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Description:
The next Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference
will be held at University of Minnesota on 5-14 August 2002, as
guests of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The conference, organised by Society for Foundations of Computational Mathematics, is next in a sequence that commenced with Park City, Rio de Janeiro and Oxford FoCM meetings. The format will be similar: plenary invited lectures in the mornings, theme-centred parallel workshops in the afternoons. Each workshop will be go on for three days and the conference will consist of three `periods', comprising of different themes. Some participants might choose to attend just one or two `periods' but, on past experience, the greatest benefit follows from attending the conference for its entire ten days.
The choice of speakers in a workshop is the responsibility of workshop organisers. Many (but by no means all) talks will by invitation. However, if you wish to present a high-quality talk, there is no need to wait for an invitation! You may approach directly the relevant workshop organisers.
Previous FoCM conferences proved themselves as a unique meeting point of workers in computational mathematics and of theoreticians in mathematics and in computer sciences. While presenting plenary talks by foremost world authorities and maintaining the highest technical level in the workshops, the emphasis in Park City, Rio de Janeiro and Oxford was on multidisciplinary interaction across subjects and disciplines, in an informal and friendly atmosphere. It is only fair to say that for many of us the opportunity of meeting colleagues from different subject-areas and identifying the wide-ranging (and often surprising) common denominator to our research was a real journey of discovery. We hope and expect to build upon this tradition in Minneapolis.
Date received: November 15, 2001
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