Moscow), R. Uribe-Vargas (Paris), B. Wajnryb (Haifa), 
M. Zhitomirskii (Haifa), K. Yamaguchi (Sapporo)


1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Date of arrival to Bedlewo 30-31.08.2004
Date of departure from Bedlewo 7-8.09.2004
The scientific activity will start in the afternoon of August 31th. 
Last lectures are planned for the morning of September 7th.

Basically we are planning one-hour morning plenary lectures 
and half-hour afternoon lectures. To give an opportunity for 
the spontaneous discussions and informal talks the number 
of regular lectures is going to be limited.

The total cost of the participation (accommodation, all meals
and the conference fee): 300 EUR

If you are interested in attending to the Symposium and have not yet 
registered please send the registration form (enclosed at the end 
of this mail) to aito@mini.pw.edu.pl or office@banach.impan.gov.pl

                     NOT LATER THAN ON JULY 16TH


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The data below are not intended to be exhaustive. More information about 
the Conference Center of IM PAN in Bedlewo, maps and details on getting 
there, links to the weather forecasts etc. can be found at

                      www.impan.gov.pl/Bedlewo

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2. LOCATION: 

The village of Bedlewo is located about 30 km south of Poznan- the 
largest (600,000 inhabitants) city of western Poland situated
halfway between Warsaw and Berlin. The towns nearest to Bedlewo
are Mosina - 10 km away, and Steszew - 8 km away.

The address of the Conference Center is:
Osrodek Konferencyjny IM PAN
60-060 Bedlewo
ul. Parkowa 2

The Center's telephone number is: (+48 61) 813 51 87 (dial just 
813 51 87 if you use a public phone within the Poznan region). 
The reception desk in Bedlewo works 24 hours a day.

The conference centre consists of a neo-gothic palace, modern 
hotel and conference facilities and a 9 ha park adjoining the 
forests of the Wielkopolski National Park. 

3. HOW TO REACH THE CONFERENCE SITE:

Poznan Lawica airport has direct connections with several cities
in Western Europe but generally you may need to change planes 
in Warsaw, Frankfurt or elsewhere.

It is also possible to arrive by plane in Warsaw and go to Poznan 
by train, which takes 3 hours. From 6 AM to 7 PM there are trains 
from Warsaw to Poznan every hour, and the tickets (2nd class
ticket with compulsory seat reservation costs 60-70 PLN i.e.
about 15 EUR) can be bought both at the Warsaw Railway Station
and at the "Orbis" travel agency airport branch. 
There are also 4 direct trains a day from Berlin to Poznan (this 
takes also about 3 hours but is slightly more expensive).

If you are going by taxi from the airport to the city center
(e.g. to the railway station in Warsaw or Poznan) we strongly 
suggest that you book one at the desks of regular taxi companies 
or the city information desks present in the airport arrival
halls rather than take a cab just outside the airport building. 
Both Poznan and Warsaw have also buses joining the airports with
the city centers - in Poznan bus 59 goes as far as Rondo Kaponiera
500m from the station, and the Warsaw bus no. 175 passes the main 
railway station (Dworzec Centralny) at 50m distance.

When you reach Poznan Railway Station you can buy the ticket for 
a local train to Mosina, and there you can get a taxi to Bedlewo.
  
The Center can organize the transportation between Bedlewo and 
Mosina and Poznan railway stations and Poznan airport (including
buses for larger groups of participants). However in order to do
this we need detailed hours of your arrival and departure.
 
4. DIET: 

Please let us know in advance if you need or wish a special diet.

5. WEATHER: 

Average temperatures in the beginning of September are 22'C at day
and 12'C at night but in fact no values between 5 and 30 can be 
excluded. So please take also a warmer coat/raincoat, and sport shoes 
- especially that excursions with walks across forest and fields 
are planned (the center hires also bikes for rides in the forests).
Number of sunny/rainy days in any given week in September cannot
be predicted at all, so please consult the link to the weather 
forecast at www.impan.gov.pl/Bedlewo just before your arrival.

6. LECTURES, ABSTRACTS: 

The conference center has two lecture rooms equipped with blackboards 
and overhead projectors. Please let us know if you wish to use 
different projectors (e.g. connected to a notebook) during your talk.

We kindly request you to send us the titles of the talks 
(and possibly abstracts) as soon as you can.

7. SOCIAL PROGRAM (provisional):

Welcome party.
Sightseeing - local attractions - museums.
Evening garden party - barbecue (probably Saturday).
Farewell party (probably Sunday).
Some other interesting events.

8. PAYMENTS can be made to the following accounts:

Account number:
 - in EUR: 92 1060 0076 0000 4010 5011 3285
 - in PLN: 94 1060 0076 0000 4010 5000 1117
Owner of the account: Instytut Matematyczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Name of the bank: BPH SA
Address of the bank: Krucza 24/26, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland
Swift: BPHKPLPK

Please add that the payment is for "POLJAP4".

Payment may be also made in cash upon arrival. 


Local organizers 

Wojciech Domitrz    domitrz@mini.pw.edu.pl
Stanislaw Janeczko  janeczko@mini.pw.edu.pl
Mariusz Zajac       zajac@mini.pw.edu.pl


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