ICM98-CL31 (98/07/22): PROCEEDINGS, ABSTRACT BOOKS, FINAL PROGRAM, ...
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E-mail information service of the
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS
Berlin, Germany, August 18 - 27, 1998
31st Circular Letter
Subject: ICM98-CL31: PROCEEDINGS, ABSTRACT BOOKS, FINAL
PROGRAM, BERLIN INTELLIGENCER, DAILY NEWS,
PROGRAM CHANGES, AD-HOC PRESENTATIONS
Dear Colleague:
Four more weeks to go, and many of the recipients of
this e-mail will be sitting in the great lecture hall of
the International Congress Center in Berlin listening to
the speeches at the Opening Ceremony of ICM'98!
Those who have not registered yet should seriously consider
taking part. You may miss an outstanding event! Registration
can be done electronically via the URL
http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/RegistrationForm.html
Of course, registration upon arrival in Berlin is another
possibility. Just go to the on-site registration counter
in the Lichthof on the main building of TU Berlin (there
will be signs to guide you).
The main topic of this Circular Letter are the PRINT PRODUCTS
that you will receive with your congress kit at on-site
registration in Berlin. You will probably get much more than
you expect. Thus, please LEAVE ROOM IN YOUR SUITCASE so that
you will be able to carry all the material home.
1. PROCEEDINGS
The ICM'98 organizers are proud to be able to announce two
absolute HIGHLIGHTS:
- two of the three volumes of the ICM'98 proceedings will
be distributed at the Congress,
- these two volumes are electronically available from today!
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/
Because of extremely tight deadlines (paper submission deadline:
July 1; last paper received on July 17 at 19:00) we were not
sure whether we would be able to achieve our publication goals;
but thanks to the efforts of all persons involved, in particular,
of Ulf Rehmann (who is doing all the technical editing) Volumes
II and III of the ICM'98 proceedings went to the printer
electronically in the evening of Friday, July 17. The books
will be printed in Bavaria and shipped to Berlin on August 14
so that we can distribute them to every ordinary ICM'98
member at the beginning of the Congress!
These two volumes will contain 160 of the 166 invited
section presentations. They have 883 and 827 pages,
respectively, and will be produced as hardcover books.
Volume I will contain the plenary addresses, the words of welcome
at the Opening Ceremony, the laudationes and photos of the prize
winners, the list of participants, and general information about
ICM'98. Most of the material of Volume I can only be produced
after the Congress.
We plan to finish Volume I right after the end of the Congress.
This volume will be mailed to every Ordinary ICM'98 Member. (We
will use the address under which you registered. So, please check
it (call the URL http://elib.zib.de:88/icm98/Participants.html)
if you don't want the book parcel to get lost.)
The three volume ICM'98 proceedings appear as an Extra Volume of
DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, the electronically produced "Journal der
Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", both in printed and in
electronic form. The editors of the Extra Volume are Gerd Fischer
(Duesseldorf) and Ulf Rehmann (Bielefeld).
I hope the ICM'98 participants and many others will appreciate
that the ICM'98 organizers make the proceedings very quickly
electronically available. This service is (and will stay)
FREE OF CHARGE to everybody interested.
2. ABSTRACT BOOKS
At registration in Berlin you will also obtain two abstract books,
one containing the abstracts of the Plenary and Invited Lectures,
and one containing the abstracts of all short communications and
poster presentations. The abstract books are already printed.
They have a length of 212 and 391 pages, respectively.
The electronic versions of the abstract books can be found under
the URL: http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/ICM98/
After the end of the Congress, the abstracts of the ad-hoc
presentations will be added to the electronic version of the
abstract book of short communications and poster presentations.
3. FINAL PROGRAM
We are currently also finishing the "program booklet". This
booklet will go to print on August 1.
We keep on updating the electronic version of the program
up to the beginning of the Congress so that the electronic
version may be a little more up-to-date than the printed one.
However, we are sure that only minor details will change.
