SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

In order to guarantee a spot in the program, each speaker will be asked to submit an abstract by February 1, 2002. Abstracts will only be accepted from the intended speaker. In the list of papers that we will eventually post, we will include the name of the person who submitted the abstract as the speaker along with a link to the email address used in the submission. This year we are allowing authors to submit html versions of their abstracts, in which case symbols should not be used, or at least they should be kept to a miniumum. Click here to display the html form for submitting your abstract. Also, anyone who wants to submit a ps file may do so, preferrable by email to copper@colorado.edu. Please send the ps file as a single standard uncompressed text file.

You are also encouraged to sumit an extended abstract to the MGNet Virtual Proceedings described below.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Please read this carefully:

Potential contributors should submit an abstract to us by email:
* Click here to display the html form for submitting your abstract.
*Then please download or copy it, fill in the information, and email it to us at copper@colorado.edu .

You are also welcome to send us a ps file, but please do not send a TeX or LaTeX file. It will be returned if you do. If you send us a ps version, please make sure it is a single standard uncompressed text file.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1, 2002. Proceedings are described below. You are encouraged to provide a link to your ps file in the abstract. Please be sure that you use the correct html syntax for this.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1, 2002.

Student papers are due January 10, 2002. They should be submitted in ps format, but students whose papers are accepted will be asked to submit abstracts in html format in due time.

HARDCOPY PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS

In order to guarantee a spot on the program, each speaker will be asked to submit an abstract by Feb. 1, 2002. Up until March 1, 2002, the abstract may be replaced by an extended abstract of no more than 7 pages. All abstracts will be combined into a preliminary proceedings and distributed along with a schedule and any other important information to the conference participants. This must be in html, postscript, or text format. If you send us a ps version, please make sure it is a single standard uncompressed text file. Please note that the hardcopy preliminary proceedings will contain abstracts and short papers. If you wish to see the full versions of the papers, you are advised to access the Virtual Proceedings before you attend.

VIRTUAL PROCEEDINGS

See the MGNet Virtual Proceedings. Also available are the 1993, 1995, 1996 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. virtual proceedings. Please note that there will be no multiple volume set of papers to take home from Copper Mountain, so you are advised to access these proceedings before you attend.

For submission of a paper to the MGNet Virtual Proceedings: Instead of having to cram your paper into a few pages, you have as many pages as you wish, preferably in an easy to read font. Please submit a PostScript file using the directions for a MGNet preprint submission. Then send e-mail with a message that you submitted a pre-proceedings paper.

The conference and it's participants are indebted to Craig Douglas of the University of Kentucky for his service in support of the Virtual Proceedings and MGNet.