FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONFERENCE

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  * ASPECTS OF ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA  *   
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  *     Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas       *
  *                    May 18-20, 2000                     *
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  *       http://www.math.tamu.edu/~plfilho/aagca/         *
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  * (funded by a Group Infrastructure Grant from the NSF)  *
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  Partial list of speakers:
         
  David Bayer       Barnard College, Columbia University
  David Eisenbud    MSRI & University of California, Berkeley
  Dan Edidin        University of Missouri
  Dick Hain         Duke University
  Yi Hu             University of Texas, Arlington
  Mikhail Kapranov  Northwestern University
  Sean Keel         University of Texas, Austin
  Minhyong Kim      University of Arizona
  Sandor Kovacs     University of Chicago
  Rick Miranda      Colorado State University
  Hal Schenck       Northeastern University
  Mike Stillman     Cornell University
  Bernd Sturmfels   University of California, Berkeley
  Felipe Voloch     University of Texas, Austin
       
  If you plan to attend, please fill out the registration 
  form on the conference home page. This page also contains 
  travel and lodging information. Some financial support, mainly 
 for graduate students and recent Ph.Ds, is expected to be 
  available. If you wish to apply for support, please register 
  before May 1, 2000 and fill out the request for support section 
  on the registration form.

  We seek your help in advertising this conference to students 
  and interested colleagues.

  If you are not registering for this conference but would still 
  like to receive further announcements, please send mail to 
  rekha@math.tamu.edu.


  Organizers: Paulo Lima-Filho, Peter Stiller and Rekha Thomas