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Dear colleagues:<br>
Some important news on three ICME's from Bernard:<br>
deadlines for ICME 11 and location for ICME 12!<br>
best, <br>
peter<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">1-) ICME-10<br>
The publication of the Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on
Mathematical Education (ICME-10), held in Copenhagen in 2004, has
met with unexpected delay. Two major reasons explain this delay,
one being connected to a serious illness of the Congress Secretary and
Administrative Editor, and the other to some internal turbulence caused
by the installation of a new university management at the host
institution of the editorial team in Denmark. But the organisers of
ICME-10 have recently announced that the editorial work on the
Proceedings is about to be completed and that the book is very close to
go to the printer.<br><br>
<br>
2-) ICME-11<br>
Here is a reminder of important deadlines for the Eleventh International
Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-11), to be held in
Monterrey, México, on July 6-13 of this year:<br><br>
-- JANUARY 25 (or close to this date)<br>
Submission of proposals for various components of the programme, in
particular TSGs and DGs<br><br>
-- FEBRUARY 15<br>
Submission of applications to the ICME-11 Grant programme<br><br>
-- MARCH 2<br>
"Early bird" registration<br><br>
Also please make sure to note in your agenda that the General Assembly of
ICMI will be held on the day prior to the opening of ICME-11, Sunday July
6, all day. Details on the venue and exact time will be announced
later.<br><br>
More information on ICME-11, including a pdf of the Second Announcement,
is available on the congress website<br><br>
<a href="http://icme11.org/" eudora="autourl">http://icme11.org/</a><br>
<br><br>
<br>
3-) ICME-12<br>
As reported earlier, the Executive Committee of ICMI has received by
November 2006 three bids for hosting ICME-12 in 2012, namely (in
alphabetical order) from<br>
<i>-- China (Shanghai)<br>
-- Korea (Seoul)<br>
-- South Africa (Durban)<br>
</i>Site visits were organised early in 2007, the visiting team being
composed of ICMI President Michèle Artigue, Vice-President Bill Barton
and myself. The visits allowed the Executive Committee to
appreciate the quality of the local infrastructure, the support the
project was receiving in the country as well as the expertise of the
organising team. The bids were thoroughly discussed by the ICMI EC at its
meeting in London last June, which led to requests for additional pieces
of information from the bidding countries. The final decision was
made through an email discussion that took place between October and
December 2007. The high quality of the three proposed bids made the
decision task especially difficult.<br><br>
The ICMI Executive Committee is pleased to announce its decision of
accepting the invitation from Korea. We hope that the international
mathematical education community will enthusiastically receive the
invitation of our Korean colleagues for 2012, so to make ICME-12 a
memorable event from Korean, Asiatic and international
perspectives. The precise dates of ICME-12 will be announced later
and a Korean delegation will be present at ICME-11 to provide information
on the 2012 ICME.<br><br>
The ICMI Executive Committee wishes to express its deepest gratitude to
the mathematics education and mathematics communities in the three
bidding countries, and especially to the three persons who chaired the
committees that prepared the bids, namely Professors Jianpan Wang
(China), Sung Je Cho (Korea) and Renuka Vithal (South Africa). It
goes much beyond lip-service to say how impressed the ICMI EC was by the
high professionalism shown in the preparation of the dossiers and the
dedication of the bidding teams. It is our hope that the enthusiasm
of those who supported these bids will reflect not only in ICME-12 (and
ICME-11!), but in future ICMEs as well.<br><br>
The ICMI Executive Committee wishes to stress that since two of the
current EC members are from one of bidding countries --- namely
Vice-President Jill Adler (South Africa) and Member-at-Large Frederick
Leung (China / Hong Kong) ---, they have taken no part in the discussion
or decision-making about ICME-12, nor have had access to the competing
bids.<br><br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
Bernard<br><br>
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Bernard R. Hodgson<br>
Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secrétaire général de la CIEM<br>
(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction /<br>
Commission internationale de l'enseignement mathématique)<br>
Département de mathématiques et de statistique<br>
Université Laval Québec G1K 7P4
Canada<br>
Téléphone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975<br>
Télécopie : +1 418 656 2817<br>
Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca<br>
Cyberpage personnelle:
<a href="http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/profs/hodgson/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/profs/hodgson/</a><br>
Cybersite CIEM / ICMI website:
<a href="http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/</a><br><br>
Avis relatif à la confidentialité / Notice of Confidentiality /
Advertencia de confidencialidad
<a href="http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm</a><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Peter Taylor,<br>
Professor<br>
Dept. Math&Stats<br>
Queen's University<br>
Kingston ON<br>
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