The XVIII Escola de Algebra (XVIII Brazilian Algebra Meeting) will be held at the campus of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) with the support of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM). This event is traditional in the Brazilian mathematical calendar, which happens every other year since 1972. Its objective is to congregate the Brazilian Algebra community in order to further research and stimulate students in the area.
Campinas, home of UNICAMP, is the fourteenth largest city in Brazil. With about 900,000 inhabitants, it is an important industrial and cultural center located 100Km (63 miles) northwest of São Paulo, 510Km (320 miles) from Rio de Janeiro and 950Km (600 miles) from Brasilia. The campus, 12Km
(7 miles) far from the city center, has a physical area close to 300ha distributed into buildings, gardens, sports complex, lakes and green areas, where walking around is a pleasure. The Mathematics Building, with its large foyer, is a very nice and interesting one, where library and internet facilities are available.
Traditionally, Escola de Algebra is a broad meeting including all areas of Research such as Commutative and Non-Commutative Algebra, Ring and Group Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory and Representation Theory. It also aims at the potential graduate students, so there are usually offered mini-courses of different levels of 5 one-hour lectures each. The research activities planned also include conference cycles of 3 one-hour lectures each, conference talks of one-hour each and research communications of half an hour each.
Scientific Committee: Abramo Hefez (UFF), Antonio Paques (UNIAMP), Aron Simis (UFPe), Guilherme Leal (UFRJ) Miguel Ferrero (UFRGS),
Ivan Shestakov (USP) and Said Sidki (UnB).
If you are interested in attending the meeting and/or would like to be put in the conference mailing list, please write, or e-mail us. The Organizing Committee has applied for financial support to CNPq (the Brazilian National Research Agency), but probably we will have no answer from them until march 2004. However, we expect that we will be able to cover the living expenses (hotel and meals) of most of the participants. The Conference will not cover travel expenses. We suggest participants who cannot rise founds for travel expenses and have collaborators in Brazil to contact them and explore the possibility for application for research grant from local foundation. Please, let us know if you need any further information.
Organizing Committee: Antonio Jose Engler (UNICAMP),Desislava Kochloukova (UNICAMP), Flavio Ulhoa Coelho (USP),Norai Rocco (UnB), Plamen Koshlukov (UNICAMP) and Paulo Brumatti (UNICAMP).