Dear Colleague:

You are cordially invited to participate in the 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University, May 10-12, 2009.

At this meeting we will celebrate the 70th birthday and achievement of our distinguished colleague, Yoseph (Joe) Imry.

Here is a tentative partial list of speakers: Douglas Abraham, Natan Andrei, Joszef Beck, Thierry Bodineau, Gunduz Caginalp, Predrag Cvitanovic, Gregory Falkovich, Jack Harris, Dane Hone, David Huse, Sabre Kais, Aharon Kapitulnik, Gady Kozma, Ron Levy, Roberto Livi, Marcelo Magnesco, Gautam Menon, Alan Middleton, Kathryn Moler, Gilles Montambaux, Bruno Nachtergaele, Stefano Olla, David Ruelle, Doug Scalapino, Beate Schmittman, Moshe Schechter, Gerd Schoen, Anirvan Sengupta, Israel Michael Sigal, Sara Solla, Tom Spencer, Frank Stillinger, Cedric Villani, John Weeks, Michael Widom, Peter Winkler, Peter Woelfe, Fred Wu and Amir Yacoby.

A more complete program will be sent out soon. You can get updated additional information about ALL ASPECTS of the meeting at our site: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/index.html.

Please respond at: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/res-formI.html. We would like to know of any colleagues or students who should be added to our mailing list, positions wanted or available, etc.

Looking forward to seeing you here in May.