The conference will be held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center, in the center of Tsukuba Science City, the location of many government and industrial research facilities and the University of Tsukuba
(http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/indexE.html).

The city of Tsukuba is situated about 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo and about 40 kilometers northwest of Narita International Airport, the arrival point for most international flights to Japan. There are direct bus services between Tsukuba and Tokyo and between Tsukuba and Narita Airport
(timetable information available at
http://www.info-tsukuba.org/english/traffic/index.html).

The conference will be held on March 8, 9, and 10, 2001.

A detailed program of the conference presentations will be available at the website from around the middle of February 2002.