Please circulate to all interested colleagues. ===================================================== FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ===================================================== IV Iberoamerican Conference on Topology and its Applications Department of Mathematics University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal April 18-21, 2001 The Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra is organizing the "IV Congresso Ibero-Americano de Topologia e suas Aplicacoes" to be held at the University of Coimbra, from 18th to 21st of April, 2001. The conference arrival day is Tuesday April 17. The scientific programme will begin Wednesday morning April 18 and will finish before lunch on Saturday April 21. The conference will consist of 50mn plenary lectures delivered by invited speakers and 25mn contributed talks. It will open with a special invited lecture by Prof. Bernhard Banaschewski, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Invited Speakers ================ Bernhard Banaschewski (McMaster Univ., Canada) Marcel Erne' (Univ. Hannover, Germany ) Manuel Sanchis (Univ. Jaume I, Spain) Manuela Sobral (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal) Franklin D. Tall (Univ. Toronto, Canada) Artur H. Tomita (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil) F. Javier Trigos-Arrieta (California State Univ., USA) Jorge Vielma (Univ. Los Andes, Venezuela) Scientific Committee ==================== Ofelia Alas (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil) Maria Manuel Clementino (Univ. de Coimbra, Portugal) Salvador Garcia-Ferreira (UNAM, Mexico) Valentin Gregori (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Salvador Hernandez (Univ. Jaume I, Spain) Horst Herrlich (Univ. Bremen, Germany) Hans Peter Kuenzi (Univ. Cape Town, South Africa) Robert Lowen (Univ. Antwerp, Belgium) Stephen Watson (York Univ., Canada) Organizing Committee ==================== Maria Manuel Clementino (Univ. Coimbra) Jorge Picado (Univ. Coimbra) Lurdes Sousa (Inst. Politecnico de Viseu) Maria Joao Ferreira (Univ. Coimbra) Goncalo Gutierres (Univ. Coimbra) Dirk Hofmann (Univ. Coimbra) Deadlines ========= Registration and payment of fees: January 31, 2001 Reservation of accommodation: January 31, 2001 Abstract submission: February 28, 2001 Conference Homepage =================== The Registration and Accommodation Form and the Submission of Abstracts, as well as up-to-date information, are available at our web page http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cita2001/ Conference Addresses ==================== E-mail address: cita2001@mat.uc.pt Postal address: CITA 2001 (c/o Prof. Maria Manuel Clementino) Departamento de Matematica Universidade de Coimbra 3001-454 Coimbra Portugal