Dear Colleague: The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the availability of The Second Announcement of THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS BERLIN, August 18-27, 1998 It can be retrieved from the homepage of the Congress with URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98 ICM'98 is one of the quadrennial congresses held under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU). Mathematicians from all countries gather to discuss recent developments in mathematics that are presented by leading scientists from all mathematical fields. Responsibility for the scientific program lies with the Program Committee appointed by IMU. There will be 21 one-hour Plenary Lectures covering the major areas of mathematics and about 160 forty-five-minute Invited Lectures in nineteen sections. The Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize will be awarded during the Opening Ceremony on the first day of the Congress. This will take place in the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC). All other scientific events will be held at Technische Universitaet Berlin. No scientific activities are scheduled for Sunday, August 23. The Second Announcement of ICM'98 describes the scientific program and the social events of the Congress and gives instructions on how to complete the registration process and obtain accommodation. It contains a call for contributed short presentations, and provides guidelines regarding the submission of abstracts. The Second Announcement also includes advice on how to proceed upon arrival at airports and railway stations, and it will be accompanied by a brochure describing the day trips and tours organized by a professional tour and congress organizer. Postscript and LaTeX versions of the Second Announcement can be obtained from the WWW with URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/Second_Announcement or by anonymous ftp from elib.zib.de in the subdirectory pub/IMU/HTML/ICM98/Second_Announcement. The files of interest are scndannc.ps Announcement Postscript DIN A4 us_scnda.ps Postscript US-paper scndannc.tex LaTeX (no maps) reg-form.ps Registration Form Postscript DIN A4 us_regf.ps Postscript US-paper wordregf.doc MS-Word 6.0 We look forward to welcoming you at ICM'98 in Berlin. Christoph Helmberg (for the ICM'98 Organizing Committee)