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NEWTON INSTITUTE CORRESPONDENTS' BULLETIN
No. 4 - September 2003
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Welcome to the Newton Institute Correspondents' Bulletin!
1. Annual Meeting of Newton Institute Correspondents
The Annual Meeting of Newton Institute Correspondents was held on 30 June
2003 at the Institute. Twenty-three Correspondents attended, and a very
productive meeting and discussion took place.
Full report
2. Duties of Newton Institute Correspondents
A list of duties of Institute Correspondents, together with a list of what
the Institute promises to do in return, was agreed at the meeting in June.
Duties list
3. New programmes approved
Since the last bulletin approval has been given for the following programmes
in 2005 and 2006.
Developments
in Quantitative Finance 24 January - 22 July 2005
Global Problems in
Mathematical Relativity 8 August - 23 December 2005
Principles of the
Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems 9 January - 30 July 2006
The rest of the programmes for 2006 will be announced at a later date.
A full list of current and future programmes at the Newton Institute can be
found on our website at:
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/
4. Financial Information
One question which has been raised by Correspondents is that of finance: in
particular, subsistence allowances for participants, housing costs and programme
budgets. In order to advise potential participants and organisers about getting
involved in Institute activities, Correspondents may find it useful to have a
rough guide to these issues available. A brief guide to financial issues which
was attached here can be supplied by the Institute on request.
5. Workshops planned for 2004
Below are details of the workshops planned so far in conjunction with
programmes taking place in 2004.
The following workshops are planned for the Statistical
Mechanics of Molecular and Cellular Biological Systems programme
taking place 19 Jan - 19 July 2004
20-23 Jan 2004 Towards a Predictive Biology
29 March - 8 April 2004 Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Molecular and Cell Biology (A Satellite Meeting at
Edinburgh)
21-23 June 2004 Protein-Protein
Interactions in Vitro and in Vivo
The following workshops are planned for the Random
Matrix Approaches in Number Theory programme taking place 26
Jan - 16 July 2004
9-13 Feb 2004 Clay
Mathematics Institute Special week on Ranks of Elliptic Curves and Random Matrix
Theory incorporating Spitalfields
Day on 9 February on Random Matrix Theory and the Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer
conjecture.
29 Mar-8 Apr 2004 School: Recent
perspectives in random matrix theory and number theory
18-21 May 2004 Satellite workshop at Warwick:
Random matrices and probability
28 June-2 July 2004 Random Matrix theory and arithmetic aspects of quantum chaos
12-16 July 2004 Matrix ensembles and L-functions
Further information for the remaining workshops will be available at a later
date.
The following workshop is planned for the Quantum
Information Science programme taking place 16 Aug - 17 Dec 2004
23 - 27 August 2004 Quantum
Information Theory: Present Status and Future Directions
Further details of this workshop and how to participate are available on our
website at: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/QIS/qis.html
The following workshops are planned for the Magnetohydrodynamics
of Stellar Interiors programme taking place 6 Sep - 17 Dec 2004
6-17 September 2004 Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors
11-15 October 2004 Large-scale Computation in Astrophysics
8-12 November 2004 Tacholine Dynamics
13-17 December 2004 Stellar Dynamos
Further details of the workshops and how to participate will appear on our
website at a later date
6. Reminders
The Correspondents' web page (containing a list of all Correspondents, past
bulletins and other information) is at http://www.newton.ac.uk/correspondents.html
The web page listing Newton Institute participants who are willing to travel to
other institutions to give seminars, etc., is at http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/Speakers.html
As always, the Director is very happy to receive comments or suggestions
regarding the Newton Institute and its activities, including possibilities for
future programmes. He can be contacted by e-mail at director@newton.ac.uk
The next bulletin will be sent in January. We hope you find these
bulletins a useful way of keeping in touch and a helpful source of information
to distribute to your colleagues.