4^th  Mediterranean  Conference on

28-30 January 2005 , Palermo-Italy

News:

1. Program of Conference           

2. Map of Hotels and Center of Conference (Department of Mathematics)

3. General Programme

4. Last informations

The Fourth Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education with International participation follows a successful series of three such conferences since 1997. At this stage educators and researchers who may be interested in attending the conference with or without a paper should send a message with full address, fax and e-mail to the organising committee. All expressions of interest should be sent before 31^st May 2004. The deadline for full papers is 1 October 2004. Further announcements and details will be sent to those responding to this call. The names of invited speakers will appear in the next announcement.

Important: the conference will offer a two day free accommodation to one presenter of each paper provided that their papers are accepted by the scientific committee. All papers will be reviewed by at least two referees.

The conference will consist of several sessions covering multiple themes but all under the general aim of Mathematics Education. The official language of the conference is English.

The themes of  interest are:

Please send the attached form of expression of interest by fax or e-mail to  .

Cyprus Mathematical Society: Fax: +357-22-379122 ,  cms@cms.org.cy

Details on paper preparation will be announced at a later stage or in the web sites:

mediterranean_05.htm

www.cms.org.cy

About Palermo

Palermo is the capital of Sicily and the fifth largest city in Italy (660,460 inhabitants, and over a million if we include the suburbs). In the middle of the Mediterranean sea, Palermo - the cradle of ancient civilizations - has always been a crossroads of cultures between East and West: a strategic transit place, a privileged port of call for commerce and trade, a landing-place for people of various race, language, and religion. Palermo has always enchanted visitors and foreigners alike with the charm of its location, the mildness of its climate, and the splendour of its buildings. And for these same reasons it has, over the centuries, been dominated by a succession of different rulers.

Information about City in France language and English are at the web address: http://www.comune.palermo.it/site.htm

Photos of Palermo:  http://www.comune.palermo.it/Foto_Palermo/Foto_di_Palermo.htm

Information about "Villa Archirafi Hotel" near the "garden of University of Palermo" (Orto Botanico)

Center of the Conference: Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi n.34 Palermo (http://math.unipa.it/menu.htm)

Map of Center of Congress (Hotel and Department of Mathematics)

Information about travel:

Aeroporto Punta Raisi (Falcone-Borsellino) – Railway Station Palermo:

by train (Treno Trinacria Express):  http://www.palermoweb.com/trasporti/tranacriaexpress.htm

 by bus:

http://www.cittadipalermo.it/a/citta_free/trasporti/aerei.htm

The Airport of Palermo is linked with Roma and Milano (frequence 1 hour).

The opening ceremony is planned to be held at the "Dipartimento di Matematica" in Palermo, 28 January 2005 at 16.30.  His excellency the rector of University of Palermo will open the conference. The paper presentations and workshops will take place at the "Dipartimento di Matematica" University of Palermo from Friday afternoon to Sunday noon. The closing ceremony is expected to take place on Sunday 30 January 2005.

Participants from abroad are expected to arrive at the Palermo International Airport (Punta Raisi – Falcone-Borsellino) the morning of January 28, 2005 or earlier. The Conference Hotel will be available in Palermo near the conference site.  Details of hotel prices appear on the registration form.

An optional excursion will be organised on Sunday afternoon 30 January 2005 to Archaeological Sites.

Visas, Money and Weather

For visa please check with the nearest Italian consulate. The currency of Italy is the EURO. You can change currency at the airport. Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards are accepted almost everywhere.

The temperature during the day in January in Palermo is usually around 16 degrees Celsius and during the evening around 11 degrees Celsius.

Equipment

Each session room will be equipped with an overhead projector, a screen, a PC connected to an LCD projector/beamer. Please indicate the equipment you are planning to use. A VHS VCR or DVD will be available upon request.

Preparation of Papers

All papers must be at most TEN PAGES long including the references, the tables and the figures. An appendix of up to three pages may be added for questionnaires. Each page must be a single column A4 page. Margins on right-left must be 4 cm each and on top-bottom 5 cm each (the full text should have dimensions very close to 13X19 cm vertical with full justification). The language to be used is English.

