To all interested colleagues: As many of you may know, the European Science Foundation (ESF) is looking for new proposals in Physical and Engineering Sciences for European Coordination Programmes. One topic that has been suggested in the ESF circular is "Complex systems with non-linear and stochastic behavior". This seems to be an area closely related to what many of us are interested in. Of course, the subject could be modified to fit some other area. After having had some discussions, I thought it might be useful to get some feedback from the molecular dynamics and/or spectroscopy communities about initiating some joint project. The condition would be to get together interested groups from at least 8 - 10 ESF member countries. At this time ESF is asking only for a short proposal. The deadline is December 1. Anybody who would be interested (or anybody who is perhaps also considering some activity) could contact me at the address given below. If a sufficiently large number of colleagues respond I would get in touch and we'll see where we get. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. F. Temps Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie Universitaet Kiel Olshausenstr. 40 D-24098 Kiel Germany phone. ++431-880-1702 or 1703 fax: ++431-880-1704 email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%