<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Colleagues, one or two of you pointed out that in my posting this week I didn't make it clear what ICTMA is. Just to clarify and take another opportunity to remind you of the deadline....</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">ICTMA is....The International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (the 'Community') is a membership organisation that exists to promote Applications and Modelling (A&M) in all areas of mathematics education - primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">More details can be found at <a href="http://www.ictma15.edu.au/index.html">http://www.ictma15.edu.au/index.html</a> </div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">This year's forthcoming conference will be held in Nottingham in the UK.</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Further details including how to submit a proposal to participate, can be found at<b><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: purple;"> </span></b><u><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ICTMA17" style="color: purple;">www.nottingham.ac.uk/ICTMA17</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The deadline for submission for proposals to ICTMA-17 is 31st March.</span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you require an invitation to the conference to apply for funding prior to submitting an abstract or receiving a decision please contact the organisers using </span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></div></div><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:ICTMA17Academic@nottingham.ac.uk" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83);">ICTMA17Academic@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">News:<br>The local organising committee wish to encourage participation by early career researchers and researchers from developing countries. There is the possibility for a reduction in fees for such participants. For further details download the announcement using the link on the main conference page.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham in July.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Geoff Wake <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="6873A549-C09B-4CD6-8856-933FF8F2F747" height="208" width="178" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F10762EF-9623-41BE-B631-7E7834437C6A@rieo.lan"><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);"><br><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ICTMA17" style="color: purple;">www.nottingham.ac.uk/ICTMA17</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>