REMINDER: XIIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics Don't forget to send off your registration form before March 31 if you wish to take advantage of the discount rate. If you wish to receive the form and details again, email icmp97@maths.uq.oz.au requesting them. Here follows the program as it stands at the moment. Contributed talks will be allocated to sessions running in parallel to, and as orthogonal in their themes as possible to, the invitational sessions listed in the program. Recall also that their are several associated scientific activities taking place in this part of the world before and after the Congress. See our HomePage at http://www.maths.uq.oz.au/~icmp97 for more details. (Some details of the workshops on `Statistical Mechanics and Integrable Systems' being held after the Congress are attached at the end of this message.) ************************************************************* PROGRAM: XIIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics ************************************************************* Sunday July 13 ************** Registration desk open, Emmanuel College, 3pm to 9pm. Informal welcome reception, 4.30pm to 6pm. (This will be at either Emmanuel College or The Women's College - to be decided.) Monday July 14 ************* Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Building, 8am to 5pm. Congress opening, 10am to 10.30am. Plenary, V Jones, 10.30am to 11.20am. Plenary, H-T Yau, 11.30am to 12.20pm. Lunch, 12.30pm to 2pm. Session, Operator Algebras, 2pm to 4pm. [H Araki (O), C Sutherland (O), M Izumi, M Rieffel, R Speicher, D Voiculescu] Afternoon Tea, 4pm to 4.30pm. Lord Mayor's Reception (bus transport provided) 6pm to 7.30pm Tuesday July 15 *************** Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Buiding, 7.30am to 6pm. Plenary, P Sarnak, 8am to 8.50am Session, Quantum Chaos & Semiclassical Limit, 9am to 11am [B D Simons (O), S Zelditch (O), B Helffer, M Zirnbauer] Morning Tea, 11am to 11.30am. Plenary, G Gallavotti, 11.30am to 12.20pm Lunch, 12.30pm to 2pm Session, Statistical Hydrodynamics, 2pm to 4pm [A Kupiainen (O), P Constantin, K Khanin, B Schraiman] Afternoon Tea, 4pm to 4.30pm Plenary, R S Hamilton, 4.30pm to 5.20pm Concert (Perihelion), Mayne Hall Foyer, 8pm. Wednesday July 16 ***************** Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Buiding, 7.30am to 4pm. Plenary, R Baxter, 8am to 8.50am Session, Statistical Mechanics, 9am to 11am [V Bazhanov (O), J Froehlich (O), V Korepin, B McCoy, C-A Pillet, B Zegarlinski] Free afternoon (various tours available) IAMP General Assembly, 7.30pm Thursday July 17 **************** Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Buiding, 7.30am to 6pm. Plenary, M Loss, 8am to 8.50am Session, Quantum Mechanics, 9am to 11am [V Bach (O), C-A Pillet (O), A Fedotov, A Joye, H Siedentop] Morning Tea, 11am to 11.30am Plenary, S Ferrara, 11.30am to 12.20pm Lunch, 12.30pm to 2pm Session, General Quantum Field Theory, 2pm to 4pm [S Doplicher (O), D Buchholz, K Fredenhagen, N Landsman] Afternoon Tea, 4pm to 4.30pm Plenary, J Feldman, 4.30pm to 5.20pm Dinner Cruise, 7pm (bus transport provided) Friday July 18 ************** Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Buiding, 7.30am to 6pm. Plenary, V Kac, 8am to 8.50am Session, Integrable Models, 9am to 11am [P Pearce (O), L Takhtajan (O), A Bobenko, P Forrester, G Mussardo, A Zamolodchikov] Morning Tea, 11am to 11.30am Plenary, M Mezard, 11.30am to 12.20pm Lunch, 12.30pm to 2pm Session, Disordered Systems, 2pm to 4pm [C Newman (O), G Parisi (O), M Aizenman, F Guerra, J Kurchan] Afternoon Tea, 4pm to 4.30pm Plenary, L-S Young, 4.30pm to 5.20pm Public Lecture, V Jones, 8pm Saturday July 19 **************** Registration desk open, Priestley (Mathematics) Buiding, 7.30am to 12.30pm. Plenary, R Bartnik, 8am to 8.50am Session, General Relativity and String Theory, 9am to 11am [S-T Yau (O), B R Greene (O), K P Tod, ...] *********************************************************************** A J Bracken Local Chairman, icmp'97 ********************************************************************** First announcement International Workshops on STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS 20-26 July 1997, Coolangatta, Queensland 28 July - 8 Aug 1997, Australian National University, Canberra These workshops will be held immediately after the XIIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics to be held in Brisbane from 13-19 July 1997. Participants are encouraged to attend the Congress. Details of which can be obtained from icmp97@maths.uq.oz.au or via the WWW homepage http://www.maths.uq.oz.au/~icmp97 ORGANISERS The workshops are being organised by Murray T Batchelor, Rodney J Baxter and Vladimir V Bazhanov of the School of Mathematical Sciences and the National Centre for Theoretical Physics in the Australian National University. SITES The first workshop will be held at the Greenmount Beach Resort in Coolangatta, Queensland. The second workshop will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra. PROGRAM The emphasis of the workshops will be on various aspects of statistical mechanics and integrable systems, including; exactly solved lattice models, phase transitions and critical phenomena, integrability, algebraic techniques, Rogers-Ramanujan- type identities, systems of strongly correlated electrons, self-avoiding walks. The Coolangatta workshop is supported by the US/Australia Bilateral Science & Technology Collaboration Program. Talks at Coolangatta will be limited to the invited participants. There may be an opportunity to present contributed posters. Current list of participants: H. Au-Yang, M.T. Batchelor, R.J. Baxter, V.V. Bazhanov, A. Berkovich, A.L. Carey, O. Foda, M.D. Gould, A.J. Guttmann, V.E. Korepin, S.L. Lukyanov, B.M. McCoy, A.L. Owczarek, P.A. Pearce, J.H.H. Perk, N. Reshetikhin, H. Saleur, A. Schilling, K.A. Seaton, F. Wu, A.B. Zamolodchikov There will be opportunities to present talks at the Canberra workshop. Expressions of interest are called for. ACCOMMODATION The Greenmount Beach Resort in Coolangatta is a large hotel. Rooms are $115 per room per night; single, twin or double share. Further details can be obtained from the organisers. Alternatively there are many hotels to choose from in the Coolangatta area. Accommodation at ANU will be at University House or the Liversidge Court apartments. The University House rooms are; $89 per night, double room with ensuite; $77 per night, single room with ensuite; $47 per night, single room with shared bathroom. The Liversidge Court apartments are self-contained units; studio apartment, $70 per night or $364 per week; one-bedroom unit, $80 per night or $413 per week; two-bedroom unit, $95 per night or $497 per week. REGISTRATION There will be a registration fee of $320 to attend the Coolangatta workshop. The fee includes use of the conference facilities, morning tea and lunch. There is no registration fee for the Canberra workshop. TRAVEL The Greenmount Resort is 5km south of Coolangatta airport, and is a 2.5hr bus trip from Brisbane. There are flights from Coolangatta to Canberra via Sydney. International participants are eligible for relatively cheap domestic flights. They are encouraged to explore the possibilities of minimising the cost of their total airfare by purchasing one round-trip ticket including Brisbane, Coolangatta, Sydney and Canberra. Brisbane and Sydney are international airports. ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES A link to the Workshops WWW homepage will be via http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/research.groups/mathphys The Workshops email address is workshops@maths.anu.edu.au %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% EXPRESSION OF INTEREST AND REQUEST FOR SECOND CIRCULAR %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TITLE/NAME ADDRESS EMAIL I am interested in presenting: (a) a poster at Coolangatta (b) a talk/poster at Canberra (c) tentative title: I request a letter of invitation to assist with my efforts to obtain funding support. (YES or NO) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%