Current Announcement, Detailed Information and Schedule, Memorial Union Shuttle, Travel, Travel (Additional Information), White Paper
April 26-28, 2002
Grand Forks, North Dakota
http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/math/mgc2002
| The National Science Foundation |
| North Dakota EPSCoR |
| North Dakota State University |
| The University of North Dakota |
White Paper
A “white
paper” summarizing the discussion at the Future Directions session
at the Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference is now available.
Overview
The Midwest Geometry Conference is a series of conferences devoted to
the discussion of recent scholarly research in geometry and related
fields. Mathematicians, scientists, and students are encouraged to
participate. The National Science Foundation has officially awarded
a grant in support of this conference series.
The Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference will take place
in Grand Forks, North Dakota on April 26, 27, and 28, 2002.
Program
The Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference will begin at 1:30 P.M. on Friday,
April 26 and conclude at approximately 10:30 A.M. on Sunday, April 28. It
will include five sessions organized as follows:
The above program is subject to change. Further
information
(including an hour-by-hour schedule) is available.
Conference Organizing Committee
Anthony Bevelacqua, Jim Coykendall, and Larry Peterson (the managing organizer)
are assisting with the overall organization of the conference and are not
specifically assigned to any particular session.
Travel
The NSF has officially awarded a grant in support of this conference.
Please feel free to proceed with travel arrangements.
Northwest Airlines together with its feeder airline, Mesaba Airlines, provides several daily direct flights between Grand Forks and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Amtrak trains stop in Grand Forks, and bus service to Grand Forks is also avaiable.
Additional information on travel to Grand Forks and travel within Grand Forks is available.
The conference budget includes full reimbursement for the travel, lodging, and per diem expenses of the eleven invited speakers. The budget also includes a limited amount of support for the other participants. Graduate students and recent Ph.D. graduates will receive the highest priority for such support. The organizers hope to fully meet the needs of all graduate students and recent graduates, but no particular level of support can be guaranteed in advance of the conference. Participants who have other sources of support, especially NSF support, are asked to use this other support as much as possible. Your cooperation in this matter will be helpful to those who lack outside sources of support, and it will also help to assure the success of the Midwest Geometry Conference in the future.
Although participants from outside the US are welcome, the Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference unfortunately cannot provide financial support for international travel. The one exception will be for ground travel from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Budget constraints make this policy essential.
Lodging
Many of the conference participants and speakers will be staying at the
Holiday
Inn, Ramada Inn, or
Super 8 Motel in Grand Forks. If you wish to stay at
the Holiday Inn or Ramada Inn, we ask that you make your reservations
through the conference organizers in the manner described in the
current
conference announcement. The managers of some of the hotels seem to be
quite flexible in accepting late reservations for conference participants and
speakers. But please take care of hotel reservations as soon as possible
by sending in your conference registration form. A blank registration form is
available at the end of the current
conference announcement.
Participation
The organizers of the Midwest Geometry Conference encourage
participation by graduate students, junior mathematicians and scientists,
postdoctoral researchers, women, members of underrepresented groups,
experienced geometers, as well as scientists and mathematicians from
fields outside of geometry.
The lecture hall will be accessible to people with disabilities.
Registration
If you will be attending the conference, please register in advance.
The latest conference announcement contains an
electronic registration form which you may download and edit. Send
the completed form to
mgc2002@und.nodak.edu.
No conference registration fee will be charged.
Nonresident Aliens
The University of North Dakota may require special paperwork
to process the expense reimbursement requests of speakers and
participants who are nonresident aliens. If you are a nonresident
alien, please tell us what type of visa you hold by
contacting
mgc2002@und.nodak.edu.
The extra paperwork is required only for nonresidents holding a
B-1 or B-2 visa who wish to receive expense
reimbursement. Additional
information is available from University of North Dakota Accounting
Services.
Further Information
The current conference announcement
contains additional information not available elsewhere on this Web site.
If you have any questions, contact Larry Peterson at
mgc2002@und.nodak.edu.
Acknowledgment
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. DMS-0202812 and by North Dakota EPSCoR through NSF grant # EPS-9874802.
North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota have also provided
financial support for this project.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any of the other sponsors.
| Contact person: Larry Peterson |
| E-mail: lawrence_peterson@und.nodak.edu |
| Phone: (701) 777-4609 |
| Date of most recent update: August 13, 2002 |
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