TECHNION MATHEMATICS NET (TECHMATH-NET) - General Information. Editors: Michael Cwikel, Arie Leizarowitz, Eddy Mayer-Wolf, Yehuda Pinchover, Gershon Wolansky. You can write to us at TECHMATH (mailing list) announces activities in the Department of Mathematics and sometimes other departments at Technion. TECHMATH2 (mailing list) announces other mathematical activities in Israel, (and occasionally activities abroad.) SEE THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT FOR HOW TO JOIN OR LEAVE THESE MAILING LISTS. The website http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~techm/today.html and the obvious links from that site display all Techmath and Techmath2 messages in convenient chronological order of the dates of the announced activities. Our coverage is not exhaustive. We depend on the organizers of activities to submit information to us. When a submitted activity seems only marginally connected to mathematics we may decide not to announce it, or in some cases we may post it on our website but not distribute it via our mailing list. READING INCOMING MAIL MESSAGES FROM TECHMATH AT A GLANCE: For those who subscribe to our mailing list(s), we attempt to help you by compressing the vital information concerning each announcement, i.e. date, place and field into a concise "subject" entry which you see on the list of your incoming e-mail messages. The currently used format is, for example: 06.11 BG GLAZEK Independence Notions meaning that on 6 November, at Ben Gurion University, Prof. Glazek will speak on a topic related to "Independence notions" Our general format is thus: DD.MM PP SPEAKER abbreviated title where DD is the day, MM is the month, PP is the place, etc. If no place is mentioned then we mean the default, i.e. Technion. As you can easily guess, the "standard" abbreviations that we use are: AR =Ariel BI =Bar Ilan University BG =Ben Gurion University of the Negev HF =Haifa University HJ =Hebrew University of Jerusalem HO =Holon, H.A.I.T. ID =IDC, Herzliya KA =International College, Ort Braude, Karmiel TN =Technion (the default, usually does not actually appear). TA =Tel Aviv University WI =Weizmann Institute This means that you can probably safely discard most incoming messages just by looking at that entry, rather than having to read them. Also note that the DATE(S) of any particular activity are always written using the same format, so a simple search of your index of incoming mail (e.g. using the W command in PINE) should enable you to immediately locate those activities which you have not discarded and which are scheduled for e.g. today or tomorrow. SUBMITTING ANNOUNCEMENTS. If you wish to submit an announcement to the TECHMATH or TECHMATH2 mailing list and combined web site, please use the form at http://www.math.technion.ac.il/newmath/techmath.shtml If you also wish to include a longer abstract of a lecture it may be sent to the editor by regular e-mail using the address techm@math.technion.ac.il In that case you can also opt to submit your whole announcement as an email message to that address, i.e. not use the form at all. But if you do this PLEASE type your message in a format similar to the example given below. This will save a lot of time for the (usually very busy) Techmath editor. Please use simple ascii text, with English, not Hebrew characters. This will be easiest for our subscribers, not all of whom are set up to cope with more complicated formats or process attachments of various kinds. If possible, and if your lecturer agrees, as he/she surely should, PLEASE include the lecturer's email address and/or web-page address in the text of your announcement. (Preferably near the end of the text.) This could be very helpful for users who cannot attend a lecture but want more information about its contents. E.g. you can use a format like LECTURER'S EMAIL: moshe@mainframe.ac.il LECTURER'S WEB-PAGE: http://www.math.mainframe.ac.il/~moshe PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY ATTACHMENTS IN YOUR MESSAGES TO techm@math.technion.ac.il Please do not expect us to process attachments to your messages. We cannot forward them to people on our mailing list, and it is complicated to make them easily accessible to people who visit our website. In the past we have sometimes posted files which we received as attachments temporarily on our website, with appropriate links. But doing this significantly increases the burden on the Techmath editor so at this stage we have decided to stop offering this service. Instead of sending us an attachment you can do something else just as good which should require only minimal effort on your part: Put your attachment file on a suitable website, e.g. on your own home page or a departmental website, and include a link to that file on that site as part of the text of your announcement. But remember that not everyone is willing to spend time going to an additional website (or opening an attachment file). Try to give all the essential information in the text (ascii file) of your message to techm@math.technion.ac.il When you send us your messages, we ask and even BEG you to use a format very similar to the one in the following example. The processing of the announcements is "semi-automatic" and other formats can take us a lot of time and can easily lead to mistakes in the information announced. The Techmath editor is always someone who has many other obligations and very little time. We suggest that you should NOT give the title of the lecture using only CAPITAL LETTERS. (The name of the speaker will be automatically capitalized in the "subject" of the Techmath message, and so, if the title is in a mixture of upper and lower case this will be easier to read and distinguish from the speaker's name.) =============================================== EXAMPLE OF A MESSAGE ANNOUNCING AN ACTIVITY, SUBMITTED TO "TECHMATH" OR "TECHMATH 2": IMPORTANT: Note that the first lines of this announcement include the name of the University/Institution where the activity takes place. We do not need all the details here, but it is important to have the headings SPEAKER: TITLE: DATE: and TIME: each starting at the beginning of a line, preferably preceded and followed by a BLANK line. ================================================ BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS ================================== Operator and System Theory Seminar ================================== SPEAKER: Andrei Ryabugin, BGU TITLE: Integral inequalities and boundary behavior of conjugate functions. A survey of recent results. (( It is best to use a mixture of upper and lower case letters for the title, NOT just upper case. If the title needs more than one line, please do NOT put any blank lines between those lines. Please DO leave at least one blank line AFTER the full text of the title.)) ((.... At least one BLANK LINE after the title....)) ABBREV.TITLE: Intgrl.Ineq.&BndryBehaviour ((This entry is optional, but it can be very helpful when we have to choose how to generate the subject line for the outgoing email message, to convey maximum information with the relatively few (usually less than 40) characters that will be visible to users reading email. This line will NOT appear in the text proper of the distributed announcement of your activity.)) DATE: Monday, January 14, 2002 (( If you use this format, our program will automatically check that your date and day of the week match each other. This occasionally eliminates some confusing errors.)) PLACE: Room 201, Mathematics Building, BGU TIME: 14:10 ABSTRACT: We discuss necessary and sufficient conditions for harmonic conjugate functions to belong to Hardy spaces. For further announcements see http://www.math.bgu.ac.il/~vinnikov/otseminar For further information please contact: Abie Feintuch , phone: 07-6461613 Victor Vinnikov , phone: 07-6461618 LECTURER'S EMAIL: ????@??????.ac.il LECTURER'S WEB-PAGE: http://www.math.??????.ac.il/~????? =================================================================================== .... ((END OF EXAMPLE TEXT)) =================================================================================== HOW TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE TO THE TECHMATH AND TECHMATH2 MAILING LISTS. You can subscribe to the TECHMATH mailing list by sending mail from your account to containing only the line subscribe techmath (This line has to be in the BODY of your message, not the "subject", which Majordomo ignores.) To leave the list, do the same, but with the body unsubscribe techmath Analogous operations can be used to subscribe or unsubscribe to techmath2. For more details about the operation of Techmath and Techmath2 see http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~techm/techmath.info If your e-mail account becomes inoperative or your mailbox becomes full we will start receiving error messages each time we send you an announcement. To avoid being overloaded by large numbers of such messages we may perhaps (sorry!) remove your e-mail account from your mailing list. But of course as soon as you fix the problem you can easily subscribe once more, using the procedure described just above.