=================================================================

                  ** Fourth Announcement **

 

   ******************************************************

   *           10th International Workshop on           *

   *           Real and Complex Singularities           *

   *                                                    *

   *         Celebrating the 60th birthdays of          *

   *      MARIA APARECIDA RUAS and TERENCE GAFFNEY      *

   *                                                    *

   *        27th of July to 1st of August, 2008         *

   *                                                    *

   *            ICMC-USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil            *

   ******************************************************

 

PROGRAMME:

 

The Conference Programme is available at

http://www.icmc.usp.br/~sing/

 

There will be a dinner party on Wednesday night. We expect

everyone can join us to celebrate Maria Ruas and Terence

Gaffney´s birthdays as well as the 10th edition of our

workshop. This dinner is already included in the registration

fee.

 

 

REGISTRATION:

 

* Please fill in or complete your on-line registration urgently,

by accessing the conference web page http://www.icmc.usp.br/~sing/

 

* Registration fees:

For post-docs and academic staff: R$150 (or US$83) if paid by

the 5th of July and R$ 180 (or US$100) if paid later.

For students: R$100 (or US$55) if paid by

the 5th of July and R$120 (or US$66) if paid later.

 

Payment of the registration fee before the 27th of July is to be

made by a deposit at current account

Banco do Brasil

Ag 3062-7

c.c. 18.862-x

in the name of Ana Claudia Nabarro

 

Payment of the registration fee can also be made on the 27th of

July in the reception lounge of the conference at ICMC-USP, in

real (Brazilian currency). We regret that no credit cards or

international checks can be accepted.

 

 

TRANSPORTATION TO SÃO CARLOS

 

Buses will be provided from São Paulo to São Carlos. So please

include your flight details in your on-line registration as

soon as you have them, so we can organize your trip to São Carlos

in the most convenient way for you.

 

LOCAL COSTS:

 

The costs for food and hotel acommodation are about R$120,00

(or US$ 66) per day. We intend to cover local costs for most

participants for the days of the workshop, and will let you

know as soon as we can.

 

Please do not hesitate in contacting us if you need so.

 

We are looking forward to seeing you here in Sao Carlos.

Best wishes,

Miriam Manoel (Local Organizer)

Marcelo Saia (Global Organizer)

 

 

=================================================================

GLOBAL ORGANIZERS: Marcelo Jose Saia (ICMC-USP), Abramo Hefez

(UFF), Isabel Labouriau (Porto)

=================================================================

LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Miriam Manoel, Roberta Godoi Wik Atique,

Ana Claudia Nabarro, Regilene Delazari S. Oliveira,

Raimundo Nonato dos Santos (ICMC-USP)

=================================================================

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Lev Birbrair (UFC),

Jean Paul Brasselet (CIRM),

Goo Ishikawa (Hokkaido),

Shyuichi Izumiya  (Hokkaido),

Steven Kleiman (MIT),

David Massey  (Northeastern),

David Mond (Warwick),

Maria del Carmen Romero Fuster (Valencia),

Marcio Gomes Soares (UFMG),

Marco Antonio Teixeira (IMECC),

David Trotman (Provence),

C.T.C. Wall (Liverpool).

=================================================================