meetings 1999 to 2000

Conferences July 1999 to July 2000 111th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the [email protected] tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Pacific Website www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wegas99 [email protected] Toronto (Canada) 6 to 9 July 1999 Website www.esf.org/euresco contact Laurie Keechler, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 10 to 15 July 1999 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco CA 94112, USA Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and tel +1 415 337 11 00 ext. 109 fax +1 415 337 52 05 Nanostructures (5th ACSIN) Unsolved Problems of Noise (UPoN 99) [email protected] Aix-en-Provence (France) Adelaide (Australia) Website asp.unm.edu contact Claudine Fradin, Laboratoire de Physique des contact D. Abbott, UPoN 99 Secretariat, EEE Department, 1 to 7 July 1999 Solides, Bât. 510, Université de Paris-Sud/Orsay, F-91405 University of Adelaide, AUS-Adelaide SA 5005, Australia Orsay, France tel +33 169 08 31 62 fax +33 169 08 35 92 tel +618 8303 5748 fax +618 8303 4360 Nonlinearity, Integrability and All That: Twenty Years after [email protected] [email protected] Needs'79 6 to 9 July 1999 Website www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/ Gallipoli (Italy) UPoN/uponhome.html contact Maria Concetta Gerardi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for 11 to 15 July 1999 Università di Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas tel +390 832 32 04 67 fax +390 832 32 05 05 International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium N° 195 24th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized [email protected] Bozeman (USA) Gases (24 ICPG) Website www.fisica.unile.it/nonlinearity contact Sachiko Tsuruta, IAU 195, Physics Department, Warsaw (Poland) 1 to 10 July 1999 Montana State University, Bozeman MT 59717, USA contact Tadeusz Pisarczyk, Institute of Plasma Physics and tel +1 406 994 67 79 fax +1 406 994 44 52 Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., PO Box 49, PL-00 908 The Future of the Universe and the Future of Our [email protected] Warsaw 49, Poland tel +48 22 6857096 fax +48 22 6668372 Civilization 6 to 10 July 1999 [email protected] Budapest (Hungary) Website www.icpig99.ifpilm.waw.pl contact Livia Jenik, Eotvos Physical Society, Foutca 68, H- International Seminar on Polarization and Space Charge 11 to 16 July 1999 1027 Budapest, Hungary tel +36 1 201 86 82 Phenomena in Polymer Dielectrics [email protected] Odessa (Ukraine) 62nd Annual Meeting Meteoritical Society Website www.uniciv-future.ru contact Sergei Fedosov, Department of Physics, OGAPT, ul. Johannesburg (South Africa) 2 to 7 July 1999 Kanatnaya 112, UA-270039 Odessa, Ukrainia contact Wolf Uwe Reimold, Department of Geology, Wits tel +380 482 29 11 80 fax +380 482 25 32 84 University, Private Bag 3, PO Wits 2050, ZA-Johannesburg, 4th Liquid Matter Conference [email protected] South Africa tel +27 11 716 29 46 fax +27 11 339 16 97 Granada (Spain) 6 to 10 July 1999 [email protected] contact 4th Liquid Matter Conference, c/o Roque Hidalgo- Website www.wits.ac.za/metsoc99 Alvarez, Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de 9th National Physics Conference 11 to 16 July 1999 Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, Wellington (New Zealand) E-18071 Granada, Spain contact Grant Williams, Secretary, New Zealand Institute of Ultrafast Optics 99 tel +34 958 24 32 13 fax +34 958 24 32 14 Physics, c/o IRL, PO Box 31310, NZ-Lower Hutt, New Zealand Ascona (Switzerland) [email protected] tel +64 4 569 0511 fax +64 4 569 0117 contact Ursula Keller, IQE/Ultrafast Laser Physics, Physics Wetaiiewww.ugr.es/~liquid99 [email protected] Department, ETH Honggerberg, HPT E 16.3, CH-8093 3 to 7 July 1999 Website nzip.rsnz.govt.nz/confer99.htm Zurich, Switzerland tel +411 633 21 46 fax +411 633 10 59 7 to 9 July 1999 [email protected] International Solar Energy Society Solar World Congress Website www.iqe.ethz.ch/ultrafast/UO99 Jerusalem (Israel) Plasma 99 11 to 16 July 1999 contact Secretariat, ISES Solar World Congress, PO Box Warsaw (Poland) 50006, IL-Tel Aviv 61500, Israel contact Local Organizing Committee for Plasma 99, Space International Conference on Achievements and tel +972 3 51 40 000 fax +972 3 51 75 674 Research Center, PAS, Bartycka 18A, PL-00 716 Warsaw, Perspectives in Nuclear Structure [email protected] Poland fax +48 22 840 3131 Agia Pelagia (Greece) 4 to 9 July 1999 [email protected] contact C.A. Kalfas, Institute of Nuclear Physics, N.C.S.R. Website haydn.cbk.waw.pl/plasma99 Demokritos, GR-15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece Amateur-Professional Partnership in Astronomical 7 to 9 July 1999 tel +301 65 03 528 fax +301 65 11 215 Research and Education [email protected] Toronto (Canada) Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Physics Website www.physics.ntua.gr/conference.html contact J.R. Percy, Erindale Campus, University of Toronto, Nyiregyhaza (Hungary) 11 to 17 July Mississauga ON L5L 1C6, Canada contact Laszlo Jenkovszky, Bogolyubov Intitute for tel +1 905 828 53 51 fax +.1 905 828 54 25 Theoretical Physics, Kiev-143, Ukraine 11th Quadrennial Congress of the International [email protected] tel +38 044 2669123 fax +38 044 2665998 Association for Radiation Research Website www.aspsky.org/u99/sched.html [email protected] Dublin (Ireland) 5 to 7 July 1999 Website www.gluk.apc.org/hadrons/BGL contact E. M. Fielden, MRC Radiobiology Unit, Chilton, 7 to 10 July 1999 Oxon OXu oRD, United Kingdom 35th Liège International Astrophysics Colloquium tel +44 12 35 83 43 93 fax +44 12 35 83 47 7$ Liège (Belgium) International Euroconference in Quantum 11 to 19 July 1999 contact Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, 5 Chromodynamics (QCD 99) avenue de Coirne, B-4000 Liège, Belgium Montpellier (France) Ageing Studies and Lifetime Extension of Materials tel +32 4 254 75 16 fax +32 4 254 75 11 contact M. Razafindrakoto, QCD Secretariat, Laboratoire de Oxford (United Kingdom) [email protected] Physique Mathématique et Théorique, Université contact Les Mallinson, International Conference on Ageing Website www.astro.ulg.ac.be/colloques/1999/colloque35.html Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier Studies and Lifetime Extension of Materials, AWE 5 to 8 July 1999 Cedex 5, France tel +33 46714 35 68 fax +33 467 14 35 68 Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR, United Kingdom [email protected] tel +44 118 982 7993 fax +44 118 982 4739 3rd Hypothesis Website www.lpm.univ-montp2.fr:7o82/~qcd [email protected] St. Petersburg (Russia) 7 to 13 July 1999 12 to 14 July 1999 contact Nikolai V. Egorov, Faculty for Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, Bibliotechnaya pl.2, RU- 27th SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics: CP 9th International Conference on Modulated 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia Violation In and Beyond the Standard Model Semiconductor Structures (MSS 9) tel +7 812 4284250 fax +7 812 4287189 Stanford (USA) Fukuoka (Japan) [email protected] contact Lilian De Porcel, Conference Coordinator, SLAC, PO contact H. Akiyama, Secretary of MSS9, Institute for Solid Website www.apmath.spbu.ru/hypothesis Box 4349, MS 62, Stanford CA 94309, USA State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, 7 22 1 Roppongi, 5 to 8 July 1999 tel +1 650 926 27 10 fax +1 650 926 35 87 Minato-ku, J-106 8666 Tokyo, Japan [email protected] tel +813 3478 6811 fax +813 3478 8001 9th Latin American Congress on Surface Science and its Website www.slac.stanford.edu/gen/meeting/ssi/next [email protected] Applications (CLACSA 9) 7 to 16 July 1999 Website www.1ssp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mss9 Havana (Cuba) 12 to 16 July 1999 contact Osvaldo de Melo, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Galaxy Dynamics: From the Early Universe to the Present La Habana, Colina Universitaria, CU-10400 La Habana, Paris (France) Conference on Black Hole Physics Cuba tel +53 7 783471 fax +53 7 333758 contact Françoise Combes, DEMIRM, Observatoire de Paris, Trieste (Italy) [email protected] 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, F-75014 Paris, France contact Patrizia Passarella, The Abdus Salam International Website www.fis.cinvestav.mx/~slacs/Clacsa9Av1.html tel +33 1 40 51 20 77 fax +33 1 40 51 20 02 Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11,I-34014 5 to 9 July 1999 [email protected] Trieste, Italy tel +390 40 22 40 231 fax +390 40 22 40 3°4 Website www.iap.fr/iapmtg99 [email protected] 31 st European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy Conference 8 to 13 July 1999 Website www.ictp.trieste.it/~highener/EW99.html (EGAS 31) 12 to 16 July 1999 Marseille (France) NMR in Molecular Biology: Structure, Binding and contact Fernande Vedel, Physiques des Interactions Ioniques Molecular Recognition Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International et Moléculaires, Université de Provence PIIM, UMR 6633 Granada (Spain) Cryogenic Materials Conference (CEC-ICMC) CNRS-UAM1, Centre de St. Jérôme/Case C21, F-13397 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, Montreal (Canada) Marseille Cedex 20, France Quotation 99-014,1 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 contact Paula Pair, Centennial Conferences, 4800 Baseline tel +33 491 28 81 45 fax +33 491 28 87 45 Strasbourg Cedex, France Road, Ste A-112, Boulder CO 80303, USA

