A system of electronic servers of the European Mathematical Society

Peter W. Michor
(Peter.Michor@esi.ac.at)

At the meeting of the executive committee of the EMS (European Mathematical Society) in Cortona/Italy, October 8/9, 1994, it was decided to set up a system of electronic servers in Europe for Mathematics under the auspices of the EMS.

There shall be a master server, and several mirror servers throughout Europe. At the site of the master server a group of editors including working mathematicians is needed, which supervises this server from the point of view of content. The servers should be accessible by ftp, fsp (a sort of slow ftp for bad connections, which restarts where the connection is brocken), gopher, www (mosaic), hyperG, and also telnet.

FIZ-Karlsruhe, section in Berlin, has offered to run the master server, responsible contact person Claus Dieter Ziegler, cdz@zblmath.FIZ-Karlsruhe.de.

At its meeting in Krakow, March 10-12, 1995 the Executive Committee of the EMS decided unanimously that the master server should be set up and maintained by FIZ-Karlsruhe, and the secretary P. Michor was entitled to negotiate the conditions. The format of the server as lined out below was also agreed apon. It was decided to have mirror servers at various location, with a small fee charged, divided between FIZ and EMS. This fee can be waived.

The content:

Mathematical services:

1. Electronic journals. One could collect here all (some) freely available electronic journals in Europe, and also those from elsewhere, which are willing to to be mirrored here. Preliminary list:
   • Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry
   • Acta Mathematica Universitatae Comenianae
   • 3 french printed journals who will go electronic in 1995 (Jean Cea, cea@unice.fr)
   • 2 new french electronic journals (Jean Cea, cea@unice.fr, Eva Bayer)
   • Lothringian electronic journal of Combinatorics (Dominique Foata, foata@math.u-strasbg.fr)
   • Preliminary talks have also beed held with a Hungarian journal (Publicationes Math. Debrecen), and contacts with the main Polish journals via Jackowski are under way.
   • The journal of the Finnish Academy of Sciences (Tuulikki M\"akelainen)
2. Refereed conference proceedings. The Les Houches conference 1994 (one of the most impostant in theoretical physics) will not be printed anymore, it will just be put on a subsection of the hep-th-server (address see below). The conference `Differential Geometry and its applications, Brno (CZ) 1995' has tentatively agreed to publish their proceedings here.
3. Pointers to other mathematical services:
   • Zentralblatt,
   • Libraries,
   • electronic access to mathematical journals,
   • e-math server of the AMS,
   • preprint servers like

     mp_arc@math.utexas.edu              (mathematical physics)
     alg-geom@eprints.math.duke.edu      (algebraic geometry)
     dg-ga@msri.org                      (differential geometry)
     mail-server@e-math.ams.org          (combinatorial & geometric group theory)
     astro-ph@babbage.sissa.it           (astrophysics)
     cond-mat@babbage.sissa.it           (condensed matter)
     funct-an@babbage.sissa.it           (functional analysis)
     gr-qc@xxx.lanl.gov                  (general relativity / quantum cosmology)
     hep-lat@ftp.scri.fsu.edu            (computational and lattice physics)
     hep-ph@xxx.lanl.gov                 (high energy physics phenomenological)
     hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov                 (high energy physics formal)
     hep-ex@xxx.lanl.gov                 (high energy physics experimental)
     nucl-th@xxx.lanl.gov                (nuclear theory)
     nlin-sys@xyz.lanl.gov               (non-linear systems)
     lc-om@alcom-p.cwru.edu              (liquid crystals, optical materials)
     chao-dyn@xyz.lanl.gov               (dynamical systems)
     patt-sol@xyz.lanl.gov               (pattern formation)
     adap-org@xyz.lanl.gov               (adaptation)
     banach-files@hardy.math.okstate.edu (Banach Spaces)
     listserv@math.ufl.edu               (set theory)
     preprints@math.sunysb.edu           (preprints from IMS, Stony Brook)
     

   Organizational Services:

4. Address list of personal members of EMS: The only way to get at this is to login and start a search program, which to a name forwards the address, one at time only. One should not be able to download the whole file. If it is easily possible, this should be accessible only to members of EMS.
5. List of all mathematical societies in Europe, including their addresses.
6. List of forthcoming conferences in Europe and/or worldwide, with contact addresses.
7. Openings and positions available (ordered by countries)
8. Articles of general interest for mathematicians, grouped into subjects: Science policy, electronic publishing, etc.
9. Newsletter of the EMS. News about the EMS, its activities and its committees.
10. Pointers to preprint ftp servers of single institutes.
11. Pointers to discussion fori of general interest.
12. European Congress of Mathematics (Budapest), registering.