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Report 6 - September 2003

Invitations have been sent to the eight institutions selected as venues for the Review Panel to visit during the Review Week, Monday 1 December to Saturday 6 December.

At each venue, key institutions of high standing in the region centred on the venue have been asked jointly to act as "hosts" to present the core material to the sub-Panel.

The eight venues, and institutions associated with preparing the programmes, are:

• Bristol University, with Bath, Cardiff, Exeter, Portsmouth, Southampton and Swansea
• Cambridge University (including the Isaac Newton Institute)
• Durham University, with Leeds, Newcastle and York
• Edinburgh University (including ICMS), with Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews and Strathclyde
• Imperial College, with Brunel, Holloway, Kent, Kings, Queen Mary, Reading, Surrey, Sussex and UCL
• Manchester University, with Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Salford, Sheffield and UMIST
• Oxford University (including the Smith Institute)
• Warwick University, with Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and UEA

The eight venues have been selected for geographical spread, size, position, facilities, international standing, postdoc and postgrad community, etc. The venues and hosts have been asked to prepare a programme for the Review Panel that will include presentations demonstrative of the strengths of mathematics and statistics in the region. These presentations need to be subject-centred and highly selective. The Panel members will spend considerable time with mathematicians, having discussions with the academic staff and particularly meeting and interacting with young postgrad and postdoc research mathematicians.

Stephen Huggett, the Scientific Secretary to the Review, is in contact with the venues and hosts, discussing each of the programmes. It is recognised that the specific programmes will vary, drawing on the differing strengths and natures of the regions and their institutions.

There is a contact point on the Review website for feedback (irm@lms.ac.uk). Please use this to send in your own comments and suggestions.