9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

August 30 – September 3, 2004
Prague, Czech Republic

organized by the Charles University in Prague

in cooperation with other czech universities and institutes

 

http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~dgac/

 

 

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

 

DESCRIPTION

The aim is to disseminate and discuss newest developments in Riemannian geometry and generalizations, geometric structures, global analysis, variational analysis, geometric methods in physics, geometric theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, and related areas.

 

This will be the 9th meeting in a series organized by czech universities every three years since 1980. By end of April, approximately 200 participants from 30 countries are pre-registered (see the conference webpage http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~dgac/).

 

A meeting of the Editorial Board of the journal Differential Geometry and its Applications will take place during the conference. At the moment the following 12 foreign members of the Editorial Board promised to come: D. Alekseevsky, B. Dubrovin, T. Friedrich, K. Fukaya, P. Gilkey, M.Gotay, E. Heintze, M. Modugno, T. Ratiu, J. Stasheff, L. Vanhecke, A. Vinogradov.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

J. Bures (chairman), J. Janyska, I. Kolar, O. Kowalski, L. Krump, D. Krupka, O. Krupkova, J. Mikes, J. Slovak, P. Somberg, V. Soucek, J. Vanzura.

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The scientific program will start on Monday, August 30, 2004 morning and will consist of

·         invited plenary lectures (50 min)

·         invited lectures in three parallel sections (45 min)

·         short communications in sections (15–25 min)

·         poster session.

 

INVITED LECTURES

Invited plenary speakers are

M. G. Eastwood, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

T. Friedrich, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
G. Hall, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Jun-Muk Hwang, KIAS, Seoul, Korea

M. de Leon, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

L. Mangiarotti, Universita Camerino, Camerino, Italy

A. Moroianu, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

P. Nurowski, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

G. Uhlmann, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

 

SECTIONS

A. Riemannian Geometry and submanifolds – chairman O. Kowalski

B. Geometric Structures – chairman J. Slovak

C. Variational Analysis and Geometric Methods in Physics – chairman D. Krupka

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS & ABSTRACTS

All participants are encouraged to submit a talk or a poster. The chairmen of sections reserve the right to select contributions for oral presentation. If you have not announced the title of your contribution yet, do it in the registration form below (by May 31), please.  If you have not sent your abstract yet, do so definitely by June 30, please.

 

PROCEEDINGS

Participants are invited to submit their contribution to the conference Proceedings that will be subject of a regular peer review procedure. The Proceedings will be published after the conference in printed and electronic (within the EMIS Electronic Library of the European Mathematical Society) versions. All submitted papers should be in TeX.

 

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference venue is the Hotel Krystal in Prague. All lectures will take place in this hotel, a ***accommodation in single and double rooms and full board is provided during the conference. There is a possibility of cheap accomodation in student’s dormitories (double, triple rooms) in 30 minutes walking distance from the hotel (or 20 minutes by public transport).

 

ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES, TRANSPORT

The arrival day is Sunday, August 29, 2004, the departure day is Saturday 4 September 2004.  In the case of earlier arrivals or later departures, accommodation in the hotel is also possible. Please announce the dates of your arrival/departure in the registration form below (by May 31).

 

Arrival by plane: Prague can be reached by international flights from all over the world. The hotel Krystal is approx. 10km from the airport Prague-Ruzyne and can be easily reached by taxi (10 minutes) or Prague public transport (20 minutes).

 

Arrival by train: there are convenient train connections from Vienna, Bratislava, Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, Nuernberg, Munich. From the main railway stations, the hotel Krystal can be reached by taxi (15 minutes) or public transport (30 minutes).

 

Arrival by car: The hotel Krystal is located next to the Highway No.7 (direction Airport, Chomutov, Chemnitz) – Evropska Street. Parking is possible on a street in front of the hotel (free of charge) or in a protected parking lot of the hotel (100 CZK=3 EUR per night).

 

Exact information about transport to the hotel will be given in the 3rd announcement and on the conference webpage.

CONFERENCE FEES & PAYMENTS

 

 

 

Prices in CZK

Prices in EUR

Accomodation 6 nights (Aug 29 – Sep 4)

Hotel Krystal – single room

6000

180

 

Hotel Krystal – double room

4000

120

 

Student’s dormitory

1200

36

Board 5 days (Aug 30 – Sep 3)

Full board

2000

60

Conference fee

Standard conference fee paid by June 30

4500

135

 

Standard conference fee paid after June 30

5000

150

Extra days

Hotel Krystal – single room

1000

30

 

Hotel Krystal – double room

670

20

 

Student’s dormitory

200

6

 

Full board (*)

400

12

 

The conference fee covers:

 

Please, compute your bill by adding accomodation  + board + conference fee. In the case you plan to arrive or leave earlier or later, your accomodation or board fee changes – just add or subtract the appropriate number of extra daily rates. The number of full board can be only reduced, not extended (the food during extra days is on your own expenses). Send the total sum to our bank account (see below).

 

BANK ACCOUNT

Your payments in EURO are to be sent (from abroad)

Your payments in CZECH CROWNS are to be sent

In all cases, don’t forget to fill in the variable symbol 4019 and/or the message “DGA”. Please note that the conference fee changes if paid before/after June 30.

 

You can also pay on place during the Conference, but in cash only (in czech crowns or euro). Credit cards are not accepted by the organizers. You can, of course, pay for the hotel accomodation by a credit card, but a notably higher price.

 

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The Conference budget allows a limited support in the form of a fee reduction (approximately to one half of the total, available only for students, post-docs, and young researchers. The request for the reduction of the fee must be delivered to the organizers before May 31, 2004, and should involve the abstract of the contribution and should be supported by the applicant’s CV and possibly a letter of recommendation. The organizing committee reserves the right to decide on the individual applications. The decision will be communicated by June 14.

 

No other form of financial support can be given.

 

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Wednesday (September 1) afternoon is free. We will offer the participants among others an evening steamboat trip on the river Vltava with dinner.

 

REGISTRATION

If you have already pre-registered, please, confirm your registration by filling the following form and e-mail it to the organizers (dgac@karlin.mff.cuni.cz) by May 31, 2004:

 


Yes, I do confirm my participation at the 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS.
Since the capacity of the conference is saturated, this form is aimed to the preregistered participants only.
Please fill the following form by May 31, 2004.

Name + Surname:
Affiliation, postal address (if not announced yet):
Preferred type of contribution (if any): lecture poster
in Section: A B C
The title and the abstract of the lecture (if not announced yet):
Arrival day:
Departure day:
Chosen type of accomodation (if not announced yet): hotel single room hotel double room student's dormitories
If hotel double room, then I prefer to share it with:
Mode of payment: by bank transfer in CZK by bank transfer in EUR by cash during the Conference
Comments, special wishes (if not announced yet):


 

CONFERENCE WEBPAGE

All up-to date information can be found at http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~dgac/

 

CONTACT PERSONS

Registration, abstracts:

 

Petr Somberg
phone: +420 221 913 398
fax: +420 222 323 394
e-mail: dgac@karlin.mff.cuni.cz,

somberg@karlin.mff.cuni.cz.

 

 

Financial matters, support applications, accomodation:

 

Lukas Krump
phone: +420 221 913 204
fax: +420 222 323 394
e-mail: krump@karlin.mff.cuni.cz.