We are grateful to the National Science Foundation and the Michigan Math Journal for providing funding for this conference. We are therefore able to offer a limited amount of financial support to people wishing to attend. In particular we encourage graduate students and recent PhD's to apply for financial support.

Preference will be given to support requests received by July 31, 2005. However we expect to fund also some requests received after this date, so please request funds if they are needed for you to attend.

To apply, send an email: to hass@math.ucdavis.edu with the subject
"Conference Funding Request"
containing the following information:

Faculty, postdocs, recent PhD's: A short cv and 1-3 sentences about why the conference is related to your research.

Graduate students: A few sentences about why the conference is related to your research interest and the name and email of a faculty member who can be contacted if we have questions.

Initial support decisions will be announced in early September. Reimbursements will be made after the conference. To get reimbursed, follow directions that will be posted here. Print and fill in the following form: Reimbursement form (pdf format). Then mail to
Department of Mathematics
UC Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, Ca 95616-8633