30 europhysics news march/april 1999 meetings 1999 to 2000 tel +i 303 499 2299 fax +1 303 499 2599 [email protected] Japan fax +81 424 43 55 05 [email protected] Website www.bham.ac.uk/iugg99 [email protected] Website www.cec-icmc.org 18 to 30 July 1999 Website powen.pc.uec.ac.jp/Sendai 12 to 16 July 1999 22 to 27 July 1999 19th Discussion Conference: Rheology of Polymer Systems Preserving the Astronomical Sky Prague (Czech Republic) 41st Annual Meeting of the American Association of International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium N° 196 contact Milena Srpova, P.M.M. Secretariat, o/o Institute of Physicists in Medicine Vienna (Austria) Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Nashville (USA) contact W. T. Sullivan III, IAU 196, Department of Czech Republic, Heyrovského nám. 2, CZ-162 06 Praha 6, contact Projects Manager, AAPM, One Physics Ellipse, Astronomy, Box 351580, University of Washington, Seattle, Czech Republic tel +420 2 36 03 17 fax +420 2 36 79 81 College Park, Nashville MD 20740 3846, USA WA 98195, USA tel +1 206 543 77 73 fax +1 206 685 04 03 [email protected] tel +1301 209 3387 fax +1301 209 0862 [email protected] Website www.imc.cas.cz/~sympo/19discon.html 25 to 29 July 1999 Website www.darksky.org/ida/iau196 19 to 22 July 1999 12 to 16 July 1999 8th International Symposium on Heavy Flavour Physics 11th International Conference on Nonequilibrium Carrier Southampton (United Kingdom) 3rd International Conference on Symmetry in Nonlinear Dynamics in Semiconductors (HCIS 11) contact Jonathan Flynn tel +44 171359 2081 Mathematical Physics (SNMP 99) Kyoto (Japan) [email protected] Kiev (Ukrainia) contact Nobuhiko Sawaki, Department of Electronics, Website www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/hf8 contact Anatoly Nikitin, Institute of Mathematics, National Nagoya University, Chikku, JP-464 8603 Nagoya, Japan 25 to 29 July 1999 Academy of Sciences of Ukrainia, 3 Tereshchenkivska Street, tel +81 52 789 3321 fax +81 52 789 3157 UA-252601 Kyiv 4, Ukrainia [email protected] 17th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of tel +380 442 24 63 22 fax +380 442 25 20 10 Website www.echo.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~hcis-11 Explosions and Reactive Systems [email protected] 19 to 23 July 1999 Heidelberg (Germany) Website www.berner.imath.kiev.ua/~appmath/first_in.html contact Uwe Riedel, IWR, University of Heidelberg, Im 12 to 18 July 1999 5th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA 99) Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Gottingen (Germany) tel +49 6221 548249 fax +49 6221 548884 Quantum Computation & Quantum Information Theory contact Michael Stuke, Max-Planck-Institut für [email protected] Torino (Italy) Biophysikalische Chemie, PO Box 2841, D-37018 Gottingen, Website reaflow.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/icders99.html contact M. Palma, Fondazione I. S. I., Viale Settimio Severo Germany tel +49 551 20113 14 fax +49 551 20113 30 25 to 30 July 1999 65,1-10133 Torino, Italy [email protected] tel +390 11 660 30 90 fax +390 11 660 00 49 19 to 23 July 1999 Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals [email protected] Boston (USA) Website www.isi.it/activities1999/tmr_school_on.html 11th International Congress of Radiation Research contact Tereasa Brainerd, Department of Astronomy, Boston 12 to 23 July 1999 Dublin (Ireland) University, 715 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215, USA contact C. Mothersill, Radiation Science Centre, Dublin tel +1 617 353 66 46 fax +1 617 353 57 04 1 st International Conference on Nonlinear Sciences Institute of Technology, 40/41 Lr Kevin St., IRL-Dublin 8, [email protected] Hong Kong (China) Ireland tel +353 1 402 46 65 fax +353 1 475 67 93 Website bu-ast.bu.edu/~brainerd/lensconf contact DDAP Secretary, Department of Physics, Hong Kong [email protected] 25 to 30 July 1999 Baptist University, CN-Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China 19 to 24 July 1999 tel +86 852 2339 7029 fax +86 852 2304 6558 1st Stig Lundqvist Research Conference on the Advancing [email protected] Strings 99 Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum Phases in Website www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ddap Potsdam (Germany) Electron Systems of Low Dimensions 13 to 16 July 1999 contact STRINGS ‘99, Albert-Einstein Instituí, Max-Planck Trieste (Italy) Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Schlaatzweg 1, D-14473 contact Stig Lundqwist Research Conferenceon Quantum 4th International Symposium on Biophysical Aspects of Potsdam, Germany tel +49 331 275370 fax +49 331 27537 98 Phases in Electron Systems of Low Dimensions, The Abdus Auger Processes [email protected] Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, PO Box Lund (Sweden) Website strings99.aei-potsdam.mpg.de 586, Strada Costiera 11,1-34100 Trieste, Italy contact Gustav Grafström, Department of Radiation Physics, 19 to 25 July 1999 tel +390 40 22 40 111 fax +390 40 22 41 63 Lund University, S-22185 Lund, Sweden [email protected] (use subject: get index) tel +46 46 17 31 27 fax +46 46 12 72 49 3rd United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Website www.ictp.trieste.it/cgi-bin/ICTPsmr [email protected] Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) and Sate/lite 26 to 30 July 1999 Website www.fysik.lu.se Meetings 15 to 16 July 1999 Vienna (Austria) 20th International Conference on Defects in contact Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna International Semiconductors (ICDS 20) Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis Centre, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Berkeley (USA) Dublin (Ireland) tel +43 1 26 060 49 50 fax +43 1 26 060 58 30 contact Eugene Haller, Berkeley Lab, M/S 2-200,1 Cyclotron contact Christine Bastian, EPS Conferences, European [email protected] Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Physical Society, BP 2136, F-68060 Mulhouse Cedex, France Website www.un.or.at/OOSA [email protected] tel + 33 389 32 94 40 fax + 33 389 32 94 49 19 to 30 July 1999 Website www.lbl.gov/msd/ICDS-20 [email protected] 26 to 30 July 1999 Website www.nbi.dk/APFA Symposia on Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field, and 15 to 17 July 1999 Long and Short Term Variability in the Sun's History and 6th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces Global Change (IAGA/IUGG 1999) (ICSOS 6) International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Birmingham (United Kingdom) Vancouver (Canada) Physics 99 (HEP 99) contact IUGG99 Secretariat School of Earth Sciences, contact ICSOS 6 Secretariat, UBC Conference Centre, 5961 Tampere (Finland) University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver BC V6T 2C9, Canada contact M. Roos, HEP99, Department of Physics, BOX 9, 2TT, United Kingdom tel + 1 604 822 1050 fax +1 604 822 1069 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland tel +44 121 414 61 65 fax +44 121 414 49 42 [email protected] tel +358 9 19 18 440 fax +358 9 19 18 366 [email protected] Website www.conferences.ubc.ca/icsos.Htm [email protected] Website www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/symposia 26 to 30 July 1999 Website www.physics.helsinki.fi/~hep99 19 to 30 July 1999 15 to 21 July 1999 Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1999 International Conference on Conduction and Breakdown in Ithaca (USA) 5th International Conference on Mars Dielectric Liquids 99 contact Beth E. Clark, ACM Conference, Space Sciences Pasadena (USA) Nara (Japan) Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 6801, USA contact Arden Albee, Graduate Office, Mail Stop 02-31, contact Hisanao Yamashita, Department of Electronics and tel +1 607 254 8895 fax +1 607 255 9002 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91125, USA Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, [email protected] tel +1 626 395 63 67 fax +1 626 577 92 46 Keio University, 3 14 1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, J-Yokohama 223, Website scorpio.tn.cornell.edu/ACM [email protected] Japan tel +81 45 563 1151 fax +81 45 563 2773 26 to 30 July 1999 Website cass.jsc.nasa.gov/meetings/5thMars99 [email protected] 18 to 23 July 1999 Website www.dei.elec.keio.ac.jp International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis (IBA 14) 20 to 25 July 1999 and European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Radiation Effects in Insulators 10 (REI 10) Research and Technology (ECAART 6) Jena (Germany) International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Dresden (Germany) contact Uta Bornkessel, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 21) contact IBA-14/ECAART-6, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D- Sendai (Japan) Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, PO °7743 Jena, Germany contact James H. McGuire, Department of Physics, Tulane Box 51 0119, D-01314 Dresden, Germany tel +49 3641 947315 fax +49 3641 947302 University, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698, USA fax +49 351 260 32 85 [email protected] tel +1 504 862 3182 fax +1 504 862 8702 [email protected] Website www.physik.uni-jena.de/~exphys/reiio/ifkio.html [email protected] Website www.fz-rossendorf.de/iba14 18 to 23 July 1999 Website www.phy.tulane.edu/~mcguire/icpeac.html 26 to 30 July 1999 22 to 27 July 1999 22nd General Assembly of the International Union of 18th International Union of Crystallography Congress and Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG 99) 21th Meeting of the International Conference on the General Assembly Birmingham (United Kingdom) Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 21) Glasgow (United Kingdom) contact IUGG 99, School of Earth Sciences, University of Sendai (Japan) contact G. Houston, Northern Networking, Cong. Central Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United contact Michio Matzuzawa, Applied Physics & Chemistry, Office, Bellway House, 813 South St., Glasgow G14 oBX, Kingdom tel +44 121 414 61 65 fax +44 121 414 49 42 University of Electro-Communications, J-182-8585 Tokyo, United Kingdom europhysics news march/april 1999 31 meetings 1999 to 2000 [email protected] Optics for the Next Millennium [email protected] 26 to 31 July 1999 San Francisco (USA) Website www.lps99.slac.stanford.edu/lp99.slac.stanford.edu contact ICO 18 Conference Manager, SPIE,1000-20th Street, 9 to 14 August 1999 Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology PO Box 10, Bellingham WA 98225, USA Chalkidiki (Greece) tel +1 360 676 32 90 fax +1 360 647 14 45 9th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics contact N. Ganoulis, University of Thessaloniki, GR- [email protected] Istanbul (Turkey) Thessaloniki, Greece 2 to 6 August 1999 contact IX Mathematical Physics Conference Organizer [email protected] [email protected] Website www.bartol.udel.edu/nato99 2nd Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae: From Origins to Website www.gursey.g0v.tr/mp9.html 28 to 29 July Microstructures 9 to15 August1999 Cambridge (USA) International Conference on Physics and Chemistry of contact Joel Kastner, MIT Center for Space Res., NE80-6007, Last Total Eclipse of the Millennium Molecular and Oxide Superconductors (MOS 99) 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139, USA Istanbul (Turkey) Stockholm (Sweden) tel +1 617 253 38 75 fax +1 808 988 27 90 contact Attila Ozguc, Bogazici Univ., Kandilli Observatory, contact Magnus Andersson, Congrex Sweden AB, MOS 99, [email protected] Cengelkoy, TR-Istanbul 81220, Turkey Po Box 5619, S-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden Website space.mit.edu/PN_conf tel +90 216 308 05 14 fax +90 216 332 17 11 tel +46 8 459 66 00 fax +46 8 661 91 25 3 to 6 August 1999 [email protected] [email