[Swarm Announce] Dates for SwarmFest 2005, Turin, Italy

[Steve Railsback]

Agent-based modelers:

Swarm Development Group is planning ahead for SwarmFest *2005*. Pietro 
Terna of the University of Torino (Turin) has offered to host our first 
European SwarmFest.

The proposed site is the Villa Gualino, a conference center in Torino: 
http://www.regione.piemonte.it/cultura/gualino/
Villa Gualino is associated with the Institute for Scientific 
Interchange, which has several research programs in multi-agent systems 
and complexity: http://www.isi.it .

Pietro tentatively reserved the facility for March 19-22, 2005 (Easter 
is March 27). But we are wondering if more people could attend if we 
held SwarmFest after spring semesters at US universities are over- 
perhaps the first week of June.

We are informed that airfares between US and Europe should not be very 
different between March and early June--usually they go up in mid-June.

If you think its date could affect your ability to attend SwarmFest 
Italia 2005, please tell us your preference for either March 19-22 or 
early June. Do this by sending an email to Pietro *by January 30*: 
address@hidden .

Thank you,

The SDG Board of Directors

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