UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS Novi Sad, Serbia

NOVI SAD ALGEBRAIC CONFERENCE (NSAC '03)

Novi Sad, August 25-28, 2003

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Topic areas:

• universal algebra
• lattices and ordered structures
• semigroups and related algebraic structures
• theoretical computer science
• clones and multiple-valued logics

There will be 50 minute plenary lectures and 20 minute contributed talks.

Invited speakers:

M. Erné (University of Hannover)

K. Kaarli (University of Tartu)

K. Kearnes (University of Colorado)

W. Lampe (University of Hawaii)

L. Márki (Hungarian Academy of Science)

R. Pöschel (TU Dresden)

N. Ruškuc (University of St Andrews)

J. Rutten (Free University Amsterdam, CWI Amsterdam)

Á. Szendrei (University of Szeged)

M.B. Szendrei (University of Szeged)

J. Tůma (Charles University, Prague)

M.V. Volkov (Ural State University, Ekaterinburg)

R. Willard (University of Waterloo)

REGISTRATION

If you intend to participate, please fill in the enclosed Registration Form and send it by e-mail to:

nsac03{at}im.ns.ac.yu

or send a copy by regular mail to the enclosed address. Those who wish to give a talk should submit an abstract in any version of TeX.

The deadline for the registration is May 31, 2003.

The abstract submission deadline is June 30, 2003.

CONFERENCE FEE

50 € (or US$ 50). Please find the Bank account on the Web page of the Conference.

VISA TO ENTER SERBIA

Citizens of many countries can enter Serbia with a tourist pass which can be obtained at the border.

Still, people from some countries have to apply for visa in advance. Please check in the embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in your country. If it turns out that you have to apply for a visa in advance, please let us know so that we can send to you a letter of invitation.

TRAVELING INFORMATION

Traveling by plane: Belgrade airport is connected with Novi Sad by organized car and bus connections (takes less then one hour). If you fly to Budapest, then also there is organized transfer to Novi Sad (4-5 hours). Please contact us for further information.

Traveling by train: There are several direct trains from Wien and Budapest to Novi Sad. There are also direct trains from Zagreb to Belgrade, and then several connections to Novi Sad.

Traveling by car: Highway E-75 from Budapest to Novi Sad (about 5 hours).

ACCOMMODATION

We can make the hotel reservation in:

• Hotel 'Voyager' near the University campus (price EUR 47 single, EUR 63 double, air-conditioned apartments, Internet),
• Hotel 'Putnik', in the center of Novi Sad (price EUR 40 single, EUR 58 double, no air-conditioning in rooms)
• Hotel 'Duga', suburb (price EUR 31 single, EUR 38 double, guarded parking place, no air-conditioning in rooms)

There is a limited number of two-bed rooms with bathroom in a student dormitory at a low price (less than EUR 10 per person). If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible.

PROCEEDINGS

The booklet containing submitted abstracts will be available at the conference. Proceedings of the conference will be published as a special issue of Novi Sad Journal of Mathematics (NSJOM). The papers will be submitted after the conference.

ABOUT NOVI SAD

Capital of Vojvodina, northern province of Serbia, lies on Danube, 80 km north from Belgrade, 350 km south from Budapest. Fortress of Petrovaradin, National Park Fruska Gora. Official site of Novi Sad:

http://www.gradnovisad.org.yu/english/index.htm

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

S.Bogdanović, M.Ćirić, S.Crvenković, I.Dolinka, D.Herceg, A.Krapež, R.Madarász-Szilágyi, D.Mašulović, Z.Mijajlović, B.Šešelja, A.Tepavčević, G.Vojvodić

E-mail: nsac03{at}im.ns.ac.yu

Web: http://www.im.ns.ac.yu/nsac03

Surface mail:

NSAC 03

Department of Mathematics and Informatics

Trg Dositeja Obradovića 4

21000 Novi Sad

Serbia and Montenegro

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