protected] Website www.boun.edu.tr/~koeri/eclipse/99 Website www.mos99.kth.se Fluctuations in Biological Systems 13 to 15 August 1999 28 July to 2 August 1999 Stockholm (Sweden) contact Hans Liljenström, Theoretical Physics, KTH, S-100 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Localization 1999: Disorder and Interaction in Transport 44 Stockholm, Sweden tel +46 8 790 9423 Science, Sessions on Radio Astronomy Phenomena [email protected] Toronto (Canada) Hamburg (Germany) Website www.theophys.kth.se/~hali contact Nicole A. Sarault, URSI GA'99 Management Office, contact Bernhard Kramer, Institut für Theoretische Physik, 3 to 7 August 1999 NRC Canada, Montreal Roa1 Bldg M-19, Ottwa, Ontario K1A Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, D-20355 Hamburg, 0R6, Canada tel +1 613 993 72 71 fax +1 613 993 72 50 Germany tel +49 40 4123 4997 fax +49 40 4123 6798 Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS 18) [email protected] [email protected] Odense (Denmark) Website www.nrc.ca/confserv/ursi99/ Website www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/home/vms/ contact P. Sigmund, Physics Department, Odense University, sessio_e.htm#commission group_meso/l99.html DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark 13 to 21 August 1999 30 July to 3 August 1999 tel +45 65 57 35 20 fax +45 66 15 87 60 [email protected] 14th International Conference for Physics Students (ICPS 99) Short Course on Crystal Growth Website www.fys.ou.dk/icacs Helsinki (Finland) Tucson (USA) 3 to 8 August 1999 contact Veera Vainio, ICPS 99, Organizing Committee, PO contact Tony Gentile, ACCGE-11 Secretariat, PO Box 3233, BOX 9, Siltavuorenpenger 20 D, FIN-00014 University of Thousand Oaks CA 91359-0233, USA fax +1 805 492 40 62 22nd International Conference on Low Temperature Helsinki, Finland [email protected] Physics tel +358 50 598 65 39 fax +358 9 191 86 80 31 July to 1 August 1999 Espoo 8c Helsinki (Finland) [email protected] contact Tomi Ruokola, Low Temperature Laboratory, Website www.physics.helsinki.fi/~iaps/icps99 1999 Pacific Rim Conference on Sfe/lar Astrophysics Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02150 Espoo, 14 to 20 August 1999 Hong-Kong (China) Finland tel +358 9 628 044 fax +358 9 680 2204 contact Kwong-Sang Cheng, Department of Physics, Hong- [email protected] The Universe of Gamov: Original Ideas in Astrophysics and Kong University, Pokfulam Road, CN-Hong-Kong, China Website lt22.hut.fi Cosmology (GMIC 99) tel +852 28 59 23 68 fax +852 25 59 91 52 4 to 11 August 1999 Odessa (Ukrainia) [email protected] contact M. Ryabov, Odessa Astronomical Observatory, Park 1 to 4 August 1999 Microscopy & Microanalysis 99 Shevchenko, UA-270014 Odessa-14, Ukrainia Portland (USA) tel +7 04 82 24 71 60 fax +7 04 82 22 84 42 9th International Conference on Environmental contact Microscopy 8c Microanalysis ‘99, c/o MSA Meeting [email protected] Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems-Water Managers, 7000 West Southwest Highway, Chicago Ridge Website www.rsssi.ru/gmic99/brown.nord.nw.ru/conf99.htm Reactors [email protected] 16 to 21 August 1999 Newport Beach (USA) Website WWW.MSA.Microscopy.com contact TMS Customer Service Department, 184 Thorn Hill 1 to 5 August 1999 6th International Wigner Symposium Road, Warrendale PA 15086, USA Istanbul (Turkey) tel +1 724 776 90 00 ext. 270 fax +1 724 773 67 70 Solar Eclipse August 1999 Symposium: Research Amateur contact Metin Arik, WigSym6, Bogazici University, [email protected] Astronomy in the VLT Era Department of Physics, TR-Bebek 80815 Istanbul, Turkey Website www.tms.org/Meetings/speciality/Nuclear- Garching bei München (Germany) fax +902122872466 IX/Nuclear-IX.html contact Klaus Reinsch, Univ. Observatory Göttingen, [email protected] 1 to 5 August 1999 Geismarlandstr. 11, D-37083 Göttingen, Germany Website www.wigsym6.boun.edu.tr tel +49 551 39 40 37 fax +49 551 39 50 43 16 to 22 August 1999 13th International Conference on the Electronic Properties [email protected] of Two-Dimensional Systems Website neptun.uni-sw.gwdg.de/sonne/ 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 26) Ottawa (Canada) eclipse99_conference.html Salt Lake City (USA) contact Doris Ruest, Conference Services Office, National 7 to 13 August 1999 contact E. C. Loh Research Council Canada, Montreal Road, Bldg. M-19, [email protected] Ottawa ON KiA 0R6, Canada The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Website krusty.physics.utah.edu/icrc1999 tel +1 613 993 0414 fax +1 613 993 7250 Research 17 to 25 August 1999 [email protected] International Astronomical Union (IAU) Colloquium N° 176 Website www.nrc.ca/c0nfserv/ep2ds Budapest (Hungary) International Conference of Physics Teachers and 1 to 6 August 1999 contact Geza Kovacs, IAU 176, Konkoly Observatory, H-1525 Educators Budapest 12, Box 67, Hungary Guilin (China) 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPS 99) tel +36 1175 41 22 fax +36 1 275 46 68 contact Xingkai Luo, Institute of Physics Education, Guangxi San Francisco (USA) [email protected] Normal University, CN-541004 Guilin, China contact 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Website www.konkoly.hu/iau176 fax +86 773 58 18 071 University of California, Department of Linguistics, 1203 8 to 12 August 1999 [email protected] Dwindle Hall, Berkeley CA 94720-2650, USA Website www.cpenet.org/e-hy-99icpt.html [email protected] Interrelation between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory 19 to 23 August 1999 Website Trill.Linguistics.Berkeley.EDU/icphs and Space 1 to 7 August 1999 Kreuth (Germany) Scanning Microscopoy International - Cells and Materials [email protected] Meeting: Bone & Soft Tissue Biomaterial Interactions 19th International Conference on Maximum Entropy and Website www.mpe.mpg.de/IPELS99 Davos (Switzerland) Bayesian Methods (Max Ent 99) 9 to 13 August 1999 contact Godfried M. Roomans, Department of Medical Cell Boise State (USA) Biology, University of Uppsala, Box 571, S-75123 Uppsala, contact Gary Erickson QCD & Multiparticle Prduction: 29th International Sweden tel +1 208 426 44 01 fax +1 208 426 48 00 Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD99) [email protected] [email protected] Providence (USA) Website www.ao-asif.ch/events/other/smi/index.html Website www.maxent99.idbsu.edu contact Mary Ann Rotondo, Conference Secretariat, 22 to 24 August 1999 2 to 6 August 1999 Department of Physics, Brown University, PO Box 1843, Providence RI 02912, USA ACS Symposium on Origin of Elements in the Solar System: A New Era in the Search for Life in the Universe [email protected] Implications of Post-1957 Observations Bioastronomy 99 Website www.het.brown.edu/people/maryann/ISMD99.html New Orleans (USA) Hapuna Beach (USA) 9 to 13 August 1999 contact Olivier Manuel, UMR Chemistry Department, contact Karen Meech, Inst, for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn University of Missouri, Rolla MO 65401, USA Drive, Honolulu HI 96822, USA 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon tel +1 573 341 44 20 fax +1 573 341 60 33 tel +1 808 956 68 28 fax +1 808 956 68 28 Interactions at High Energies [email protected] [email protected] Stanford (USA) Website www.umr.edu/~oess Website www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/bioast contact Maura Chatwell, Conference Coordinator, SLAC, 22 to 26 August 1999 2 to 6 August 1999 MS96, PO Box 4349, Stanford CA 94309-4349, USA tel +1 650 926 49 31 GMIC 99: Early Universe: Cosmological Problems and europhysics news march/april 1999 33 meetings 1999 to 2000 Instrumental Technologies of Tech., Petersenstrasse 20, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany contact Tamas Grosz, Conference Secretary, Neutron Physics Saint Petersburg (Russia) [email protected] Laboratory, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and contact V. Khaikin, Polytechnicheskaya 21 rm 111, RU-195220 29 August to 3 September 1999 Optics, KFKI, Bldg.10, PO B. 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary St. Petersburg, Russia tel +36 1 395 92 20 fax +36 1 395 91 65 tel +7 812 247 22 23 fax +7 812 24 75 062 International Conference on the Applications of the [email protected] [email protected] Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 99) Website www.kfki.hu/ECNS99 22 to 26 August 1999 Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) 1 to 4 September 1999 contact Klaus Achterhold, ICAME 99, Physik-Department 18th International Conference on X-Ray and Inner-Shell E17, Technische Universität, D-85747 München Garching, International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (ISNA 15) Processes(X 99) Germany tel +49 89 289 12559 fax +49 89 289 12548 Göttingen (Germany) Chicago (USA) [email protected] contact ISNA-15, Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität contact Barbara Weller, X99 Conference Office, Physics Website www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~icame Göttingen, Bürgerstraße 42 - 44, D-37073 Göttingen, Division, Building 203, Rm. G-122, Argonne National 29 August to 3 September 1999 Germany tel +49 551 39 77 13 fax +49 551 39 77 20 Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, II 60439- [email protected] 4843, USA tel +1 630 252 40 44 fax +1 630 252 28 64 6th International Conference on the Optics of Excitons in Website www.dpi.physik.uni-goettingen.de/isna [email protected] Confined Systems (OECS 6) 1 to 4 September 1999 Website www.phy.anl.gov/X99 Ascona (Switzerland) 23 to 27 August 1999 contact Vincenzo Savona, Institut de Physique Théorique, 26th Mazurian Lakes School of Physics: Nuclear Physics at EPFL, PHB-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland the Turn of the Century: Problems, Ideas, Techniques Astrochemistry: From Molecular Clouds to Planetary tel +41-21-693 3418 fax +41-21-693 5419 Krzyze (Poland) Systems [email protected] contact K. Delegacz, The Andrzej Soltan Institute for International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium N° 197 Website dpwww.epfl.ch/0ECS6 Nuclear Studies, Hoza 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland Sogwipo (South Korea) 30 August to 2 September 1999 tel +48 22 71 80 583 fax +48 22 77 93 481 contact Y. C. Minh, IAU 197, Korea Astronomy Observatory, [email protected] Hwaam Yusong, KR-Taejeon 309-348, Republic of Korea 10th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Website mazurian.ipi.gov.pl tel +82 42 865 32 63 fax +82 42 861 56 10 Spectroscopy and Related Topics 1 to 11 September 1999 [email protected] Santa Fe (USA) Website www.issa.reKkr/iaui97 contact Audrey L. Archuleta, Lansce User Office, MS H 831, Fundamental Aspects of Surface Science 