Third announcement 1. Programma Predvaritelnyi spisok dokladchikov v nastoyaschee vremya imeet takoi vid: # Sergey Fomin (Univ of Michigan). "Catalan numbers and root systems". (Same in Russian.) # Vladimir Sokolov (Landau Inst). "Linear associative deformations of matrix multiplication". # Guy Roos (St.Petersburg). "Symplectic duality for symmetric spaces". # Vladimir Fock (ITEP--Komarovo). "Doubles". # Grigory Mikhalkin (Toronto--V.O.) "Phases of amoebae and algae". # Alexei Kushner (Astrakhan--Moscow). "Geometry of almost products, Monge-Ampere and Jacobi equations". # Vladlen Timorin (Stony Brook). "Topological models for some quadratic rational mappings". (Same in Russian). # Gaiane Panina (SPb). "Pseudotilings, or why is a raven like a writing-desk". # Sergey Shadchin (Padova). "Topological Quantum Field Theories and division algebras". # Vitaly Tarasov (PDMI). B. and M.Shapiro conjecture and Bethe ansatz". Predpolagayutsya vystupleniya prodolzhitelnostyu 1 chas. Vozmozhno, spisok nuzhno budet rasshirit' do 12 dokladov. V etom sluchae pridetsya polovinu dokladov ukorotit' do 40 minut. Soobschite mne, pozhaluista, komu neobhodim 1 chas, a komu dostatochno 40 minut. 2. Orgvznosy (conference fee). Ya predpolagayu sobirat' orgvznosy tolko s teh uchastnikov, komu oni budut vozmescheny institutom, v kotorom oni rabotayut. Kak pravilo, inostrannye universitety legko oplachivayut orgvznos v razmere 100 USD ili 80 Euro. Uplata orgvznosov budet podtverzhdena sootvetstvuyuschei kvitanciei (officially looking document). Uplata orgvznosa pokryvaet obedy v stolovoi i uchastie v bankete (sm. nizhe). 3. Raskhody na pitanie. Vo vremya konferencii budet neskolko coffee breaks i 1 welcome party, kuda priglashayutsya vse uchastniki konferencii nezavisimo ot uplaty orgvznosov. Obed budet organizovan v stolovoi nepodaleku. Cena obeda 150 rublei, rasplachivat'sya na meste. Banket sostoitsya v odnom iz kafe na Petrogradskoi storone, sbor za uchastie v bankete 500 rublei. Uchastniki, imeyuschie postoyannuyu rabotu v Rossii i imeyuschie vozmozhnost' vernut' orgvznos v svoem institute, poluchat spravku ob uplate orgvznoas v razmere 800 rublei na pokrytie etih raskhodov. 4. Po vozmozhnosti soobschite mne zaranee, budete li vy obedat' v stolovoi i uchastvovat' v bankete. Esli obedayuschih naberetsya bolee 15 chelovek, to so stolovoi nuzhno zaranee dogovorit'sya. I s banketom tozhe. 5. Proshu vseh, u kogo byla neopredelennost' v planah, soobschit' mne polozhenie del na nastoyaschij moment.