New Announcements

• Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics (16-20 August 1999, Ambleside).
• 2nd workshop on Time-Reversal Symmetry in Dynamical Systems (1-3rd December 1999, Imperial College).
• BAMC 2000 (25-28th April 2000, Manchester).

A final update about the Ambleside conference on stochastic and chaotic dynamics.

• Sponsored by Nature magazine and the US Office of Naval Research.
• Invited speakers include: Vadim Anishchenko (Saratov), Paul Bressloff (Loughborough), Carson Chow (Pittsburgh), Terry Clark (Sussex), Mark Dykman (MSU), Werner Ebeling (Berlin), David Egolf (Los Alamos), Hermann Haken (Stuttgart), Robert Maier (Tucson), Mark Millonas (Tulane), Sri Namachchivaya (Illinois), Gregoire Nicolis (Brussels), Itamar Procaccia (Weizmann Institute), Vered Rom-Kedar (Weizmann Institute), Michael Rosenblum (Potsdam), Gene Stanley (Boston), Aneta Stefanovska (Ljubljana)>.
• The meeting is interdisciplinary (Aeronautical engineering, Avionics, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chaos and Turbulence, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering (Civil and Mechanical), Fractal Research, Fusion Science, Geophysics, Information Theory, Mathematics, Neurodynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, Physiology, Signal and Image Processing, Zoology).
• And international (contributions from Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, USA).
• Most registrants are from universities, but around 25% are from research institutes (e.g. DERA, Los Alamos, SPAWAR, Max Planck Institutes, several Russian institutes, etc).
• There are no parallel sessions! People *must* talk to each other about their common interests in nonlinear dynamics and fluctuation theory!
• A draft programme is now available on the Web.
• Although the accommodation is notionally "full", a few places might still be found for those who would especially like to attend, and whose research reflects the theme of the meeting. They should contact the Conference Secretary, Julia Taylor, in the first instance: julia.taylor@lancaster.ac.uk.

(On Wednesday 1 December the meeting will coincide with the London Dynamics Seminar and a meeting of the Southeastern Bifurcation Theory Group).

The 2nd workshop is a small scale follow-up of the 1st Workshop organised in December 1996 at Warwick (see Physica D 112 for its proceedings), and will deal with various aspects of time-reversal symmetry in dynamical systems, in Hamiltonian and in non-Hamiltonian systems. The main aim is to review recent developments in the field, including bifurcation theory for reversible equivariant (Hamiltonian) systems, reversible homoclinic orbits, reversible heteroclinic cycles, normal form theory, etc.

(most of them confirmed) Furthermore, we anticipate the participation and contributions of many other active researchers in the field.

Funding to support the attendance of participants is pending, but will be very limited. Please contact me in case funding is playing a key-role in deciding your attendance, or if you have any other questions. e-mail: jsw.lamb@ic.ac.uk

Updates on details concerning the workshop will posted at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~lamb/icworkshop.html

If you are interested in attending, please pre-register by sending e-mail to jsw.lamb@ic.ac.uk. Please also indicate whether you would like to present a talk (including tentative title).

The British Applied Mathematics Colloquium at the end of the millennium will be held in Manchester, from 25th to 28th April.

Details are available at http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/bamc/

Please send email enquiries to the conference address BAMC2K@UMIST.ac.uk.