The Geometry and Topology of Singularities

Participants from all over the world are most welcome to attend the meeting. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants are borne by their home institutions. However, we are happy to say that limited funds are available for some applicants from Latin America (included Mexico), the Caribbean and the USA, to be selected by the organizers. This is thanks to the support from the ICTP (Italy), CNPq (Brazil), and the MSRI and Clay Mathematics Institute from USA. Such financial support is available only to those attending the entire activity. In some exceptional cases applicants from other countries may receive partial support.

As scarcity of funds allows travel to be granted only in a few exceptional cases, every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare) from their home country.

1. For participants from Latin America and the Caribbean:

   This School and Workshop is part of a program organized and supported by the Abdus Salam ICTP, from Trieste, Italy, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) of Brazil. The main purpose of this program is to enhance scientific research in Latin America and the Caribbean, and therefore supports researchers from countries in that region.

   We have a limited amount of funds from the ICTP (Trieste, Italy), CNPq (Brazil) and UNAM (Mexico) to support young researchers and graduate students. Applications by undergraduate students can be considered in exceptional cases and only for the School, the first two weeks.




2. For USA participants:

   We have limited support for young researchers and Ph. D. Students from institutions in the USA, thanks to funds from the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).

As our funds are limited, we ask you to please make every effort you can in order to get partial support from other sources.

The closing date for the receipt of requests for finnancial support was November 10, 2006.