[FOM] MWPMW 7

[Michael Detlefsen]

Dear Friends,

This is the usual reminder concerning the seventh annual Midwest PhilMath 
Workshop (MWPMW 7). As stated in my earlier letter, the workshop will be 
held at Notre Dame the weekend of Saturday, November 11th and Sunday, 
November 12th. As usual, the plan is to schedule a full day of talks and 
discussions for Saturday and a half day for Sunday. Also as usual, there 
will be workshop dinner Saturday evening, with all participants invited to 
attend as guests of the university.

An updated website for the workshop will shortly be up (sorry for the 
delay), and you'll be able to keep up with developments there. You can get 
to it by following the events link on the Philosophy Department's web page 
(http://www.nd.edu/~ndphilo/). In due course, the location of the sessions, 
the schedule of talks and abstracts for them should be posted there.

If you would like to give a talk, please let me know, and email me 
(mdetlef1 at nd.edu) a pdf of your talk with copies to Paddy 
(blanchette.1 at nd.edu) and Tim (bays.5 at nd.edu). As noted in my previous 
letter, we would like to have all proposals for talks by mid September so 
that we can set the program in a timely manner. Talks should be 35--40 
minutes, with 15--20 minutes left for discussion. As always, we'll try to 
balance the program thematically (or imbalance it, if that seems better) 
and as between student and faculty papers.

As also mentioned previously, the conference manager is Mrs. Harriet 
Baldwin (baldwin.1 at nd.edu). Please contact her with any questions you have 
concerning rooms, meals, etc.. She has booked a block of rooms at the Inn 
at St. Mary's. Since there are other conferences going on that same 
weekend, demand for rooms may be high and it would thus be a good idea to 
reserve a room with Harriet as soon as possible. Please also indicate to 
her whether you will be joining us for dinner Saturday evening, and let her 
know if you have any special dietary requirements. She can also point you 
to pertinent travel information, maps, etc..

If you don't have a talk you'd like to give, but would like to attend the 
workshop, please send me a note to let me know. When you do, please also 
let me know whether you'd like to come to the dinner.

We are fortunate once again to have limited funds to help defray expenses 
for student participants coming from out of town whose departments do not 
have funds to cover such expenses. These funds will generally take the form 
of subventions for lodging. If you are interested in applying for a 
subvention, please email me and let me know as soon as you can. Please also 
have an appropriate faculty member from your department email me to confirm 
that it cannot meet your expenses.

That's it for now. I hope you've had a good summer, and I look forward to 
seeing you at MWPMW 7 in November. I'll send the program to you as soon as 
it's set.

Cordially,

Mic Detlefsen
Director, MWPMW 7