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Report 4 - June 2003

The major news in this month’s report is the announcement of the full 13-person International Panel. It comprises:

• Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Director, IHES, France.
• Michel Broué, Director, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
• Stephen Davis, Dept of ESAM, Northwestern University, USA.
• Don Dawson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Canada.
• Robbert Dijkgraaf, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Ron Graham, Cal-(IT)², University of California, San Diego, USA.
• John Guckenheimer, Centrr for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, USA.
• Peter Hall FRS, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• Steffen Lauritzen Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark.
• Susan Murphy, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA.
• Hans Othmer, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA.
• Peter Sarnak FRS, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA.
• Margaret Wright, Computer Science Department, New York University, USA.

At the meeting of the International Review Steering Group on 8 May, the Group considered the feedback from the various presentations to BMC, BAMC, HoDoMS and COPS. Concerns expressed over the selection of venues for visits, and the programmes for the visits, were particularly important, and the Steering Group spent much of its meeting considering how to ensure that the regional visits were a good representation of the best mathematics in the region, wherever done, by large or small groups. It is hoped to be contacting the proposed venues for the visits soon.

Readers are encouraged to keep an eye on the Review’s website (www.cms.ac.uk/irm/). All information will be announced there, as well as a facility for you to email your comments to the Review Steering Group (irm@lms.ac.uk).