A. Clematis, A. Corana, "Performance analysis of SPMD algorithms on a network of workstations with virtual shared memory", PARCO '97, Bonn (Germany), 16-19 Sept. 97 (presented by A.Clematis)

L. De Floriani, P. Magillo, E. Puppo, "VARIANT - Processing and visualizing terrains at variable resolution," 5th ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Systems, 15-16 Nov. 1997 (presented by P. Magillo)

R.M. Bottino, P. Cutugno, F. Furinghetti, "Un esempio di hypermedia per la storia della matematica", Conf. in honor of F. Speranza, Univ. Bologna, Dip. Matematica, 11 Oct. 1997 (invited talk; in italian)

R.M. Bottino, G. Chiappini, M. Molinari, P.Torselli, "Disagio Scolastico come area di intervento per la prevenzione dell'handicap", Nat. Conf. "Informatica, Didattica e Disabilità", Firenze, Nov. 97 (in italian)

G. Dettori has conducted the Workshop "Information Technology and Problem Solving in Mathematics Education" within the IFIP Internat. Working Conf. "Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries", Harare (Zimbabwe), 25-29 Aug. 97 (introductive presentation by G.Dettori, S.Greco, E.Lemut)

E. Puppo has conducted, with R. Scopigno of the CNUCE, the tutorial "Simplification, LOD, and Multiresolution - Pinciples and Applications", within Eurographics'97, Budapest (Hungary), 4-8 Sept. 1997

G.Dettori, "Considerazioni sull' attività in laboratorio informatico e sulla sua articolazione con l'attività in classe", in "Conferenze e Seminari 1996-1997", E. Gallo et al. eds., Mathesis, Torino (in italian)

Within the project Qualification 2000 (communitary initiative ADAPT) the workshop "New environments for continuous training in Small and Medium Enterprise" was held at the I.M.A. on 23-25 Sept 97

M.T. Molfino, member of the Program Committee ITI'98, Pula (Croazia), June 16-19, 1998 M.T. Molfino, Chair of Tutorial/Workshop ED-MEDIA & TELECOM 98, Freiburg (Germany), June 20-25, 1998

Dr. Salvatore Spinello of the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Catania has a fellowship for one year at the I.M.A. within the Coordinated Project '"Modelling and territory analysis by means of fuzzy arithmetic algorithms", starting from September 15