23 to 27 August 1999 Los Alamos NM 87545, USA Casie/vecchio (Italy) tel +1 505 665 10 10 fax +1505 667 88 30 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, International Conf. on Luminescence and Optical [email protected] Quotation 99-007,1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter (ICL 99) Website www.lansce.lanl.gov/conferences/cgs/index.htm Strasbourg Cedex, France Osaka (Japan) 30 August to 3 September 1999 tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 contact Takashi Kushida [email protected] [email protected] 5th International Conference on Rare Gas Geochemistry Website www.esf.org/euresco 23 to 27 August 1999 Debrecen (Hungary) 3 to 8 September 1999 contact Istvan Csige, Institute of Nuclear Research, Bern ter Thermal and Ionization Aspects of Flows from Hot Stars: 18/c, H-4026 Debrecen, Hungary Molecular Liquids: New Trends in the Study of Structural Observations and Theory tel +36 52 417 266 fax +36 52 416 181 and Dynamical Properties Tartu (Estonia) [email protected] San Feliu de Guixols (Spain) contact Tiit Nugis, Tartu Observatory, EE-2244 Toravere, Website www.atomki.hu/atomki/Radon/icrgg contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, Estonia tel+ 3727410443 fax +372 7 410 205 30 August to 3 September 1999 Quotation 99-062,1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 [email protected] Strasbourg Cedex, France Website www.aai.ee/workshop/Tartu_workshop.html 8th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 23 to 27 August 1999 Relaxation and Resonance [email protected] Les Diablerets (Switzerland) Website www.esf.org/euresco 21st International Free Electron Laser Conference and 6th contact G. Soit, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, 3 to 8 September 1999 FEL Applications Workshop Switzerland tel +41 56 310 35 82 fax +41 56 310 37 17 Hamburg (Germany) [email protected] Strongly Coupled Coulomb System: Strongly Correlated contact Ingrid Nikodem, FEL’99, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D- 30 August to 03 September 1999 Electron and Ion System 22607 Hamburg, Germany Saint-Malo (France) tel +49 40 89 98 28 00 fax +49 40 89 98 42 00 Pulsar Astronomy—2000 and Beyond contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 [email protected] International Astronomical Union (IAU) Colloquium N° 177 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Strasbourg, France Website www.desy.de/fel99 Bonn (Germany) tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 23 to 28 August 1999 contact R. Wielebinski, IAU 177, MPI für Radioastronomie, [email protected] Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany Website www.esf.org/euresco 8th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy tel +49 228 525 300 fax +49 228 525 436 4 to 10 September 1999 (Hadron 99) [email protected] Beijing (CN) Website www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pulsar/IAU177 International conference on Solid State Spectroscopy contact Rucheng Hou 30 August to 3 September 1999 (ICSSS) tel +86 10 68235014 fax +86 10 68218317 Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany) [email protected] 9th International Conference on Unconventional contact ICSSS, c/o Sabine Birtel Max-Planck-Institut für Website hpws3.ihep.ac.cn/~hadron99 Photoactive Systems (UPS 99) Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, 24 to 28 August 1999 Würzbug (Germany) Germany fax +49 711 689 17 12 contact W. Richter, EP 4, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 [email protected] Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference Bayreuth, Germany tel +49 921 55 32 30 fax +49 92155 32 50 Website cardix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/icsss Sheffield (United Kingdom) [email protected] 5 to 7 September 1999 contact I. M. Reaney, Dept Engineering Materials, The Website www.ups99.uni-bayreuth.de University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, 31 August to 4 September 1999 15th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties United Kingdom tel +44 114 222 54 71 fax +44 114 222 59 43 (ECTP) i. [email protected] 114th Faraday Discussion: Surface Science of Metal Oxides Würzburg (Germany) Website www.iop.org/IOP/Confs Ambleside (United Kingdom) contact J. Fricke, Physikalisches Inst, der Univ., Am Hubland, 25 to 27 August 1999 contact G. Thornton, Department of Chem., Univ. of D-97074 Würzburg, Germany Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom [email protected] 1 st International conference on Scanning Probe [email protected] 5 to 9 September 1999 Microscopy of Polymers 1 to 3 September 1999 Santa Barbara (USA) Global Symposium on Recycling Waste Treatment and contact E. J. Kramer or S. N. Magonov 9th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Clean Technology (REWAS 99) [email protected] Drives (EMD 99) San Sebastian (Spain) [email protected] Canterbury (United Kingdom) contact Rodolfo Solozabal, INASMET, Camino de Portuetxe, Website www.di.com/poly/poly.html contact EMD 99 Secretariat, IEE Conference Services, Savoy 12 B° de Igara, E-20009 San Sebastian, Spain 27 to 29 August 1999 Place, London WC2R oBL, United Kingdom tel +34 943 31 61 44 fax +34 943 21 75 60 tel +44 171 344 54 67 fax +44 171 240 88 30 [email protected] 8th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of [email protected] Website www.inasmet.es/rewas99.html Biological Molecules (ECSBM 1999) Website www.iee.org.uk/Conf 5 to 9 September 1999 Twente (The Netherlands) 1 to 3 September 1999 contact J. A. Spierenburg, ECSBM 99 Conference Secretariat, 12th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass CAT, University of Twente, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Industrial Electronics Exhibition Spectrometry Enschede, The Netherlands Oslo (Norway) Brussels (Belgium) tel +31 53 48 94 444 fax +3153 48 94 442 contact Info-Rama Sentert, Scandinavian Electronics Fair contact B. Bertau j. [email protected] AS, N-1912 Enebakk, Norway [email protected] Website www.tn.utwente.nl/ecsbm99 tel +47 64 92 71 09 fax +47 64 92 65 09 Website www.mapr.ucl.ac.be/sims12 29 August to 2 September 1999 [email protected] 5 to 10 September 1999 Website www.scanexpo.com/sider/engi.html 7th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid 1 to 3 September 1999 International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS 99) Crystals (FLC 99) Kyoto (Japan) Darmstadt (Germany) 2nd European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS 99) contact Hiroshi Tsuji, Department of Electronic Science and contact W. Haase, Inst, of PHysical Chem., Darmstadt Univ. Budapest (Hungary) Engineering, Kyoto University Sakyo-ku, J-606-8501 Kyoto,

34 europhysics news march/april 1999 meetings 1999 to 2000 Japan tel +81 75 753 53 54 fax +81 75 753 53 24 Physics, University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 1560, 4150 Porto, Portugal [email protected];kyoto-u.ac.jp USA fax +1 206 68 59 829 tel +351 2 60 89 830 fax +351 2 60 89 831 Website mvtpc3.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icis99 [email protected] [email protected] 6 to 10 September 1999 Website www.phys.washington.edu/~mbx Website www.astro.up.pt 10 to 15 September 1999 13 to 18 September 1999 Topical Conference on NP-Hardness and Phase Transitions Trieste (Italy) Volta and the History of Electricity: 4th EPS Conference on 4th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity contact R. Zecchina the History of Modern Physics (EUCAS 99) [email protected] (use subject: get index) Como Pavia (Italy) Sitges, Barcelona (Spain) 6 to 10 September 1999 contact Enrico Giannetto, Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta”, contact X. Obradors, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Università di Pavia, via A. Bassi 6,1-27100 Pavia, Italy Barcelona, ICMAB - CSIC, Campus de la UAB, E-08193 Trends in Physics (EPS 11) tel +390 38 25 07 691 fax +390 38 25 07 563 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain The triennial general physics conference of the EPS [email protected] tel +34 93 580 18 53 fax +34 93 580 57 29 London (United Kingdom) Website www.cilea.it/volta99 [email protected] contact EPS n, Conferences Department, The Institute of 11 to 15 September 1999 Website www.icmab.es/eucas99 Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1N 3DH, United 14 to 17 September 1999 Kingdom tel +44 171 470 48 00 fax +44 171 470 49 00 Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Vapors [email protected] San Feliu de Guixols (Spain) International Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness Website www.iop.org/IOP/Confs/EPS contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, and Response 6 to 10 September 1999 Quotation 99-095,1 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Santa Fe (USA) Strasbourg Cedex, France contact American Nuclear Society, Meetings Department, 8th International Conference on Hopping and Related tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park IL 60326, Phenomena [email protected] USA tel +1 708 352 66 11 fax +1 708 352 64 64 Murcia (Spain) Website www.esf.org/euresco [email protected] contact Miguel Ortuno, Departamento de Fisica, 11 to 16 September 1999 14 to 17 September 1999 Universidad de Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, Spain tel +34 968 36 73 81 fax +34 968 36 41 48 Solid / Fluid Interfaces: Complex Fluid Interfaces 3rd Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum [email protected] Casie/vecchio Pascoli (Italy) Gravity Website fermi.fcu.um.es/hrp8 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation,' Sardinia (Italy) 7 to 10 September 1999 Quotation 99-029,1 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 contact Vittorio de Alfaro Strasbourg Cedex, France [email protected]. 