[geometry-ml:03230] 2nd announcement of SIDE13 ＠ Fukuoka, Japan 11-17 Nov. 2018

[Kenji Kajiwara]

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to make the second announcement of the 13th edition of the International
Conference on Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations (SIDE 13), during 11-17 November
2018, in Fukuoka, Japan.

Please post and/or circulate the attached announcement freely.

Yours Sincerely,
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Kenji Kajiwara, Chair, Organizing Committee of SIDE 13
Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University
744 Motooka, Fukuoka 819-0395, JAPAN
e-mail: kaji ＠ imi.kyushu-u.ac.jp 
Tel. & Fax +81-92-802-4488
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13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYMMETRIES AND INTEGRABILITY OF DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS (SIDE 13)

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT       
                                                                             7 January, 2018

Venue: JR Hakata City Conference Rooms, Fukuoka, Japan
Dates: Sunday 11 November (arrival day) to Saturday 17 November 2018 (departure day)

SIDE 13 is the thirteenth in a series of biennial conferences devoted to Symmetries and
Integrability of Difference Equations, and in particular to: ordinary and partial difference
equations, analytic difference equations, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, symmetries
and reductions, discrete differential geometry, integrable discrete systems on graphs, integrable
dynamical mappings, (discrete) Painlevé equations, integrability criteria, Yang-Baxter type
equations, cluster algebras, difference Galois theory, quantum mappings, quantum field theory on
space-time lattices, representation theory, combinatorics, numerical models of differential
equations, discrete stochastic models and other related topics.

The first SIDE conference took place in Estérel, Quebec, Canada, May 22-29, 1994. The event was so
successful that it gave rise to the series of conferences since held in the United Kingdom, Italy,
Japan, France, Finland, Germany, Australia, Bulgaria, China, India and Canada.

SIDE 13 will take place at JR Hakata City Conference Rooms, in Fukuoka, Japan, from November 11,
2018 (arrival day) to November 17, 2018 (departure day). JR Hakata City is located within JR Hakata
Station in Fukuoka, and is just five minutes travel from Fukuoka Airport by subway. Fukuoka is one
of the oldest historic cities in Japan and famous for its excellent local food.  Transportation to
and from other major cities in Japan is frequent and reasonably fast: there are more than 60 flights
per day from Tokyo (1:30), and more than 70 JR Shinkansen trains per day from Osaka (typically
2:30).

Organizing Committee

* Kenji Kajiwara (Chair, IMI, Kyushu University, Fukuoka)
* Saburo Kakei (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)
* Ken-ichi Maruno (Waseda University, Tokyo)
* Nozomu Matsuura (Fukuoka University, Fukuoka)
* Masatoshi Noumi (Kobe University, Kobe)
* Daisuke Takahashi (Waseda University, Tokyo)
* Tetsuji Tokihiro (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
* Satoshi Tsujimoto (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
* Ralph Willox (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
* Yasuhiko Yamada (Kobe University, Kobe)

International Advisory Committee

* Frank Nijhoff (Chair, Leeds)
* Alexander Bobenko (TU Berlin)
* Lucia Di Vizio (Univ. de Versailles-St Quentin)
* Basil Grammaticos (CNRS, Paris VII)
* Rei Inoue (Chiba)
* Jarmo Hietarinta (Turku)
* Nalini Joshi (Sydney)
* Kenji Kajiwara (Kyushu)
* Decio Levi (Rome TRE)
* Vassilis Papageorgiou (Patras)
* Junkichi Satsuma (Musashino University)
* Wolfgang Schief (UNSW)
* Yuri Suris (TU Berlin)
* Claude Viallet (CNRS, Paris VI)
* Pavel Winternitz (CRM, Montreal)
* Da-jun Zhang (Shanghai University)

Scientific Committee

* Ralph Willox (Chair, Tokyo)
* Wolfgang Schief (UNSW)
* Lucia Di Vizio (Versailles-St Quentin)
* Decio Levi (Rome TRE)
* Satoshi Tsujimoto (Kyoto)
* Rei Inoue (Chiba)
* Takao Suzuki (Kinki University)

It is expected that the number of participants to the meeting will exceed the number of available
slots for talks and posters. The scientific committee will therefore have to make a selection of
proposed presentations. Applicants will be informed of the decision of the scientific committee by
August 10 2018.

In general, all talks will be allotted 30 minutes (including discussions). A poster session will be
organized and each presenter will have a short two minute oral presentation to advertise the
poster. Poster Awards will be organized for students and early career researchers.

There will be no parallel sessions.

Instead of publishing proceedings we plan to arrange a book of abstracts (1 page each in A4 size).

Important Dates

* Registration and submission opens May 1 2018
 - Early bird registration deadline: September 15 2018
 - Final deadline: September 30 2018
* Submission deadline for titles and abstracts: July 31 2018
 - Notification of the result of each application: August 10 2018
* Financial support application deadline: June 15 2018
 - Notification of financial support: July 15 2018

Registration Fee and Related Costs

 * Registration fee:  30,000JPY (Until September 15 2018)
                      35,000JPY (After September 15 2018)
 * Conference dinner:  8,000JPY
 * Excursion:          2,000JPY

Accompanying persons will not be required to pay the registration fee. However, if they choose to
attend, the conference dinner and excursion will be charged as above.

Accommodation

Currently, accommodation for participants has been secured in blocks at:
* Hyatt Regency Fukuoka (rates to be confirmed)
https://www.hyattregencyfukuoka.co.jp/en/ 
* Hakata Green Hotel No.1 10,000JPY
https://www.booking.com/hotel/jp/hakata-green-no-1-fukuoka.html
* Hotel Cliocourt Hakata 10,500JPY
https://www.booking.com/hotel/jp/clio-court-hakata.html?aid=330843;lang=en
* Reisenkaku Hotel Ekimae 7,700(6,700)JPY
* ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Fukuoka 20,000JPY
* HakataEkimae SB Hotel (rates to be confirmed)
* Hotel Route-Inn Hakata Ekimae 9,000JPY
* Hotel Hokke Club Fukuoka 10,700(9,500) JPY
https://www.hokke.co.jp/english/fukuoka/
*JR Kyushu Hotel Blossom Hakata Chuo 10,100 (8,800) JPY (w double bed)
http://www.jrk-hotels.co.jp/en/Hakatachuo/
* Dukes Hotel Hakata (rates to be confirmed)
http://www.dukes-hotel.com/hakata/index.php

The above rates refer to single rooms with breakfast per night (w/o breakfast inside the braces).
Rooms with double bed or two beds will be available on request.

The above rooms will be available through the online accommodation booking system which will be
prepared together with an online registration system by the organizing committee. November is high
season in Fukuoka and sometimes it is difficult to book accommodation.  For example, the Sumo
(Japanese traditional wrestling) tournament will be held in Fukuoka during November 11-25 which is
expected to make the booking tight. It is highly recommended to secure the booking sufficiently
early if you would like to stay at other hotels.

Financial Support

Limited financial support, mainly for early career researchers and students giving presentations,
will be available. The deadline of application will be June 15 and the result will be notified July
15.

* Early Career Researchers: Researchers within five years after obtaining their Ph.D degree, counted
from May 1 2018.

Other information such as detailed submission guidelines will be given in later announcements.

For further information, please see our website:
http://side13conference.net

JR Hakata City Conference Rooms:
http://www.jrhakatacity.com.e.bv.hp.transer.com/communicationspace/meetingroom/
(Chinese and Korean versions are also available from https://www.jrhakatacity.com/translation/ )

For information on the SIDE series see:
http://side-conferences.net/