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2nd Meeting on Selection Principles in Mathematics (SPM05), Lecce, Italy, December 2005

Dear colleague:

We would like to bring to your attention our second meeting on Selection 
Principles in Mathematics (SPM05), titled:

    Workshop on Coverings, Selections and Games in Topology.

    (Italy) http://www.matematica.unile.it/mostra_avviso.asp?n=136
    (Boise) http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~spm/Lecce2/index.htm

The meeting will be held at the Department of Mathematics, University of 
Lecce, in the beautiful town of Lecce in southern Italy. This is 35 km 
from the ancient Roman city Brundisium, now named Brindisi. The Brindisi 
airport is the international airport closest to Lecce. The dates for the 
meeting are:

    December 19 - 22, 2005.

We hope very much that you will be able to join us in Lecce to present 
some of your research in a contributed talk, and to participate in the 
activities of the workshop. Please respond to both the sender of this 
e-mail, as well as to

    spm@diamond.boisestate.edu

to let us know if you would participate in the workshop.

Below we give a number of preliminary details concerning the area
and scope of the workshop and some relevant url's. Details about
submitting an abstract are given below. Please note that the
deadline for submitting abstracts is October 31, 2005.

We would also appreciate it if you could inform some of your
collaborators, whom we might have inadvertently missed with our
mailing, about this conference.

With best regards,

The scientific committee:

L. Babinkostova,
C. Guido,
L. Kocinac,
M. Scheepers,
B. Tsaban.

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The study of Selection Principles in Mathematics has experienced
rapid expansion during the past few years with a large number of
mathematicians contributing to the area, and entering the area.
The combination of classical and modern methods has lead to
fascinating breakthroughs and to complete solutions of some of the
oldest open problems (1920's and 1930's) in the field, and a large
number of new problems covering a variety of topics in mathematics
have been identified. Since 2001 several strong Ph.D. theses were
devoted exclusively to topics in Selection Principles in
Mathematics.

Though Selection Principles in Mathematics had its original
beginnings mostly in the study of covering properties of
topological spaces that were introduced by Menger (1924), Hurewicz
(1925), Rothberger (1937) and Sierpinski (1937), the field has
become vastly wider. There are currently several well-defined
focus areas in Selection Principles in Mathematics, including:

1) Distributivity properties in Boolean algebras
2) Combinatorial properties of filters on the natural numbers
3) Boundedness properties in topological groups
4) Closure- and convergence- properties in function spaces
5) Combinatorial cardinal characteristics of the continuum
6) Selective screenability and covering dimension
7) Covering properties of topological spaces.

The aim of the workshop is to survey current directions in the
field through a number of plenary talks and to learn about current
results and open problems in this area through a number of shorter
contributed talks.

A tentative list of plenary speakers includes:

L. Babinkostova (Boise State University)
T. Banakh       (Lviv University)
L. Bukovsky     (P. J. Safarik University)
F. Cammoroto    (University of Messina)
G. Di Maio      (Second University of Napoli)
Lj.Kocinac      (University of Nis)
H. Mildenberger (Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic)
A.W. Miller     (University of Wisconsin)
M. Sakai        (Kanagawa University)
M. Scheepers    (Boise State University)
B. Tsaban       (Weizmann Institute of Science)
L. Zdomsky      (Lviv University)

The registration fee for the conference is 50 Euros. There is
limited financial support available for participation. It could
cover the registration fee, accommodation or meals. People who
have no other financial support for participating in the
conference should apply before the end of June, 2005, to the
Organizing Committee for financial support. Direct all
applications to Professor Cosimo Guido (cosimo.guido@unile.it).

Information on traveling to Lecce and on accommodations will
become available in the near future at the workshop web sites
currently under construction. The url's are:

    (Italy) http://www.matematica.unile.it/mostra_avviso.asp?n=136
    (Boise) http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~spm/Lecce2/index.htm

Topology Atlas is generously providing abstract services for this
conference. Please submit abstracts at the following web-site:

    http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/caqh-01

Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is

    October 31, 2005

Submitted abstracts can be viewed at

    http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caqh-01

The current list of sponsors for the meeting includes:

    The University of Lecce

    Department of Mathematics "E. De Giorgi" - University of Lecce

    Topology Atlas.