CONFERENCES

Below is a list of forthcoming conferences which will be held in Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the region.

The information in this section is complemented by similar information in the IMU Canberra Circular,where detailed information on international conferences may also be found. If you wish to be on the distribution list for the Circular write to Emeritus Professor B.H. Neumann, Mathematics Research Section, School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200 (email: bhn102@phys.anu.edu.au ). The Circular is sent free of charge to those who ask for it. Further information regarding the conferences below may be obtained from the contact, indicated by C.

40th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society

Venue: Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide

Dates: 7--12 July 1996

Contact: Director: Dr Raj Huilgol, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Flinders University of South Australia, PO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001. tel. (08)~201 2938, fax (08) 201~2904, email: raj@ist.flinders.edu.au

Sydney International Statistical Congress

Venue: Sheraton-Wentworth Hotel, Sydney

Dates: 8--12 July 1996

Contact: Director SISC-96, CSIRO DMS, Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, NSW 2113, fax: (02) 325 3200, email: sydney96@syd.csiro.dms

ISIS: Information, Statistics and Induction in Science

Venue: Old Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne

Dates: 20--23 August 1996

Contact: Dr David Howe, tel. (03)9905-5227, fax (03)9905-5146, email: isis96@cs.monash.edu.au

3rd Australian Conference on Mathematics & Computers in Sport

Venue: Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland

Dates: 30 Sept - 2 Oct 1996

Contact: Assoc. Prof. Neville de Mestre, School of Information Technology, Bond University, Gold Coast, Qld 4229. fax: (07)5593320, email: neville_de_mestre@bond.edu.au

First Conference of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

Venue: Auckland, New Zealand

Dates: 9--13 December 1996

Contact: Steve Reeves, email: stever@waikato.ac.nz

Summer Workshop on Hyperbolic Groups and Manifolds

Venue: University of Auckland

Dates: 3--11 January 1997

Contact: Prof. Marston Conder, Dept Mathematics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

MISG 1997 (the 13th Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group)

Venue: University of Melbourne

Dates: 27--31 January 1997

Contact: Dr Kerry Landman, University of Melbourne, phone (03) 344 6762, fax (03) 344 4599, email: misg@maths.mu.oz.au

ANZIAM '97 (33rd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference)

Venue: Erskine House, Lorne, Victoria

Dates: 2--6 February 1997

Contact: Ian Collings, Conference Secretary, School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University. email: amc97@deakin.edu.au web site: http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/~amc97/

Conference on the Occasion of David Elliott's 65th Birthday

Venue: Jane Franklin Hall, University of Tasmania

Dates: 7--8 February 1997

Contact: John Donaldson and David Paget, Department of Mathematics, The University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001. fax: (002)2022867, email: John.Donaldson@maths.utas.edu.au, David.Paget@maths.utas.edu.au

Joint Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Mathematical Societies

Venue: University of Auckland

Dates: 7--11 July 1997

Contact: Prof. Gaven Martin, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, NZ