Dear Colleagues,

we are pleased to inform you that the conference will be held in Yaremche (historic city located in the picturesque Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains) near Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine on May 27 - June 1, 2009.

The following colleagues have kindly agreed to deliver an invited talk
  - R. Aron (Kent, USA),
  - Yu. M. Berezansky (Kyiv, Ukraine),
  - A. Defant (Oldenburg, Germany),
  - P. Galindo (Valencia, Spain),
  - S. Ivashkovych (Lille, France),
  - Yu. Kondratiev (Bielefeld, Germany),
  - J. Ludwig (Metz, France),
  - O. Lopushansky (Rzeszow, Poland),
  - J. Mujica (Campinas, Brasil),
  - A. M. Plichko (Krakow, Poland),
  - Yu. S. Samoilenko (Kyiv, Ukraine),
  - V. V. Sharko (Kyiv, Ukraine),
  - L. Turowska (Goteborg, Sweden),
  - E. Tymchatyn (Saskatoon, Canada),
  - M. M. Zarichnyi (Lviv, Ukraine).

The main scientific topics will be presented on the conference are:
  - infinite dimensional holomorphy,
  - topological tensor products,
  - Banach space theory,
  - operator theory,
  - generalized functions and spectral theory,
  - general topology,
  - set-theoretic topology,
  - geometric and infinite dimensional topology.

Official language of the Conference is English.

ARRIVING - DEPARTURE

Let us know please the date and time of your arrive to Ukraine and the number of your flight. We are going to pick all participants in the airports of L'viv and Ivano-Frankivsk on May 26 and May 27, 2009. There are everyday flights from Warsaw, Vienna, Timisoare, Kiev and on Tuesday from Frankfurt.

TENTATIVE PROGRAMM

Wednesday May 27 - arriving, registration, welcome party
Thursday May 28 - opening, plenary lectures, sectional talks
Friday May 29 - plenary lectures, sectional talks
Saturday May 30 - plenary lectures, sectional talks
Sunday May 31 - excursions, conference diner
Monday Jun 1 - sectional talks, departure

We are going to have plenary lectures (about 60 minutes each) and sectional talks (up to 30 minutes each).

ABSTRACTS

Please submit an abstract of your talk (tex-file) by e-mail [email protected] The book of abstracts will be published before the conference. The abstract should be prepared in LaTex using our template available on http://www.idat.frankivsk.org/index.php?menudesc=AbstractsandProceedings

DEADLINES

Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts is May 1, 2009. If you are applying for reduced registration fee please submit your abstract before April 1, 2009.

PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the conference will be published as a special issue of the journal Topology (Elsevier). Contributions should be prepared according to the rules of the Journal (see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.authors/261/authorinstructions for details). Deadline for submission of the contributions is September 1, 2009. Each paper will be refereed before publishing.

HOTEL

We will use hotel "Pervotsvit" as a base for our conference. In the hotel there are around 100 places with average prise 15 Euro per person per night. You can have breakfast, lunch and supper with total prise 20 Euro per person per day.

Alternatively, there are large number of hotels in Yaremche with various prices starting from 15 Euro per night which you can take without any reservations.

REGISTRATION

Registration form is available on the website http://www.idat.frankivsk.org

VISA

Pease check if you need an Ukrainian visa and/or an insurance here: http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/en/publication/content/1865.htm

CONFERENCE FEE

Conference fee is 100 Euro. This will cover conference materials, publishing of abstracts, transportation from/to Lviv (airport or railway station) to/from Ivano-Frankivsk and Yaremche, banquet and possible local excursion(s). Conference fee for the participants from the developing countries and from Former Soviet Union countries may be reduced to 15 Euro. If you would like to pay the reduced registration fee please indicate this in the Registration Form. Reduced registration fee will cover conference materials, publishing abstracts, transportation from/to Ivano-Frankivsk to/from Yaremche and possible local excursion(s). Decision about reducing your registration fee will be made after we receive your abstract.

The conference fee should be paid in cash upon arrival during the registration.

Further information on the conference will be given in the next announcements.

Our meeting is a satellite conference of UKRAINIAN MATHEMATICAL CONGRESS - 2009 dedicated to the Centennial of Nikolai N. Bogoliubov http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~congress2009/en

Should you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail [email protected] or website http://www.idat.frankivsk.org

We shall be glad to meet you and your colleagues in Ivano-Frankivsk and Yaremche, a beautiful place of Carpathian region.

On behalf of the organizers,
with best regards,
Andriy Zagorodnyuk