9th International conference on Artificial Neural Networks tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Website www.aei-potsdam.mpg.de/mc.cgi-bin/qg99.html (ICANN 99) [email protected] 14 to 18 September 1999 Edinburgh (United Kingdom) Website www.esf.org/euresco contact ICANN 99 Secretariat, IEE Conference & Exhibition 11 to 16 September 1999 The 5th Compton Symposium Services, Savoy Place, London WC2R oBL, United Kingdom Portsmouth (USA) tel +44 171 344 84 25 fax +44 171 240 88 30 The Deep Earth-Theory, Experiment and Observation: contact Robbin Pendexter, Univ. of New Hampshire, Space [email protected] Large-Scale Processes and Properties Science Center, Morse Hall, Durham NH 03824, USA Website www.iee.org.uk/Conf Acquafredda di Marateo (Italy) tel +1 603 862 10 61 fax +1 603 862 46 85 7 to 10 September 1999 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, [email protected] Quotation 99-125,1 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Website wwwgro.unh.edu/compton5 Physical Problems in Material Science of Semiconductors Strasbourg, France tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 15 to 17 September 1999 (PPMSS 99) [email protected] Chernivtsi (Ukrainia) Website www.esf.org/euresco Science as Culture: 5th International History, Philosophy contact Peter Gorley, Department of Physical Electronics, 11 to 16 September 1999 and Science Teaching Conference and 8th European Chernivtsi State University, 2 Kotsybynsky St., UA-274012 History and Physics Teaching Conference Chernivtsi, Ukrainia 6th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Como Pavia (Italy) tel +380 37 25 98 473 fax +380 37 25 51 809 Neutron Scattering (SXNS 6) contact Enrico Giannetto, Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta”, [email protected] Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands) Università di Pavia, via A. Bassi 6,1-27100 Pavia, Italy Website www.users.ite.cv.ua/~horley/ppmss99.htm contact 6 SXNS Secretariat, Philips Research Laboratories, tel +390 382 50 74 95 fax +390 382 50 75 63 7 to 10 September 1999 WB33, Holstlaan 4, NL-5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands [email protected] tel +31 40 27 44 551 fax +31 40 27 45 002 [email protected] 5th International Conference on Intersubband Transitions [email protected] Website www.cilea.it/volta99 in Quantum Wells (ITQW 99) Website www.research.philips.com/sxns/firs.html 15 to 19 September 1999 Bad Ischi (Austria) 12 to 17 September 1999 contact Manfred Helm, Institut für Halbleiterphysik, Electromagnetic Probes and the Structure of Hadrons and University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria 9th European Meeting on Solar Physics: Magnetic Fields Nuclei tel +43 732 24 68 96 02 fax +43 732 24 68 650 and Solar Processes Erice (Italy) [email protected] Florence (Italy) contact A. Fässler, University of Tübingen, Institut for Website www.hlphys.uni-linz.ac.at/hl/ITQW99.htm contact P. Spadolini, Osservatorio di Arcetri, Largo Fermi 5, Theoretical Physics, Auf der Morgenstel le 14, D-72076 7 to 11 September 1999 I-50125 Firenze, Italy Tübingen, Germany [email protected] tel +49 70 71 29 763 70 fax +49 70 71 29 53 88 Joint Meeting of the European Astronomical Society and 12 to 18 September 1999 [email protected] the French Astronomical Society (JENAM 99) [email protected] Toulouse (France) 5th International Conference: Position-Sensitive Detectors 17 to 25 September 1999 contact JENAM-99, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénéés, 14 avenue (PSD 5) Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France London (United Kingdom) 6th International Meeting on Hole Burning and Related tel + 33 561 33 29 47 fax +33 561 33 28 40 contact Duncan Bull, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation Spectroscopies: Science and Applications (HBRS 99) [email protected] Systems, University College London, Gower Street, London Hourtin (France) Website www.obs-mip.fr/omp/JENAM99 WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom contact M. Orrit - HBRS99, CPMOH, Université Bordeaux 1, 7 to 11 September 1999 tel +44 171 380 78 38 fax +44 171 419 34 18 F-33405 Talence Cedex, France [email protected] tel +33 556 84 62 09 fax +33 556 84 69 70 14th International Conference on Soft Magnetic Materials Website www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/psd5 [email protected] (SMM14) 13 to 17 September 1999 18 to 23 September 1999 Balatonfured (Hungary) contact L. K. Varga, Institute for Solid State Physics and British Association Annual Festival of Science AMPERE 99 Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO B. 49, H-1525 Sheffield (United Kingdom) Vilnius (Lithuania) Budapest, Hungary contact Sandra Koura, British Association, 23 Savile Row, contact L. Kimtys, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, tel +36 1 39 59 084 fax +36 1 39 59 278 London W1X 2NB, United Kingdom Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Universiteto Str. 3, LT- [email protected] tel +44 171 973 30 75 fax +44 171 973 30 51 2734 Vilnius, Lithuania Website www.kfki.hu/~smm14 [email protected] tel +3702 76 94 60 fax +3702 76 44 55 8 to 10 September 1999 Website www.britassoc.org.uk [email protected] 13 to 17 September 1999 18 to 23 September 1999 37th European High Pressure Research Group Meeting (EHPRG 99) A New Millennium for Galaxy Morphology Electronic Structure of Solids & Surfaces: Challenges in Montpellier (France) Johannesburg (South Africa) Predictive Descriptions of Reaction Dynamics & Growth contact Conference Secretariat, EHPRG’99, G. E. S. - CC074, contact D. L. Block, Univ. of Witwatersrand, PO Box 60, Wits, Properties at Surfaces Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095 ZA-2050 Gauteng, South Africa Lenggries (Germany) Montpellier Cedex 5, France tel +27 11 716 32 50 fax +27 11 672 37 91 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, tel +33 467 54 09 20 fax +33 467 14 37 60 [email protected] Quotation 99-138,1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 [email protected] Website www.cam.wits.ac.za/origins99 Strasbourg Cedex, France Website bilbot.ges.univ-montp2.fr/Ehprg99/menu.html 13 to 18 September 1999 tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 9 to 11 September 1999 [email protected] International Conference on Modern Theories of Structure Website www.esf.org/euresco 10th International Conference on Recent Progress in Formation 18 to 23 September 1999 Many-Body Theories Porto (Portugal) Seattle (USA) contact MSTF99 - Local Organizing Committee, Centro de Interfaces and Colloidal Systems contact Many-Body X, c/o Aurel Bulgac, Department of Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, P- Aghia Pelaghia (Greece) europhysics news march/april 1999 35 meetings 1999 to 2000 contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, Website www.esf.org/euresco Characterisation, Application Quotation 99-001, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 21 to 26 September 1999 Potsdam (Germany) Strasbourg Cedex, France contact Wolfgang Künstler, Universität Potsdam, Institut für tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 10th International Symposium on Electrets (ISE 10) Physik, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany [email protected] Fokis (Greece) tel +49 33 19 77 14 56 fax +49 33 19 77 14 90 Website www.esf.org/euresco contact ISE10 Conference Secretariat, Aglaia Vasilikou-Dova, [email protected] 18 to 23 September 1999 University of Athens, Department of Physics, GR-157 84 Website canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~eps99 Zografou, Greece tel +30 1 72 84 730 fax +30 1 72 57 689 30 September to 2 October 1999 13th International Biophysics Congress [email protected] New Delhi (India) Website www.physics.ntua.gr/~ISE10 10th Quantum Optics Conference contact IUPAB International Biophysics Congress, Tata 22 to 27 September 1999 Mallorca (Spain) Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi, Bhabha Rd, contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, Colaba, IN-Mumbai-400 005, India 1st International Conference on the Chemistry and Physics Quotation 99-005, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 [email protected] of the Transactinide Elements (TAN 99) Strasbourg Cedex, France 19 to 24 September 1999 Seeheim-Jugenheim (Germany) tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 contact TAN 99, c/o S. Raiss, GSI, Planckst. 1, D-64291 [email protected] 1st Euroconference on Atomic Physics at Accelerators: Darmstadt, Germany Website www.esf.org/euresco Laser Spectroscopy and Applications tel +49 61 59 71 24 12 fax +49 61 59 71 29 02 2 to 7 October 1999 Budenheim (Germany) [email protected] contact Julianna Katona, APAC 99, Institut für Physik, D- Website www.gsi.de/tan99 7th International Conference on Physics and Technology of 55099 Mainz, Germany 26 to 30 September 1999 Thin Films tel +49 6131 39 26 98 fax +49 6131 39 34 28 Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainia) [email protected] 25th European Conference on Optical Communication contact Dmytro Freik, Departament of Solid-State Physics, Website www.uni-mainz.de/APAC99 (ECOC 99) Precarpathian University, Schevchenko St. 57, UA-284000 19 to 24 September 1999 Nice (France) Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainia contact Gérard Marsot fax +33 1 4449 6044 tel +380 03 422 96 4 26 fax +380 03 422 31 5 74 Large Scale Structure in the X-Ray Universe 26 to 30 September 1999 [email protected] Santorini (Greece) Website www.pu.if.ua/depart/fm/conf contact I. Georgantopoulos, Natl. Observatory of Athens, I. 1st Regional Conference on Magnetic and 4 to 8 October 1999 Metaxa and B. Pavlou, GR-15236 Athens, Greece Superconducting Materials tel +30 1 804 06 19 fax +30 1 404 03 55 Tehran (Iran) 8th European Confernece on Applications of Surface and [email protected] contact Secretariat, Magnet Research Laboratory, Interface Analysis (ECASIA 99) Website www.astro.noa.gr/~ig/conf.html Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, IR- Sevilla (Spain) 20 to 22 September 1999 11365-9161 Tehran (Iran) contact Jose Maria Sanz, ECASIA 99, Departamento Física tel +98 21 60 19 246 fax +98 21 60 19 246 Aplicada, C-12, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma 3rd Yugoslav Materials Research Society Conference [email protected] de Madrid, E-28049 Cantoblanco, Spain Herceg Novi (Yugoslavia) Website web.mit.edu/physics/MSM99 tel +34 91 397 44 08 fax +34 91 397 39 69 contact Marina Krivokuca, Institute of Technical Sciences of 27 to 30 September 1999 [email protected] SASA, Knez Mahailova 35/IV, PO Box 745, YU-11000 Website www.uam.es/fa/ecasia99.html Belgrade, Yugoslavia tel +381 11 18 54 37 fax +381 11 18 52 63 2nd World Manufacturing Congress 4 to 8 October 1999 [email protected] Durham (United Kingdom) Website www.yu-mrs.org.yu/yucomat.html contact Mozafar Saadat, General Chair, WMC’99, School of Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters (IWFAC 99) 20 to 24 September 1999 Engineering and Advanced Technology, University of Saint Petersburg (Russia) Sunderland, Edinburgh Building, Chester Road, Sunderland contact Sergey V. Kidalov, Organizing Committee of 7th International Conference on Quasicrystals SR1 3SD, United Kingdom International Workshop “Fullerenes an Atomic Clusters”, Stuttgart (Germany) tel +44 191 515 28 67 fax +44 191 515 27 03 IWFAC’99, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 26 contact ICQ7’99, Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte [email protected] Polytechnicheskaya, RU-194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia Physik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Website www.icsc.ab.ca tel +7 812 24 76 151 fax +7 812 24 75 894 Stuttgart, Germany 27 to 30 September 1999 [email protected] tel +49 711 687 52 53 fax +49 711 687 52 71 Website www.ioffe.rssi.ru/IWFAC99 [email protected] Polar Motion: Historical and Scientific Problems 4 to 8 October 1999 Website 1cq7.uni-stuttgart.de International Astronomical Union (IAU) Colloquium N° 178 20 to 24 September 1999 Cagliari (Italy) International Conference on Accelerators and Large contact S. Dick, IAU 178, U. S. Naval Observatory, 3450 Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS 99) 9th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington D. C. 20392 5420, USA Trieste (Italy) Hydraulics (NURETH 9) tel +1 202 762 14 38 fax +1 202 762 15 16 contact ICALEPCS 99 Conference Secretariat San Francisco (USA) [email protected] ICALEPCS 99 Secretariat, Sincrotrone Trieste, S. S. 14 - km contact American Nuclear Society Meeting Department, 555 Website www.ca.astro.it/IAU178 163.5 in Area Science Park, I-34012 Basovizza - Trieste, Italy North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park IL 60326, USA 27 to 30 September 1999 tel +390 40 375 85 34 fax +390 40 375 80 58 tel +1 708 352 66 11 fax +1 708 352 64 64 [email protected] [email protected] International Bogolyubov Conference on Problems of Website www.elettra.trieste.it/ICALEPCS99 20 to 24 September 1999 Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 4 to 8 October 1999 Moscow, Dubna and Kyiv (Russia) Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT 99) contact A. N. Sissakian, JINR, Joliot-Curie 6, RU-141980 Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei at Potenza abd Lecce (Italy) Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia High Energies contact M. C. Gerardi, Department of Physics, University of tel +7 096 21 62 268 fax +7 096 21 65 599 Santorini (Greece) Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy [email protected] contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 tel +39 08 32 32 04 67 fax +39 08 32 32 05 05 Website thsun1.jinr.ru/~bog1999 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Strasbourg, France [email protected] 27 September to 6 October 1999 tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Website www.fisica.unife.it [email protected] 20 to 24 September 1999 Hollow Atoms and Reactive Ions 5 to 10 October 1999 San Sebastian (Spain) Non-Commutative Geometry and Hopf Algebras in Field contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 Symposium on Applications of Particle Detectors in Theory and Particle Physics Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Strasbourg, France Medicine, Biology and Astrophysics (SAMBA) Torino (Italy) tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Siegen (Germany) contact ISI, Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I-10133 [email protected] contact A. Sarvestani, Universität-GH Siegen, Fachbereich Torino, Italy tel +390 11 66 03 090 fax +390 11 66 00 249 28 September to 3 October 1999 Physik, D-57068 Siegen, Germany [email protected] tel +49 271 74 03 563 fax +49 271 74 03 533 Website www.isi.it Particle-Solid Interactions: Dynamic Phenomena [email protected] 20 to 30 September 1999 San Sebastian (Spain) Website www.physik.uni-siegen.de/samba contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 6 to 8 October 1999 18th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS 18) Quotation 99-081, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Vienna (Austria) Strasbourg Cedex, France International Symposium on Proton-Emitting Nuclei contact ECOSS-18 Secretary, Institut für Allgemeine Physik, tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Oak Ridge (USA) TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/134, A-1040 Vienna, [email protected] contact Jon Batcheider, JIHIR/ORNL, PO Box 2008, Bld. Austria tel +43 15 88 01 fax +43 11 34 99 Website www.esf.org/euresco 6008, Oak Ridge TN 37831-6374. USA [email protected] 28 September to 3 October 1999 tel +1 423 576 76 56 fax +1 423 576 57 80 Website www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/ecoss18 [email protected] 21 to 24 September 1999 2nd European Charge Density Meeting (ECDM 2) Website www.orau.gov/unirib/procon99.html Sitges (Spain) 7 to 9 October 1999 Chemistry and Physics of Multifunctional Materials: contact Enrique Espinosa, Organizing Committee ECDM-2, Taming Molecular Complexity Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (CSIC), 5th International Conference on Computational Physics San Feliu de Guixols (Spain) Campus de la UAB, E-08193 Cerdanyola (Barcelona), Spain (ICCP 5) contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, fax +34 93 580 57 29 Kanazawa (Japan) Quotation 99-112, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 [email protected] contact Yutaka Okabe, Department of Physics, Faculty of Strasbourg Cedex, France 30 September to 2 October 1999 Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, J-192-0397 Tokyo, tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 Japan [email protected] Molecular Orientation in Polymers: Generation, [email protected]

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Website hiwaoo3.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/~nakano/iccp5 USA tel +1 708 352 66 11 fax +1 708 352 64 64 Lindau, Germany tel +49 55 56 14 40 fax +49 55 56 47 09 11 to 13 October 1999 [email protected] [email protected] Website www.ans.org/meetings Website www.copernicus.org/EGS/EGS.html Medium-Energy Protons in Accelerator-Driven Systems 14 to 18 November 1999 3 to 7 April 2000 Moscow (Russia) contact G. V. Kiselev, SSC RF, Institute of Theoretical and 7th International Conference on Instrumentation for Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society Experimental Physics, 25 G. Cheremushkinskaya Street, RU- Colliding Beam Physics Bonn (Germany) 117259 Moscow, Russia Hamamatsu (Japan) contact Conference Office, DPG-Fruhjahrstagung Bonn tel +7 095 12 72 871 fax +7 095 12 70 543 contact T. Sumiyoshi, Takayuki Sumiyoshi, IPNS, KEK, 1-1 2000, Wegeler Str. 8, D-53115 Bonn, Germany [email protected] Oho, J-300 0801 Tsukuba, Japan tel +49 228 73 34 77 fax +49 228 73 34 74 12 to 14 October 1999 [email protected] [email protected] Website ccwww.kek.jp/INSTR99/index.html 3 to 7 April 2000 International Ultrasonics Symposium & Short Courses 15 to 19 November 1999 Lake Tahoe (USA) 5th International Conference on Radioactive Nuclear contact Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, rm. The Light Elements and their Evolution Beams (RNB 5) 11, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-4085, USA International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium N° 198 Divonne (France) tel +1 650 723 07 18 fax +1 650 725 75 09 Natal (Brasil) contact RNB-5 Conference Secretariat, Thea Diaz- [email protected] contact Monique Spite, IAU 198, Observatoire de Paris, Nootenboom, CERN/EP, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Website piezo.Stanford.EDU/UFFC/index_noframe.html Section de Meudon, F-92195 Meudon PPL Cedex, France tel +41 22 767 58 28 fax +41 22 767 89 90 17 to 21 October 1999 tel +33 1 45 07 78 39 fax +33 1 45 07 78 78 [email protected] [email protected] Website RNB2000.cern.ch 196th Meeting of the Electochemical Society Website www.dfte.ufrn.br/iau198 5 to 8 April 2000 Honolulu (USA) 22 to 26 November 1999 contact Brian E. Rounsavill, The Electochemical Society Inc., 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference Fractal 10 South Main Street, Pennington NJ 08534-2896, USA Autumn Meeting of the Materials Research Society 2000: Complexity and Fractals in the Sciences tel +1 609 737 19 02 fax +1 609 737 27 43 Boston (USA) Singapore (Singapore) [email protected] contact Conference Department, Materials Research Society, contact M. M. Novak Website www.electrochem.org 9800 McKnight Road, Pittsburgh PA 15237-6006, USA tel +44 181 547 74 81 fax +44 181 547 75 62 17 to 22 October 1999 tel +1 412 367 30 03 fax +1 412 367 43 73 [email protected] 29 November to 3 December 1999 Website www.kingston.ac.uk/fractal Godunov Methods: Theory and Applications 16 to 19 April 2000 Manchester (United Kingdom) The Universe at Low Radio Frequencies contact Eleuterio Toro, Department of Computing and Pune (India) 197th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester contact Vijay Kapahi, Natl. Center for Radio Astrophysics Toronto (Canada) Street, Manchester M1 5GD, United Kingdom Pune University Campus, IN-Pune 411 007, India contact Brian E. Rounsavill, The Electrochemical Society tel +44 161 247 35 93 fax +44 161 247 14 83 tel +91 212 35 61 05 fax +91 212 35 72 57 Inc., 10 South Main Street, Pennington NJ 08534-2896, USA [email protected] [email protected] tel +1 609 737 19 02 fax +1 609 737 27 43 Website www.numeritek.com Website www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~iau199 [email protected] 18 to 22 October 1999 30 November to 4 December 1999 Website www.electrochem.org 14 to 19 May 2000 National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society 4th Annual Nuclear Congress Seattle (USA) London (United Kingdom) 7th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and contact AVS, 32nd floor, 120 Wall Street, New York NY 10005, contact S. Benson, BNIF, 22 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2000) USA tel +1 212 248 02 00 6LB, United Kingdom Quebec (Canada) [email protected] tel +44 171 82 80 116 fax +44 171 93 10 646 contact Anne B. Mac Innis, MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator 18 to 22 October 1999 1 to 2 December 1999 Center, PO Box 846, Middleton MA 01949, USA tel +1 617 253 92 85 fax +1 617 253 95 99 Highly Excited Electronic States: Highly Excited States and Tribology of Information & Storage Devices (TISD 99) [email protected] Collisional Dynamics Santa Clara (USA) Website CIPANP.mit.edu/ San Feliu de Guixols (Spain) contact J. L. Sullivan, School of Engineering and Applied cipanp.mit.edu contact Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 Science, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, United 22 to 28 May 2000 Quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Strasbourg, France Kingdom tel +33 388 76 71 35 fax +33 388 36 69 87 [email protected] Thermomechanical Processing of Steels [email protected] 6 to 8 December 1999 London (United Kingdom) 23 to 28 October 1999 contact Cathy Pearcey, Conference Department, The Cyclical Evolution of Solar Magnetic Fields: Advances in Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Theory