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for further information on all Council Executive Committee EPS activities, please contact the Secretariat in Mulhouse 2000 24 to 25 March Dublin, Ireland President A.W.Wolfendale Members 2001 30 to 31 March Mulhouse, France Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Durham Science G. Benedek Secretariats Labratories, South Road Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Univ. 2002 23 to 24 March DH1 3LE Durham, United Kingdom Via Celoria, 16 Mulhouse 2003 28 to 29 March tel / fax +44 191 374 21 60 / 374 37 49 I-20133 Milan, Italy 34 rue Marc Seguin, BP 2136 [email protected] tel / fax +390 2 239 24 09 / 239 24 14 F-68060 Mulhouse Cedex, France IOMs Council Delegates [email protected] tel / fax +33 389 32 94 40 / 32 94 49 Y.Bruynseraede Vice-President D.L.Weaire Lab. voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics T. R. Hickson Secretary General David Lee Katholieke Univ. Leuven Trinity College, College Green Deputy Headmaster [email protected] Celestijnenlaan 200 D IRL-Dublin 2, Ireland Kings School, College Green Divisions etc Christine Bastian B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium tel / fax +353 1 608 10 55 / 671 17 59 Worcester WR1 21LH, United Kingdom [email protected] tel / fax +32 16 32 72 77 / 32 79 83 [email protected] tel / fax +44 1905 721 729 / 1905 25511 Editor Toby Chapman [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Secretary C. Rossel Accountant Pascaline Padovani L.J.F.Hermans IBM Zurich Research Lab, Saeumerstr. 4 R. Klein Assistant Mireille Cubizolles Huygens Laboratorium, Postbus 9504 CH-8803 Rueschlikon, Switzerland Fakultät für Physik, Univ. Konstanz NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands tel / fax +41 1 724 85 22 / 724 89 56 Postfach 5560 Budapest tel / fax +31 71 527 58 24 / 527 58 19 [email protected] D-78434 Konstanz, Germany Maria Lazar, Nador u. 7 [email protected] tel / fax +49 7531 88 29 55 / 88 31 57 H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Vice-Secretary D. Jérome [email protected] tel / fax +36 1 317 35 10 / 317 68 17 G. Leuchs Laboratoire de Physique des Solides mlazar@office.mta.hu Physikalisches Institut (Optik) Univ. de Paris-Sud, Bât. 510 P.A.Lindgard Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudstr. 7/B2 F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France Riso National Laboratory D-91058 Erlangen, Germany tel / fax +33 169 15 60 63 / 169 15 60 86 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark tel / fax +49 91 31 858371 / 31 13508 [email protected] tel / fax +45 46 77 47 06 / 46 77 47 90 [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer P.Reineker C. Sebenne Abteilung Theoretische Physik, Univ. Ulm R. Sosnowski Lab. de Minéralogie Cristallographie D-89069 Ulm, Germany Institute for Nuclear Studies, ul. Hoza 69 Univ. P.et M. Curie, Case 115 tel / fax +49731 50 22913 / 502 29 24 PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland F-75252 Paris cedex 05, France [email protected] tel +48 22 621 28 04 tel / fax +33 144 27 45 10 / 144 27 45 41 [email protected] [email protected] Vice-Treasurer A.M. Eiro Physics Dept., Univ. of Lisbon The Secretary General is a member Associate Members Delegates Av. Gama Pinto, 2 B. Feuerbacher P-1699 Lisbon Codex, Portugal of the Executive Committee and Deutsche Forschungsanstalt f. Luft- und tel / fax +351 1 790 48 24 / 795 42 88 most committees ex officio (ie by Raumfahrt e.V., Postfach 90 60 58 [email protected] virtue of his office) D-51147 Cologne, (Köln-Porz) , Germany tel / fax +49 2203 60 10 / 69 57 68 Honorary Members Past Presidents R. Monot EPFL, DP- IPE Ecublens W. Buckel, Karlsruhe, Germany 1968-70 G. Bernadini, Italy CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland H.B.G. Casimir, Heeze, Netherlands 1970-72 E. Rudberg, Sweden tel / fax +41 21- / 693 36 04 H. de Waard, Groningen, Netherlands 