Ich unterstuetze diesen "Campaign-Aufruf" nachdruecklich und bitte alle, einen Schneeball-Effekt auszuloesen. LG Walter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:59:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Prof. Heinz W. Engl <heinz.engl(a)jku.at> Subject: "austrian of the year" dear colleagues the newspaper "presse" elects as every year 3 "austrians of the year". in the category science, one of the candidates is karl sigmund, the chairman of the radon institute kuratorium. although such election might be considered a bit questionable, they are connected with a lot of publicity. if simgund should be chosen, this would certainly give more public visibility for mathematics. in addition to his mathematical work, karl sigmund also planned and organized some high profil public exhibitions, e.g. on forced emigration from austria of jewish scientists and on kurt gödel. for these reasons, i would like to "campaign" for karl sigmund. the election can be done by sending a form published (e.g. today) in "presse" to the journal, i can be done online via http://diepresse.com/austria06 or by sending an sms with the text "austria 1e" to 0900 872872 (i do not know if voting by sms one has to vote also for a candidate in the other categories, so that i suggest that those who want to participtae (this is a suggestion , nothing more, of course!) do so via internet). best regards heinz engl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof.Dr.Heinz W. Engl E-Mail: heinz.engl(a)jku.at Institut fuer Industriemathematik secretary: doris.nikolaus(a)jku.at Johannes-Kepler-Universitaet Phone:+43-(0)732-2468 9219 Altenbergerstrasse 69 secretary: +43-(0)732-2468 9220 A-4040 Linz Fax:+43-(0)732-2468 8855 Oesterreich / Austria World Wide Web: http://www.indmath.uni-linz.ac.at/ and Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Austrian Academy of Sciences; http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at EMail: heinz.engl(a)oeaw.ac.at Mobile Phone: +43-(0)664-5209029 Mobile Fax: +43-(0)664-5274338 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------