Computational Algebraic Geometry and Applications

June 2-6, 2006, Nice, France.

University of Nice, Lab. J.A. Dieudonné, Dép. de Mathématiques, Parc Valrose

On the occasion of André Galligo's 60th birthday

Organizing Committee: L. Busé, M. Elkadi, B. Mourrain.
Program Committee: A. Dimca, P. Gianni, M. Giusti, P. Maisonobe, R. Piene, B. Salvy, M. Stillman.
Contact email : cag06@sophia.inria.fr.
Poster: download it here (A3 paper).
This conference is supported by

Invited talks (the titles are very preliminar):

James Damon (University of North Carolina, USA): Some challenges for symbolic computation arising from geometric problems in computer imaging,
David Eisenbud (University of Berkeley and MSRI, USA): The Regularity of Powers of an Ideal
Bianca Falcidieno (CNR IMATI-Ge, Genova, Italy): Computational Topology Tools for Shape Modelling and Reasoning
Jean-Charles Faugère (CNRS, France): Solving Polynomial Systems with Grobner bases,
Michel Granger (Université d'Angers, France): Flatness properties in D-Modules theory,
Gert-Martin Greuel (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany): Computational aspects in the theory of singularities,
Joos Heintz (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Universidad de Catanbria, Spain): Nullstellensatze before and after André Galligo,
Henri Lombardi (Universit\'e de Franche-Comté, France): Picard group and seminormality (following T. Coquand),
Mutsuo Oka (University of Tokyo, Japan): Tangential Alexander polynomial and non-reduced degeneration of plane curves,
Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, USA): Tropical implicitization,
Alain Yger (Universit\'e de Bordeaux, France): Calcul residuel et traces : des outils d'analyse complexe aux questions d'effectivite,
Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel): Fourier transform of semi-algebraic functions.

Conference themes: (preliminary and not limited to)

Deformation of singularities
D-modules
Symbolic computation and complexity
Automatic differentiation
Approximate polynomial algebra
Computer aided geometric design
Shapes

Program (in progress)

How to reach the conference

Important dates:

31 Mars 2006 : Deadline for proposition of presentations. Send a title and abstract (ABOUT 2 PAGES) to: cag06@sophia.inria.fr
15 April 2006: Notification of acceptance for the presentations.
30 April 2006: Hotel reservation recommanded.

Registration: Please, send an email with the following information:

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to the organizer.
List of registered participants

Accomodations:

Participants are encouraged to make hotel reservation on their own and as soon as possible. Here is a list of three hotels with negociated prices.

Hotel MIRABEAU (45.90 euros/night including taxes and breakfast) 15 avenue Malaussena
Phone: 04 93 88 33 67 fax: 04 93 16 14 08 20
Hotel Monsigny (60 euros/night including taxes and breakfast) 17 avenue Malaussena
Phone : +33 (0)4.93.88.27.35 Fax : +33 (0)4.93.82.09.13 E-mail : monsigny.hotel@wanadoo.fr
Hotel Petit Palais (65.90 euros/night including taxes and breakfast) 17 avenue E. Bieckert
Phone: 04 93 62 19 11 fax: 04 93 62 53 60