1972-76 H.B.G. Casimir, Netherlands S.F.Edwards, Cambridge, United 1976-78 I. Ursu, Romania R. Scherm Kingdom 1978-80 A. Zichichi, Italy Faschbereich Q.1 Physikalische-Technische Bundesanstalt J. Friedel, Orsay, France 1980-82 A.R. Mackintosh, Denmark Postfach 3345 E. Heer, Geneva, Switzerland 1982-84 J. Friedel, Fance D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany L.E.F.Néel, Meudon, France 1984-86 G.H. Stafford, United Kingdom tel / fax +49 531 592 74 00 / 592 40 06 Ph. Nozières, Grenoble, France 1986-88 W. Buckel, Germany V.F.Weisskopf, Cambridge, 1988-91 R.A. Ricci, Italy J.Vaagen Fysik Institutt, Univ. of Bergen, Allegaten 55 Massachussets, United States 1991-93 M. Jacob, Switzerland N-5007 Bergen, Norway A. Zichichi, Lausanne, Switzerland 1993-95 N. Kroó, Hungary tel / fax +47 55- / 58 94 40 M. Peter, Geneva, Switzerland 1995-97 H. Schopper, Switzerland 1997-99 D.Weaire, Ireland

Committees Members Conferences J.L. Beeby, Univ. of Leicester, United East-West Task Force Kingdom Chair R.M. Pick Ch. Berger, RWTH Aachen, Germany Chair J. Nadrchal Laboratoire des Milieux Désordonnés et D. Dowek, Univ. de Paris-Sud, France Inst. of Physics, Cukrovarnická 10 Hétérogènes M. Inguscio, Univ. of Florence, Italy CZ-162 53 Prague 6, Czech Republic Case 86, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie G. Simnett, Univ. of Birmingham, United tel / fax +420 2 20 51 34 11 / 31 23 1 84 4, place Jussieu Kingdom [email protected] F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France F.Wagner, Max-Planck-Inst. für tel / fax +33 144 27 38 85 / 144 27 38 82 Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany Secretary D.L. Nagy [email protected] A. Zenoni, Univ. of Brescia, Italy Dept. of Nuclear Physics, KFKI Research Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Secretary C. Bastian Observers Physics, PO Box 49 European Physical Society E. Auge, Univ. Paris Sud, France H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary 34 rue Marc Seguin, PO Box 2136 G. Baribaud, CERN, Switzerland tel / fax +36 1 395 9037 / 395 9151 F-68060 Mulhouse, France F.Bevilacqua, Univ. di Pavia, Italy [email protected] tel / fax +33 389 32 94 40 / 389 32 94 49 K. Kaski, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, [email protected] Finland Member H. Szymczak A. Suzor Weiner, Univ. de Paris-Sud, France Inst. Fizyki Polskiej,Warsaw, Poland S.Tazzari, Univ. di Roma, Italy europhysics news JULY/AUGUST 1999 103 beginning on this page: Divisions

R.A. Ricci, Società Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy EPS 11 Advisory Committee EPS 11 Programme Committee Professional Qualifications E. Ristolainen,Tampere Univ. of Technology, Chair N. Kroó Chair A.W.Wolfendale Chair E.F.Slade Finland Research Institute for Solid State Physics Dept. of Physics Keele Univ. P.Ryser, Cerberus AG, Männedorf, PO Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary Univ. of Durham Science Labratories Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG, United Kingdom Switzerland tel / fax +36 1 395 91 53 / 395 92 78 South Road tel / fax +44 1782 58 40 00 / 63 23 43 J.Vaitkus,Vilnius Univ., Lithuania [email protected] Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom [email protected] H.E.A. van den Akker, Kramers tel / fax +44 191 374 21 60 / 374 37 49 Laboratorium, Delft, Netherlands Secretary G.Thomas [email protected] Secretary E.W.A. Lingeman H.Wrembel, Pedagogical Univ., Poland Europhysics Letters, 27, rue de la Vendée Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging PO Box 69, CH-1213 Petit-Lancy 2 Secretary S. Lippmann c/o NIKHEF,PO Box 41882 Switzerland Inst. of Physics, 76-78 Portland Place NL-Amsterdam 1009 DB, Netherlands Publications & Scientific tel / fax +41 22 793 11 30 / 793 13 17 London W1N 3DH, United Kingdom tel / fax +31 20 592 21 17 / 592 51 55 Communications [email protected] tel / fax +44 171 470 48 00 / 470 49 00 [email protected] Chair C. Montonen [email protected] Helsinki Inst. of Physics, PO Box 9 Members Members FIN-00014 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland M. Ducloy, Univ. Paris-Nord, France Members J. Bessa e Sousa, Faculdade de Ciencias do tel / fax +358 9 191 85 13 / 191 84 58 H. Ferdinande, Univ. Gent, Belgium N. Kroó, Research Inst. for Solid State Porto, Portugal claus.montonen@helsinki.fi G. Jarlskog, Univ. of Lund, Sweden Physics, Hungary P.J. Brussaard, Utrecht University, P.H. Melville, Inst. of Physics, United J.M. Laget, Saclay, France Netherlands Members Kingdom P.K.Larsen, Philips Research, Netherlands R. Buriel, Inst. de Cienca de Materiales de L. Bonora, SISSA,Trieste, Italy R. Morgenstern, Univ. of Groningen, K. Moelmer, Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark Aragon, Spain R. Dekeyser, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Netherlands G.C. Morrison, Univ. of Birmingham, United R. Dekeyser, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium J. Nadrchal, Institute of Physics, Czech Kingdom Belgium M. Draper, CERN, Switzerland Republic S. Pugliese-Jona, via San Nazario 22, Ivrea, S.S. Krotov, Moscow State Univ., Russia E.R. Hilf, Carl von Ossietzky Univ., Germany R.A. Ricci, Società Italiana di Fisica, Italy Italy I.-L. Lamm, Univ. Hospital, Lund, Sweden K. Holmlund, Univ. of Umea, Sweden A. Suzor Weiner, Univ. Paris-Sud, France M.C.M.Van de Sanden, Eindhoven Univ. of I. Lovas, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, K. Ilakovac, Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia F.Wagner, Max-Planck- Institut für Technology, Netherlands Budapest, Hungary F.Laloë, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Plasmaphysik, Germany G.Thomas, Europhysics Letters, Switzerland P.H.Melville, Inst. of Physics, London, United E.W.A. Lingeman, NIKHEF,Amsterdam, P.Wyder, MPI-CNRS Grenoble, France D.L.Weaire,Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Kingdom Netherlands M.Wilkens, Univ. Potsdam, Germany A. Olafsson, Science Inst., Rvik, Iceland M.Ware, IOP Publishing, Bristol, United G. Pocsik, Eötvös Loránd Univ. of Sciences, Kingdom Budapest, Hungary J. Zinn Justin, CEA Orme des Merisiers, France Divisions, Sections & Interdivisional Groups Board Members ex officio Astrophysics C. Alissandrakis, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece G. Delgado-Barrio, IMAFF,Madrid, Spain G. Belvedere, Inst. di Astronomia dell’Univ. J.A.R. Griffith, Univ. of Birmingham, United Chemical Physics Section Chair M.C.E. Huber di Catania, Italy Kingdom Chair G. Delgado-Barrio Space Science Dept., ESA ESTEC E.L. Degl’Innocenti, Univ. di Firenze, Italy F.Masnou-Seeuws, Laboratoire Aimé Postbus 299 IMAFF CSIC C, Serrano 123 M. Goossens, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Cotton, Orsay, France E-28006 Madrid, Spain NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands Belgium N.J. Mason, Univ. College London, United tel / fax +31 71 565 35 52 / 565 46 99 tel / fax +349 1 585 53 97 / 585 48 94 I. Kim, Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Kingdom [email protected]. [email protected] Moscow, Russia J. Kuijpers, Utrecht Univ., Netherlands Secretary J.P.Swings Vice-Chair E. Campbell P.C.Martens, NASA/GSFC, Maryland, United Atomic Spectroscopy Section Gothenburg Univ., Sweden Inst. d’Astrophysique States (EGAS) Univ. de Liège, Avenue de Cointe 5 P.L.Palle, Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain B-4000 Liège, Belgium Chair J.A.R. Griffith Board Members J.C.Vial, Univ. Paris XI, Orsay, France Dept. of Physics J.A. Beswick, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France tel / fax +32 4 254 7515 / 254 7511 N.Vilmer, Observatoire de Paris, France [email protected] Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston G.D. Billing, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom