Announcements:
---
As the conference approaches, we have received some inquiries, for which
others may also have interest/concerns, and thus we would like to give
the answers to you all.
- Some people asked us if the tour to Zhangjiajie National Forest
Park is still going to be organized in such a winter time.
After counsulting with some local travel agents, we feel that December is
not a good time for traveling to an mountain area. Therefore, we decide
that the tour will NOT be organized. Those interested in this national
park are always welcome to visit Hunan University again in a summer time,
and Dr. L. H. Huang and his colleagues would very happy to help you arrange
such a tour at a minimal cost.
- Some of you received hard copies of an invitation letter to this
conference for the initially scheduled dates (July 12-16) for the purposes
of visa and travel fund applications. If you need an updated copy of such
an letter, please let us know by sending an email
to Dr. Dai bxdai@hnu.net.cn (with a cc to xzou@math.mun.ca)
including your mailing address.
- Finally, we would like to kindly remind you of the deadline for
preregistration (crucial for reserving hotel rooms), and sending
your abstracts. For the procedure of pre-registration, visit the website
www.math.mun.ca/~xzou/Huda03/main.html
and click "Registration".
July 8, 2003---
The SARS crisis is over. After consulting with Shui-Nee, the organizing
committee has decided that the conference will be held on
December 17-20, 2003.
Accordingly, the new deadline for receiving the preregistration
and abstract is set to October 31, 2003, with
the ways of sending preregistration and abstract remaining the same as
announced on March 23. When you download the old registration form, don't
mind the old dates of July 12-16 on the form.
April 14---
In view of the current concerns regarding SARS and in response to a few
enquires, the Organizing Committee has decided that the
international conference "New Directions In Dynamics of Evolution
Equations" shall be postponed until further
notice.
We do understand and apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to
you, but we do believe this is the only responsible way we should take to
pretect our friends and colleagues and their students.
We have informed Professor Shui-Nee Chow of our decision, and he has
kindly agreed that this is an appropriate measure. We believe the current
situation will be improved soon and significantly, but given the fact that
many of us have to decide on the purchase of air tickets for
international flights very soon, we think it is appropriate to make a
decision at this stage.
March 23--- The following information
should be of some
help to you:
- All the talks will be scheduled for July 12,
13, 14 and 15.
- For the Tour of Zhang-Jia-Jie national parks
(which
is about 400-500 km away from the city of Changsah), we plan to leave
Changsha on July 16 morning and return to Changsha on July 19 evening. The
estimated cost for each person is $180-200 US inclusive (transportation,
hotels, meals).
- Pre-registration:
For purposes of block
reservation
of hotel rooms, scheduling the talks, and planning the tour of
Zhang-Jia-Jie, we require that participants do a pre-registration.
This can be easily done by the following steps:
Step 1:
Download the registration form by clicking pdf
file or MSWord file
Step 2: Mail the completed form
to the mailing address given in the form
or fax it to the number also given in the form
(i.e. 731-882-3056)
Deadline for receiving the
pre-registration is May 31, 2003
- Abstract: Each speaker is required to submit
an abstract for his/her talk to Dr. Xingfu Zou by email
only at xzou@math.mun.ca.
An abstract may be in Latex or Tex or AMSTex or
even in plain text, and should contain the speaker's both mailing and
e-mail addresses. The
deadline for receiving
abstracts is also May 31, 2003 .
- For participants
who will have accompanying person(s): the estimated
cost for meals during the conference is $15 US or 120 RMB
per person per day.