Prof. Richard Bishop

          Application for participation in the EIMI program

                      TETE-A-TETE IN RUSSIA



    I. Western participant(s)
      (1) Bishop
      (2) Richard L.
      (3) US citizenship
      (4) PhD, Professor
      (5) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      (6) Professor of Mathematics
      (7) 1409 W. Green St.
           Urbana, IL 61801
      (8) bishop@math.uiuc.edu
      (9) 217-333-0379
     (10) 217-333-9576 fax


    II. Russian participant(s)
       1) Buyalo
       2) Sergei
       3) Vladimirovich
       4) Dr. Phys.-Math.Sci, Docent
       5) St.-Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Mathematical
          Institute of  Russian Academy of Sciences.
       6) Leading Researcher
       7) Fontanka 27, St.Petersburg 191011, Russia
       8) buyalo@pdmi.ras.ru
       9) (812) 310 6518
      10) (812) 310 5377


   III. Subject and form of proposed joint work (a few phrases)
   III. Spaces of curvature bounded above; the work will be done in accordance
with the Project RM1-169 "Local and Asyptotic Properties of Alexandrov and
Finsler Spaces" approved and supported by the Civilian Reaserch &
Development Fundation (CRDF).

    IV. Desired duration three weeks in the period
        from  07.09.97  to  27.09.97