Posted to comp.theory on January 7, 1996:

                                 MEGA 96

                  The Fourth International Symposium on
                 Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
              Eindhoven (The Netherlands), June 4--8, 1996


First Announcement and Call for Papers
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Conference Topics

     Effective Methods and  _Theoretical_and_Practical_ Complexity Issues
     in:  

     Commutative  Algebra,             Geometry,  Real  Geometry,
     Algebraic  Number Theory,  
     Algebraic Geometry  and  related fields: Algebraic Analysis
                                              of Differential  Equations,  
     Differential   Geometry,          Associative Algebras, 
     Group Theory,                     Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras,
     Algebraic  and Differential Topology, 
	 
     as well as _applications_ of these fields.

Conference Committee

     A.M. Cohen (Eindhoven, chairman),  J.H. Davenport (Bath), A. Galligo
     (Nice),   D.   Yu.   Grigoriev   (St.   Petersburg),    J.    Heintz
     (Santander/Buenos  Aires),  D.  Lazard (Paris), T. Mora (Genova), M.
     Pohst (Berlin), M. van  der  Put  (Groningen), T. Recio (Santander),
     M.--F. Roy (Rennes), B. Sturmfels (Berkeley), C. Traverso (Pisa).


Submission
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Authors can submit papers by sending  two  printed  copies  of  the  full
paper, each including an abstract on a single (separate) page, and a file
containing  the TeX sources of both the paper and the abstract (either by
E-mail to mega96@win.tue.nl, or on a (DOS) diskette addressed by mail).

Alternatively (for researchers with  no  access to computing equipment or
e-mail), submissions consisting of 3 printed  copies  of  the  paper  and
abstract will be accepted.

Submissions must be sent 

before February 16, 1996,

to Arjeh M. Cohen.
Late submissions will risk rejection without consideration.

   * English is the only official language of the Symposium.
   * Submission of essentially the same paper elsewhere is not allowed.
   * Submissions will be refereed both for presentation at the Symposium
	 and for inclusion in the Proceedings (to be published after the
	 Symposium).

The Proceedings will be published  as  a  special issue of
the Journal of	Pure and Applied Algebra.

Authors  will  be  notified  about  acceptance  or  rejection  of   their
submissions  by  the  end  of  April, 1996.  Details about submittance of
final versions of accepted papers will be given later.

Logistics
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The Symposium will be held at the Technical University Eindhoven, The
Netherlands. Further information about registration, lodging and travelling
will be found in the final announcement. For general information on the
Symposium, please contact Hans Cuypers or Hans Sterk.

Arjeh M. Cohen, Hans Cuypers, Hans Sterk
Fac. Wiskunde en Informatica
Technical University Eindhoven
Postbox 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Phone: 31--40--2472965, 2472727, 2473121
Fax: 31--40--2435810
E--mail: mega96@win.tue.nl