COMBINATORICS 2000 Gaeta (LT), Hotel Serapo, 28 May - 3 June SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: A. BICHARA - D. GHINELLI - G. LUNARDON - F. MAZZOCCA ORGANIZER: A. BICHARA FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT The Conference COMBINATORICS 2000 will be held in Gaeta, Hotel Serapo, from Sunday 28th May to Saturday 3rd June 2000. The conference will cover the following topics: combinatorial theory, Galois geometries, incidence structures and related algebraic topics, coding theory, designs, and graphs. There will be invited lectures of 45 minutes and special sessions for contributed talks of twenty minutes each. The proceedings of the Conference will be refereed and published. There will be a registration fee of 150.000 Italian Lire (77.47 Euros). Gaeta is a little town on the coast between Rome and Naples. For further details about the accommodation see http://www.hotelserapo.com. To get the second announcement (with the registration form an the Hotel booking form) please mail to comb2000@dmmm.uniroma1.it. Invited speakers: S. Ball (Eindhoven, The Netherlands; London, UK) A. Bonisoli (Potenza, Italy) F. Buekenhout (Bruxelles, Belgium) M. Buratti (Perugia, Italy) P. Cameron (London, UK) C. Colbourn (Waterloo, Canada) F. De Clerk (Gent, Belgium) H. Havlicek (Wien, Austria) J. Lauri (Malta) K. Metsch (Giessen, Germany) F. Piper (London, UK) A. Pott (Magdeburg, Germany) H. Wefelscheid (Duisburg, Germany) Further information about the conference may be found at http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/combinatorics2000.