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

In addition to the invited speakers, H. Amann (Univ. Zürich, Switzerland), L. Caffarelli (Univ. Texas, Austin, USA), E. DiBenedetto (Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA), Y. Giga (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan), O. Ladyzhenskaya (POMI, St. Petersburg, Russia), LI Tatsien (Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China), V. Mazya (Linköping Univ., Sweden), J. Toland (Univ. Bath, UK), N. Trudinger (ANU, Canberra, Australia), N. Ural'tseva (Univ. St. Petersburg, Russia), several other registered participants will have the opportunity to communicate an original paper to be included in a book dedicated to Vsevolod A. Solonnikov.

The conference TPDE_03 is organized by a consortium of four Portuguese universities (Univ. Lisbon, Univ. Coimbra, Tech.Univ. Lisboa, and Univ. Beira Interior) in collaboration with the St.Petersburg Steklov Mathematical Institute.

The Programme Committee is composed by S. Antontsev (CM-UBI, Covilhã), A. Meirmanov (Univ. Hanty-Mansiisk), J. F. Rodrigues (CMAF-UL, Lisbon), A. Sequeira (CEMAT-IST, Lisbon), G. Seregin (POMI, St. Petersburg) and J. M. Urbano (CMUC, Coimbra).

Secretariat:

M. do Carmo Mateus
CMAF-Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
P-1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
e-mail: cmaf@ptmat.fc.ul.pt
tel: +351 217 904 738; fax: +351 217 954 288;

WWW: http://www.tpde03.org

Deadline for presentation of contributions: April 30, 2003.