and Observations SW1Y 5DB, United Kingdom Radiology and Oncology International Astronomical Union (IAU) Colloquium N° 179 tel +44 171 451 73 40 fax +44 171 839 22 89 San Antonio (USA) Kodaikanal (India) [email protected] contact ASTRO, 1101 Market Street, 14th floor, Philadelphia contact P. Venkatakrishnan, IAU 179, Indian Institute of 24 to 26 May 2000 PA 19107 2990, USA Astrophysics, IN-Bangalore 560034, India tel +1 215 574 31 80 tel +91 80 553 06 72 fax +91 80 553 40 43 European Magnetic Materials and Applications Conference 1 to 5 November 1999 [email protected] (EMMA 2000) Website www.iiap.ernet.in/~iauc179 Kyiv (Ukrainia) Star Formation from the Small to the Large Scale 13 to 16 December 1999 contact EMMA-2000 Conference, Institute of Magnetism, Noordwijk (The Netherlands) 36-b Vernadsky Blvd., UA-252142 Kyiv, Ukrainia contact Fabio Favata American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting tel +380 44 44 49 589 fax +380 44 44 41 020 tel +31 71 565 46 65 fax +31 71 565 46 90 San Antonio (USA) [email protected] [email protected] contact AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Ocean Sciences Website www.viaduk.net/freepage.nsf/page/emma2000 Website astro.estec.esa.nl/Symposia/Eslab33 Meeting, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC 20009, 6 to 10 June 2000 1 to 5 November 1999 USA tel +1 800 966 24 81 fax +1 202 328 05 66 [email protected] Galaxy Disks 9th International Conference: Measurement for Success [email protected] Rome (Italy) and 9th International Conference on Electromagnetic Website www.agu.org/meetings contact George Coyne, Vatican Observatory, I-00120 Citta Measurement 24 to 28 January 2000 del Vaticano, Rome, Italy Brighton (United Kingdom) tel +39 06 69 88 52 66 fax +39 06 69 88 46 71 contact Jackie Gobbo, NMP Conference Secretariat, National Advanced Solid-State Lasers (ASSL 2000) [email protected] Physical Laboratory, Queens Road, Teddington, Meddlesex Davos (Switzerland) Website debora.pd.astro.it/disks TW11 oLW, United Kingdom contact OSA, 2010 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 16 to 20 June 2000 tel +44 181 943 66 02 fax +44 181 943 68 21 20036-1023, USA [email protected] Ursula Keller, Ultrafast Laser Physics, ETH Hönggerberg, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Electron Microscopy: 2 to 4 November 1999 HPT E 16.3, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland Perspective Imaging tel +411 633 21 46 fax +41 1 633 10 59 Singapore (Singapore) 3rd Tohwa University International Meeting on Statistical [email protected] contact Conference Secretariat, c/o Electron Microscopy Physics 13 to 16 February 2000 Unit, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Fukuoka City (Japan) 10 Kent Ridge Cresent, SIN-Singapore 119260, Singapore contact Michio Tokuyama, Statistical Physics Division, 18th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division tel +65 874 32 16 fax +65 776 49 71 Tohwa Institute for Science, Tohwa University, J-815-8510 of the European Physical Society [email protected] Fukuoka, Japan Montreux (Switzerland) Website www.med.nus.edu.sg/mics0c/7apem tel +81 92 542 08 12 fax +81 92 542 08 13 [email protected] 26 to 30 June 2000 [email protected] Website www.eps-cmd18.ch Website www.tohwa-u.ac.jp/~otis/tohwa-statphys99.html 13 to 17 March 2000 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting 8 to 11 November 1999 Tokyo (Japan) European Geophysical Society 25th General Assembly: contact AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Western Pacific Winter Meeting of the American Nuclear Society Millennium Conference on Earth, Planetary and Solar Geophysics Meeting, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW Long Beach (USA) System Sciences Washington, DC 20009 contact Meetings Department, American Nuclear Society, Florence (Italy) tel +1 202 462 6900 fax +1 202 328 0566 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park IL 60525, contact EGS Office, Max-Planck-Str. 13, D-37191 Katlenburg- [email protected] europhysics news march/april 1999 41 meetings 1999 to 2000

Website www.agu.org/meetings/wpootop.html contact P. Briggs [email protected] 27 to 30 June 2000 [email protected] Website cospar.itodys.jussieu.fr/Meetings/sciass.htm Website www.surrey.ac.uk/MME/QSA 16 to 23 July 2000 Nuclei in the Cosmos 2000 4 to 7 July 2000 Aarhus (Denmark) Polymers in Medicine contact Karlheinz Langanke, Institute of Physics and The 2000 Meeting of the International Union of Prague (Czech Republic) Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Microbeam Analysis Societies (IUMAS 2000) contact Milena Srpova, P. M. M. Secretariat, c/o Institute of Denmark Kailua-Kona, (Hawaii) Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the [email protected] Website www.microanalysis.0rg/iumas2000/iumas2000.html Czech Republic, Heyrovského nam. 2, CZ-162 06 Praha 6, 27 June to 1 July 2000 9 to 13 July 2000 Czech Republic tel +420 2 36 03 17 fax +420 2 36 79 81 [email protected] 6th World Renewable Energy Conference Plutonium Futures - The Science Website www.imc.cas.cz/~sympo/40micros.html Brighton (United Kingdom) Santa Fe (USA) 17 to 20 July 2000 contact Ali Sayigh, 147 Himanton, Lower Earley, Reading contact S. Pillay tel +1 505 667 77 53 fax +1 505 667 79 66 RG6 4HN, United Kingdom [email protected] Aperiodic 2000 tel +44 11 89 6113 64 fax +44 11 89 61 13 65 [email protected] Nijmegen (The Netherlands) [email protected] Website www.lanl.gov/Pu2000.html contact T. Janssen, Aperiodic 2000, Institute for Theoretical Website wrenuk.co.uk 10 to 13 July 2000 Physics, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, NL-6525 ED 1 to 7 July 2000 Nijmegen, The Netherlands 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly tel +31 24 365 29 81 fax +31 24 365 21 20 11th International Millennium Conference on Quantitative Warsaw (Poland) [email protected] Surface Analysis (QSA-11) contact Cospar Secretariat, 51 bd.de Montmorency, F-75016 Website www.sci.kun.nl/tvs/aperiodic Guildford (United Kingdom) Paris, France tel +33 1 45 25 06 79 fax +33 1 40 50 98 27 25 to 29 July 2000 Workshops July 1999 to July 2000

Extended Workshop in String Theory contact Christoph Egbers, Couette-Taylor Workshop 99, contact M. Barma Includes a one week conference on black hole physics ZARM, University of Bremen, Am Fallturm, D-28359 [email protected] (use subject: get index) Trieste (Italy) Bremen, Germany 16 to 27 August1999 contact Patrizia Passerella, The Abdus Salam International tel +49 421 218 9132 fax +49 421 218 3889 Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costi era 11, I-34014 [email protected] International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics Trieste, Italy Website www.zarm.uni-bremen.de Ghent (Belgium) tel +390 40 22 40 231 fax +390 40 22 40 304 20 to 23 July 1999 contact Christophe Leys, Department of Applied Physics, [email protected] University of Ghent, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Website www.ictp.trieste/~highener/EW99.html Cemracs 99 Research Centre tel +32 9 264 38 27 fax +32 9 264 41 72 I June to 16 July 1999 Centre d’Eté Mathématique de Recherche Avançée en Calcul [email protected] Scientifique Website 0upserv4.rug.ac.be/t0egepfysica/W0rksh0p/ Space Cryogenics Workshop Luminy (France) Workshop.htm Quebec (Canada) contact Stéphane Cordier, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique 26 to 28 August 1999 contact Louis J. Salerno, Chairman, 1999 Space Cryogenics BC 187, Université Paris 6, F-75252 Paris Cedex 5, France Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 231-1, 6th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Moffet Field CA 94035 1000, USA [email protected] Underground Physics (TAUP 99) fax +1 650 604 04 87 Website www.asci.fr/cemracs Paris (France) [email protected] 26 July to 4 September 1999 contact Chantal Breon-Hussenot, TAUP 99 Secretariat, 11 to 12 July 1999 Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, F-75005 Paris Summer Workshop on Particles, Fields and Strings Cedex, France tel +33 144 27 14 40 fax +33 143 54 69 89 Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine Vancouver (Canada) [email protected] Durham (United Kingdom) contact Gordon Semenoff, University of British Columbia, Website taup99.in2p3.fr/TAUP99 contact Gordon Love, AO 99, Department of Physics, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada 5 to 9 September 1999 University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, [email protected] United Kingdom Website kepler.physics.ubc.ca/~pfs99 2nd International Workshop on Surface and Grain tel +44 191 374 7496 fax +44 191 374 3709 2 to 20 August 1999 Boundary Segregation [email protected] Ringberg Castle (Germany) Website a099.dur.ac.uk Workshop on The First Stars contact H. Viefhaus and C. Übing, Max-Planck-Institut für 12 to 16 July 1999 Garching (Germany) Eisenforschung, Postfach 140 444, D-40074 Düsseldorf, [email protected] Germany tel +49 211 67 92 290 fax +49 211 67 92 268 Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Website www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~stars [email protected] Trieste (Italy) 4 to 6 August 1999 Website pcpc49.mpie- contact The Abdus Salam International Centre for duesseldorf.mpg.de/sgbs/workshop.htm Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy Second Workshop on Fundamental Problems in 6 to 10 September 1999 tel +390 40 22 40 111 fax +390 40 22 41 63 QuantumTheory [email protected] (use subject: get index) Baltimore (USA) International Workshop on Hadron Physics: Effective Website www.ictp.trieste.it contact 2nd Workshop on Quantum Theory Theories of Low Energy QCD 12 to 23 July 1999 [email protected] Coimbra (Portugal) Website www.physics.umd.edu/robot/umbc.html contact Centro de Física Teorica, Universidade de Coimbra, The 6th International Workshop 9 to13 August1999 P-3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal On Femtosecond Technology (FST 99) tel +351 39 41 06 00 fax +351 39 82 91 58 Chiba (Japan) Workshop on Calculation of Material Properties using Total [email protected] contact FST 99 Secretariat, The Femtosecond Technology Energy and Force Methods and Ab-initio Molecular Website zeus.fis.uc.pt/cft/hadron99.htm Research Association (FESTA), 5 5 Tokodai, J-300 2635 Dynamics 10 to 15 September 1999 Tsukuba, Japan Trieste (Italy) tel +81 298 47 5181 fax +81 298 47 4417 contact The Abdus Salam ICTP (SMR. 11656), PO Box 586, 5th Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments (LEB 99) [email protected] Strada Costiera 11, I-34100 Trieste, Italy Snowmass (USA) Website www.festa.or.jp/meeting/fst99-e.html tel +390 40 22 