On Jul 11, 5:07 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Of tangential relevance is that I will be giving a talk at the MAA > Invited Paper Session > "Contemporary Unsolved Problems". The session will be held 8-11 > a.m. Friday in > Hynes Convention Center room 302. They say that "the plan is for > 30-minute talks and generous 15 minute breaks to allow time for > questions."
Thanks. Hopefully once the program goes up we can collate a list of related talks. That won't be for a while, though. > Also, just to confirm, I have sent off a contract to rent a booth for > the meeting... > Maybe someone can make a followup page to http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2011 that improves things based on the "Notes for the Next Meeting" (appended below). Rob B? I will be local, but not sure whether I'll be able to bring a lot of large equipment since I will likely be taking the commuter rail in. It's conceivable I could get a projector etc. from our tech folks, because it's well before our semester begins... +++ Notes, ideas, reminders for the next iteration, in no particular order. Pay for a small table (small was less of a barrier, but barely sufficient) Pay for two chairs (even though expensive) Have 3d glasses---they drew lots of people to the table and into conversation. Business cards were popular and ran out, these are critical Take a projector to have a large screen Or arrange for a local to bring a flat-panel screen (with stand) Hooks or string for banner Decorations (helium balloons, bright candy, etc) Stickers (slide into name-badge, then affix at home) Sage-related textbooks Have a 5-step Quickstart guide to using Sage: Log into sagenb Find a quick-start published worksheet Evaluate a cell Create a new cell and evaluate 1+1 Create a new cell and evaluate a cool plot Create a new cell and calculate rref of a matrix Advertise ask.sagemath.org (on business card?) Info: sagemath.org Use: sagenb.org Questions? ask.sagemath.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
