FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT International Conference on Algebras, Modules and Rings Lisboa, Portugal, 14-18 July 2003 http://caul.cii.fc.ul.pt/lisboa2003/ Organized by Centro de Algebra da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in memory of Professor A. Almeida Costa, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The conference will include invited lectures and contributed talks. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Keynote Speaker * M. Van den Berg (Limburgs - Diepenbeek) * Main Speakers * W. Crawley-Boevey (Leeds) K. Goodearl (California - Santa Barbara) S. Koenig (Leicester) L. Levy (Wisconsin - Madison) O. Mathieu (Claude Bernard - Lyon) B. Osofsky (Rutgers - New Brunswick) C. M. Ringel (Bielefeld) M. Saorín (Murcia) J. Trlifaj (Karlovy - Praha) * Plenary Speakers * J. A. de la Pena (UNAM - Mexico City) N. V. Dung (Ohio - Zanesville) I. Gordon (Glasgow) P. A. Guil Asensio (Murcia) O. Iyama (Himeji) J. Okninski (Warsaw) C. Santa-Clara (Lisboa) A. Tonolo (Padova) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: A. Facchini (Padova) K. Fuller (Iowa) M. L. Galvao (Lisboa) - coordinator J. L. Gomez Pardo (Santiago de Compostela) J. A. Green (Oxford, Warwick) C. M. Ringel (Bielefeld) D. Simson (Nicholas Copernicus - Torun) P. F. Smith (Glasgow) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: A. P. Alexandre (Nova de Lisboa) P. Carvalho Lomp (Porto) A. V. Fonseca (Lusofona - Lisboa, Leicester) M. L. Galvao (Lisboa) C. Lomp (Porto) M. T. Nogueira (Lisboa) C. Santa-Clara (Lisboa) - coordinator Confirmed sponsors: Centro de Algebra da Universidade de Lisboa (CAUL); Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL); Departamento de Matematica da FCUL; Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT). Conference web site: http://caul.cii.fc.ul.pt/lisboa2003/ Contact the organizers at lisboa03@cii.fc.ul.pt Subscribe to the conference mailing list at http://caul.cii.fc.ul.pt/alg.announce.html Detailed information on registration, conference fee, support, submission of abstracts, publication of proceedings, accommodation and travel arrangements will be supplied in the second announcement, to be sent in January 2003.