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This year our 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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I have received an affirmative reply from 48 participants. A list in the form of Plain-Tex file is attached to this announcement.

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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, and will include a visit to Trento and a social dinner.

In the morning we will have plenary sessions on the following topics (tentatively 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, Thomps@math.utoledo.edu)

3.  Discrete systems
  (Session organizers: Manuel De Leon and David Martin De Diego)
 (mdeleon@imaff.cfmac.csic.es, d.martin@imaff.cfmac.csic.es)

4.  Non commutative geometry (from the stand-point of groupoids)
 (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 short communications, informal seminars and discussions.

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.

The organizers of the sessions listed above are kindly requested to prepare and send me a tentative list of lectures, in order to distribute it with the next (3rd) announcement that will contain the definite program of the activities.

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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 (their number is limited),
- 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%.
Participants will pay living expenses directly to the Grand Hotel Bellavista during the Workshop.

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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 (departure at 20.30) to the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico. Participants are kindly requested to notify the arrival time in Trento and if they are interested in the shuttle-bus to Enrico Pagani.
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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Trento, May 23, 2002

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