We have honor to invite you and your colleagues and collaborators to
attend HYPOTHESIS-
III (HYdrogen POwer THeoretical and Engineering Solutions, International
Symposium) to
take place July 5-8 1999 in St.-Petersburg State University
(St.-Petersburg, Russia).
HYPOTHESIS-III will be organized under the promotion of the
International Association for
Hydrogen Energy, Hydrogen power and technology Council of the Russian
Ministry of
Science, and  Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of
Ministry of General and
Professional Education, Russian Science Center "Kurchatov Institute",
Scientific Research
Institute of the Electro-Physical Apparatus of D.V.Efremov, Central
Scientific Research
Institute of A.N.Krylov, Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, State Institute
of the Applied
Chemistry, RAS Institute of Transport Problems, RAS Institute of High
Technology, St.-
Petersburg State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics & Control
Processes and other
scientific and industrial organizations.

It is remarkable that HYPOTHESIS-III will take place in the year of the
275-th anniversary of
St-Petersburg State University and 30-th of the Faculty of the Applied
Mathematics & Control
Processes.

The honorary chairmen of HYPOTHESIS-III: President of the International
Association for
Hydrogen Energy T.N. Veziroglu and vice-president of RAS - O.M. Nefedov.

Organizing Committee:

1.  V.I. Zubov - Chairman (Russia)
2.  G. Spazzafumo - Cochairman (Italy)
3.  N.V. Egorov - Chief coordinator (Russia)
4.  V.M. Batenin (Russia)
5.  D.L. Block (USA)
6.  J.-P. Buffiere (France)
7.  L.D. Chabachev (Russia)
8.  V.L. Charitonov (Russia)
9.  V.I. Dobrochotov (Russia)
10.  V.N. Fateev (Russia)
11.  M. Fischer (Germany)
12.  K. Fukuda (Japan)
13.  V.A. Glukhih (Russia)
14.  V.M. Gryaznov (Russia)
15.  V.K. Kazarinov (Russia)
16.  D.M. Klimov (Russia)
17.  V.V. Kolbin (Russia)
18.  K.Ya. Kondratiev (Russia)
19.  V.I. Lebedev (Russia)
20.  V.A. Lopota (Russia)
21.  G. Manfrida (Italy)
22.  D.A.Ovsyannikov (Russia)
23.  V.M. Pashin (Russia)
24.  L.A. Petrosyan (Russia)
25.  G.S. Potekhin (Russia)
26.  P.K. Takahashi (USA)
27.  L.A. Verbitskaya (Russia)
28.  C.-J. Winter (Germany)
29.  R.M. Yusupov (Russia)

Program Committee:

1.  V.D. Rusanov - Chairman (Russia)
2.  G. Ballard (Canada)
3.  J.C. Bolcich (Argentine)
4.  V.D. Borisov (Russia)
5.  D. Dini (Italy)
6.  N.V. Egorov (Russia)
7.  C. Etievant (France)
8.  O.N. Favorsky (Russia)
9.  G.S. Kornilov (Russia)
10.  V.G. Kutachov (Russia)
11.  S.P. Malyshenko (Russia)
12.  V.V. Malyshev (Russia)
13.  G. Manfrida (Italy)
14.  V.V. Nechaev (Russia)
15.  E.Z. Novitsky (Russia)
16.  T. Ohta (Japan)
17.  F.N. Pechota (Russia)
18.  A.G. Pshenichnikov (Russia)
19.  E.E. Schpihlrain (Russia)
20.  I. Uehara (Japan)
21.  C.-J.Winter (Germany)
22.  V.I. Zubov (Russia)

It is supposed that the work will proceed in the following sections:

1.  New concepts, international and national programs.
2.  Hydrogen technologies and ecological problems of power production.
3.  Hydrogen power plants, including underground nuclear-hydrogen power
plants.
4.  Steam and gas turbine power plants.
5.  Fuel cells.
6.  Hydrogen-hydride systems of energy transformation and accumulation.
7.  Hydrogen vehicles.
8.  Hydrogen aviation.
9.  Hydrogen safety.
10.  Power production and technological systems and processes control.
Energy resources
allocation.

The papers will be refereed and published in the special issue of
International Journal of
Hydrogen energy or as a separate volume of HYPOTHESIS-III Proceedings.
The conference
language will be English.

St-Petersburg is the former capital of Russia, the most European  city
of the country. It is
famous for its masterpieces of architecture, museums, theaters and
music, science and higher
education. You will never forget the embankment of the Neva river  in
the light of our white
nights with many people (young and not very young) enjoying the walk .
Weather in July is warm and mild with about 20-22 Centigrade during day
and 14-16 at night
and mild Baltic winds.
The city is linked to many European and American cities with direct air
flights. It is only one
hour of flight or few hours of train from Moscow-the capital of the
country where you can get
from more than hundred cities all over the world. You can get here with
your car via Poland,
Finland or Baltic States.
Location of the participants will be in the center of the city in two to
five stars hotels
according to you reservation form.

Inform us as soon as possible about your possible participation in
HYPOTHESIS-III and send
the addresses (including e-mail) of the scientists to be invited.

Tentative deadlines: Abstract and registration  - December 15,  1998
                     Second announcement        - January  31,  1999
                     Acceptance                 - February  15,  1999
                     Hotel reservation          - April  15,  1999
                     Final paper               - July   4-5,  1999

For any questions do not hesitate to contact us:

Conference secretariat HYPOTHESIS-III, Faculty of Applied Mathematics &
Control
Processes, St.-Petersburg State University, Bibliotechnaya pl.2,
St.Petersburg, 198904,
Russia,
Fax +7(812)4287189, Phone +7(812)4284250, e-mail
hypothes@apmath.spbu.ru.

More information is available at  http://www.apmath.spbu.ru/hypothesis

Vladimir I. Zubov    Organizing Committee Chairman,
     RAS corr-member, professor

Vladimir D. Rusanov    Program Committee Chairman,
            RAS member, professor

Nikolai V. Egorov    Chief coordinator, professor
 

Instructions for authors.

Abstracts no more than 300 words are due to December 15, 1998. Abstracts
should be in
electronic form  (plain DOS) at 3'' disk or by e-mail address
hypothes@apmath.spbu.ru