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* info on
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* 1) online registration at www.wpi.ac.at/hyke
for the A-HYKE meeting 24-28.2.2003 in Vienna !
* 2) use of HYKE networking money
* 3) "events" on the hyke webpage
* 4) "partner networks"
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Vienna, 09.12.2002
Dear friends,
the HYKE is advancing at a good pace, virtually all
groups have found excellent Pre/Postdocs.
The webpage is fully functional, please put preprints
on the "preprint" server (and don't forget a HYKE
acknowledgement !)
Please put events that you think are interesting to
other HYKErs on the "events" calendar (do-it-yourself)
An important step of HYKE will be to come together
and present/discuss/reassess both the way the network
functions and the scientific programme.
Please come to Vienna and participate in our first
annual meeting, all of us !
best regards !
Norbert J Mauser
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* 1)
the "online registration" for A-HYKE, our annual meeting
in Vienna, 24-28.2.2003, is open at www.wpi.ac.at/hyke
There you also find additional information and the outline
of the programme - the details and speakers on the different
topics of the work programme will be fixed in the next
weeks in coordination with the TOs of the groups in
charge of the 16 topics.
These presentation on the 16 topics will consist of several
short contributions on different aspects of the respective
topic, whenever possible also YRs financed by HYKE should
talk.
There will be only a few "invited talks", for the rest the
conference will have more the character of an Oberwolfach
meeting. There will be no parallel sessions, so please
understand that not every participant will give a formal
50 min talk, but rather a short contribution in one of the
above presentations. Please contact the TO responsible for
a task if you want to contribute to the session on a topic
you work on (have a look at "presentation" -> "work plan").
The meeting is a unique occasion to personally connect the
HYKE community and to boost the scientific collaboration
across the different sub-communities within HYKE. Also, we
shall discuss/assess how the network functions and discuss
options for future activities in the 6th FP of the EU (where
HYKE is a big step ahead of all competitors) such as
"T-HYKE" : a network of Marie Curie Training Sites)
"HYKE-2" : a continuation of HYKE with increased budget)
"AMANEX" : an Applied Mathematics Network of EXcellence,
which integrates/backs several networks)
The more HYKErs come, the better !
The presence of all TOs and members of committees and
boards, at least from sunday to tuesday, is vital !
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* 2) use of HYKE networking money
please note that the EU funding of HYKE yields relatively
little "networking money" ("travel money") per participant.
(20 % of 3 Mill. Euro for 3 years for > 200 HYKErs
=> in the average < 1000 Euro per year per head)
So we have to focus this travel money with high priority to
the events that are vital for HYKE, as committed in the
proposal and part B of the annex I of the contract :
.) annual meetings
.) summer/winter schools, labs for young HYKERS
Especially in the first year we really should be quite strict
in that policy - hopefully e.g. a proposal for a series of
Euroconferences in the first call of the 6th FP will fuel new
"travel money" for HYKE events like the 2nd annual meeting etc.
Therefore HYKE travel money should only be spent for attending
those events that are marked as "Network Co-financed meetings"
on the "events" page of the HYKE webpage.
This "HYKE label" is decided by the steering(training) committee,
in open discussion with organizers who would like to obtain
HYKE cofunding. Up to now that worked very well and consensual.
E.g. we agreed that the "Hyperbolic special semester" in
Cambridge, where 2 of the 3 organizers are HYKErs, will be
cofunded in the sense that each HYKE team can finance one
participant.
Concerning the AMAM2003 in Nice : due to budget considerations
we cannot directly cofund this event where PDEs play only a
minor role. However, on request of the AMAM organizers we
have organized a "satellite conference" that will be partly
cofunded by HYKE - non French participants of that meeting can
attend AMAM2003 the week after, thus billing the travel to
HYKE which gives an indirect cofunding for AMAM (it was bad
luck that both Euroconference proposals failed - the one of
AMAM2003 and the one for EC-HYKE - in the last call of the 5th
FP the success rate of proposals dropped to 1 out of 7 and
series of events (liek EC-HYKE) were not funded, because otherwise
the acceptance rate would have dropped to 1 : 20)
I regret that we can't fund everything that would be certainly
worth a HYKE cofunding and I hope that soon we will be able
to be less restrictive concerning HYKE networking money.
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* 3)"events" on the hyke webpage
please "register" yourself on the webpage those "events" that
you co-organize or learn about that are interesting for the
HYKE community.
Note that there are 3 types of events :
A = HYKE co-funded event (restricted number because of 2))
B = event that is scientifically close to the HYKE programme
C = event that is of interest to the HYKE community
Most events you register will probably be of B category;
in case an organizer wishes HYKE co-funding, sHe should
register the event as B and send an e-mail to CO, SiC, HTC
(Mauser, Perthame, Brenier) requesting HYKE co-funding.
By default, when you enter the "events" page you see A+B
for HYKE, with A events marked by the HYKE label (in green).
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* 4) "partner networks"
there are some other Research Training networks that are
scientifically more or less close and where personal relations
with HYKErs exist. We shall collaborate with these partner
networks in an informal way, e.g. by joint conference and
training events or by synergy in the work for things like
the web-page and preprint server etc.
Currently the coordinators of the following networks have
agreed to such collaboration and participation in A-HYKE
meeting in Vienna.
BREAKING COMPLEXITY (Silvia Bertoluzza (wavelets, numerics))
EVOLUTION EQUATIONS (Marc Quincampoix)
FRONT PROPAGATION (Michiel Bertsch (parabolic))
HARP (Harmonic Analysis) (Aline Bonami)
HMS2000 (Homogenization & Multiple Scales) (Alain Damlamian)
The advantage of systematic contacts between these and other
networks are obvious, both scientifically and practically as
well as for future activities (not only) in the 6th and 7th
framework programme.