The typeset must be TIMES NEW ROMAN. The title must be centred between the margins using TIMES 14-point type, CAPITALS, BOLD SINGLE SPACE. Leave one blank line and then type the author(s) name(s) using TIMES 12 pt, BOLD. Underline the name of the presenting author. Directly below type the affiliation, address and email for each author using TIMES 10 pt. Use asterisks (*, **, ***) to correspond the name to his/her address.

Leave four blank lines after the affiliation and address and type the word ABSTRACT using TIMES 12 pt, CAPITALS, BOLD, CENTRED. Leave one blank line and type the abstract using TIMES 11 pt, ITALICS, SINGLE SPACING (maximum ten lines). (An abstract in your own language may be included at the end of your paper).

Leave four blank lines after the abstract and begin to type the main text of your paper using TIMES 11 pt, SINGLE SPACING. For sub-titles of sections or paragraphs within your paper use TIMES 12 pt, CAPITALS, BOLD. The sub-titles and the text are separated by one blank line.

For equations use same typeset as in the text. All equations must be numbered. The figures and tables are reduced to fit within the margins. Symbols and legends are large enough to be readable. Figures and tables are numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. Put table caption at the top and figure caption at the bottom.

The list of references must be placed at the end of the text. Please use the following format:

Author name(s), Title of paper or book, Volume and pages or Publishing company, (year).

Please send a copy of your paper on a disk written in MS WORD for Windows(PC version). Send also three original print copies on a LASER printer (two without a name, affiliation and address, no colours please). DO NOT number the pages and DO NOT stable. Please write on the back of each page the number of the page using a light pencil. Please make sure that the one printed paper with your name is a CAMERA ready print.

Invited Speakers

1. Guy Brousseau, University of Bordeaux (Prof. emeritus)

2. Bruno D'Amore, University of Bologna

3. Negrepontis Stylianos, University of Athens

4. Tim Rowland, University of Cambridge

5. Aldo Brigaglia, University of Palermo

Names below were invited in the 3^rd MEDCONF

Michele Artique, Universite Denis Diderot Paris, France

Collette Laborde, Universite Joseph Fourier - CNRS, France

Werner Blum, University of Kassel, Germany

Mogens Niss, Roskilde Universitetscenter, Denmark

Athanasios Gagatsis, University of Cyprus

Theodoros Exarchakos, University of Athens

Athanasios Fokas, University of Cambridge

Mediterranean Organising Committee

Chair: Gregory Makrides, President-Cyprus Mathematical Society

Vice-Chair: Filippo Spagnolo,  University of Palermo

Secretary A: Gianna Manno, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Secretary B: Katerina Nicolaou, Intercollege - Cyprus

Treasurer A: Claudia Sortino, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Treasurer B: Andreas Philippou, Treausre-Cyprus Mathematical Society

Members:

            MATHEU partners

            Savvas Antoniou, General Secretary, Cyprus Mathematical Society

Local Organising Committee

Chair: Filippo Spagnolo, University of Palermo

Gianna Manno, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Claudia Sortino, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Aldo Scimone, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Teresa Marino, GRIM, Department of Mathematics, University of Palermo

Scientific/Program Committee

Chair: Athanasios Gagatsis, Cyprus Math Society and University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Filippo Spagnolo,  University of Palermo

Bruno D'Amore, University of Bologna, Italy

Areti Panaoura, University of Cyprus

Efi Paparistodemou, University of Cyprus

Vassiliki Farmaki, University of Athens

Panagiotis Spyrou, University of Athens

Nicolaos Alexandris, President – Hellenic Mathematical Society

George Philippou, University of Cyprus

Theodossios Zachariades, University of Athens

Sava Grozdev, Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Gregory Makrides, Intercollege - Cyprus

Constantinos Christou, University of Cyprus

Pantelis Damianou, University of Cyprus

Demetra Pitta, University of Cyprus

Aldo Brigaglia, University of Palermo

Pietro Nastasi, University of Palermo

Dina Tirosh, University of Tel Aviv

Pessia Tsamir, University of Tel Aviv   

Stylianos Negrepontis, University of Athens

Michalinos Zembylas, Intercollege - Cyprus

(additional names will be announced soon)

