MG13 ICC: what is it? [requires updating]

The International Coordinating Committee for the MG Meetings helps gather input for the planning of the scientific program and other aspects of the meeting and facilitates the attendance of participants from each nation where work in this broad field of science is done.

Coordination of travel funding requests from the participants’ country of origin or making the local organizing committee aware of visa requirements appropriate to a given country are two country specific activities that members of this committee should handle if relevant. In countries with multiple members, these latter activities if necessary would of course be shared. In the USA for example, NSF travel fund application will be arranged through mutual agreement with the International Organizing Committee and a volunteer. It is also important for ICC members to let us know how we can help the scientists of their country in attending the meeting.

In general for most ICC members, participation in this committee amounts to an organized way for us to gather input from you regarding scientific program suggestions via email. At the very least, membership involves agreeing to accept not only our small number of emails but also some attractive paper meeting posters sent by old-fashioned mail and to post at least one in your institution (several if more than one department is appropriate), and the others in nearby (itself a relative term) relevant institutions  if possible.

The three key pieces of information we need to function are:

  1. Your full name, with some indication of your last name(s) and first names, which can be confusing with multiple traditions for multiple last names (South America: Brazil versus the rest in forming multiple last names and hyphenating them or not) or Asian names where name order is reversed. Here is a way of making clear the distinction
    FullLastNames, FullFirstNamesPlusInitials:
    Jantzen, Robert T.
    Fang, Li-Zhi
    Bersaglia-Perez, Santiago
    Perez Luna, Elizabetta
    Note: with your full name, if you have a presence on the internet, we can find you with a search tool even if years pass between meetings and your email address changes. [To make the author index to the MG Proceedings, this  ambiguity in the normal name order is a nightmare.]
  2. Your current email address:
    robert.jantzen@villanova.edu
  3. Your complete mailing address which is necessary for us to send you about 4 meeting posters when they are made for local distribution in your country or local area in your country or perhaps your university, depending on the circumstances:
    Robert T. Jantzen
    Dept of Mathematical Sciences
    Villanova University
    800 Lancaster Ave
    Villanova, PA 19085-1699 USA

You can check that your information is correct in our data base by consulting the official list which is automatically generated from that database. This is in the process of being updated for MG13 from MG12

We seem to have complete information on everyone on the list, but it is important that you send us an update if it has changed recently.

Freedom of Movement for Scientists

The Marcel Grossman Meetings were founded with the premise that scientists of all nations have a right to meet to exchange knowledge independent of national borders. As such we affirm the IUPAP declaration:
 
"To secure IUPAP sponsorship, the organisers have provided assurance that MG11 will be conducted in accordance with IUPAP principles as stated in the IUPAP resolution passed by the General Assembly in 2008. In particular, no bona fide scientist will be excluded from participation on the grounds of national origin, nationality, or political considerations unrelated to science."
 

email communication

Since most of our work relies on efficient email communication,
we must be able to contact you and get a reply via email.
That means if we are able to establish contact in the first place,
that you put the MG13 email address in your address 
book/contacts list or safe list or doing whatever it takes
to allow our incoming emails to pass through to your mailbox.
We also need the string "mg13" somewhere in the subject line of
email sent back to the meeting address when forwarded to individual
mailboxes can be easily filtered into a folder for organizational
purposes, and we need a useful subject line so we can categorize
how to deal with it and find it later in the sea of email if needed.

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