The 11th IEEE Internatioanl Conference on Avanced Robotics 2003 (ICAR 2003) will be organized at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, June30-July3, 2003. There will be special sessions on "Fractional Derivatives in Mechatronics and Robotics". For more information see [www.isr.uc.pt/icar03/].

International Carpathian Control Conference - ICCC 2003, High Tatras, Grandhotel Praha, Slovak Republic, May 26-29, 2003. Deadline for contributions submission is January 30, 2003. For more information see [www.tuke.sk/ICCC/]. There will appear some contributions related to "Fractional Calculus".

Invited session at the next ISCAS 2003 Conference on: "Fractional Systems: Theory, Implementations and Applications". The session is open to all possible contributions on non integer system. The deadline for invited session submission is September 1, 2002. For more information on the conference see [www.iscas2003.org].

The First Symposium on Fractional Derivatives and Their Applications will be organized as a part of the 19th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise. This conference is part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences which will be held in Chicago, IL during the period September 2 - 6, 2003. For more information see [www.uic.edu/orgs/vib/].

IV Congress of ISAAC held at the York University, Toronto, August 11 - 16, 2003, and the special session: "Fractional Calculus and Applications" will be organized at this congress in Session 11. You can see more information about ISAAC [www.math.udel.edu/isaac/].