C. Brechignac, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, tel / fax +44 121 414 4579 / 414 4719 Orsay, France Board Members Atomic & Molecular Physics C. Chiuderi, Osservatorio Astrofisico di [email protected] U. Buck, Max-Planck-Inst. für Arcetri, Italy Chair H.Winter Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, D. Enard, INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Italy Inst. für Allgemeine Physik Secretary F.Vedel Germany Y.Gnedin, Pulkovo Observatory, Russia Technische Univ.Wien Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Z. Herman, Academy of Sciences, Prague, M. Jacob, CERN, Switzerland Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 Moléculaires, Equipe C.I.M.L. Czech Republic, J. Hutson E. Lorenz,Werner-Heisenberg Inst., A-1040 Wien, Austria Univ. de Provence PIIM, UMR 6633 CNRS- Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom Germany tel / fax +43 1 588 01 13410 / 588 01 UAM1, Centre de St-Jérôme, Case C 21 P.Sarre, Univ. of Nottingham, United J. Perez-Mercader, LAEFF,Madrid, Spain 13499 F-13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France Kingdom A. de Rujula, CERN, Switzerland [email protected] tel / fax +33 4 91 28 81 45 / 91 28 87 45 G. Schaefer, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., [email protected] Electronic & Atomic Collisions Germany Vice-Chair R. Morgenstern Section B. Schutz, Albert-Einstein-Inst., Germany Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands Board Members G. Simnett, Univ. of Birmingham, United M. Allegrini, Univ. di Messina, Italy Chair N.J. Mason Kingdom Treasurer E.A. Hinds J. Baudon, Univ. Paris-Nord, France Dept. of Physics and Astronomy M. Spiro, CE Saclay, France Univ. of Sussex, United Kingdom F.Bylicki, Instytut Fizyki UMK, Poland University College London, Gower Street G.A.Tammann, Univ. Basel, Switzerland J. Campos, Univ. Complutense da Madrid, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Board Members Spain tel / fax +44 171 380 77 97 / 419 3460 D. Charalambidis, Univ. of Crete, Greece J. Costello, Dublin City Univ., Ireland [email protected] Solar Physics Section D. Dowek, Univ. de Paris-Sud, France H.P.Garnir, Univ. de Liège, Belgium E. Lindroth, Univ. of Stockholm, Sweden M. Godefroid, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Co-opted Member & Secretary Chair G. Simnett L. Moi, Univ. of Siena, Italy (ULB), Belgium School of Physics and Astronomy N.O. Andersen V.N. Ostrovsky, Univ. of St. Petersburg, G.H. Guthöhrlein, Univ. der Bundeswehr Niels Bohr Inst., Ørsted Laboratory Univ. of Birmingham Russia Hamburg, Germany PO Box 363 Universitetsparken 5 R. van der Sanden,Technical Univ. G. Huber, Johannes Gutenberg Univ., DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom Eindhoven, Netherlands Germany tel / fax +44 121 414 64 69 / 414 67 09 tel / fax +45 35 32 04 69 / 32 04 60 K. Koshelev, Inst. of Spectroscopy, Moscow, [email protected] [email protected] Co-opted Russia J.S. Bakos, Research Inst. for Nuclear S. Mannervik, Stockholm Univ., Sweden Board Members Secretary & Treasurer P.Heinzel Physics, Budapest, Hungary P.Serapinas, Inst. of Theoretical Physics & Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic F.A.Gianturco, Univ. degli Studi di Roma, Astronomy,Vilnius, Lithuania Italy L.Windholz,Technische Univ. Graz, Austria

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A. Lahmam-Bennani, Univ. de Paris-Sud, Secretary & Co-opted Member A. Parola Switzerland France Istituto di Scienze Fisiche Co-opted T. Märk, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria Univ. dell Insubria G. Hilscher,Technische Univ.Wien, Austria High Energy & Particle Physics A. Müller, Strahlenzentrum der Univ. Via Lucini 3, I-Como, Italy Chair W. Kummer Giessen, Germany tel / fax +390 2 239 23 55 / 239 24 82 Inst. for Theoretical Physics J. Palinkas, Inst. of Nuclear Research, [email protected] Semiconductors & Insulators Vienna Univ. of Technology Debrechen, Hungary Section Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10 / 136 A.M. Urnov, Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow, Board Members Chair A. Fasolino A-1040 Vienna, Austria Russia V. Degiorgio, Univ. di Pavia, Italy Dept. of Theoretical Physics tel / fax +43 1 5880 1136 20 / 5880 1136 99 S. Dietrich, Bergische Univ.Weppertal, Univ. of Nijmegen,Toernooiveld [email protected] Germany NL-6525 ED Nijmegen,The Netherlands Molecular Physics Section J.