/     It's difficult to gather almost seventy conference participants in one place at one time, but about 70% still showed up :-)

Conference poster with the participants' autographs. In addition to the light cone of space with the Berwald-Moor metric, it also conveys the wisdom of the god Thoth: "What is below is also above" and "Egypt is arranged in the image of the heavens."     /     And this is almost the full list of participants at last year's Finsler conference.

   
Louis Kaufman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (left) and Michael Wright, UK, France     /     Zhongming Shen, National Science Foundation, USA

   
Gheorghe Atanasiu, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania     /     Vladimir Balan, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics I, Bucharest, Romania

   
Pete Man Wong, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA     /     Lajos Tamási, Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Hungary

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Yuri Vladimirov, Physics Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University     /     Vladimir Kassandrov, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow

   
Alexander Pozhidaev, Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia     /     Grigory Garas'ko, VEI, Moscow and Nicoletta Brinzei, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania

   
Vladimir Chernov, Samara Aerospace University, Image Processing Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara     /     Sergey Siparov, Civil Aviation Academy, Physics Department, St. Petersburg

   
Pavel Sukharevsky, Research Institute for Strategic Stability, Moscow     /     Sergey Lebedev, Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University N. E. Bauman

   
Sergey Bolokhov, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosova     /     Nicoletta Brinzei, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania

   
(from left to right) Marius Paun, Gheorghe Muteanu, Emil Stoico, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania     /     Tolga Yarman, Okan University, Kadikoy and Savronik, Organize Sanayii Bolgesi, Eskisehir, Türkiye

   
Rustam Ibadov, Samarkand University, Webkistan     /     Lorenzo Sindoni, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

   
Peter Rowlands, University of Liverpool, UK     /     (left to right) Andrey Morozov, Vladimir Gladyshev, Boris Nazarenko. Bauman Moscow State Technical University Bauman

   
Dmitry and Elena Pavlov, MSTU. N.E. Bauman     /     Conference Summary

   
Maxim Lyamenkov (left) and Andrey Sklyarov. Conference videographers. Russia     /     View of the Great Pyramids from the conference hall windows

Excursions to the pyramids formed a significant part of the conference program. A photo report of this cultural part of the conference can be found at: http://lah.ru/expedition/egypt2006/titul.htm