This is the third announcement for a workshop on the probable evolution of mathematical communication in coming years. It is presently sponsored by

the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
the Centre de Recherches Math[integral]matiques (CRM)
the Fields Institute (FI)
the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), and
the International Mathematical Union (IMU)

with secondary sponsorship from the American Mathematics Society (AMS), the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), Cambridge University Press, Springer-Verlag, Wolfram Research, Inc. , and Waterloo-Maple, Inc.

The workshop 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 --- from various perspectives and engaging diverse stake-holder groups. 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). The schedule will be:

December 1 (Wednesday morning):

A half-day training workshop, run by David Hoffman at MSRI, on setting up and maintaining streaming video.

December 1-3 (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. Confirmed speakers so far include:

December 4 (Saturday):

A one-day symposium entitled:

The Future of Electronic Publishing in the Sciences

in the Anderson Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus. There will be two talks in the morning and two in the afternoon, with a buffet lunch in between. The speakers will be

Phil Agre Pamela Samuelson

Hal Varian Will Hearst

December 5 (Sunday):

The Scientific Committee of the conference is:

• Francois Bergeron, CRM, bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
• Jonathan Borwein, PIMS & CEIC co-chair, jborwein@cecm.sfu.ca
• Joe Buhler, MSRI co-chair, jpb@msri.org
• Bradd Hart, FI, hartb@mcmaster.ca
• Martin Groetschel, IMU & CEIC, groetschel@zib.de
• Peter Michor, EMS & CEIC, Peter.Michor@esi.ac.at
• Andrew Odlyzko, amo@research.att.com

Registration: Please register on-line if possible. Registration forms can also be printed and mailed to the address given below.

Funding: Some funding is available to support workshop attendance. Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding application information can be found at the bottom of the application forms. You will be asked to send a letter explaining your interest in the workshop along with your registration form. If you are a student, solicit a letter from a faculty advisor. Otherwise, send a current vita or bibliography. For fullest consideration, applications should be received one month before the workshop

Lodging
Transportation from local airports
Directions to MSRI
Visa information for foreign visitors

For more information:
Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to workshops@msri.org or by regular mail to:

The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
1000 Centennial Drive Berkeley, CA 94720-5070.
USA

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