The program booklet will contain all information about
- the schedule of the Plenary and Invited Lectures,
- the schedule of the short communications and poster sessions
(presented in several versions that will - at least we hope so -
help you find your way through the schedule of events easily).
The program booklet will also contain the list of authors, the
schedule of all special activities, the list of exhibitors,
and the schedule of all other events. Supplementary information
about availability of e-mail service, the use of libraries,
shopping hours, child care, social and tourist program, etc.
will complete this material.
The program booklet will have about 200 pages.
4. THE BERLIN INTELLIGENCER
Springer-Verlag and the DMV-Mitteilungen (Notices of
the German Mathematical Society) are proud to present
to you the BERLIN INTELLIGENCER, a unique magazine
produced on the occasion of the ICM'98.
This one-time special issue treats topics from
"Future of Mathematics" to "The New Architecture
in Berlin". It also wants to serve and accompany
you as your local guide to exploring the City.
You will find your personal copy in your Congress bag.
Extra copies (also for accompanying persons!) will be
available, e.g., at the Springer-booth, the table of
the German Mathematical Society (DMV) at the book exhibit,
and at the Congress office.
5. DAILY NEWS
Starting August 19, the Daily News, an informal newsletter,
will appear daily during the Congress. It will highlight
certain events, announce special activities, and inform
about program changes, cancellations, and additions. In
particular, the titles and the schedule of ad-hoc
presentations and sessions will be announced in the
Daily News.
The editor of the Daily News is Dirk Werner (FU Berlin,
werner@math.fu-berlin.de).
If you want to publish messages in the Daily News please
proceed as follows.
Before the Congress:
You can submit contributions to the Daily News to the
following email address:
daily_news@math.tu-berlin.de
We are already accepting contributions. Please specify
at what day of the Congress your message should be
published. Please try to be very short, we are not
prepared to publish long articles because the number
of available pages is limited. Thus, the editor may
have to be selective.
During ICM'98:
ICM'98 participants wishing to publish a message or
information of general interest in the Daily News
are kindly requested to fill in the `DAILY NEWS FORM'
that will be available at the conference office
(H 2036). Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to
daily_news@math.tu-berlin.de
Messages that should appear in the Daily News on a
particular day of the Congress have to be submitted
before 15:00 h the day before.
If we receive a message later we cannot guarantee
timely publication.
6. PROGRAM CHANGES (and DAILY NEWS):
Program changes, cancellations, and additions, announcements
of ad-hoc talks and sessions and of informal seminars will
be published in the Daily News (and posted at the ICM
information desks). If you want to report and publish an
announcement of this type,
DO NOT CONTACT THE DAILY NEWS.
Please contact the program desk in the conference office
(H 2036) and fill in a `PROGRAM FORM' available there.
Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to
program@math.tu-berlin.de
This e-mail address will be operational starting August 1.
Every program change triggers several activities (among
them a message to the Daily News) and is handled by a
special group different from the Daily News team.
The announcement of a program change, addition, etc. must
be submitted the day before the day to which it applies,
by 15:00 at the latest. Otherwise, a timely processing
cannot be guaranteed.
7. AD-HOC PRESENTATIONS
Here is some final information on ad-hoc sessions of short
communications or poster presentations (see ICM98-CL29
and the Second Announcement for more information).
We are currently accepting title and abstract submissions,
schedule these talks and let the speakers know the time
and room of their presentation.
We will STOP doing this on July 31, simply because we
will be extremely busy with other work and can't handle
scheduling of talks, etc. in the last days before the
Congress.
Those who - after July 31 - have the wish to make a
spontaneous contribution to the ICM'98 program are
kindly requested to submit the title and abstract
during the Congress as described in ICM98-CL29 and
sketched above. Alternatively, an e-mail can be sent to
program@math.tu-berlin.de.
These submissions will, however, not be processed
before the Congress. To find out the schedule of your
presentation please contact the program desk in the
conference office.
Martin Groetschel
President of the
ICM'98 Organizing Committee
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