Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications
University of Coimbra, Portugal
June, 7-12, 2005
URL: http://www.fbp-2005.org

DEADLINE for proposed contributions:
Discussion sessions - March 15, 2005
Contributed talks and posters - April 15, 2005
Registration - April 30, 2005

Czech-Japanese Seminar in Applied Mathematics will be held in Prague (August 4-7, 2004)

More information can be found on the site: http://geraldine.fjfi.cvut.cz/cjs.htm

Two conferences will be held in Rome next September:

Numerical Methods for Viscosity Solutions and Applications
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza"
September, 6-8, 2004
WEB: http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/viscosity04
Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2004

INTERPHASE 2004 Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza"
Setember, 13-16, 2004
WEB: http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/interphase04
Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2004

You can register on the WEB pages and apply for a short communication.

Workshop "Global and Geometric Aspects in Nonlinear PDE"
October 6 -12, 2004, Yerevan, ARMENIA

Scientific Committee: Luis Caffarelli, Peter Markowich, Henrik Shahgholian
Organizing Committee: A. Hakobyan, M. Poghosyan

A Summer School and Workshop on Oceanography, Lakes and Rivers will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (Portugal) on July 19-24, 2004. The events aim at promoting the communication and interactions between the specialists working on different frontiers of Oceanography. They are included in the activities of the 2004 CIM Thematic Term on Mathematics and the Environment.

A Summer School on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Dynamics will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (Portugal) on July 12-16, 2004. It is included in the activities of the 2004 CIM Thematic Term on Mathematics and the Environment.

A Workshop on Forest Fires will take palce at the University of Coimbra in Portugal on June 3-5, 2004. The workshop is one of the events of the 2004 CIM Thematic Term on Mathematics and the Environment.

A 3-day workshop on Diffuse Interface Models will be held in Lyon (France) on January 14-16, 2004. Some more information is available on the website http://www.umpa.ens-lyon.fr/~benzoni/W-2004.

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Computational Applied Mathematics at the University of Durham, UK available from 1st October 2004

INdAM workshop - Cortona (Italy), September 5-11, 2004

Scientific committee: Pierluigi Colli, Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Juergen Sprekels
Organizing: Elena Bonetti, Ulisse Stefanelli

Please visit the Workshop Homepage

for information, registration, and to apply for a short talk.
No registration fee is required.

Montecatini Terme, 10-12 giugno 2004

Please visit the web page

where you can register and apply for a short talk. No registration fee is required.

Pierluigi Colli and José Francisco Rodrigues are very pleased to announce the book containing the lecture notes of the C.I.M.-C.I.M.E. joint Euro-Summer School held in University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, July 3-9, 2000. The book, whose title is

Mathematical Aspects of Evolving Interfaces

(the same of the school), collects the contributions by L. Ambrosio, K. Deckelnick, G. Dziuk, M. Mimura, V.A. Solonnikov, and H.M. Soner and it has been edited by P. Colli and J.F. Rodrigues. The exact reference for the Springer series is Lecture Notes in Math. 1812, Fondazione C.I.M.E.. [C.I.M.E. Foundation], Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2003. Details can be found at the web page

http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-14033-6

Prague hosts again an important meeting related to Numerical Mathematics. Between August 18 and August 22, 2003, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, together with Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Mathematics organizes

the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications.

The invited speakers are A. Bermudez (Spain), R. Blaheta (Czech Republic), T. Gallouet (France), J. Haslinger (Czech Republic), R. Hiptmair (Germany), T. J. R. Hughes (USA), J. Rappaz (Switzerland), A. Russo (Italy), V. Schulz (Germany), A. Tveito (Norway).

The information about the conference can be found on the conference page

The international conference on TRENDS IN PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS (TPDE_03) will take place the 7-10 June 2003, in Óbidos, Portugal, and is held on the occasion of the 70th birthday of V. A. Solonnikov.

The deadline for presentation of contributions is April 30, 2003. See the web page:

http://www.tpde03.org

At the end of the year 2002, a prominent Czech mathematician Professor Jindrich Necas died at the age of seventy three years.

The Charles University of Prague organizes a two-day

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN MEMORY OF JINDRICH NECAS

to be held in Prague, March 28-29, 2003. More information about this colloqium can be found on the web page:

http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/memories/necas

With the permission of the author Ivan Hlavacek and the Editor of the journal Aplikace matematiky Pavel Krejci, we reprint an article devoted to this important personality of world mathematics.