Dear Colleague:

You are cordially invited to participate in the 99th Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University, May 11-13, 2008.

At this meeting we will celebrate the birthdays and achievements of our distinguished colleagues Edouard Brezin and Giorgio Parisi.

Here is a tentative partial list of speakers:
Eva Andrei, Elisabeth Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Curtis Callan, David Chandler, Leticia Cugliandolo, Cirano De Dominicis, Bernard Derrida, Enrique Diaz, Michael Fisher, Silvio Franz, Juan Garrahan, Alessandro Giuliani, Alexander Grosberg, Francesco Guerra, Bertrand Halperin, Shinobu Hikami, Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Mehran Kardar, Vladimir Kazakov, James Langer, Stanislas Leibler, Reinhard Lipowsky, Roberto Livi, Hernan Makse, Marc Mezard, Remi Monasson, David Mukamel, David Nelson, Michael Schick, Eric Siggia Nicolas Sourlas, Philip Stamp, Miguel Virasoro, Geoffrey West, Edward Witten, Jean Zinn-Justin, Jean-Bernard Zuber.

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, or positions wanted or available, etc.

Looking forward to seeing you here in May, with best wishes,