ANNOUNCEMENT


Birational Geometry of Varieties
          Pisa, May 5-7 2006


Organizers: Ciro Ciliberto (Roma - Tor Vergata), Rita Pardini (Pisa).

The Conference will take place in the Aula Magna of the Department of
Mathematics of the University of Pisa.
The conference will start on the morning of the 5th of May, so
participants are supposed to arrive on the 4th of May.
There will be about 10 main lectures in order to leave room for a few
short communications, posters and informal discussions.
The following have agreed to give a main lecture:

  * Marco Andreatta (Trento)

  * Arnaud Beauville (Nice)

  * Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth)

  * Alessio Corti (Cambridge)

  * Massimiliano Mella (Ferrara)

  * Margarida Mendes Lopes (IST Lisbona)

  * Luca Migliorini (Bologna)

  * Mihnea Popa (Chicago)

  * Miles Reid (Warwick)

  * Claire Voisin (Paris, Jussieu)


Participation in the workshop is free, but participants are required to
register on line
on the web site of the conference
http://www.mat.uniroma3.it/GVA/BGAV/index.html
not later that January 31, 2006.

Unfortunately the funds available for the workshop are limited, and
therefore it will not be possible to contribute to the expenses of the
participants.

Participants are expected to arrange their own accomodation. The
speakers will stay at Royal Victoria Hotel, which has set aside  some
rooms that can be booked directly by the participants not later than
March 20, 2006.
Details on this offer,  as well as general information on accomodation
in Pisa are available on the conference web site.


The meeting is funded by:
- the italian research network "Geometria sulle Varieta' Algebriche"
(PRIN COFIN2004)

- Dipartimento di Matematica "L. Tonelli", Universita' di Pisa

- Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi