Am I reading correctly that the per diem fee is 80 USD per person per day? Those must be some serious refreshments...
Kiran On Dec 4, 12:06 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just FYI: > > From an email forwarded to the Maxima list: > > *---------------------------------------------------------------* > > Call for Proposals for Workshops > > ISSAC 2011 > > June 8-11, 2011 > > *---------------------------------------------------------------* > > We solicit proposals for satellite workshops to be held in conjunction > with ISSAC 2011. > > For the first time, ISSAC will participate in the Federated Computing > Research Conference (FCRC). FCRC occurs once every four years, and is > the world's largest computing research conference. FCRC consists of a > collection of conferences that agree to share the same conference > facility. To learn more, seehttp://acm.org/fcrc/ . > > The FCRC week in 2011 will run June 4-11 The ACM is able to offer > space for workshops or small conferences at no additional charge. > Participants are responsible for paying a modest FCRC registration fee > (approx. 50 USD for the entire FCRC week) and a ``per diem'' fee to > cover refreshments (approx. 80 USD per day). These fees are the same > regardless of how many events one attends, i.e., there is no penalty > to register for one conference and attend a different workshop. ISSAC > will take place at the end of the FCRC week, and space for workshops > is available for us starting the day before, June 7. > > Opportunities abound for making connections with other fields of > computer science. Conferences that have confirmed their participation > include the > > * ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), > > * ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), > > * ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation > (PLDI), > > * CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop. > > Potential ideas for workshops that take advantage of the presence of > these related conferences might then be Complexity in Computer > Algebra, Parallel Symbolic Computation, Programming Languages for > Computer Algebra, or Mentoring Women in Computer Algebra. > > We also welcome proposals for other topics. Holding your workshop at > an event with international presence might heighten participation. > > Please email your proposal to General Chair Eric Schost at > esch...@uwo.ca. There is no hard deadline, but because space is > limited, we encourage you to submit by December 14, 2009. We will make > decisions on a ``first come, first served'' basis and may close > submissions before December 1st. > > For questions concerning the Federated Computing Research Conference, > any organizational details, current list of participating conferences, > or current availability of space, please contact Local Arrangements > Chair Emil Volcheck at volch...@acm.org. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