-P.Hansen, Cambridge Univ., United tel / fax +31 24 365 22 22 / 365 21 20 Secretary G. Mikenberg Chair F.Masnou-Seeuws Kingdom [email protected] PPE Division, CERN Campus d'Orsay P.N. Pusey, Univ. of Edinburgh, United CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Bât. 505 Kingdom Board Members tel / fax +41 22 767 33 84 / 767 93 30 F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France P.Verkerk, Delft Univ. of Technology, G. Bastard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, [email protected] tel / fax +33 169 35 20 52 / 169 35 21 00 Netherlands France [email protected] G. Bauer, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Board Members Co-opted Austria M. Aguilar Benitez, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain Secretary W.J. van der Zande A.M. Cazabat, College de France, Paris J. Kotthaus, Ludwig Maximilians Univ., M. Baldo-Ceolin, Univ. degli Studi di FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics W. Freyland, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany Germany Padova, Italy Kruislaan 407 R. Hidalgo Alvarez, Univ. de Granada, Spain F.Peeters, Univ. Antwerpen, Belgium Ch. Berger, RWTH Aachen, Germany NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands L. Rull, Facultad de Fisica, Sevilla, Spain M. Skolnick, Univ. of Sheffield, United J. Engelen, NIKHEF,Netherlands tel / fax +3120 608 12 34 / 668 41 06 P.S.Salmon, Univ. of Bath, United Kingdom Kingdom L. Evans, CERN, Switzerland [email protected] C.Tejedor, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, M. Greco, LNF / INFN, Frascati, Italy [email protected] Spain J. Lemonne, IIHE (VUB-ULB), Brussels, Low Temperature Section Belgium Board Members Chair H. Adrian B. Lörstad, Univ. of Lund, Sweden D. Bassi, Univ. di Trento, Povo, Italy Inst. für Physik Structural & Dynamical J. Pisut, Comenius Univ., Slovak Republic P.W. Benarroch, Ciudad Univ., Madrid, Spain Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz Properties of Solids C.T. Sachrajda, Univ. of Southampton, P.Casavecchia, Univ. di Perugia, Italy Staudingerweg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany Chair T. Janssen United Kingdom B. Girard, Univ. Paul Sabatier,Toulouse, tel / fax +49 6131 39 3637 / 39 4076 Inst. for Theoretical Physics M. Spiro, CE Saclay, France France [email protected] Univ. of Nijmegen J.Wess, Univ. München, Germany R. Kosloff,The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands Israel Board Members tel / fax +31 24 365 2995 / 365 2120 ex officio U. Mueller, Univ. Freiburg, Germany A. Barone, Politechnical Univ. of Naples, Italy [email protected] L. Foà, Escuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy A.J. Orr-Ewing, Univ. of Bristol, United T. Dietl, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kingdom Warsaw, Poland Board Members Co-opted G. Pichler, Inst. of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia A. Gilabert, Univ. de Nice, France A. Bussmann-Holder, Max-Planck Inst. für J. Hosek, Academy of Sciences, Rez near E.Tiemann, Univ. Hannover, Germany M. Krusius, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany Prague, Czech Republic Finland H. Kuzmany, Univ.Wien, Austria P.Levai, Research Inst. for Particle and C. Lambert, Lancaster Univ., United S.W. Lovesey, Rutherford Appleton Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary Condensed Matter Kingdom