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The Human Frontier Science Program is an international funding program, supported by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, U.K., U.S.A. and the European Union. HFSP promotes international collaboration through a prestigious program of grants which support interdisciplinary research in the basic life sciences. The program is intended to bring teams of scientists from various fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering together with biologists to open up new approaches to understanding complex biological systems.
Teams applying for research grants must first submit a letter of intent online. The next deadline is March 30th 2006 and potential applicants must pre-register by March 20th 2006 (see the HFSP web site at http://www.hfsp.org for further details).

The Abel Lectures presented by Profs. Sebastian Noelle (Aachen), Peter Sarnak (Princeton), and Stephanos Venakides (Duke) are now available as QuickTime moves, see http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia.

The Abel Lectures presented by Profs. Sebastian Noelle (Aachen), Peter Sarnak (Princeton), and Stephanos Venakides (Duke) are now available as QuickTime moves, see http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2005 to Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Lax recieves the Abel Prize ``for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions'' to quote the Abel Committee. The news release is posted at http://www.abelprisen.no/en/.