Important dates are the abstract submission deadline of December 3, 2002, the hotel and early conference registration deadlines of April 10, 2003, and May 12, 2003, which is the opening day for the scientific program. There will be an awards ceremony on Weds. May 14 honoring engineers and scientists who have made important contributions to particle accelerators. The awards will include the IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards, APS Robert R. Wilson Prize, and newly elected IEEE and APS Fellows.

PAC 2003 is described in more detail at the conference WWW site (www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/pac03). The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will host PAC 2003.

The Chair of the PAC 2003 Organizing Committee is Robert Siemann (siemann@slac.stanford.edu), SLAC, and the Program Committee Chair is Alan Jackson (ajackson@lbl.gov), LBNL. Joseph Chew (pac2003ed@lbl.gov) from LBNL is the Editor of the conference proceedings, and Maura Chatwell and Adrienne Higashi (pac03@slac.stanford.edu) from SLAC are the Conference Coordinators.