Laboratory, Oxon, United Kingdom J.Tuominiemi, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Chair H.R. Ott R. Pick, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Lab. für Festkörperphysik France ETH Hönggerberg Macromolecular Physics Section Y.M.Vysochanskii, Inst. for Solid State Nuclear Physics CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland Chair F.J. Baltá Calleja Physics and Chemistry, Uzhgorod, Chair R.A. Ricci tel / fax +41 1 633 23 11 / 633 10 77 Inst. de Estructura de la Materia CSIC Ukraine Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro INFN [email protected] Serrano 119, E-28006 Madrid, Spain Via Romea, 4, I-35020 Legnaro PD, Italy tel / fax +349 1 561 94 08 / 564 24 31 Co-opted Members tel / fax +390 49 79 05 84 / 79 05 84 Vice-Chair & Secretary O.K. Andersen [email protected] R.Torre, Univ. Firenze, Italy [email protected] Max-Planck-Inst. für Festkörperforschung A. Sternberg, Univ. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Heisenbergstrasse 1, Postfach 80 06 65 Board Members P.Wachter, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Secretary A. Zenoni D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany E. Atkins, Univ. of Bristol, United Kingdom Dipart. di Chimica e Fisica per l’ Ingeneria e tel / fax +49 711 689 16 30 / 689 16 32 H.M. Laun, Kunststofflaboratorium, per i Materiali, Univ. Brescia [email protected] Ludwigshafen, Germany Surfaces & Interfaces Section Via Valotti 9, I-25133 Brescia, Italy J.A. Manson, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Chair K.Wandelt tel / fax +39 30 3715700 / 20 91 271 Board Members P.Navard, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Inst. für Physikalische Chemie [email protected] J.L. Beeby, Univ. of Leicester, United Mines de Paris, France Univ. Bonn,Wegelerstrasse 12 Kingdom G.Ten Brinke, Groningen Univ., Netherlands D-53115 Bonn, Germany Vice-Chair W.Von Oertzen D. Bideau,Univ. de Rennes I, France tel / fax +49 228 73 22 53 / 73 25 15 Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany O. Fischer,Univ. de Genève, Switzerland Co-opted [email protected] S. Hess,Techn. Univ. Berlin, Germany A. Khokhlov, Moscow State Univ., Russia Treasurer J. Deutsch I. Ipatova, A.F.Ioffe Physico Technical Inst., G.H. Michler, Martin-Luther-Univ., Board Members Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium St. Petersburg, Russia Merseburg, Germany V.A. Grazhulis, Inst. of Solid State Physics, G.A. Sawatzky, Univ. of Groningen, A. Pavan, Politecnico di Millano, Italy Moscow, Russia Board Members Netherlands J. Jupille, Laboratoire CNRS Saint Gobain, S. Aberg, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden France J. Durell, Univ. of Manchester, United ex officio Magnetism Section N.V. Richardson, Univ. of Liverpool, United Kingdom F.J. Baltá Calleja, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Chair M.R. Ibarra Kingdom R. Kalpakchieva, Joint Inst. for Nuclear A. Fasolino, Univ. of Nijmegen, Netherlands Departamento de Fisica de la Materia P.Varga,Technische Univ.Wien, Austria Research, Dubna, Moscow, Russia M.R. Ibarra, Univ. de Zaragoza CSIC, Spain Condensada-ICMA, Facultad de Ciencias E.Vlieg, FOM Inst. voor Atoom and V. Hnatowicz, Czech Academy of Sciences, L. Reatto, Univ. di Milano, Italy Univ. de Zaragoza CSIC, Pedro Cerbuna 12 Molecuulfysika, Amsterdam, Rez, Czech Republic K.Wandelt, Univ. Bonn, Germany E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain Netherlands C. Petitjean, Paul Scherrer Inst.,Villigen, tel / fax +34 976 761215 / 761229 Switzerland Co-opted [email protected] Co-opted S.G. Rohozinski,Warsaw Univ., Poland R.M. Pick, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France B. Gumhalter, Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia B.Vignon, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Board Members E. Michel, Univ. of Madrid, Spain France N.J. Chapman, Univ. of Glasgow, United J.