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Dear Plus Readers, Over the last month, some of you may have not received our fortnightly newsletter due to some technical difficulties at our end. We apologise wholeheartedly for this and so now I am listing below the maths news published on Plus during this time. Sincerely and happy reading, The Plus team ******** * Modelling the immune system Mathematicians lead effort to build common model of the immune system http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/bio/index.html * 2007 Nobel Prizes won by mathematicians Ground-breaking work in uncovering optimal funding mechanisms in financial markets http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/Nobel/index.html * The Arctic ice cap - how long has it got? Expedition sets out to determine the North Pole's future http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/arctic/index.html * Modelling digital music file sharing Survival modelling of albums in the Top 100 casts light on the impact of file sharing http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/filesharing/index.html * Beautiful young minds A BBC documentary explores the International Mathematics Olympiad http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/bbc/index.html * The Plus new writers award 2007 Become a Plus author and win an iPod by joining our writing competition http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/competition/index.html * A Symmetry Approach to Viruses A beautiful mathematical method for modelling viruses http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/twarock/index.html Plus ... more news from the world of maths in the Plus blog, including the Microsoft Excel 2007 Bug, Cambridge University efforts to bring maths to the less fortunate and reports from the York Science Festival. http://plus.maths.org/blog/ ********** Happy reading from the Plus team! ********** If you received this message you have subscribed yourself to the PLUS-ANNOUNCE mailing list via our website. If you do not wish to remain on the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=plus-announce&A=1 and follow the instructions to leave the list. If you have any comments on this newsletter, or Plus Magazine, please contact us at [log in to unmask] - we are always happy to hear from our readers! Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. -------------- Marc West Plus Magazine http://plus.maths.org Millennium Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA Phone: +44 (0) 1223764268 email: [log in to unmask]