Workshop on

SUBDIVISION and REFINABILITY

Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, May 1-4 2008

Plenary Speakers

Charles Chui (Stanford University, CA, USA)

Mariantonia Cotronei (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Serge Dubuc (Université de Montreal, Canada)

Tim Goodman (University of Dundee, UK)

Bin Han (University of Alberta, Canada)

Kai Hormann (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)

Kurt Jetter (Universität Hohenheim, Germany)

David Levin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Jean Luis Merrien (INSA de Rennes, France)

Amos Ron (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)

Malcolm Sabin (Cambridge University, UK)

Tomas Sauer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)

Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

Thomas P.-Y. Yu (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Georg Umlauf (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Michael Unser (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse)

Johannes Wallner (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Scientific Committee

Costanza Conti (Università di Firenze, Italy)

Nira Dyn (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Laura Gori (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

Organizing Committee

Costanza Conti (Dipartimento di Energetica “Sergio Stecco”, Università di Firenze, Italy)

Paolo Costantini (Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche “Roberto Magari”, Università di Siena, Italy)

Carla Manni (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy)

Rossana Morandi (Dipartimento di Energetica “Sergio Stecco”, Università di Firenze, Italy)

Francesca Pitolli (Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici per le Scienze Applicate, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

Elisabetta Santi (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Energetica e Gestionale, Università dell’Aquila, Italy)

Venue

The Conference will take place at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena. (Google map)

Accomodation

The venue offers: 20 single rooms (77-87 € per day) and 23 double rooms (144 € per day) plus some small apartments. Thus, the number of participants is limited by about 40 people. Accompanying people are welcome in case they share double rooms with participants.

Travel Information

Pontignano is close to Siena (Tuscany, Italy) and can be easily reached from Siena or Florence.

There are three major airports close to Pontignano: Roma/Rome, Firenze/Florence, Pisa.

From there you travel to Siena by bus (Autolinee Sena - Siena or www.trainspa.it) or by train (www.trenitalia.it)

(Distances: Roma-Siena about 250km; Firenze-Siena about 70km; Pisa-Siena about 120km; Siena-Pontignano about 11km)

There is also a bus/train service from Milano/Milan (370km) and Bologna (170km) to Siena by Autolinee Sena - Siena or www.trenitalia.it.

From Siena take the bus number 34 (www.trainspa.it) (1.30€) or a taxi (approx. 18.00€) to reach Pontignano.