FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Limited financial support for presentations by students and by researchers from newly industrializing countries is available. People who are interested in the support should directly contact to the Steering Committee, c/o Inter Group Corp., e-mail: ssdm@intergroup.co.jp.
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
  The Final Announcement and call for papers with complete instructions will appear in the end of March, 2003.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
  Students' contribution is encouraged. We are pleased to discount the student registration fee (5,000 yen).
We are planning to adopt Poster Sessions.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
Chairperson: M. Nakamura (Hitachi)
Vicechairperson: H. Ishihara (Tokyo Inst. of Technol.)
STEERING COMMITTEE
 
Chairperson: S. Kawamura (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Sci. & Technol.)
Vicechairperson: K. Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Technol.)
Secretary: S. Kimura (Hitachi)
General Arrangements: M. Hori (Nagoya Univ.)
M. Kubota (Sony)
Treasurer: B. Mizuno (Matsushita)
Local Arrangements: T. Nakanishi (Fujitsu)
M. Hiratani (Hitachi)
K. Tsutsui (Tokyo Inst. of Technol.)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
Chairperson: M. Koyanagi (Tohoku Univ.)
Vicechairpersons: J. Sone (NEC)
S. Takagi (Toshiba)
Secretary: H. Kurino (Tohoku Univ.)
SECRETARIAT
  c/o Inter Group Corp.
4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486 Japan
TEL:+81-3-3479-5131
FAX:+81-3-3423-1601
E-mail: ssdm@intergroup.co.jp