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MAFELAP 2016 Abstracts\\
instructions to authors}
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Please prepare your abstract, which can be up to one A4 page in length,
using LaTeX, if possible, using the guidelines given below.
If you do not use LaTeX then please see below for comments about how
to help us still include your submission.

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The purpose of these guidelines is to help generate, in a smooth, 
efficient and uniform way an electronic version of the book of the 
abstracts and to gather together information such as
author names, addresses, emails  and optionally one URL per abstract.
We will not be creating a paper version.
To conform to these guidelines you just need to
follow the instructions listed below.

\section*{Structure of the abstract}

It would help us if you do not format the ``top matter'' details
such as the names of the authors, the addresses and the title
when you send the abstract to us.
We will add formatting at Brunel
partly so that we can create the contents and index the information
in various ways.
You just need to separate the top matter components by blank lines.
It would also help if the structure of your file 
is as follows.

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%%TITLE FOLLOWS

%%AUTHORS, PREFERABLY ONE PER LINE, FOLLOWS
%%WITH, IN THE CASE OF SEVERAL AUTHORS, THE COMMENT 
%%SPEAKER ON THE SAME LINE AS THE AUTHOR WHO WILL GIVE THE TALK

%%ADDRESS OR ADDRESSES FOLLOWS

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%%BODY OF ABSTRACT FOLLOWS

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Thus in the case of one of the abstracts for MAFELAP 2013 an
acceptable structure is as follows.

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%%TITLE FOLLOWS
Numerics and spectral properties of boundary
domain integral and integro-differential
operators in 3D

%%AUTHORS, PREFERABLY ONE PER LINE, FOLLOWS
Richards Grzhibovskis$^1$   %%SPEAKER
and
Sergey E. Mikhailov$^2$

%%ADDRESS OR ADDRESSES FOLLOWS
$^1$ Department of Mathematics, Saarland University, Germany
richards@num.uni-sb.de

$^2$ Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University London, UK
sergey.mikhailov@brunel.ac.uk

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%%BODY OF ABSTRACT FOLLOWS

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An elliptic boundary value problem with variable coefficients, where no
fundamental solution is explicitly available,  can be still reduced 
to a system of Boundary-Domain Integral or 
Integro-\-Dif\-feren\-tial Equations, BDI(D)Es,
based on a ...
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As additional requests please note the following.

\begin{enumerate}
\item
Please enter the words in the title as
``The finite element method'' and not as ``THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD''.
The reason for this request is because we do not want every word to
be in upper case in the table of contents.

\item
If you have references in the main body of the abstract then
these can be given inline in the form
`as is shown in [J.~T.~Oden, The Mathematics of Finite Elements and
Applications, Ed. J.~R.~Whiteman, 1993, pp.~1--24]' 
or referenced in the text with the LaTeX \verb|\cite| command.
If the details of any reference are in a bibtex file then you will need to
send the relevant part of the bibtex file as well so that we can process
everything at Brunel.

\item
If you know at this stage that your paper will be part of a
mini-symposium then please can you indicate this in your submission.
This will help to ensure that we group together all the abstracts
related to a mini-symposium.

\item
If you are likely to be an author or co-author of more than one paper
then it would help us if you let us know so that you appear properly
in the author index that we create.

\item
If the abstract has several authors and you later change your mind as to
who will give the talk then please let us know.

\item
We would prefer if the abstract does not include images.
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Apart from the above requests, authors have almost complete freedom in the 
layout of the main body of the abstract with the main constraint being 
the length restriction of 1~page.



\section*{Sending the abstract and the acknowledgement}

We need the LaTeX source file (or files).
Please send this as an attachment to an email to be sent to the address
\begin{verbatim}
Mike.Warby@brunel.ac.uk
\end{verbatim}
As already mentioned in the case of references,
if more than one file is involved
then please remember to attach
all the files that we will need to process with LaTeX
(e.g. a style file or a bibtex file that you refer to).

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We will usually acknowledge email submissions in one or two days
to let you know that it has arrived and, hopefully, that we can
process it satisfactorily.
If you do not receive any reply in at least 5~days then it is likely
that your email has not reached us.
If this is the case then please send again and send to both the addresses
\begin{verbatim}
Mike.Warby@brunel.ac.uk
Carolyn.Sellers@brunel.ac.uk
\end{verbatim}

\par
If your email submission still does not reach us and you can put
your abstract temporarily on a web page then we suggest that
you send us a FaX containing the address of the web page and we
will access the LaTeX file in this way.
Please also include an email address as you may still be able to receive
our replies.

\section*{Non-LaTeX users}

If you do not use LaTeX and are having problems conforming to these
guidelines then we may be able to still easily cope with your
abstract.

\par
If there are no special symbols required then you can just
send a plain text file.

\par
If you only use Word and your abstract only contains a minimal amount of
mathematical symbols then we should still be able to easily convert it
to LaTeX here at Brunel and include it with all the other abstracts.
Please contact us to see if everything will be okay.
In such cases you should send us the Word file and, if possible, the
PDF that this creates.
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