-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 13 de Junho de 2002 09:08 To: all Subject: [IFIP] Seven Days... Mama mia/ $10,000 award
Mamma mia, the World is rocked by Footballmania!
The Tifosi are praying for Squadra Azzurra, the English are thinking the unthinkable - another 1966 Summit, the Portuguese have a day off to prepare for tomorrow... On 30 June there will be only one winner - c'est la vie!
Some of you could also win recognition and an Award of 10,000 US $. --- The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) announced for distribution to our members that the TWAS Prizes, which were launched in 1985, are among the most noteworthy prizes in science in the developing world. The Academy has recently expanded the fields in which the prizes will be given and is now encouraging individuals and scientific organizations of excellence to submit nomination forms. Prizes will be granted in the following fields: biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, agricultural science, earth sciences, engineering sciences and medical sciences.
Each prize carries a US$10,000 award and a plaque highlighting the recipient's major contributions to his or her field. The prizes usually are given at major events - for example, the TWAS General Meeting - where recipients are asked to present a lecture in honour of receiving the award.
For additional information about the TWAS Prizes, contact Ms. Helen Grant, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), c/o The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, 1-34104 Trieste, Italy; phone: + 39 040 2240 387; fax: + 39 040 224559; website: www.twas.org. ---
We were in contact with Helen Grant to check if Computer Science is included (in engineering sciences). The reply was "Yes". For further information, queries and nomination forms please visit http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/twas_prizes.html and contact Helen Grant directly.
Good luck,
The Delivery Co.
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From the diary of a Teleconference attendee:
I left Montreal heading toward Quebec city, when I decided to stop at a comfort station. The first stall was occupied, so I went into the second one. I was no sooner seated than I heard a voice from the next stall: "Hi, how are you doing?"
Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in highway comfort stations, and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed: "Not bad."
And the stranger said: "And, what are you up to?" Talk about your dumb questions! I was really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said: "Well, just like you I'm driving east."
Then, I heard the stranger, all upset, say, "Look, I'll call you back, there's a crazy guy in the next stall answering all the questions I am asking you."
-------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/