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NEWTON INSTITUTE CORRESPONDENTS' BULLETIN
Special Edition - July 2002
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We are grateful to those who could attend the recent meeting of Newton Institute Correspondents held on 2nd July (during our 10th Anniversary celebrations), and for their comments and suggestions. We are of course always willing to hear from correspondents on any topic by e-mail.
1. Seminars elsewhere
As mentioned at the meeting, the Newton Institute has now implemented a
method of "advertising" the names of programme participants who are
willing to travel to other Universities or institutions during their stay
in the UK if they are invited to give seminars there. Your colleagues with
responsibility for organizing seminar series may be interested in this
facility. We hope that this will be of help in enabling UK Universities to
benefit from the expertise of particular Newton Institute visitors, and we
will cover the travel costs for such visits ourselves. See "PARTICIPANTS
WILLING TO GIVE SEMINARS ELSEWHERE" below for full details.
2. Announcements to Correspondents
The Correspondents present at the meeting requested more information on
forthcoming workshops and programmes, including full contact details and a
checklist of which non-mathematics departments might also be interested
(so that they could pass on the details to colleagues in those departments
within their institution). It was agreed that this information would be
sent out in individual e-mails for easy forwarding, rather than in a
single "digest". We shall shortly put this system into operation, so when
you receive announcements please do distribute them within your University.
3. Monday Newton Institute Seminars
Remember that our regular "Monday Newton Institute Seminars" series, in
which eminent speakers are asked to give talks of broad interest to a
range of mathematical scientists, can be heard on the web (courtesy of an
EPSRC grant for the purpose). The soundtrack is available in MP3 and
RealAudio formats, and stills of the speaker or copies of their
transparencies can be viewed simultaneously. (There is no video as the
technology is not yet up to it.) See
http://www.newton.ac.uk/webseminars/
and click on "Monday Seminars".
4. Participants willing to give seminars elsewhere
The web page http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/Speakers.html
lists those of our overseas participants during the remainder of 2002 who have
agreed to travel to UK Universities and other institutions during their
stay in order to give seminars. The Newton Institute will fully cover the
travel costs (but not accommodation, etc) for such visits on request,
providing that a formal invitation has been received by the participant.
It is hoped that this scheme will enable seminar organizers around the UK
to find out easily who is at the Newton Institute in their fields and to
arrange for them to visit.
Note that the dates listed against each name are the dates of their visit to the Newton Institute. Participants will usually be happiest to visit other Universities at either the start or the end of this period, and may well be prepared to extend it slightly in either direction. The e-mail address for each participant can be obtained by clicking on their name.
The programme organizers have also been asked to give their personal recommendations from among the names listed. From the programme on "Computation, Combinatorics and Probability", there were no special recommendations. From the programme on "Foams and Minimal Surfaces", both Brakke and Morgan (for a more general view of the subject) were suggested. In the case of "New Contexts for Stable Homotopy Theory", the names suggested were Hesselholt, Kahn, Lichtenbaum, McClure, Schwede and Weibel. Feedback on this new system will be most gratefully received!