CAIMS/SCMAI is sponsoring several minisymposia on computational methods and its applications. You will find these minisymposia in the program. CAIMS/SCMAI members will be extended the SIAM member registration rate for the SIAM meeting even if they are not also members of SIAM. Professor Anna T. Lawniczak of Guelph University, President of CAIMS/SCMAI, is the CAIMS/SCMAI representative on the 1998 SIAM Annual Meeting organizing committee.