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As it was decided during the meeting in Bedlewo, the next edition of our annual informal Workshop will take place in Levico Terme, a small village near Trento (Italy), in the week September, 1-8, 2002, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista under the aegis of the International Center for Mathematical Research (C.I.R.M.) of Istituto Trentino di Cultura ( http://science.unitn.it/cirm/), with the support of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento.

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The format is meant to be similar to the last meetings. Participants are requested to arrive in the afternoon of Sunday, September 1, and to depart after breakfast on Sunday 8. The main programme will be developed from Monday till Saturday.

In the morning we will have plenary sessions on the following topics (not necessarily in the indicated order):

1.  Jacobi manifolds
 (Session organizers: Juan Carlos Marrero and Edith Padron)
  (jcmarrer@ull.es, mepadron@ull.es)

2.  Riemannian geometry - symmetric spaces
 (Session organizers: Mike Crampin and Gerard Thompson)
 (M.Crampin@open.ac.uk, gthomps@uoft02.utoledo.edu)

3.  Discrete systems
  (Session organizers: Manuel De Leon and David Martin De Diego)
 (mdeleon@pinar1.csic.es, dmartin@esgueva.eco.uva.es)

4.  Non commutative geometry (from the stand-point of grupoids)
 (Session Organizers: Janusz Grabowski and Jose' F. Carinena)
 (jagrab@mimuw.edu.pl, jfc@posta.unizar.es)

5.  Short communications
 (Session organizer: Enrico Pagani)
 (pagani@science.unitn.it)

The afternoons will be devoted to discussions and informal seminars.

Participants who wish to contribute to one of these special topics are encouraged to contact the corresponding organizers.
Participants who wish to present a short communication are kindly requested to notify it to Enrico Pagani in reply to this announcement (see further), or to the second one, scheduled for May 2002.

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Participants will be lodged at Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (http://www.ghbellavista.com/). The lecture room is inside the Hotel. Price for an all-in arrangement (i.e. full board accommodation) will be as follows:

- 58 EURO per participant per night in single room,
- 52 EURO per participant per night in double room,
- 65 EURO per participant per night in double room (single use).

A limited amount of money is available for covering part of the living expenses. We hope to reduce the above prices of about 30%.
Payment (partial amount) will be required with the 2nd announcement.

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Levico Terme is a small village located about 20 km east from Trento, close to a lake and surrounded by Dolomiti mountains. Geographical and historical information on Trento and the region Trentino can be found at  http://www.unitn.it/trentino/trentino.html .
Levico is connected to Trento by train and by bus. Trento is connected by train to Verona (92 km), Milano (240 km), Venezia (212 km), where there are international airports.
On the arrival day, we plan to organize a shuttle-bus from Trento Railway Station to the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico.
More details on the place of the Workshop and travel information (including train time-table) can be found at http://www.science.unitn.it/cirm/travelbella.html .

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Please confirm your intention to participate by cutting the bottom page of this message and return it by e-mail to   pagani@science.unitn.it   after completion.
Finally, please inform me if you have any special wish.

Trento, January 25, 2002

Enrico Pagani
Dipartimento di Matematica
Universita’ di Trento
38050 Povo, TRENTO (Italy)
e-mail: pagani@science.unitn.it
phone: +39-0461-881659 (office)
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