PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
The International Conference will be devoted to the mathematical
and mathematical physics aspects of Clifford algebras, and their applications
in cybernetics, robotics, image processing and engineering. Among the mathematical
structures considered are the Grassmann algebras, quaternions, spinor structures,
Clifford algebras for arbitrary bilinear form, Dirac and Pauli matrix algebras,
algebra of multivectors, Hecke algebras, Young operators, braided geometry,
local and global problems for Dirac operators. Their applications in physics
cover a wide range of topics from classical mechanics to general relativity,
electromagnetism, elementary particle physics, many aspects of (relativistic
or not) quantum mechanics, Clifford analysis, Dirac operators and their
links to differential geometry, Seiberg-Witten theory.
Previous meetings took place at: University of Kent, Canterbury,
U.K., 1985; University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 1989; University
of Gent, Gent, Belgium, 1993 and University of Aachen, Germany, 1996.
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Marcelo A. Aguilar (UNAM, Instituto de Matematicas, Mexico) marcelo@math.unam.mx
Raymundo Bautista (UNAM, Instituto de Matematicas, Mexico) raymundo@matem.unam.mx
Jose Antonio De la Pena Mena (UNAM, Instituto de Matematicas, Mexico)
jap@penelope.matem.unam.mx
Jaime Keller (UNAM, Facultad de Quimica, Mexico) keller@servidor.unam.mx
Zbigniew Oziewicz (UNAM, Facultad de Estudios Superiores, Cuautitlan)
oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx
Enrique Ramirez de Arellano (Instituto Politecnico Nacional, CINVESTAV,
Departamento de Matematicas, Mexico) eramirez@math.cinvestav.mx
Marcos Rosenbaum (UNAM, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico) mrosen@nuclecu.unam.mx
Adolfo Sanchez Valenzuela (Centro de Investigaciones de Matematicas,
Guanajuato) adolfo@fractal.cimat.conacyt.mx
Garret Sobczyk (Universidad de las Americas, Cholula) sobczyk@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx
International Advisory Board:
Rafal Ablamowicz, Tennessee Technological University, U.S.A., rablamowicz@tntech.edu
, http://math.tntech.edu/rafal/
William E. Baylis, University of Windsor, Canada, baylis@uwindsor.ca
, http://www.cs.uwindsor.ca/users/b/baylis/index.htm
Andrzej Borowiec, University of Wroclaw, Poland, borowiec@ift.uni.wroc.pl
John Stephen Roy Chisholm, University of Kent, U.K., jsrc@ukc.ac.uk
Richard Delanghe, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, rd@cage.rug.ac.be
Waldyr Alves Rodrigues, Jr., State University at Campinas, Brazil,
walrod@ime.unicamp.br
, http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~walrod/vitae.htm
John Ryan, University of Arkansas, U.S.A., jryan@comp.uark.edu
, http://comp.uark.edu/~jryan/
Frank Sommen, University of Gent, Belgium, fs@cage.rug.ac.be
Special Sessions:
Conference Official E-mail Address:
All communication regarding the scientific aspects of the Conference
should be sent to: oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx.
Accommodations:
All communication regarding hotel accommodations, travel, flights, etc.
should be sent to: Senora Irma
Vigil de Aragon, phone (525) 622-3719 (from 10:00 until 14:00 local
time only), FAX numbers are (525) 616-2010 or (525) 872-0984.