Address of the Organising Committee

All correspondence concerning the 4^th Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education should be sent to the following address:

Organising Committee (MEDCONF2005)

4^th Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education

University of Palermo

email to: spagnolo@math.unipa.it

mediterranean_05.htm  

Cyprus Mathematical Society

36 Stasinou street, Office 102

Strovolos 2003, Nicosia, Cyprus

Fax to: +357-22379122

Email to : cms@cms.org.cy

www.cms.org.cy

 4^thd Mediterranean  Conference

on Mathematics  Education

28-30 January 2005, Palermo-Italy

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Name:_____________________________________________________________

           (title)                     (surname)                           (name)

Affiliation:___________________________________________________________

Mailing address:______________________________________________________

Fax: _____________________________Tel _____________________________

(please include country code)

E-mail: ___________________________________________________________________

I plan to submit a paper:    YES   ?           NO    ?          NOT SURE  ?

Please specify possible theme from the list or suggest another:

___________________________________________________________________

Send this form by 31st May 2004 to:

Organising Committee

4th Mediterranean Conference

University of Palermo

The deadline for full papers is 1 October 2004.

email to: spagnolo@math.unipa.it

Cyprus Mathematical Society

36 Stasinou street, Office 102

Strovolos 2003, Nicosia, Cyprus

Fax to: +357-22379122

Email to : cms@cms.org.cy

www.cms.org.cy

4^th  Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education

28-30 January 2005, Palermo - Italy

REGISTRATION  FORM

1. Personal details

Title:________

Last Name:______________________________________

First Name:______________________________________

Male:         Female: 

Institution: ___________________________________________________________

Tel: ______________________ Fax:_______________________________________

E-mail: ______________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

2. Registration Fees

Participants*:

Single room    EURO 260 (2 Days free). Additional day 90 EURO.            

Double room   EURO 360 (2 Days free). Additional day 130 EURO.           

*Includes admission to all presentations and workshops, welcome reception, coffee breaks, copy of the proceedings and lunch.

Accompanying persons: _________________________________________________

*Includes admission to all presentations and workshops, welcome reception, coffee breaks, copy of the proceedings.

 Accompanying persons: _________________________________________________

Please send the completed form to the Organising Committee MEDCONF2005,

University of Palermo spagnolo@math.unipa.it

University of Cyprus cms@cms.org.cy

3. Hotel reservation and excursion participation

The accommodation for the first two nights of participants with accepted papers is free on a bed and breakfast basis and lunch at the Villa Archirafi Hotel.

Please indicate the total number of nights you intend to stay ______________

Arrival date: __________________    Departure date: ___________________

I am interested in receiving the offer of two nights free: YES          NO 

Hotels: (prices are in EURO and are per night per person with breakfast and lunch)

                                                           single              double             double shared

                 Hotel                                                                                 

  ……….. Hotel (             )

  ……….. Hotel (             )

  ……….. Hotel (             )

  I will make my own arrangements

Single room: 

Double room staying alone: 

Double room sharing: 

Roommate chosen (Name:)_______________________________________________

You can choose my roommate: 

I am vegetarian: 

A tour operator will propose some excursions to Palermo and in the other places of Sicily. I am interested in participating in the excursion:   

I am submitting a paper  

Title of paper: _________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

I will use the following equipment:

Overhead projector     Slide projector      PC with LCD       VCR       DVD 

The registration fee must be sent together with this form. The hotel charges can be paid on arrival. Those submitting a paper should include the registration form with their paper submission.

Amount enclosed/wire transferred/to be charged: ____________

Payment method: (choose one)

1.  Bank check (international)  

     Make the check payable to: Filippo Spagnolo (IV Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education)

2.  Money transfer to Bank Account  

Bank name: Banca di Palermo

Postal Address: Via del Cigno, 5 - 90125 PALERMO Italia

Fax: 0039 091 446775                    

Account No:  IT 75 X 08657 04601 024831448410

Beneficiary:  Filippo Spagnolo (IV Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education)

Indication: MEDCONF2005

All the bank charges must be covered by the payer.