Dates

Saturday 20 - Thursday 25, September 2003

Location

Aulla (Italy) is located in the northwestern part of Tuscany along the valley of river Magra, in the heart of the Lunigiana. The surroundings include the Cinque Terre and the marble quarries of the Alpi Apuane.

Most of the event will take place at the Conference Hall of Municipio di Aulla. The Town Hall (Municipio) is located in the centre of the city of Aulla, at Piazza Gramsci 24. One session and social gathering will take place at the Fortezza della Brunella (a Renaissance fortress), recently renewed and hosting the Museo di Storia naturale della Lunigiana (Lunigiana Museum of Natural History).

Organizers

Local

Almo FARINA (Co-Chairman, Università di Urbino, IT)
Alessandro VILLA (Co-Chairman, Université de Grenoble "Joseph Fourier", FR)

Lucia SIMONINI (Museo di Storia Naturale, Aulla, IT)
Ana Inés CRACCO (Neuroheuristic Research Laboratory, Lausanne, CH)

External

Roman BORISYUK (University of Plymouth, UK)
Guido BUGMANN (University of Plymouth, UK)
Petr LANSKY (Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ)
Jean-Pierre ROSPARS (INRA, Versailles, FR)
Laura SACERDOTE (Università di Torino, IT)
Shunsuke SATO (Osaka University, JP)

Sponsors

• Città di Aulla (City Council of Aulla) and Mayor dr. Lucio BARANI
  

• Museo di Storia naturale della Lunigiana (Lunigiana Museum of Natural History)

• Dip. Matematica, Università di Torino

• Neuroheuristic Research Laboratory (University of Lausanne and ISI Torino)
  

Publication

• Editorial Preface of BioSystems vol. 79

• BioSystems vol. 79 (1-3)