The Future of Mathematical Communication
1-5 December at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Berkeley,
California
Full details at http://msri.org/activities/events/9900/fmc99/
This is the third announcement for a workshop on the probable evolution of
mathematical communication in coming years. It will take place almost exactly
five years after the 1994 MSRI meeting on "The Future of Mathematical
Communication" and is intended to provide a snapshot at the start of the
millennium of the present state of mathematical communication and a provocative
look at the future. It is hoped that this will provide a useful precursor to
world-wide mathematical activities in the World Mathematical Year, WMY 2000, as
the IMU has designated the year 2000.
The conference will have several disparate associated events: a half-day
training workshop on on the use of streaming video, a one-day symposium on
electronic publishing in the sciences, aimed at attracting a broader audience,
and a session of talks and discussion sponsored by the IMU's Committee on
Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC).
1 December (Wednesday morning): A half-day training workshop, run by David
Hoffman at MSRI, on setting up and maintaining streaming video.
1-3 December (Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, Friday): The workshop itself, with
talks on "publishing" and "tools." Both will be broadly construed and will
address issues such as: preprint servers, journals, books, subscription models,
intellectual property, copyright, protocols and languages for scientific
communication, metadata and search mechanisms, multi-media, interactive tools,
computational packages, etc.
4 December (Saturday): A one-day symposium entitled: The Future of Electronic
Publishing in the Sciences
5 December (Sunday): The IMU's Committee on Electronic Information and
Communication (CEIC) will have public talks and discussions.
To register, participants should send their registration either by email to
[log in to unmask], by fax to: (510) 642-8609, or by regular mail to: The Future of
Mathematical Communication, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000
Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA 94720-5070. Registration fee is $100 per person.
Further details and registration forms are available online at
http://msri.org/activities/events/9900/fmc99/
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School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Birmingham tel 0121-414 7095
Birmingham B15 2TT fax 0121-414 3389
One of 24 CTI subject centres working to encourage the use of
computers for teaching and learning in Higher Education. Our
Web pages can be found at http://www.bham.ac.uk/ctimath/
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