40 111 fax +390 40 22 41 63 contact Aimée Lefkow, Physics Department, University of 13 to 15 July 1999 [email protected] (use subject: get index) Wisconsin, 1150 University Ave. Madison WI 53706, USA Website www.ictp.trieste.it tel +1 608 263 22 67 fax +1 608 263 08 00 Workshop on Cosmic Flows 9 to 18 August 1999 [email protected] Victoria BC (Canada) Website hep.physics.wisc.edu/LEB99 contact Stephane Courteau, HIA/DAO, 5071 W. Saanich Rd., Workshop on Computational Solid State Physics and 20 to 24 September 1999 Victoria BC V8X 4M6, Canada Materials Science tel +1 250 363 81 08 fax +1 250 363 00 45 Trieste (Italy) International Workshop on Physical Variables in Gauge [email protected] contact J. Kohanoff Theories 13 to 18 July 1999 [email protected] (use subject: get index) Dubna (Russia) 9 to18 August1999 contact Arsen Khvedelidze, Bogoliubov Laboratory of Mesoscopic Physics and Transport Phenomena: Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Mathematical and Field Theoretical Aspects and their 2nd International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy RU-141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia Connection to Experimental Reality (IWCA II) tel +7 096 21 63 720 fax +7 096 21 65 084 Monte Verità (Swizterland) Cambridge (USA) [email protected] contact P. Froelich, Institut für Theoretische Physik, contact Daniel W. G. Green, Smithsonian Astrophysical Website thsun1.jinr.ru/meetings/99/physvar/index.html ΕΤΗ, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA 21 to 25 September 1999 tel +41 163 325 79 tel +1 617 495 74 40 fax +1 617 495 70 01 [email protected] [email protected] 5th Workshop on Non-Linear Dynamics and Earthquake Website www.teorfys.uu.se/PEOPLE/ascona Website cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/1cq/IWCA2.html Prediction 18 to 23 July 1999 14 to 16 August 1999 Trieste (Italy) contact International Centre for Theoretical Physics, PO Box 11 th Couette-Taylor Workshop Workshop on Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy Bremen (Germany) Trieste (Italy) tel +390 40 22 40 111 fax +390 40 22 41 63

42 europhysics news march/april 1999 meetings 1999 to 2000 [email protected] (use subject: get index) Barcelona (Spain) [email protected] Website www.ictp.trieste.it/cgi-bin contact Blas Garrido, Departament d’Electronica, Facultat Website wwwsis.lnf.infn.it/dafne99 4 to 22 October 1999 de Fisica, Universitat de Barcelona, 1 Carrer Marti i 16 to 19 November 1999 Franquès, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain 2nd Workshop on Fusion related Physics and Engineering tel +34 93 402 90 68 fax +34 93 402 11 48 5th Workshop on Quantum Chromocynamics in small Devices [email protected] Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) Trieste (Italy) Website www.dielec99.el.ub.es contact Mary Ann Rotondo, Conference Secretariat, contact Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical 3 to 5 November 1999 Department of Physics, Brown University, PO Box 1843, Physics, PO Box 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy Providence RI 02912, USA tel +390 40 22 40 111 fax +390 40 22 41 63 3rd Workshop on Physics and Detectors for Dafne [email protected] Website www.ictp.trieste.it/cgi-bin/ICTPsmr Frascati (Italy) Website www.het.brown.edu/people/maryann/ 20 to 22 October 1999 contact Lia Sabatini or Laura Sirugo, Laboratori Nazionali di QCD2000.html Frascati, Casella Postale 56, I-00044 Frascati, Italy 3 to 7 January 2000 10th Workshop on Dielectrics in Microelectronics tel +39 06 94 03 25 52 fax +39 06 94 03 22 43 Schools June 1999 to July 2000 Daniel Chalonge International School of Astrophysics and Website www.fusion.org.uk/info/sschool99.htm Nijmegen (The Netherlands) International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy 5 to 16 July 1999 contact Sandra van der Kolk, Department of Physics and Erice (Italy) Astronomy VU, De Boelelaan 1081, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, contact Ettore Majorana Centre, Via Guarnotta 26, I-91016 Cemracs 99 Summer School The Netherlands tel +31 20 444 7863 fax +31 20 444 7892 Erice, Italy tel +390 923 86 91 33 fax +390 923 86 92 26 Centre d’Eté Mathématique de Recherche Avançée en Calcul [email protected] [email protected] Scientifique Website nijmegen99.hef.kun.nl Website ccsem.infn.it Orsay (France) 8 to 20 August 1999 7 to 12 June 1999 contact Cordier Stéphane, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique BC 187, Université Paris 6, F-75252 Paris Cedex 5, France The 1999 European School of High-Energy Physics Summer School in Particle Physics [email protected] Casta-Papiernicka (Slovak Republic) Trieste (Italy) Website www.asci.fr/cemracs contact Tatyana Donskova, International Department, Joint contact Summer School in Particle Physics, The Abdus 5 to 16 July 1999 Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Moscow Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Region, Russia Costiera 11, PO Box 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy Plasma Astrophysics tel +7 096 21 63 448 fax +7 096 21 65 599 tel +390 40 22 40 285 fax +390 40 22 40 304 Enrico Fermi International School of Physics [email protected] [email protected] Lake Como (Italy) Website www.jinr.ru/PhysicSchool Website www.ictp.trieste.it/cgi- contact Elio Sindoni, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di 22 August to 4 September 1999 bin/ICTPsmr/mklinks/mklist?smr1141 Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy 7 June to 9 July 1999 tel +390 2 2392 267 fax +390 2 2392 205 School on Statisical Physics Methods in Theoretical [email protected] Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics Advances in Energy Transfer Processes Website www.sif.it/sif/sif/primo-99.html Trieste (Italy) Erice (Italy) 6 to 16 July 1999 contact R. Zecchina contact B. Di Bartolo, Department of Physics, Boston [email protected] (use subject: get index) College, Chestnut Hill MA 02167, USA Soft and Fragile Matter: Nonequilibrium Dynamics, 23 August to 03 September 1999 tel +1 617 552 36 01 fax +1 617 552 84 78 Metastability and Flow 17 June to 1 July 1999 St. Andrews (Scotland) 4th Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics contact Michael E. Cates, Department of Physics and Maastricht (The Netherlands) Computing Our Universe Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, contact E. Westerhof, FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica, Massachusetts (USA) United Kingdom tel +44 131 650 5296 fax +44 131 650 7165 “Rijnhuizen”, PO Box 1207, NL-3430 BE Nieuwegein, The contact Eric Linder, Astrophysics Summer School, [email protected] Netherlands Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Website www.ph.ed.ac.uk/softasi tel +31 49 2461 61 36 55 fax +31 49 24 61 61 40 38 Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003-4525, USA 8 to 22 July [email protected] fax +1 413 545 42 23 Website www.rijnh.nl/PHYSICSWORKSHOPS [email protected] Fusion Summer Study: Opportunities and Directions in 30 August to 10 September 1999 Website www-astro.phast.umass.edu/summer Fusion Energy Science for the Next Decade 21 June to 14 July 1999 Snowmass (USA) Course on Accelerator Physics [email protected] Bénodet (France) 4th International School: Let's Face Chaos through Website www.pppl.gov/snowmass contact CERN Accelerator School, AC Division, CH-1211 Nonlinear Dynamics 11 to 23 July 1999 Geneva 23, Switzerland fax +41 22 767 54 60 Maribor (Slovenia) [email protected] contact Marko Robnik, Center for Applied Mathematics and 5th International Summer School and Scientific Workshop Website www.cern.ch/Schools/CAS Theoretical Physics, University of Maribor, Krekova 2, SI- on High-Tc Superconductors 30 August to 10 September 1999 2000 Maribor, Slovenia Eger (Hungary) tel +386 62 21 31 51 fax +386 62 21 31 51 contact Istvan Vajda, Technical University of Budapest, H- Structure and Dynamics of Polymer and Colloidal Systems [email protected] 1111 Budapest, Egry József u. 18., Hungary Les Houches (France) 27 June to 11 July 1999 tel +36 1 463 2961 fax +36 1 463 3600 contact Centrede Physique des Houches, Côtes des [email protected] Chavants, F-74310 Les Houches, France 8th International Committee for Future Accelerators Website supertech.vgt.bme.hu/ISSHTS5/sch00l.htm tel +33 1 49 40 39 00 fax +33 1 49 40 32 00 Instrumentation School: School on Instrumentation in 17 to 25 July 1999 Website www.cermav.cnrs.fr/polymer_colloid_99 Elementary Particle Physics 14 to 24 September 1999 Istanbul (Turkey) New Directions in Quantum Chaos contact M. Nizamettin Erduran, University of Istanbul, Enrico Fermi International School of Physics 17th Autumn School: QCD, Perturbative or Science Faculty, Department of Physics, TR-34459 Lake Como (Italy) Nonperturbative Vezneciler-Istanbul, Turkey contact Italo Guarneri, Università dell'Insubria a Como, Via Lisbon (Portugal) tel +90 212 51184 80 ext. 1277 fax +90 212 519 08 34 Lucini 3, I-22100 Como, Italy contact Autumn 99, CFIF, Edificio Ciência (Fisica), Instituto Website icfa99.istanbul.edu.tr tel +390 31 326214 fax +390 31 326230 Superior Técnico, Av. 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Dobrzynski, Institute of Physics, University of Website w3houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/poster-summer-72.html [email protected] (use subject: get index) Bialystok, ul. Lipowa 41, PL-15424 Bialystok, Poland tel +48 27 July to 27 August 1999 Website www.ictp.trieste.it 85 74 57 216 fax +48 85 74 57 223 29 November to 8 December 1999 [email protected] 7th Summer School on Neutron Scattering: Neutron Website alpha.uwb.edu.pl/schoolxiii Scattering in the Next Millenium (Frontiers in Neutron Advanced Study Institute on Techniques and Concepts of 5 to 12 July 1999 Scattering) High Energy Physics Zuoz (Switzerland) St. Croix (USA, Virgin Islands) 36th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School contact R. Bercher, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen contact Connie Jones, Department of Physics & Culham Science Centre PSI, Switzerland tel +41 56 310 34 02 fax +41 56 310 31 31 Astronomy/ASI-2000, University of Rochester, Wilson Blvd., Culham (United Kingdom) [email protected] B&L Bldg., Rochester NY 14627-0171, USA contact Julie Bright, Culham Summer School, UKAEA, Website www1.psi.ch/www_lns_hn/welcome.html tel +1 716 275 53 06 fax +1 716 275 85 27 Culham Division, Abingdon Oxon OX14 3DB, United 7 to 13 August 1999 [email protected] Kingdom tel +44 1235 463773 fax +44 1235 463288 Website server-mac.pas.rochester.edu/Asiinfo.html [email protected] Particle Production Spanning MeV and TeV Energies 15 to 26 June 2000 europhysics news march/april 1999 43