SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP
THE GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF SINGULARITIES
8 - 26 January 2007, Cuernavaca, Mexico
In honour of the 60th Birthday Anniversary of L Dung Trng
This School and workshop on singularities will take place in January in Cuernavaca, one hour
South of Mexico City. There will be 10 courses, which should provide the basics of several
branches of singularity theory and bring us to the boundary of the present knowledge, as well as a
number of research talks, mostly related to the work of L Dung Trng.
This short announcement contains only some practical information about this meeting; please
look at the web page www.matcuer.unam.mx for more information about the meeting. To
advertise this meeting in your institution and amongst the people near you. If possible, please put
the attached poster on your notice board.
1 REGISTRATION: Registration on-line is now available through our web page. If you plan to
attend the meeting, please register as soon as you can. This will be extremely helpful for us and
will help us to welcome you appropriately.
2 FINNANCIAL SUPPORT:
a For participants of Mexico and Latin American. We have a limited amount of funds from
the ICTP (Trieste, Italy), CNPq ( Brazil) and UNAM (Mexico) to support young researchers and
graduate students. Applications by undergraduate students can be considered in exceptional
cases and only for the School, the first two weeks.
b For USA participants. We have limited support for young researchers and Ph. D. Students from
institutions in the USA, thanks to funds from the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) and the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
As our funds are limited, we ask you to please make every effort you can in order to get partial
support from other sources.
If you want to apply for support, please register on-line immediately. The deadline for
applications is November 10.
3 TRAVEL ADVICE:
i) Early January is still very busy for flights to Mexico. Please book your flight as soon as you
can.
ii) Participants from some countries may need a VISA to enter Mexico, and in some cases this
process may be take much longer than one could imagine. Please allow enough time.
4 REGISTRATION FEE: There is a 100 USD registration fee for the meeting, whether you come
for a few days or for the whole period. A reduction of 50% is offered to students. This will include
the Welcome packet, two Welcome Cocktails (the first and third weeks), free coffee and soft drinks,
etc. The Registration fee is to be paid in cash upon arriving to Cuernavaca. It has to be paid either
in USD dollars or in Mexican pesos (multiply by 11).
5 SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: The following information may be useful to prepare your trip. All these
activities will be by registration, the cost will be as low as we can and they will be partially
subsidized by the organizers.
i) On Wednesday 24, we will have a dinner to celebrate the 60th Birthday of L Dung Trng.
ii) The Academic activities will finish at 2:00 p.m. on Friday 26. But, if you are also staying that
night in Cuernavaca, there will be a "Closing Party (including meals)" for the meeting, with music
and dancing! The Closing Party will begin at 2:30 p.m.
iii) The afternoons of Fridays 12 and 19. There will be cultural activities organized these
afternoons, upon registration. And probably we will also organize day trips to interesting places
near Cuernavaca on Saturdays 12 and 19. Or maybe you prefer to organize for yourself a long
weekend in Mexico City, Acapulco or somewhere else!
6) IMPORTANT REMARK ABOUT REGISTRATION: The academic program of the meeting is
completely full, so we have planned to have registration on Sundays 7th and 21st in the afternoon.
Please try to arrange your trip so that, if you can, you register those days. Your help to this respect
will be much appreciated. If this is not possible for you, then you can also registrate the they
after.
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