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If you're an adventurous and/or imaginative type, consider coming to the
Digital Burgess conference to be held in Banff, August 29 to September 1,
1997.

That conference will bring together a wide spectrum of workers in the
fields of virtual worlds, genetic algorithms, L-systems, paleontology, and
more.  As an example of a benefit that might come to our field, it seems to
me that the study of paleobiotas could profitably enlist some portion of
the immense amount of energy and talent that is going into visualizations
of virtual organisms and ecosystems.

In addition to a keynote introduction to the Burgess Shale fauna by Desmond
Collins, Stefan Bengtson will discuss limitations to our ability to
interpret ancient life in a presentation provisionally entitled "The
Present as a Keyhole to the Past".  Zoologist Richard Dawkins will also
present a major address.

A high point of the conference will be an opportunity to visit the Burgess
Shale quarry (a hike of approximately 20 km).

For more information on the conference, see the website
http://www.biota.org/conf97/index.html
and the June 3 announcement of the conference on this list-server.

I am helping the organizer, Bruce Damer, to coordinate
paleontological/paleobiological  presentations, so if you would like to
participate please email me at wriedel@ucsd.edu, with a copy to
bdamer@ccon.org.

Bill R.



W. Riedel
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0220

wriedel@ucsd.edu
phone (619) 534-4386
fax   (619) 534-0784

. . . .  May the Force be with you . . . .