(fwd) INVITATION: Preregister for ICM98 !!! IMU and ICM98-servers in action
- Subject: [mg2620] (fwd) INVITATION: Preregister for ICM98 !!! IMU and ICM98-servers in action
- From: schulze at zib-berlin.de (Rainer Schulze)
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:58:49 -0500
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The following announcement by Prof. Martin Groetschel I post to several newsgroups asking readers for redistribution to interested mathematicians: Rainer Schulze, postmaster at zib-berlin.de -- Rainer Schulze PHONE: +49 30 / 89604-187 Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer EMAIL: Schulze at ZIB-Berlin.DE Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) FAX: +49 30 / 89604-125 Heilbronner Str. 10 D-10711 Berlin-Wilmersdorf ---------------------------cut here----------------------------- November 24, 1995 >Subject: INVITATION: Preregister for ICM98 !!! IMU and ICM98-servers in action Dear colleague: We believe that you might be interested in a new service that has recently been set up for mathematicians around the world. With a similar e-mail we have taken up our correspondence with all those persons who have shown interest in the international affairs of mathematics by preregistering for International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM98) to be held in Berlin, Germany from August 18 to 27, 1998. We will regularly send information to preregistered persons about progress in organizing ICM98 and about news concerning the International Mathematical Union (IMU). Please find below the copy of a letter that was sent recently to all adhering organizations of IMU. This letter announces the establishment of the IMU-server that we would like to play the role of an international homepage of the world of mathematics. How to access the IMU-server is described in the letter below. We encourage you to distribute copies of this mail to your friends and colleagues so that this new service becomes known by as many mathematicians as possible. If you have any questions concerning the server or the International Mathematical Union please write to Jacob Palis, the IMU Secretary (e-mail: imu at impa.br) and/or to Martin Groetschel, President of the ICM98 Organizing Committee (e-mail: groetschel at zib-berlin.de). The letter below also explains access to the ICM98-server. This server has been in existence since summer 1994 and has been restructured in the last few months. It will keep changing until the International Congress of Mathematicians will take place in Berlin from August 18 to 27, 1998. All news relevant for the participants and those persons who are interested in this event will be included in the server in the future. The most interesting news will be distributed by e-mail to all mathematicians who have preregistered. Thus, please inform all your friends and colleagues interested in ICM98 about the existence of this server. If you have any questions about ICM98 you can send an e-mail letter to the following address: icm98 at zib-berlin.de E-mails sent to this address will reach the ICM98 secretariat and will be distributed to the person in the Organizing Committee most capable to answer the letter. But you can also look up the homepage of the Organizing Committee in the ICM98-server where you can find all currently existing committees and all members of the Organizing Committee with e-mail, postal addresses and telephone and fax numbers. We are looking forward to your preregistration! Sincerely Martin Groetschel David Mumford Jacob Palis Enclosure ------circular letter to all adhering organizations of IMU -------- Dear Professor xxxxx, We are writing on behalf of the International Mathematical Union to draw your attention to a new initiative of putting the IMU on the World Wide Web. The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik in Berlin (ZIB) has been working together with the Executive Committee of the IMU to compose a ``home page'' for IMU. You can access this home page using any of the standard Internet tools, such as Mosaic, Netscape, etc. through the URL: http://elib.zib-berlin.de/IMU Gopher access is possible through the following address: gopher://elib.zib-berlin.de:70/11imu The IMU server can be accessed via telnet as follows: telnet elib.zib-berlin.de Login: imu no password required We invite you to try this out and send us your comments. We hope this WWW home page will serve several purposes. The first is to inform all members of the international mathematical community of what the IMU is doing. Secondly, they can find there descriptions of various programs from which they can benefit: the IMU lectures, exchanges with the developing countries, conferences being sponsored, etc. Thirdly, the IMU server is also a collection of data that everyone can use to find the addresses of the main mathematical organizations of the world. We are planning to extend the scope of the IMU server so that it will become a true ``home page of the world of mathematics''. You can already find a number of links to mathematical and mathematics related information offered around the world. Just look at the ``Links to the Mathematical World'' in the IMU server. Fourthly, the IMU server will give everyone immediate access to the latest information on the next International Congress (ICM98 in Berlin), as well as the ability to preregister for this congress by the WWW server of ICM98 that can be ``clicked'' in the IMU server or can be directly accessed through the following URL: http://elib.zib-berlin.de/ICM98 The ICM98 server contains a forms page for ``preliminary preregistration''. This is not a formal registration yet. Everybody preregistered for ICM98 will be informed in the future automatically about the progress of the organization of the congress by email and will receive the final registration material etc. this way. Please encourage your colleagues interested in ICM98 to preregister for the congress. Whoever does not have the possibility to use the advanced Internet tools described above can send an email to the following address: icm98 at zib-berlin.de and writing PRELIMINARY PREREGISTRATION into the SUBJECT line. In the body of the mail the following information should be contained: Last Name: First and Middle Name: E-mail: Phone Number: Fax Number: Institution: Street: ZIP Code: City: Country: Every member country of IMU is listed in the IMU server. We have one very specific request: Can you examine the entry dealing with your country, and check whether the names and addresses are correct? We want to make every effort to keep this data collection up to date and correct. Of course we would be happy if you could provide us with additional information that we could add to the entry of your country. In particular, links to existing or planned servers of mathematical societies, institutes etc. are most welcome. The best way to inform us of any changes is to email us the corrections and suggestions to ``groetschel at ZIB-Berlin.DE'', with a copy to ``imu at impa.br''. We have a second request. We are aware of the fact that Internet communication is sometimes slow due to network overload. We would therefore be glad if some institution in your country would agree to mirror both the IMU and the ICM98 servers so that mathematicians in your country have a faster and more comfortable access. Technical details concerning this matter will be handled by the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik in Berlin (ZIB). An institution willing to mirror the servers should contact Martin Groetschel (email: groetschel at zib-berlin.de). Finally we have a third request. We would be happy if you could distribute the information contained in this letter to the mathematicians in your society and your country in whatever form you find appropriate (emailing a copy of this letter to interested colleagues, a note about this letter in your newsletter, etc.). Sincerely yours, Martin Groetschel (President of the ICM98 Organizing Committee and Vice-President of ZIB) David Mumford (IMU President) Jacob Palis (IMU Secretary) Addresses: Martin Groetschel Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Heilbronner Str. 10 D-10711 Berlin Germany Phone: +49/30/89604-210 -208 (secr.) -125 (fax) E-Mail: groetschel at zib-berlin.de David Bryant Mumford Dept. of Mathematics Harvard University Science Center, One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Phone: +1 617 495-5487 Fax: +1 617 495 5132 E-Mail: mumford at math.harvard.edu Jacob Palis Instituto Matem=E1tica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) Estrada Dona Castorina 110 Jardim Botanico 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil Phone: +55 21-511 1749 or 21-294 9447 Fax: +55 21-512 4112 or 21-512 4115 E-Mail: jpalis at impa.br or imu at impa.br