Siena, Italy

First Announcement
A Conference in Algebraic Geometry
Projective Varieties with Unexpected Properties, a conference in honour of the 150^th anniversary of the birth of G. Veronese.
The conference will be held in Siena, Italy, June 8-12, 2004.
The aim of the conference is to give a description of the current “state of the art” in the study of varieties whose embedding has some ‘non-standard’ feature: e.g. ‘small’ k-secant variety, degenerate Gauss maps, varieties with many degenerate subvarieties, etc.
Also the aim is to present connections with many non-geometric sounding problems (e.g. in inverse systems, rank of tensors, polynomial interpolation, algebraic statistics, algebraic complexity theory, ..) with applications to other fields of Mathematics.
Organizing Committee: Luca Chiantini, Anthony Geramita, Cristiano Bocci.
Scientific Committee: Ciro Ciliberto (Chair), Brian Harbourne, Antonio Lanteri, Rosa Maria Miró-Roig, Kristian Ranestad.
Anyone who would like to participate with a contribution is invited to contact some member of the Scientific Committee with their proposal. All proposals will be considered by the full Scientific Committee.
More information on the schedule and about accommodations is available on the conference website and on the web pages of the members of the Organizing Committee (Chiantini, Geramita, Bocci).