Main Conference Topics: topological dynamics, universality, factors, extensions and embeddings, entropy, symbolic dynamics

Invited Speakers: Bohuslav Balcar (Prague), François Blanchard (Marseille), Tomasz Downarowicz (Wroclaw), Eli Glasner (Tel Aviv), Feliks Przytycki (Warsaw)

List of participants includes: F. Balibrea, H. Bruin, V. Jimenez, J. Kwiatkowski, G. Levin, A. Maass, M. Megrelishvili, M. Mentzen, M. Misiurewicz, K. Petersen, P. Raith, K. Simon, J. Smítal, L. Snoha, K. Thomsen.

Schedule: The conference will be held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - on the local map building F2 (change) of the Czech Technical University in Prague.  The conference will start on Monday July 18 at 8:45 a.m. and finish on Friday July 22 at 5 p.m.  On Wednesday July 20 there will be lectures in the morning only.  Five one hour invited lectures, a number of 40 minute talks and 25 minute contributed talks are planned.  The talks will be allocated by the Organizing Committee with account of recommendations from the Conference Board.

Call for Papers: No proceedings for our conference are planned; papers based on lectures and refereed by usual procedure can be published as a special issue of Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae (reviewed by MR).  The deadline for submission of papers for refereeing is October 31, 2005.

Conference Fee: The conference fee 55,- Euro includes services, refreshment and social party (July 21, 7 p.m.); it will be due at the start of the conference.

Accommodation:

• Hotel Krystal, address: J. Martího 2/407, Praha 6 - Veleslavín (single rooms with breakfast; around 50,- Euro/night/person)
• Hotel Masaryk, address: Thákurova 1, Praha 6 - Dejvice (double rooms with breakfast; around 30,- Euro/night/person)
• Villa Kozlovka, address: Kozlovská 1021/24, Praha 6 - Dejvice (single rooms with breakfast; around 50,- Euro/night/person)

A cheaper accommodation in student dormitories (around 25,- Euro/night/person).

Support: The conference is partially supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

Address: J. Bobok, KM FSv CVUT, Thákurova 7, 166 29 Praha 6, Czechia; bobokmat.fsv.cvut.cz

1) Visegrad is a regional group of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Our conference will be partially supported by the International Visegrad Fund.