News from METRIC - February 1996
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Dear All, 

Here are some items of news for the DECEMBER-FEBRUARY period. If you
don't wish to receive any further mailings, please let me know
[p.kent@ic.ac.uk]. Previous newletters are stored at:
 gopher://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/11/project/Docs/newsletters/.


GOING M.E.T.R.I.C. AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE:

The funding for TMP finished at the end of 1995, and we are now funded
directly by Imperial College. We have assumed a new set of responsibilities 
and a new name, METRIC:

  Mathematics Education Technology
  Research at Imperial College

To find out about the work of METRIC visit our revised WWW site -
please note a new address for it:

  http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/

The old address will continue to work for the foreseeable future.


JOB VACANCY:

John Wood has left the project for pastures new (http://www.pro-net.co.uk/efc/), 
and thus we have a vacancy for a new team member. The advertisement will 
be posted to you in a separate mail. For further details go to:

  http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/job/


"EXPERIMENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS" - THE BOOK:

Details are being finalised on a publication deal for our learning
modules in book form, to appear in Summer 96.

Further information to follow soon, including how you can be a
"preliminary user" of the book material prior to its publication.


MEETING AT THE CTI CENTRE FOR MATHS, BIRMINGHAM, 20 MARCH:

We will be speaking at this meeting on "How TLTP mathematics
courseware can be used in science and engineering programmes". David
Klug from the IC Chemistry Department will speak about how our
Mathematica-based modules are being incorporated into the first-year
mathematics courses for chemists and biochemists.

To attend the meeting, contact Pam Bishop, via email to
ctimath@birmingham.ac.uk, or telephone 0121 414 4800. See also the
CTIMath site at http://www.bham.ac.uk/ctimath/ .


OUR ADDRESSES
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The name has changed, but addresses and phone numbers stay the same.

Phillip Kent and Phil Ramsden,
The METRIC Project,
Mathematics Department,
Imperial College,
London SW7 2BZ.

Tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517.

E-mail: tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk [this will change soon].

World-Wide-Web at URL http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ .

Gopher and FTP to: metric.ma.ic.ac.uk (155.198.192.26).

Please send *technical* questions about WWW/gopher/ftp and 
our software direct to p.kent@ic.ac.uk .