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* info on
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* 1) A-HYKE meeting 24-28.2.2003 in Vienna
* 2) first call of the 6th Framework Programme
* 3) Santa-HYKE :
* help for the (library of the) Praha team
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Vienna, 23.12.2002
Dear friends,
the preparations and registration for A-HYKE are advancing
well (for some teams more than half of the members have
already registered) - please note that the less expensive
hotels near the conference venue are distributed on a
"first-register, first-serve basis".
For the flight you might wish to check for "special Christmas
offers" that are sometimes valid only until Dec. 25/ Dec. 31 !
(currently round-trips from Vienna to many European cities
for the period of A-HYKE are available for about 250 Euros)
One of the things to be discussed and decided together
in Vienna is the future activity of the HYKE (+partner
networks) community in the 6th framework programme.
the last news for this year fits the date : SantA-HYKE
came to Prague this month and brought 100 new books
for the mathematics library that has been destroyed in
last summer floodings :-)
In a joint effort of members of the team A1, backed by
a financing guarantee of the Wolfgang Pauli Institute,
we bought this books in Vienna and transported them to
Praha. Donations of all HYKErs in solidarity to our
Czech friends are welcome.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year !
Norbert
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* 1) A-HYKE meeting 24-28.2.2003 in Vienna
the "online registration" for A-HYKE, our annual meeting
in Vienna, 24-28.2.2003, is open at www.wpi.ac.at/hyke
In case you wish to give a presentation in one of the 16
sessions on the scientific work programme,
please contact the "session organizer" of that topic.
(See "themes" at www.wpi.ac.at/hyke - the list of
"session organizers" (by default the TO) will be updated)
These presentation on the 16 topics will consist of several
short contributions and a discussion on different aspects of
the respective topic, whenever possible also YRs financed by
HYKE should talk.
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* 2) first call of the 6th Framework Programme of the EC
The first call for proposals was published a few days ago -
see the cordis server for details.
The deadlines for applications are in spring, some weeks
after the Vienna meeting, so there will be no problem to
prepare/finetune proposals on actions we decide/discuss.
As it was clear from the beginning, the goal of HYKE was not
only to get the 3 Mill. Euro, but to create a scientific
sound and stable structure on a longer time scale
that also helps and minimizes the work and maximizes the
chances for future (EU funded) grant projects.
The 3 activities most interesting for HYKE for a submission
beginning of April 2004 are
"T-HYKE" : a network of Marie Curie Training Sites connected
by HYKE (in particular via the Training Committee)
"HYKE-2" : a continuation of HYKE with increased budget
"EC-HYKE" : a series of "Euro courses and conferences"
related to HYKE
I have already discussed the possibility of T-HYKE and
HYKE-2 with the relevant people in the commission and
chances are quite good.
A proposal for "EC-HYKE" would increase our "travel budget"
significantly - chances would surely better than in the
last call of the 5th framework programme. I would assist
anyone willing to coordinate such a proposal.
! For "individual fellowships" for Pre and Postdocs
(now called : Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships)
the deadline is earlier than the others : March 12.
Note that the HYKE network mostly funds only contracts
up to 6 months, with a few contracts up to 12 months.
For Pre/Postdocs of the HYKE community looking for longer
contracts I would advise to submit an individual project.
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* 3) "SantA-HYKE" for Praha
The flood catastrophy of last summer that has hit central
Europe has done also a lot of damage for our Prague team :
among other things the library was nearly entirely destroyed.
When I understood from Josef Maleks e-mails that fast help is
most valuable, the members of all satellites of the A1 team
decided to make a fast relief action in a way our Prague
friends themselves defined as optimal.
So we decided that the Wolfgang Pauli Institute buys them
a 'wish list of 100 mathematics books' in Vienna and we ship
them to Prague as soon as possible (On that list there were
also several books of HYKErs...)
The cost of about 6000 Euro was taken in charge by the
Wolfgang Pauli Institute for eventual later refunding by
other sources. Up to now H. Engl of the Linz node of A1 has
donated 1000 Euro, the WPI full members W. Schachermayer and
myself have donated 1000 Euro each from our award projects.
Other donations are welcome - please contact me if your
project/institution can donate some money (any sum depassing
the cost will go to Prague as a cash donation, of course.)
The practical organization was largely taken over by
Gerhard Rein and Gudrun Kretzschmar in collaboration with
the mathematics library of the Inst. of Math in Vienna
and in the end, Jan Haskovec, a masters thesis student
jointly supervised in Prague and Vienna, as well as a
friend of mine who commutes between Prague and Vienna,
transported the books.
By the way, Vienna was spared from serious damage of that
flooding thanks to the ""Neue Donau" ("new Danube" - you can
eventually do cross country skiing there in February.)