From qed-owner Tue Nov 23 13:09:16 1993 Received: by antares.mcs.anl.gov id AA13661 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for qed-outgoing); Tue, 23 Nov 1993 12:46:47 -0600 Received: from donner.mcs.anl.gov by antares.mcs.anl.gov with SMTP id AA13654 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 23 Nov 1993 12:46:45 -0600 Message-Id: <199311231846.AA13654@antares.mcs.anl.gov> To: qed Subject: Open Math Workshop Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 12:46:41 -0600 From: Rusty Lusk Sender: qed-owner From: bchar@king.mcs.drexel.edu - ------- Forwarded Message O P E N M A T H W O R K S H O P ======= ======= =============== A workshop to formulate a character-based standard for the exchange of mathematical formulas and other mathematical objects between programs. December 17 and 18, 1993 ETH, Zurich Expected participants: CarloTraverso traverso@barsotti.dm.unipi.it ChrisHowlett chowlett@maplesoft.on.ca Dalmas dalmas@sophia.inria.fr GastonGonnet gonnet@inf.ethz.ch MarcGaetano gaetano@sophia.inria.fr MikaSeppala ms@Sophie.Helsinki.FI MikeMonagan monagan@inf.ethz.ch NiklausMannhart mannhart@inf.ethz.ch NorberKajler kajler@sophia.inria.fr PaulWang pwang@mcs.kent.edu Sausse sausse@sophia.inria.fr StefanVorkoetter smvorkoetter@daisy.waterloo.edu WolfgangWeck weck@inf.ethz.ch Potential participants: AGalligo galligo@sophia.inria.fr BennoFuchssteiner benno@uni-paderborn.de BrunoSalvy Bruno.Salvy@inria.fr DavidClark drclark@daisy.waterloo.edu DominikGruntz@inf.ethz.ch HelmutLenzing helmut@uni-paderborn.de JamesDavenport JHD1%camphx%eng-icf.cam%cs.ucl.ac.uk JohnAbbot J.A.Abbott@bath.ac.uk JohnFitch J.Fitch@bath.ac.uk JosVermaseren t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl RomanMaeder maeder@inf.ethz.ch SteveWatt smwatt@watson.ibm.com Potentially interested in the topic: ArjehCohen marc@cwi.nl BrunoBuchberger k313370@aearn.bitnet GeorgeLabahn glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu KeithGeddes kogeddes@daisy.waterloo.edu MorvenGentleman gentleman@iit.nrc.ca RichardFateman fateman%dali.berkeley.edu RichardJenks jenks.yktvmz%ibm-sj RonNeumann rneumann@maplesoft.on.ca TonyHearn hearn@hilbert.rand.org During the Riaca workshop last Friday-Saturday, enough interest was expressed in working on a standard, text-based, for the inter- communication of mathematical expressions. Several groups are presently working towards this goal, Open Math, Posso XDR, Multi, and HCM proposal, etc. During the Riaca meetings, it also became clear that the right time to discuss a joint standard is now; a few months from now uniformization will be much more costly. We are at a phase that we would like to have input from all the people working on the area to establish the embryo of a standard. This workshop will allow us to give the main document a big push in the right direction. Further steps can be followed by other means of communication. I was asked to organize this workshop in Zurich and here are the preliminary details: Friday December 17, 1993. 10:15 - Mid-morning break followed by initial meeting (we start at 10:30 or so to give time to the people who want to fly into Zurich this same day) 12:30 - Lunch, Dozenten Foyer, Main building 14:00 - 18:00 Afternoon meetings, including a coffee-break to be served in place. 19:00 - Dinner We have booked rooms at the hotel Limmathof, which is very reasonable, centrally located and two blocks from our meeting place. Saturday December 18, 1993 9:00 - 12:00 Meeting (including coffee break) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch in a local restaurant 14:30 - 17:00 Wrap-up session (including coffee break). All the meetings will take place in the IFW building (Haldeneggsteig 4) Room D44. Our institute will cover all the costs of lunch and coffee breaks, plus one night at the hotel Limmathof (single), plus up to SFr 200.00 for reimbursement of the ticket to Zurich. We have scheduled the meeting on Friday-Saturday, so that those who fly can use the reduced tariffs for weekends. Hotel reservations are rather crucial, by the end of the year Zurich is very busy, and booking a hotel is a gamble. If you plan to come, please confirm with me or Frau Silvia Wertli (wertli@inf.ethz.ch) as soon as possible. I will be forwarding some advance material to all those who will be attending. This will be done by the end of this week. If any of the participants would like to send some additional material, please send it to Frau Wertli so that it arrives here this weekend. I included in this mailing list, not only the predicted attendants, but those who may also be interested. The above lists do not mean any division or classification, everyone who is interested is (strongly) invited to participate. Best wishes, Gaston Gonnet. ToDo: (1) e-mail to wertli@inf.ethz.ch to register (2) send some advance material you may want predistributed (3) call me (41-1-632-7470) if you need more information - ------- End of Forwarded Message