YERME SUMMER YERME SUMMER SCHOOL SCHOOL (YESS-5)(YESS-5)

August, 18-25, 2010 August, 18-25, 2010 Palermo, SicilyPalermo, Sicily

ItalyItaly

Gruppo di Ricerca sull'Insegnamento/Apprendimento delle Matematiche Università degli Studi di Palermo Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Via Archirafi, 34 - 90123 PALERMOTel.(091) 6040111 - 6040428 - 6040434 – Fax (091) 6040311

A suitable week for the summer school could be August 18-

25, 2010.

The decision to start on a working day and not during the week-end was taken because on Saturday

the 14th and Sunday the 15th there is a very important holiday in Italy that could make transportation

difficult and uncomfortable. Furthermore flights close to national holidays can become very expensive. We scheduled August 18th and 25th for arrival-registration and departure respectively 19-24 August are five and

a half working days and a free afternoon for a trip.

We are also planning evening activities that could include meals outside the hotel, visiting nearby cultural and tourist sites, music concerts and movie projection in the hotel’s conference room, parties etc.

There is also the possibility to organize a one day trip on Wednesday 25th if participants want to stay in Sicily an extra day or have an evening flight.

Wed 18/8

Thu 19/8

Fri 20/8

Sat 21/8

Sun 22/8

Mon 23/8

Tue 24/8

Wed 25/8

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Registration

& Accomodation

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Trip 1

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Departure

or Trip 2

YESS-5 PROGRAM August, 18-25, 2010

PALERMOPOGGIO SAN FRANCESCO

Poggio S. Francesco is located about 25 kilometres south-west from Palermo

LOW COST

It is located on the hills of Palermo’s hinterland and the altitude is 800 m.The altitude assures low temperature and rate of humidity

http://www.poggiosanfrancesco.it/)

maximum 60 participants in single, double and triple room1 conferences room - 200 seats2 conferences rooms – 60 seats6 different rooms for parallel working groups120 persons restaurant, barEtc…

The organizing committee will provide private buses,

at the cost of around 20 Euro, from the “Falcone

Borsellino” Airport to Poggio San Francesco, that will

be available around 14:00 and 20:00 for the arrival day

and around 06:00 and 13:00 for the departure day.

Such schedule will be adapted to the arrival and

departure timetable of the participants. A public

transport service that reaches Poggio San Francesco

is available anyway.

The organizing committee will also

provide, in the evenings, private

transportation from the hotel in Poggio

San Francesco to nearby historical and

tourist important towns

The organizing committee is asking to the

University of Palermo, Regione Sicilia and

Provincia di Palermo financial support both

to lower fees as much as possible and to

provide grants for participants from under

represented countries

The all-inclusive 7 days full-board

accommodation (from August 18th dinner,

to August 25th morning) at Hotel Poggio

San Francesco is below 500 Euro.

The conference fee includes:

accommodation, breakfast-lunch-dinner

(with one “special” dinner), coffee

breaks, private transport in the evenings

from the hotel in Poggio San Francesco to

nearby historic and tourist important

towns.

The local organizers come from the

Department of Mathematics of the University

of Palermo

All the information regarding the Summer school YESS-5 (maps, timetable of buses and flights and general information about climate in Sicily) will be inserted on a web page created ad hoc and linked with the GRIM web page www.math.unipa.it/~grim

Members of the organizing committee of the summer school are:-Prof. Filippo Spagnolo-PhD Benedetto Di Paola-PhD Maria Lucia Lo Cicero-PhD George Santi. Chair of the Local Program Committee is Prof. Filippo Spagnolo.

JATO VALLEY

MONDELLO

SEGESTA

CEFALU’

locicero@math.unipa.it

grpsanti@gmail.com