From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Welcome to sci.math.research
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Welcome to sci.math.research, a moderated newsgroup.
The charter
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CHARTER: This newsgroup is a forum for the discussion of
current mathematical research.
Additional hints about suitability of materials
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We understand "mathematical research" to be an exploration of mathematics
to the mathematical community.
encouraged to post announcements of:
- mathematics conferences
- preprints available, electronically or physically
- new mathematics journals
- online resources of interest to research mathematicians
- availability of new mathematical software
- job openings for mathematicians
- professional obituaries of mathematicians
We discourage requests for:
- solutions to homework problems
- a particular complicated equation to be solved symbolically
- a particular function to be integrated symbolically
- solutions of problems at an undergraduate level
- elementary combinatorial algorithms
- information about computer software
- information pertaining to mathematics education
- e-mail addresses of mathematicians
- jobs
- responses to be sent by email directly to you
We discourage the use of:
- fighting words
The moderators
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The moderators of this group are
Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
Kevin Buzzard <k.buzzard@imperial.ac.uk>
G. A. Edgar <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu>
Robert Israel <israel@math.ubc.ca>
Moderators Emeriti:
Dan Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
David Rusin <rusin@math.niu.edu>
The moderators appreciate receiving feedback about their moderation
appeared, please drop the acceptor of it a note. You can see who accepted it
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Where to find this and other information
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This document is available at
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/sci.math.research/
You can also find pointers there to other useful sources of information on
the Internet for mathematicians.
The readers of sci.math.research
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Related newsgroups
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If you are considering posting to sci.math.research, it's possible that
the article is better suited to another research newsgroup such as:
comp.graphics.research Highly technical computer graphics discussion.
or to another sci.math.* news group:
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GRAPHNET at http://listserv.nodak.edu Graph theory
or to one of the following groups:
bionet.biology.computational
comp.compression
comp.compression.research
comp.graphics.algorithms Algorithms used in producing computer graphics.
comp.infosystems.gis
comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica Mathematica (moderated).
comp.soft-sys.math.maple Maple.
comp.text.tex Discussions about mathematical typesetting using TeX.
comp.theory Theoretical computer science.
comp.theory.cell-automata Discussion of all aspects of cellular automata.
comp.theory.dynamic-sys Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
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Maarten Bergvelt
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