1. General Information

1.1 Introduction

Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine, National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI", Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Mykhailo Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Vinnytsya National Technical University, Ukrainian Mathematical Society would like to announce the Bunyakovsky International Conference (Kyiv, August 16 -- 21, 2004). The Conference will be held in Kyiv at the Institute of Mathematics.
The Conference will be organized to honour of the eminent mathematician of the XIX century Viktor Yakovych Bunyakovsky (1804-1889), one of the founders of the St-Petersburg scientific school of the number theory, Vice-President of the St-Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1864 -- 1889). The Ukrainian scientific community will commemorate the bicentenary of the researcher because V.Ya. Bunyakovsky was born in the city of Bar in the Vinnytsya region of Ukraine. The scope of the conference will include the range of the problems Bunyakovsky was interested in:

mathematical analysis;
number theory;
theory of probability and its applications; actuarial mathematics;
mathematics education and mathematical terminology.

1.2 Organizing Committee

Anatoliy Samoilenko, Chairman,
Myroslav Gorbachuk, Vice-Chairman,
Mykola Swirzhevsky, Vice-Chairman,
Halyna Syta, Secretary;
Vyacheslav Boyko, Yaroslav Vynnyshyn, Iryna Yegorchenko, Tatiana Karataeva, Olena Magda,
Vasyl Ostrovskyi, Natalia Ryabova, Stanislav Spichak -- Institute of Mathematics of the NASU;
Natalia Pankratova -- National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI";
Volodymyr Grabko -- Vinnytsya National Technical University .

1.3. Program Committee

Yuriy Berezansky    Oleksiy Boholyubov Volodymyr Vyshensky
Oleksandr Hannyushkin Myroslav Gorbachuk    Mykhailo Zgurovsky
Vitaliy Klochko Volodymyr Korolyuk    Valeriy Melnyk
Borys Mokin Mykola Portenko Mykola Pratsiovytyi
Yaroslav Prytula Andriy Yurachkivsky Mykhailo Yadrenko    (all of them are from Ukraine)
Larysa Brylevskaya (St-Petersburg, Russia),    Eugene Seneta (Sydney, Australia),
Roman Andrushkiw (New York, USA).

1.4 Travel and Accommodation

August 16 is the arrival day. Participants should make their own travel arrangements to Kyiv. Hotel accommodation will be arranged on request.

2. Scientific Program

The scientific program will include plenary and short lectures. Plenary lectures (40 minutes) will be given in the morning session. Short lectures of 20-30 minutes will be held in parallel sessions in the afternoon. Overhead projection facilities will be available.

Abstracts should be submitted in English until April, 15, 2004. Abstracts will be distributed at the beginning of the Conference.

3. Social Events

In the evening of the arrival day, Monday, August 16, an informal welcome meeting will take place. In the afternoon of Thursday, August 19, the conference excursion to the historical monuments of Kyiv will be organized, and the same day in the evening the conference banquet will be held.

4. After-Conference Excursion

From August 20 to 21, conference participants will have the opportunity to take part in a two days' after-conference excursion to Bar, the native place of Viktor Bunyakovsky, and to Vinnytsya, staying the night in the City Hotel in Vinnytsya.

If you would like to receive further information, please write to the conference address and indicate the fields of your interest.

Conference Address:

Bunyakovsky Conference
Dr. H.Syta
Inst. of Mathematics Nat. Acad. Sci. Ukraine
Tereshchenkivska Str.,3
01601, Kyiv-4,
Ukraine

E-mails: syta@imath.kiev.ua or random@imath.kiev.ua

WEB page: www.imath.kiev.ua/~syta/bunyak