E-mail information service of the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS Berlin, Germany, August 18 - 27, 1998 33rd Circular Letter Subject: ICM98-CL33: Acknowledgements, Donors, Proceedings, Final Program, Exhibitors Dear colleague: The ICM'98 Organizing Committee appreciates the support of many institutions, companies, and individuals; please find a few words of thanks in the sequel. You can - from now on - retrieve the Final Program electronically from the ICM'98 server, and you may want to know which publishers, soft- and hardware companies will exhibit at ICM'98, see 4. and 5. below. Finally, we have set the sales price for the ICM'98 Proceedings and make a very SPECIAL OFFER for ICM'98 members who, e.g., want to buy the proceedings for their library or friends, see 3. 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Our program booklet will start with the following acknowledgement: "ICM'98 is held under the aegis of Bundespraesident Roman Herzog, the auspices of the International Mathematical Union, and the sponsorship of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung." This is a short and modest statement - compared to the amount of assistance and backing the ICM'98 organizers received - and addresses only the major sources of support. It is simply impossible to describe in detail in how many ways we received help from political representatives in Germany and from representatives of IMU and DMV. Without their support, individual commitment, connections to national and international authorities, ICM'98 would have been impossible. I do not intend to list here all those indidividuals who served as members of the IMU Program Committee, the Fields Medal Committee, and the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Committee, who served in the Local Scientific Committee or in the Organizing Committee. The program booklet will contain the names of many of these persons to whom we are deeply indebted. Needless to say that the Mathematics Faculties of the Berlin Universities (FU, HU, and TU) and the Mathematical Research Institutes in Berlin (WIAS and ZIB) played major roles. 2. DONORS: The Organizing Committee is also greatly indebted to all those who have supported the congress either by monetary contributions, or by donating goods and services. Without these generous donations it would have been impossible to launch ICM'98. We would like to thank the following sponsors cordially: Public and Academic Bodies: --------------------------- Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie Senat von Berlin Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Saechsisches Staatsministerium fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften International Mathematical Union Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung European Mathematical Society Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Versicherungsmathematik Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft Private Corporations and Foundations: ------------------------------------- Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG Siemens AG Stemmler-Stiftung Moellgard-Stiftung Silicon Graphics Deutsche Telekom StorageTek Herlitz AG Deutsche Bank AG Springer-Verlag Nikkei Culture Walter und Eva Andrejewski-Stiftung Minolta Sender Freies Berlin SUN Microsystems Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe Daimler-Benz-Stiftung T-Mobil 3. PROCEEDINGS My announcement in the Circular Letter ICM'98-CL31 generated two types of requests. Here is what we can do about these. (a) SHIPPING: Some ICM'98 participants are planning to spend a longer period in Europe after attending ICM'98 and do not want to carry the heavy books on their trip. We have contacted the Deutsche Post and several transportation companies and found that the Deutsche Post provides the cheapest offer. Please contact the conference office H 2036; we will have a counter where you can deliver your proceedings, fill out an address label, etc. Your two proceedings volumes will then be shipped to your home address at a price of DM 20. (b) PROCEEDINGS PRICES, ON-SITE SALE, SPECIAL OFFER: Some ICM'98 participants would like to purchase further proceedings volumes for their libraries or friends. Students (the proceedings are not included in the students' registration fee) have also asked for a special deal. The SALES PRICE for the ICM'98 proceedings was set to DM 228.-- for the 3 volume hardcover set (ca. 2400 pages), including transportation to any place in the world. However, at ICM'98 we will make the following SPECIAL OFFER to all registered participants (including registered students, of course). We will only charge DM 140.-- for the 3 volume hardcover set (no more than 2 sets per registered participant will be sold). Volumes II and III will be handed out to the buyer at the time of purchase (they can be shipped as described in (a) if desired). Volume I will be shipped, after production, to the address the buyer specifies at purchase of the proceedings. We believe that this is an excellent offer. 4. FINAL PROGRAM, PROGRAM BOOKLET: The program booklet, including the Final Program of Plenary, Invited Lectures, Short Communications and Poster Presentations is ready and in print. It has almost 200 pages. Those who are interested in obtaining the program booklet immediately can retrieve the postscript file of the Final Program from the ICM'98 server as follows. Go to URL http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/D/1 and click on "PostScript" or "gzip-compressed PostScript" for the repsective file of the program booklet. You will also find such links to these files if you klick on "scientific" on the title page of the ICM server. Alternatively the files may be retrieved by anonymous ftp to elib.zib.de Go to the subdirectory pub/IMU/HTML/ICM98/D/1 In this subdirectory you will find the files program.ps program.ps.gz These are the PostScript file and gzip-compressed PostScript file of the program booklet. 5. LIST OF EXHIBITORS: ICM'98 also provides a showroom for those who offer products related to mathematics. In the main building of TU Berlin, there will be an exhibition area where publishers, computer and software companies, scientific societies and others will exhibit their products. Below is the (current) list of exhibitors that you can find at ICM'98. The exhibitors and the ICM'98 organizers hope that every ICM'98 participant will find at least some items of interest. Exhibitor Booth A K Peters Ltd F44 Academic Press L21+L22 American Mathematical Society B8 Antiquariat Renner F43 Birkhaeuser Verlag F2 Cambridge University Press B71 Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung L24 Elsevier Science F72 European Mathematical Society B12 France Edition B5 Gordon and Breach F62 Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum F11 Hermann Editeurs des Sciences et des Arts L1 Kluwer Academic Publishers F61 Lange & Springer B72 Lehmanns Buchhandlung F53+F54 London Mathematical Society L3 Magma Computer Algebra F41 Numerical Algorithms Group NAG Ltd F71 Oxford University Press B73 Speier Associates F42 Springer-Verlag B11 SUN MicrosystemsVieweg Verlag B6 Vieweg Verlag F52 Walter de Gruyter F12 Wiley VCH B9 Wolfram Research F3 World Mathematical Year 2000 L23 World Scientific Publishing F51 Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik B13 Sincerely Martin Groetschel President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee PS.: Among the footloose tours listed in my Circular Letter ICM'98-CL32 the date of the "gliderflight tour" was still open. This tour will take place on Sunday, August 23. The tour starts at 9:00 at the main building of TU. If you are interested please book as soon as possible (as described in ICM'98-CL32). ************************************************************************* This is a message from the ICM'98 e-mail server distributing information about ICM'98 and the International Mathematical Union to all persons who have electronically registered or preregistered for the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS 1998 IN BERLIN. More information about ICM'98 can be found on the ICM'98 WWW-server. Its master site in Berlin has the URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98 To subscribe to this e-mail service and to obtain the Second Announcement of ICM'98, fill out the request form on the ICM'98 server. 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