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Topics
The unifying theme of the conference is permutation patterns. The topics addressed will include enumeration questions, excluded pattern questions, study of the involvement order, algorithms for computing with permutation patterns, applications and generalizations, etc.

Web site
The conference website is at viu.ca/math/pp/

Speaker
The keynote speaker will be Miklos Bona of the University of Florida.

Registration
The registration fee will be $100 CAD for registration by 1 April 2004, and $150 thereafter. It is now possible to register by fax or mail via the conference website: viu.ca/math/pp

Submissions
Participants interested in giving a talk at the conference are invited to submit an abstract of between one and six pages by 1 April 2004. These should be sent to the local organizer at westj@viu.ca.

Proceedings
A special volume connected to the conference will be published in the journal Annals of Combinatorics. All submissions to the special volume will be treated as ordinary journal submissions and will be refereed according to the usual high standards.

Social program
Aside from the academic program we plan a full social program that will give participants an opportunity to enjoy the spectacular location of central Vancouver Island.

Accommodation
A block of rooms has been reserved in university residences across the road from the main conference site; these are very modestly priced at 30 CAD/night. Unfortunately only single rooms will be available. There is one bathroom for every two rooms. There are also several good hotels in downtown Nanaimo, about 3 kilometres away, with which we have negotiated good rates. More information is available on the conference web site (http://www.viu.ca/math/pp/StudentResidence.htm, http://www.viu.ca/math/pp/Hotels.htm)

The conference is being organized as a satellite of the 16th Annual Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, which will be at the University of British Columbia, June 28 - July 2.

Committee:
Michael Albert, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Einar Steingrimsson, Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Zvezdelina Stankova, Mills College (California)
Julian West, Vancouver Island University (Canada)

Location

The conference will take place in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.