Dear Colleagues,

By "popular" demand the 100th Statistical Mechanics Conference on the theme: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: A CELEBRATION OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS, has been extended by two days. It will now run from Saturday, December 13 to Thursday, December 18 and will incorporate a workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Statistical Mechanics which will run from December 16-18. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University and is co-organized by myself and Peter Winkler.

The sessions on December 13-16 will be held (as usual) in room 114 of the Hill Center and the sessions on December 17-18 will be held in the DIMACS Auditorium (a connected building). You are cordially invited to participate in both events.

The tentative list of speakers for both events includes:

Michael Aizenman, Phil Anderson, Laszlo Barabasi, Murray Bachelor, Jozsef Beck, Gerard Ben Arous, Kurt Binder, Pavel Bleher, Bela Bollobas, Christian Borgs, Edouard Brezin, John Cardy, David Ceperley, Jennifer Chayes, Philippe Choquard, Pierluigi Contucci, Bernard Derrida, Eytan Domany, Bertrand Duplantier, Freeman Dyson, Ayse Erzan, Daniel Fisher, Michael Fisher, Juerg Frohlich, Giovanni Gallavotti, David Galvin, Geoffrey Grimmett, Olle Haggstrom, Shlomo Havlin, Chris Jarzynski, Leo Kadanoff, Jeff Kahn, Rick Kenyon, Vladimir Korepin, Arnie Levine, Elliott Lieb, Andrea Liu, Juan Maldacena, Marc Mezard, Thomas Natterman, Mark Newman, Yuval Peres, Errico Presutti, Dana Randall, Sid Redner, Robert Seiringer, Jan Sengers, Boris Shraiman, Vladas Sidorovicius, Yakov Sinai, Alistair Sinclair, Stanislav Smirnov, Sara Solla, Gregory Sorkin, Herbert Spohn, K.R. Sreenivasan, Gene Stanley, Jeff Steif, Edriss Titi, Rob van den Berg, Srinivasan Varadhan, Ben Widom, Harold Widom, Julia Yeomans, Emil Yuzbashyan and Royce Zia.