NEWS: - Registration is now open. - Early registration is until 15 May 2006. Accommodation in the conference hotels is only guaranteed until this date. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 8th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction MPC '06 11th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology AMAST '06 Kuressaare, Estonia, 2-8 July 2006 http://cs.ioc.ee/mpc-amast06/ Following on from the successful joint conference AMAST/MPC 2004 at Stirling, UK, 2004, the two biennial conferences on mathematical methods in software technology are colocating also in 2006. The joint event will take place in Kuressaare, Estonia, in early July. A perfect place and time to enjoy the Nordic white nights - at 58° N in the midsummer season. MPC will be held 3-5 July, followed by AMAST 5-8 July. Two satellite workshops of MPC, the 5th International Workshop on Contructive Methods for Parallel Programming, CMPP 2006, and Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming, MSFP 2006 will take place 2 July. Important dates Early registration: 15 May 2006 Late registration: 5 June 2006 MPC invited speakers Robin Cockett, University of Calgary Olivier Danvy, Aarhus Universitet Oege de Moor, University of Oxford AMAST invited speakers Ralph-Johan Back, Åbo Akademi University Lawrence S. Moss, Indiana University Till Mossakowski, Universität Bremen MPC and AMAST accepted paper lists appear on the conference website. PC lists appear on the conference website. Important dates * Early registration: 15 May 2006 * Late registration: 5 June 2006 Registration Registration is now open. Registration, accommodation and travel information are available on the conference website. To register, please fill out the online registration form. Booking of accommodation at Kuressaare is handled by the local organization. Accommodation in one of the conference hotels is only guaranteed until the early registration deadline of 15 May. After this date, we will do what we can, but Kuressaare is a small town and July is in the peak season. Venue Kuressaare (pop. 16000) is the main town on Saaremaa (Ösel), the second-largest island of the Baltic Sea. Kuressaare is a charming seaside resort on the shores of the Gulf of Riga highly popular with Estonians as well as visitors to Estonia. The scientific sessions of MPC/AMAST 2006 will take place at Saaremaa Spa Hotel Meri, one among the several new spa hotels in the town. The social events will involve a number of sites, including the 14th-century episcopal castle and the impact craters of Kaali. Accommodation will be at Saaremaa Spa Hotels Meri and Rüütli. To get to Kuressaare, one normally passes through Tallinn (pop. 402000), Estonia's capital city. Tallinn is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. From Tallinn, Kuressaare is easily reached by scheduled coach (incl. a ferry ride). We may arrange chartered coaches from Tallinn to Kuressaare and back both for MPC and AMAST, but this depends on the demand. There are also twice-daily flights to Kuressaare from Tallinn and twice-weekly direct flights from Helsinki and Stockholm. Local organizers MPC/AMAST 2006 is organized by Institute of Cybernetics, a research institute of Tallinn University of Technology. Contact email address: mpc06(at)cs.ioc.ee.