Conference Announcements IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY COMPLEX ANALYSIS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS A JOINT MEETING OF THE IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY AND THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY LONDON, 22-23 MAY, 1998 There will be six lectures, three on Friday afternoon, 22 May, and three on Saturday morning, 23 May. A conference dinner is being planned for Friday evening. The following have agreed to speak. Linda Keen (CUNY) Deformations of Kleinian groups Anthony G. O'Farrell (NUI Maynooth) Some approximation problems and theorems Bodil Branner (Technical University of Denmark) Surgery in holomorphic dynamics Ricardo Perez-Marco (Orsay, Paris) to be announced Shaun Bullett (Queen Mary & West eld College, London) Dynamics of holomorphic correspondences Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Orsay, Paris) to be announced Information: Shaun Bullett or Richard M. Timoney. STOKES SUMMER SCHOOL SKREEN, COUNTY SLIGO, IRELAND 6-10 AUGUST, 1998 Goal: A celebration at his birthplace of the many areas of physics and mathematics to which Sir George Gabriel Stokes made major contributions. Among the speakers are some of the world's leading authorities. Organizers: Sir Michael Berry (Bristol University), Alastair Wood (Dublin City University). The number of participants is limited to 50. Information: Ms. Carmel Morley, School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland; e-mail carmel.morley@dcu.ie; tel 01-704-5293; fax 01-704-5786. 7 Conference Announcement GROUPS IN GALWAY 98 TWENTY FIRST CONFERENCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY 21-23 MAY, 1998 The Mathematics Department of the National University of Ireland, Galway will hold its annual Groups in Galway conference on 21-23 May 1998. This will be the 21st such conference. At present, the list of speakers includes: Martin Bridson (Oxford), Roger Bryant (Manchester), Martin Dunwoody (Southampton), Dane Flannery (Galway), Willem de Graaf (St. Andrews), Derek Holt (Warwick), Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt), Alexei Krasil'nikov (Moscow), Luise-Charlotte Kappe (SUNY), Gotz Pfei er (Galway), Sarah Rees (Newcastle), Howard Smith (Bucknell), Patrick Sole (Nice), Ralph Stohr (Manchester). Further details of the conference can be obtained from: graham.ellis@ucg.ie, or at http://hamilton.ucg.ie/conference/gig98.html. The conference is receiving nancial support from: Digital Corporation, Disk Doctors Ltd (Galway), The Irish Mathematical Society, and NUIG. 8