Application for participation in the EIMI program TETE-A-TETE IN RUSSIA I. Western participant(s) 1) last name Makowsky 2) given name(s) Johann A. 3) citizenship Swiss 4) degree, title(s) Ph.D. 5) affiliation Department of Computer Science Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 6) position Professor 7) mailing address J.A.Makowsky Department of Computer Science Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel 8) e-mail address janos@cs.technion.ac.il 9) phone number (04) 333-630 10) FAX number - II. Russian participant(s) 1) family name Dantsin 2) given name Evgeny 3) patronymic Yakovlevich 4) degree, title(s) Cand. of Sci. 5) affiliation Laboratory of Mathematical Logic Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg 6) position Senior Researcher 7) mailing address Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg Fontanka 27 191011 St.Petersburg, Russia 8) e-mail address dantsin@pdmi.ras.ru 9) phone number (812) 117-43-92 10) FAX number (812) 310-53-77 III. Subject and form of proposed joint work (a few phrases) Theory of dependencies in databases. Computational complexity. IV. Desired duration is one week in the period from 15th to 23rd of August, 1996.