For the Eleventh Conversation, we have set aside 8 hrs of the symposium time unfilled. This time is exclusively devoted to speakers that will be selected to address the Conversation from the abstracts submitted for poster presentation. If you are a professionally young researcher and interested in presenting a lecture, you must indicate so on the registration form; in this case, abstracts are due by the 15th of February 1999. In the past the Albany Conversation Program has been provided limited funds by NSF and NIH exclusively to support the participation by outstanding and excellent young scientists, and a few senior scientists from developing Nations. If we receive such funds (we will know about it only a few weeks before the conference), the program will be able to provide the above support.