1. YERME SUMMER SCHOOL YERME SUMMER SCHOOL(YESS-5) August, 18-25, 2010 Palermo, Sicily Palermo, SicilyItaly Gruppo di Ricerca sull'Insegnamento/Apprendimento delle Matematiche Università degli Studi di Palermo Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Via Archirafi, 34 - 90123 PALERMO Tel.(091) 6040111 - 6040428 - 6040434 – Fax (091) 6040311

2. 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.

3. YESS-5 PROGRAM August, 18-25, 2010

6. PALERMO POGGIO SAN FRANCESCO Poggio S. Francesco is located about 25 kilometres south-west from Palermo LOW COST

7. 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/)

8. maximum 60 participants in single, double and triple room 1 conferences room - 200 seats 2 conferences rooms – 60 seats 6 different rooms for parallel working groups 120 persons restaurant, bar Etc…

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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24. locicero@math.unipa.it grpsanti@gmail.com