Welcome to another issue of the IARCS Newsletter.  This
Newsletter is a bit delayed and might never have made it to print
if not for Meena Mahajan's persistence in collecting all the
reports that are in this issue.

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The main item in this issue is a detailed discussion on how best
to (re)organize the annual National Seminar on Theoretical
Computer Science (NSTCS) which has been held each summer since
1991.

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The conference announcements in this issue include the Call for
Participation for FST&TCS'98, as well as the Call for Papers
for FST&TCS'99, which will be held in Chennai back to back with
ISAAC'99.

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If you have taught a course or even a series of lectures on a
specialized topic for which you have prepared detailed notes,
please consider contributing these notes to the IARCS Lecture
Notes Series.  We have received quite a few requests for copies
of the notes announced in the previous issue, so this series
seems to have a useful role to play .

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Please send your contributions and suggestions to the newsletter
to:

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Madhavan Mukund,<BR>
Editor, IARCS Newsletter ,<BR>
SPIC Mathematical Institute,<BR>
92 G N Chetty Road, Madras 600 017.<P>
E-mail: <BR>
<tt>iarcs@smi.ernet.in</tt><BR>
<tt>iarcs@imsc.ernet.in</tt>