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| Thursday, June 16
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| This small workshop is organized by the
Committee of Electronic Information and Communication
(CEIC) of the International Mathematical Union. One of
CEIC's tasks is to review the development of electronic
information, communication, publication, and archiving
as it impacts the international mathematical community
with the aim to make the issues involved generally
understood and to define the relevant needs of our
discipline clearly. This workshop reports about the
current state. It is aimed at working mathematicians
and not at IT specialists. The speakers have been asked
to present their findings bluntly and and not to worry
about the political correctness of their presentations.
The provocative style of the talks is hoped to generate
a proactive discussion of the subject with the audience.
Location: Staudingerweg 7 (Institute of Physics) Room 05-119 |
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| 09.30 h - 10.00 h | Christian Krattenthaler (Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1, Lyon, France), “Internet tools for the working mathematician” |
| 10.00 h - 10.30 h | Ulf Rehmann (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), “Our mathematical heritage versus the organisatorial and the copyright nightmare” |
| 10.30 h - 11.30 h | |
| The term “e-science” has become fashionable recently. The “e” is an abbreviation of “electronic”, but nowadays the promoters of e-science often reinterpret the word as “enhanced science”. Many of us hope that the “digital revolution” will help us do mathematics better. What are the hopes, what is reality? This session consists of three brief reflections on this issue. | |
| Martin Grötschel (Technische Universität and Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany and member of the CEIC), “Digital dreams” | |
| Alf van der Poorten (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and member of the CEIC), “Electronic nightmares” | |
| Jonathan Borwein (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and member of the CEIC), “Reality Bytes; The future is here - just not uniformly” |