--------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWTON INSTITUTE CORRESPONDENTS' BULLETIN
No. 8 - January 2005
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Newton Institute Correspondents' Bulletin!
This bulletin will be sent in January, May and September each year and will contain information regarding the Newton Institute and its activities. We hope you will find it a useful way of keeping in touch and a helpful source of information to distribute to your colleagues. We will also send you occasional updates on particular topics.1. Comments always welcome!
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
2. Workshop announcements
The following workshops have now been finalised. Please follow the links for
further information.
Industry Workshop on Credit (25 - 26 February 2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/DQF/dqfw04p.html
Spitalfields Day - Risk Management of Hedge Funds (Thursday 10 March 2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/DQF/index.html
Quantitative Finance: Developments, Applications & Problems (4 - 8 July
2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/DQF/dqfw02.html
SATELLITE Workshop University of Southampton: New Directions in Numerical
Relativity (18 - 19 August 2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/GMR/gmrw01.html
Global General Relativity (21 27 August 2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/GMR/gmrw02.html
Einstein Constraint Equations (12 16 December 2005)
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/GMR/gmrw03.html
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/
3. Annual Correspondents Meeting
The Annual Correspondents Meeting will take place this year on 27 June. The
details of the day will be sent to Correspondents later but will include the
Rothschild Seminar at 5.00pm given by Professor E Hrushovski (Hebrew University
of Jerusalem).
4. Scientific programme reports available
Final scientific reports on the following past programmes at the Newton
Institute are now available:
Random Matrix Approaches in Number Theory (January to July 2004)
Statistical Mechanics of Molecular and Cellular Biological Systems (January to
July 2004)
Granular and Particle-Laden Flows (September to December 2003)
Interaction and Growth in Complex Stochastic Systems (July to December 2003)
Spaces of Kleinian Groups and Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds (July to August 2003)
Links can be found at http://www.newton.ac.uk/reports
5. Annual Report
The Institute's Annual Report for 2003-4 is now in press and all Correspondents
will receive an individual copy in the near future. The report is available on
our website in .pdf format at http://www.newton.ac.uk/reports/
6. Junior Membership
The Newton Institute Junior Membership scheme has now been extended to those
working in appropriate research environments in UK commerce and industry. Up to
now Junior Membership has only been open to those in Universities or similar
research establishments. More details are available on the Junior Membership
webpage page at http://www.newton.ac.uk/junior.html
7. 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
The next bulletin will be sent in May. We hope you find these bulletins a useful way of keeping in touch and a helpful source of information to distribute to your colleagues.