PROGRAM  ORGANIZERS      INVITED  PARTICIPANTS                     VENUE    DATES  Schedule   Abstracts                                                              Affine Algebraic Geometry                R.V. Gurjar, TIFR, India   S.M. Bhatwadekar, TIFR, India  M. Miyanishi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan  Shreeram S. Abhyankar, USA Shigeru Kuroda, Japan David Wright, USA  Teruo Asanuma, Japan L. Makar-Limanov, USA Hisao Yoshihara, Japan Philippe Bonnet, Turkey* Alok K. Maharana, India Jie-Tai Yu, Hongkong  M. K. Das, India Kayo Masuda, Japan De-Qi Zhang, Republic of Singapore  P. Das, India M. Miyanishi, Japan  A.K. Dutta, India Shameek Paul, India    S. Gurjar  Pierrette Cassou-Nogues, France    S. Iitaka, Japan  B.P. Purnaprajna, USA   Zbigniew Jelonek, Poland Fumio Sakai, Japan  Ming-chang Kang, Taiwan  Sarang Sane, India M. K. Keshari, India  Avinash Sathaye, USA.    Takashi Kishimoto, Japan Ronnie Sebastian Hideo Kojima, Japan  Ryuji Tanimoto, Japan   Mariusz Koras, Poland  Vinay Wagh, India   Fireflies Intercultural Centre, Dinepalya, Kaggalipura Post Bangalore, 560082, India Website: www.pipaltree.org.in A route map of surrounding areas can be seen here 22-28 December, 2008   Schedule of talks at a glance. The titles and abstracts of the papers are available in PDF format here Group photograph of the conference participants