Dear colleagues,

This is the second announcement of the Scientific Meeting on Friday, 
October 12, with speakers Jens Rademacher (MAC3) and Krzysztof Apt 
(PNA1).  It is a lunchtime meeting, so sandwiches will be provided 
before the talks.  We hope to see you there!

Best regards,
Willem Hundsdorfer and Ronald de Wolf



PROGRAM:

Date: Friday, October 12
Time: 13.00-14.00
Location: Euler Room (Z009)

Lecture 1, 13.00-13.30: Jens Rademacher (MAC3)
     "An invitation to nonlinear waves and coherent structures"
Lecture 2, 13.30-14.00: Krzysztof Apt (PNA1)
     "Open Access vs Commercial Publishers"

The talk of Krzysztof Apt is intended to stimulate discussion on the topic.
The time schedule will therefore not be very strict.


ABSTRACTS:
1. Jens Rademacher (MAC3)
    Title: "An invitation to nonlinear waves and coherent structures"
    Abstract: Nonlinear waves and coherent structures frequently appear 
in the nature and experiments and the mathematical methods for their 
analysis have undergone a tremendous development in recent decades. I'll 
showcase some selected examples and aspects of the theory.

2. Krzysztof Apt (PNA1)
    Title: "Open Access vs Commercial Publishers"
    Abstract: Triggered by a post of Tim Gowers on his blog a boycott of 
Elsevier
was launched this January.  So far 12763 researchers signed this 
protest. This led to a renewed discussion concerning the pricing 
policies of commercial publishers and brought the issue of open access 
back in focus.
    I shall try to shed some light on these matters providing some 
historical background and suggesting some modest plan of action.