>From Kristian.Lien Thu May 22 23:48:51 1997

This is a preliminary report based on the early registration.

By May 20th, 380 people have been registered as participants in the meeting
and / or associated workshops.  Approx. 12 of these will attend only the 
workshops. The overall number of industrial participants is 136.
69 participants have been registered as students. 
40 participants have been registered without meals.

Geographically, the participants come from 32 different countries, presenting
201 papers in total:

Europe    : 276 persons (106 industrial) from 22 countries, with 120 papers. 
Asia:     :  52 persons ( 17 industrial) from 4 countries,  with  32 papers.
Americas  :  47 persons ( 12 industrial) from 4 countries,  with  43 papers.
Africa    :   4 persons (  1 industrial)  (South Africa),   with   3 papers.
Australia :   1 person  (  0 industrial)                    with   2 papers.

The five largest national groups account for approx. 60 % of the participants,
approx. 70% of the industrial participants, and approx. 60% of the papers:

Norway    :  73 persons (42 industrial), with 17 papers.
U.K.      :  52 persons (17 industrial), with 39 papers.
U.S.A.    :  38 persons (11 industrial), with 32 papers.
Germany   :  34 persons (13 industrial), with 21 papers.
Japan     :  32 persons (13 industrial), with 18 papers.

The Asian participation is characterized by large Japanese and Korean groups 
with a good percentage of industrial people. No industrial participation from
other Asian countries.

>From the Americas, all the industrial participants are from US and Canada. 

The participation from former Eastern Europe is low, with only academic
participation: Czech rep. (1), Hungary (2), Poland (3) and Russia (1)


-Kristian M. Lien


In addition, Steinar Hauan has prepared this complete list of where the papers
come from (looking at the first author):
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      1  Belgium
      1  Canada
      1  Croatia
      1  Czech republic
      1  Hungary
      1  Israel
      1  Russia
      2  Australia
      2  Finland
      2  Portugal
      2  Sweden
      2  Taiwan
      3  China
      3  Denmark
      3  Italy
      3  South Africa
      4  France
      4  Netherlands
      4  Spain
      4  Turkey
      5  Argentina
      5  Brazil
      5  Slovenia
      5  Switzerland
      9  Korea
     17  Norway
     18  Japan
     21  Germany
     32  USA
     39  UK