Invited Speakers:
| AUSTRALIA: |
Tao Qian |
| BELGIUM: |
Richard Delanghe, Frank Sommen |
| BRASIL: |
Waldyr Rodrigues |
| CANADA: |
William E. Baylis |
| ENGLAND: |
Michael Atiyah, Chris Doran |
| FINLAND: |
Pertti Lounesto |
| FRANCE: |
Jacques Helmstetter, Pierre Hillion, Roger Boudet, Max Karoubi, Artibano
Micali, Philippe Revoy |
| GERMANY: |
Eduardo J. Bayro - Corrochano, Wolfgang Sproessig |
| MEXICO: |
Enrique Ramirez de Arellano, Marcelo A. Aquillar, Raymundo Bautista,
Micho Durdevich, Octavio Obregon, Jose Antonio De la Pena Mena, Suemi Rodriguez
Romo, Marcos Rosenbaum, Michael Shapiro, Garret Sobczyk, Adolfo Sanchez
Valenzuela |
| POLAND: |
Andrzej Trautman, Stanislaw Lech Woronowicz, Zbigniew Oziewicz, Andrzej
Borowiec |
| SPAIN: |
Josep M. Parra |
| USA: |
Rafal Ablamowicz, Timothy Havel, Robert Hecht-Nielsen, David Hestenes,
John McCarthy, John Ryan, Gian
- Carlo Rota (deceased) |
The organizers of the Conference note with regret a recent
death of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Gian-Carlo
Rota, an internationally respected mathematician and philosopher, who died
of heart failure in his home earlier this week. He was 66. Professor Rota
was one of our Invited Speakers.
Important deadlines:
| DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS: |
May 31, 1999  |
DEADLINE for REGISTRATION:
(On-site Registration will be available in Ixtapa upon arrival.
Go to Registration for more.) |
June 21, 1999
Registration is now closed.
You can still register in Ixtapa
upon arrival. |
DEADLINE for REGISTRATION without ABSTRACT:
(only Conference attendance): |
None |
| ARRIVAL: |
SUNDAY, June 27, 1999 |
| DEPARTURE: |
SUNDAY, July 4, 1999 |
| FINAL VERSION of PAPER in LaTeX2e: |
August 15, 1999 |
Further Information:
1. Conference organizers regret to inform all potential participants that
due to limited funds they are unable to cover any transportation costs.
This means that all participants of the Conference need to secure their
own funds to cover transportation and lodging costs.
2. Conference presenters who need
an invitation from the Conference organizers are requested to submit their
e-mail address or a fax number to oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx.
Invitations will then be emailed or faxed to them, and then sent via snail
mail.
3. Persons interested in attending this Conference
may consider attending also International Workshop on ``Lorentz
Group, CPT, and Neutrinos" which will held at Universidad de Zacatecas
in the most picturesque city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from June 23 until June
26, 1999. For more information about this associated workshop see http://ahobon.reduaz.mx/~valeri/symp.html.
Preliminary Schedule:
Here is a tentative schedule of topics. For a preliminary alphabetical
list of speakers go to INDEX;
for speakers and titles go to TALKS.
Registration: CLOSEDbut
you can still register in Ixtapa upon arrival on Sunday, June 27, from
15:00 to 19:00!
1. The Registration Fee depends on whether a participant will
attend the first four days of the Conference or the seven days of the entire
Conference.
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The cost for the first four days is $425 when paid
by June 21 and $500 when paid after that date.
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The cost for the entire seven days of the Conference is $671
when paid by June 21 and $746 when paid after that date.
Note: After June 21, 1999, registration
will no longer be available at this site and all participants will have
to register upon arrival in Ixtapa. In order to take advantage of lower
hotel rates, Conference organizers strongly encourage all participants
to register as soon as possible.
2. Additional nights before and after the Conference can be paid for
at the rate of (approximately) $82 per night.
3. The Registration Fee covers:
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One volume of the Conference Proceedings
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50 reprints of one's paper published in the Proceedings
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Social activities (banquets, excursion, folkloric group)
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4 or 7 nights at a hotel (depending on which Registration Fee has
been paid) beginning with June 27
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Three meals per day for 4 or 7 days at a hotel (depending again on which
Registration
Fee has been paid) beginning with a supper on June 27
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All local taxes
4. For the Conference participants coming with families the costs mentioned
in points 1 and 3 above are the same regardless in what room (single, double,
or triple) they stay. Costs for the additional family members are as follows:
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For a family of two (participant plus one family member over 12 years old)
staying in a double room the extra cost (including three meals per day
for the family member) is $82 per night.
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For a family of three (participant plus two family members over 12 years
old) staying in a triple room the extra cost (including three meals per
day for each family member) is $134 per night.
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Children no more than 12 years old stay and eat for free.