-J. Pireaux, Facultés Univ. Notre-dame de A. van der Woude, Kernfysisch Verseneller Liquids Section Kingdom la Paix, Belgium Instituut KVI, Netherlands Chair L. Reatto D. Gignoux, Laboratoire de Magnétisme U.Valbusa, Univ. di Genova, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Univ. di Milano Louis Neel, Grenoble, France Co-opted Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy H. Lachowicz, Instytut Fizyki Polskiej, N. Auerbach, School of Physics and tel / fax +390 2 239 23 48 / 239 24 82 Warszaw, Poland Astronomy, Aviv, Israel [email protected] M. Landolt, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, I. Lovas, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, europhysics news JULY/AUGUST 1999 105 Interdivisional Groups

Budapest, Hungary Representative W. Hogervorst,Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, Y.N. Novikov, St. Petersburg Univ., Russia W. Hogervorst,Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands Netherlands Applied Physics & Physics in D.K. Nachtigall, Univ. of Dortmund, S. De Silvestri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Industry Germany Plasma Physics C.Webb, Univ. of Oxford, United Kingdom Chair K. Kaski L.Wöste, Freien Univ. Berlin, Germany Chair F.Wagner Helsinki Univ. of Technology Member IPP-Directorate PO Box 9400, FIN-02015 Hut Espoo, Finland Co-opted Max-Planck-Inst. für Plasmaphysik Statistical & Nonlinear Physics tel / fax +358 9 451 4825 / 451 4830 G. Furlan, Univ. di Trieste, Italy Boltzmannstr. 2 Chair P.Alstrøm kimmo.kaski@hut.fi L. Hasselgren, Uppsala Univ., Sweden D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany Niels Bohr Institute, CATS E. Lillethun, Univ. of Bergen, Norway tel / fax +49 89 32 99 19 61 / 32 99 25 84 Kobenhavns Univ., Blegdamsvej 17 Secretary C.M. Rønnevig J.J. Steyaert, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, [email protected] DK-2100 Copenhagen O IMENCO A/S, Postboks 265 Belgium tel / fax +45 3532 5214 / 3532 5425 N-5501 Haugesund, Norway H. van Regemorter, Observatoire de Paris- Vice-Chair R. Koch [email protected] tel / fax +47 52 72 74 00 / 52 71 19 90 Meudon, France Inst. für Plasmaphysik, Jülich, Germany Observers Board Members New board pending Vice-Chair M.C.M.Van de Sanden T. Ala-Nissila, Helsinki Institute of Physics, J. Bessa Sousa, Faculdade de Ciencias do Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Finland Porto, Portugal S.W. Raither, UNESCO, Paris, France Netherlands F.Tito Arecchi, Istituto Nazionale de Ottica, Computational Physics Italy M. Schwörer, Univ. Bayreuth, Germany Chair P.H.Borcherds Board Members D. Beysens, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, France A.Wagué, Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Physics Dept. F.Alladio, Associazione Euratom ENEA sulla J. Pierre Boon, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium Senegal Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston Fusione, Frascati, Italy J.-P.Eckmann, Univ. de Genève, Switzerland Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom V.E. Golant, St. Petersburg Technical Univ., J. Feder, Univ. of Oslo, Norway tel / fax +44 121 414 45 91 / 414 45 77 Russia D. Frenkel, FOM Instituut voor Atoom en Physics Education [email protected] D. Grésillon, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Molecuul Fysica, Amsterdam, Chair J.L. Lewis France Netherlands Pump Cottage, Colwall Green Secretary M. Bubak J. Hugill, UMIST, Manchester, United J. Kertesz,Technical Univ. of Budapest, Malvern,Worcestershire WR13 6DX AGH, Inst. of Computer Science Kingdom Hungary United Kingdom al. Mickiewicza 30 Board Member M. San Miguel, IMEDEA, Mallorca, Spain tel / fax +44 1684 54 07 07 / 54 07 97 PL-30-059 Krakow, Poland M. Liberman, Uppsala Univ., Sweden H. Müller-Krumbhaar, Institut für tel / fax +48 12 17 39 64 / 33 80 54 J. 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