Hi Steve, As I understand things, it doesn't work that way -- access is tightly controlled, and you have to be tapped by one of the organizers; there's no invitation swinging. I know Elwyn Berlekamp is one of the centrally-involved mathematicians, but that's about it. --Michael Kleber On 12/6/05, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
Mike:
Do you know when and where it is? I might be interested in going. Who's putting it on? Maybe I could swing an invitation since I have published 1 (one!) paper in math so far, and I built a special-purpose computer which for a while was the world's fastest at Life. Tiny qualifications, to be sure, but........ Are you going to the Joint Meeting (AMS, MAA) in San Antonio?
Steve Gray
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kleber" <michael.kleber@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [math-fun] G4G7
This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring...
(Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.)
Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room?
--Michael Kleber
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