5. You can register for the 5th Conference, pay for extra family members,
and, if you wish, you can contribute to a special fund intended to support
graduate students. In order to register, select one of the following methods:
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CREDIT CARD:
Use your VISA or MASTER Card [no other cards can
be accepted] in one of the following three
ways:
(a) Call USA (931) 372-3441 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Central
Time and ask for Mamie Goulet, Secretary. Give her your name, amount to
be charged to your card, card type (VISA or MASTER Card), card expiration
date and number. Please describe what the payment is for: the amount of
the registration fee including payment for four or seven nights/days (all
meals included) according to point 1 above, extra nights paid for according
to point 2, number of family members who pay per night according to point
4 above, the arrival and the departure dates, if known, and whether any
part of your payment is supposed to go towards the special fund in support
of the graduate students. You will need to provide some additional information
to Mamie such as your address, phone number, and the email address. Please
let her know whether you would like to receive Registration Confirmation
and/or a receipt via the email or the snail mail.
(b) Email me the Registration Form ( regform.txt
) with all the above information from point (a) to rablamowicz@tntech.edu.
[To print regform.txt, just left-click on regform.txt
and then print from your browser. To download regform.txt to your system,
right-click on regform.txt
and select "Save Link As ...", then load it into Notepad, type in appropriate
information, and send it back to me as a mail attachment.]
(c) Send me via the snail mail [least desirable]
or fax me at USA (931) 372-6353 the Registration Form ( regform.txt
) with all the information described in point (a).
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WIRE TRANSFER:
Do the wire transfer payable in the US dollars only
to "5th International Conference on Clifford Algebras" according to the
following instructions:
(a) Routing Procedure: ABA Number - Memphis 084000026, First Tennessee
Bank Cookeville 064101903, Tennessee Technological University Account Number
8400067.
(b) Please make sure to include your name in the wire. In order to
help us process your wire more quickly, please send also an email to Tim
Guffey at TGuffey@tntech.edu with
a carbon copy to me at rablamowicz@tntech.edu
with the following information (it would be best if you could just fill
out and email to each of us the Registration Form regform.txt
): your name, what the payment is for: the amount of the registration fee
including payment for four or seven nights/days (all meals included) according
to point 1 above, extra nights paid for according to point 2, number of
family members who pay per night according to point 4, the arrival and
the departure dates, if known, and whether any part of your payment is
supposed to go towards the special fund in support of the graduate students.
Please let us also know whether you would like to receive Registration
Confirmation and/or a receipt via the email or the snail mail.
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CHECK: Send me via
the snail mail the Registration Form ( regform.txt
) and one of the checks listed below. These checks
must be payable only in the US dollars. Checks not payable in the
US dollars cannot be deposited and will be returned to the sender. In that
case the registration will be voided.
(a) Cashier check, bank draft, international money order, or a personal
check [least desirable due to a more lengthy processing
time].
(b) Your check must be made payable in US dollars to: "5th Conference,
Account Number: 8400067". Please put your name on the check.
6. Please submit all abstracts to: oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx.If
your presentation is intended for one of the two special
sessions, please submit one extra copy of your
abstract to the session organizers.
7. There is no deadline for registration without an abstract just to
attend the conference.
8. It is requested that maximum one page abstracts be submitted only
in a form of a LaTeX2e file. Files in plain.tex,
amslatex.tex, Postscript, Word, etc. will not be accepted. When
submitting your abstract, please indicate the length of your talk (see
below). If you have already submitted an abstract in another format
than LaTeX2e, please re-submit it in LaTeX2e.
9. Lengths of talks:
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short presentations - 20 minutes
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presentations by Invited Speakers - 45 minutes
More Information:
For more information please contact: Prof. Zbigniew Oziewicz at the
Conference official e-mail address: oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx
or at his fax number 52-5623-1833.
For information about: visas, exchange rates, local travel
guides, customs, airfares, and to find the best fare, make a reservation
and buy a ticket online try one of the following online reservation services:
[Note: to personalize your profile with either
service, you will need to create your own username and password first.
Then, go to an appropriate link. I suggest you also use all three services
to find the best connection and fare.]
For additional tourist information please see http://www.ixtapa-zihuatanejo.com/info/marco2.htm.
